Demand Registration. (a) Either of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of: (i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and (ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration. (b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder). (c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows: (i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and (ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders). (d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
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Sources: Shareholder Agreement, Shareholders Agreement (Regional Management Corp.), Shareholders Agreement (Regional Management Corp.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time after the date which is 180 days after the closing of the Sponsors mayCompany's initial Public Offering, at any time, make stockholder of the Company which is a written party to this Agreement (an "Eligible Holder") may request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or part of its shares of Class A Common Stock (including shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon conversion of shares of Class B Common Stock held by it) for sale in the manner specified in such request. A stockholder that previously owned shares of Class B Common Stock but ceased to be a Principal Stockholder upon the conversion of its shares of Class B Common Stock to shares of Class A Common Stock shall continue to be a party to this Agreement so long as it owns any portion shares of any Class A Common Stock and therefore shall be an Eligible Holder. Such request shall be made by furnishing written notice thereof (a "Demand Notice") to the Company, setting forth the number of shares of Class A Common Stock requested to be registered and such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the Eligible Holder's intended method of disposition distribution. Within ten days after receipt of such securities. The Corporation will promptly any Demand Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand Notice to all other Eligible Holders. Following receipt of such notice from the Company (the "Company Notice"), each such other Eligible Holder shall have the right to give the Company a written request to register any or all of such Eligible Holder's Class A Common Stock (including shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon conversion of shares of Class B Common Stock held by it) in the registration described in the Company Notice, provided that such written request is given within fifteen days after the date on which the Company Notice is given (with such request stating (i) the number of shares of Class A Common Stock to be so included, (ii) such other Eligible Holder's intended method of distribution of such shares and (iii) any other information that the Company Notice reasonably requests be included in such notice from such Eligible Holder). All registrations requested registration (pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) are referred to herein as "Demand Registrations." The Company shall not be required to effect a “Demand Registration”) Registration unless the aggregate number of shares of Class A Common Stock demanded to be so registered is at least 30 days one percent of the number of shares of Class A Common Stock then outstanding (the "Minimum Condition"). If the Minimum Condition is met, then, subject to Sections 4.1(c), 4.1(e) and 4.1(f) below, the Company shall, as soon as practicable, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to become effective as promptly as practicable, a Registration Statement which shall cover the shares of Class A Common Stock requested to be registered pursuant to such Demand Notice and Company Notices.
(b) Once a Demand Registration has been effected, the Company shall not be obligated to register Class A Common Stock pursuant to another Demand Registration prior to the anticipated filing expiration of 180 days from the date of on which the registration statement relating to such previous Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of was declared effective; provided, however, that a registration will not count as a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration Registration unless it has become effective, and such effectiveness has been maintained under the Securities Act (and not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of all the SEC or other governmental agency or court for any reason) for the period specified in Section 4.4(a).
(c) The Company may postpone for a reasonable period (not to exceed two months) after its receipt of a Demand Notice the filing of a Registration Statement for a Demand Registration if the Board reasonably believes that such Demand Registration would have a material adverse effect on any proposal or plan by the Company or any portion of its Subsidiaries to engage in any Registrable financing, acquisition of assets (other than in the ordinary course of business) or any merger, consolidation, tender offer or other significant transaction and notifies the Eligible Holders in writing of such postponement; provided however, that the Company shall have the right to so postpone a filing only one time during any period of twelve consecutive months.
(d) In the event that the Demand Notice and the notices in response to the Company Notices for a Demand Registration contemplate more than one intended method of distribution by the Eligible Holders, then the Company will use its best efforts to include in the Registration Statement for such Demand Registration multiple prospectuses and/or plans of distributions covering each intended method of distribution. The Company acknowledges and agrees that an intended method of distribution of an Eligible Holder may include the registration of shares of Class A Common Stock in connection with an underwritten offering of Monetizing Securities of such Sponsor Eligible Holder or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes its Parent. If, in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition event of such securitiesan underwritten offering of Monetizing Securities, whereupon the other Eligible Holders desire to offer their own Monetizing Securities or to sell shares of Class A Common Stock for cash as part of such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis underwritten offering, the Eligible Holders will negotiate in good faith, in consultation with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsmanaging underwriter for the offering, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all securities to the extent necessary practicable.
(e) If a Demand Registration involves an underwriting of shares of Class A Common Stock for cash (or, to permit the disposition extent permitted by Section 4.1(d), an underwriting of Monetizing Securities of one or more Eligible Holders or their Parents or shares of Class A Common Stock for cash and Monetizing Securities of one or more Eligible Holders or their Parents) and the managing underwriter advises the Company and the Eligible Holders in writing that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of shares of Class A Common Stock (and/or Monetizing Securities) to be underwritten, then the managing underwriter may exclude shares (and/or Monetizing Securities) requested to be included in accordance with such Demand Registration from such underwriting. If the intended methods thereofmanaging underwriter imposes a limit on the number of shares of Class A Common Stock (and/or Monetizing Securities) to be included in such underwriting, then each Eligible Holder shall have the right to include in such underwriting up to its pro rata share (based on the ratio that the number of shares of Class A Common Stock (and/or Monetizing Securities) proposed to be sold by each Eligible Holder bears to the total numbers of shares of Class A Common Stock (and/or Monetizing Securities) proposed to be sold by all Eligible Holders who have elected to participate in the Demand Registration) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after maximum number of shares (and/or Monetizing Securities) permitted by the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders managing underwriter to be included in the Demand Registration (the "Maximum Amount").
(f) If, in connection with an underwriting involving the offering of shares of Class A Common Stock for cash, the other Holders and managing underwriter has not limited the number of shares of Registrable Securities Class A Common Stock (and/or Monetizing Securities) to be underwritten or if the number of shares (and/or Monetizing Securities) which the Eligible Holders have requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) mayregistered is less than the Maximum Amount, at any time prior to then the effective date Company may include shares of Class A Common Stock for its own account or for the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any account of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included others in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and underwriting if the managing Underwriter for such offering advises underwriter so agrees and if the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be Class A Common Stock (and/or Monetizing Securities) which would otherwise have been included in such registration underwriting by Eligible Holders will not thereby be limited. The inclusion of such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to shares shall be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on same terms as the basis of the relative number offering for cash of shares of Registrable Securities requested Class A Common Stock by the Eligible Holders. In the event that the managing underwriter excludes some of the securities to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not registered, the securities to be required to effect any Demand Registration if sold for the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition account of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time Company and any other holders shall be excluded in their entirety prior to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in exclusion of any twelve-month period beginning on shares of Class A Common Stock (and/or Monetizing Securities) of the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationEligible Holders.
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Sources: Limited Liability Company Agreement (Time Warner Telecom LLC), Limited Liability Company Agreement (Time Warner Telecom LLC), Stockholders' Agreement (Time Warner Telecom Inc)
Demand Registration. (ai) Either During the Demand Registration Period, the Holders of at least 200,000 Registrable Securities (adjusted for any stock split, stock dividend, reverse stock split or similar change in the Sponsors mayCommon Stock after the date of this Agreement) shall have the option and right, at any time, make exercisable by delivering a written request notice to the Company (together a “Holder 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 on Form S-1 (or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act of all Act) (or to the extent the Company is eligible to use Form S-3 or any portion equivalent or successor form or forms, on Form S-3 or any comparable or successor form) registering the offering and sale of any such Demand Sellers’ at least 200,000 Registrable Securities (adjusted for any stock split, stock dividend, reverse stock split or similar change in the Common Stock after the date of this Agreement) on the terms and specifying conditions specified in the Holder Demand Notice, which may include sales on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement (a “Holder Demand Registration”). The Holder Demand Notice must set forth the number and type of Registrable Securities that the Initiating Holders anticipate will be included in such Holder Demand Registration and the intended method methods of disposition thereof.
(ii) Within five (5) Business Days of such securities. The Corporation will promptly the receipt of the Demand Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such requested registration Demand Notice to all Holders (a “Demand Registration”other than the Initiating Holders) at least 30 and, within thirty (30) days prior thereof, shall, subject to the anticipated filing date limitations of the registration statement relating to such Demand this Section 2(a), file a Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (Statement in accordance with the intended methods thereof) terms and conditions of the Demand Notice, which Registration Statement shall cover, in addition to the Registrable Securities set forth in the Demand Notice, all of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to that such Holders shall in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders writing request to be included in the Demand Registration (provided such request is given to the Company within ten (10) days of receipt of notice of the other Holders and Demand Notice given by the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested Company pursuant to this Section 5.1 2(a)(ii) and includes such information regarding the requesting Holder as is required to be disclosed in connection with such Demand Registration pursuant to Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Act). The Company shall not be deemed use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become and remain effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (A) one hundred eighty (180) days (or one (1) year if a Shelf Registration Statement is requested) after the Effective Date or (B) the date on which all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been effected unless sold or cease to be Registrable Securities (the registration statement relating thereto “Demand Effectiveness Period”); provided, however, that such period shall be extended for a period of time equal to the period the Selling Stockholders 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.
(iiii) has Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company is not obligated hereunder to effect: (A) more than two (2) Demand Registrations during the Demand Registration Period, (B) more than one (1) Demand Registration in a calendar year, (C) a Demand Registration within one hundred eighty (180)) days of the closing of any Underwritten Offering, or (D) a subsequent Demand Registration pursuant to a Demand Notice if a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities covered by such Demand Notice shall already have become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained remains effective for a period under the Securities Act and is sufficient to permit offers and sales of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of on the Holders included terms and conditions specified in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)Demand Notice in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in such Demand Notice.
(civ) If Subject to Section 2(a)(i), a Selling Stockholder may withdraw all or any portion of its Registrable Securities included in a Demand Registration involves from such Demand Registration at any time prior to the effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement. Upon delivery of a Public Offering and notice by a Selling Stockholder to the managing Underwriter for effect that the Selling Stockholder is withdrawing Registrable Securities such offering advises that the Corporation and remaining Registrable Securities are below the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its viewMinimum Amount, the number of securities requested Company shall cease all efforts to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion secure effectiveness of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)applicable Registration Statement.
(dv) The Corporation Subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition on such appropriate registration form of the Corporation it is inappropriate at Commission (x) as shall be selected by the Company and (y) as shall permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition specified in the Initiating Holders’ request for such time to undertake a Public Offeringregistration; provided, however, that if the Corporation may elect not 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 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 is effective and a Selling Stockholder provides written notice to the Company that it intends to effect registration an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities included on such grounds only once Registration Statement, the Company will amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place.
(vi) Without limiting Section 3, in connection with any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right Demand Registration pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 5.1(d2(a), the Corporation Company shall effect (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 Selling Stockholders shall reasonably request; provided, however, that no such registration within one year following or qualification shall be required in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, the request Company would become subject to general service of process or to taxation or would be required to qualify to do business or register as a broker or dealer, and (2) such forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents as may be necessary to apply for registrationlisting 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 Selling Stockholders to enable the Selling Stockholders to consummate a public sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Scientific Industries Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Scientific Industries Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Scientific Industries Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of If the Sponsors may, Company shall receive at any timetime after the Restriction Termination Date a request from two (2) or more Shareholders that are either Bank Shareholders or PE Shareholders, make a written request or both (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requesteither case, the “Demand SellersInitial Requesting Shareholders”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand SellersInitial Requesting Shareholders’ Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly thereof, then the Company shall give written notice (a “Demand Notice”) of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing other Shareholders, which notice shall be given not later than ten (10) Business Days following receipt by the Company of the Demand Notice. Such other Shareholders may, upon notice received by the Company no later than five Business Days after the date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request notice of a Demand Seller Registration, request that the Corporation Company also effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such other Shareholders’ Registrable Securities of (such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying requesting Shareholders, together with the intended method of disposition of such securitiesInitial Requesting Shareholders, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed referred to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with herein as the other Demand Sellers“Requesting Shareholders”). Upon receiving such requestsThereafter, subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 2.04 and Section 3.01(f), the Corporation will Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the of all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Requesting Shareholders have requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all registration under this Section 3.01 to the extent necessary to permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities so to be registered (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid); provided that the Company shall be permitted to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities other than Registrable Securities (including for the benefit of any other Persons not party to this Agreement) as part of any Demand Registration; provided further that the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration (i) unless the aggregate gross proceeds (before the deduction of any discounts or commissions) expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The in such Demand Sellers requesting a Registration equals or exceeds $100,000,000 (the “Proceeds Threshold”), provided the Proceeds Threshold shall only apply through the fourth anniversary of the IPO Closing Date, and (ii) until after the Restriction Termination Date.
(b) If any Registrable Securities for which the Requesting Shareholders have requested registration under Section 3.01(a) are excluded from such Demand Registration in accordance with the restrictions set forth in Section 3.01(f), then such Requesting Shareholders may either (i) request that the Company grant a written waiver to permit such Requesting Shareholders to Transfer such excluded Registrable Securities by any means available, subject to compliance with the Securities Act and any other applicable securities or “blue sky” laws or (ii) request that the Company effect a second Demand Registration under the Securities Act to permit the disposition of such excluded Registrable Securities in a Public Offering. Thereafter, subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 2.04 and, in the case of clause (ii) of the preceding sentence, Section 3.01(f), the Company shall either (A) in its sole discretion, grant the waiver request of the Requesting Shareholders, or (B) use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities for which the Requesting Shareholders have requested registration under Section 3.01(b)(ii) to the extent necessary to permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities so to be registered. If any Registrable Securities for which the Requesting Shareholders have requested registration under Section 3.01(b)(ii) are excluded from such second Demand Registration in accordance with the restrictions set forth in Section 3.01(f), then such Requesting Shareholders may, subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 2.04, Transfer such excluded Registrable Securities by any means available, subject to compliance with the Securities Act and any other applicable securities or “blue sky” laws. In no event shall the Company be required to effect (A) more than one Demand Registration within each successive 12-month period beginning on the Restriction Termination Date or any anniversary thereof except as provided in Section 3.01(b)(ii), (B) a Demand Registration within a period of 90 days after the effective date of any other registration statement relating to any Demand Registration or (C) any Demand Registration if, at the time of such request, four or more Demand Registrations (excluding (x) any Demand Registrations pursuant to Section 3.01(b)(ii) or 3.02(a)(ii)(B)(2), and (y) any Demand Registrations effected (in the Company’s sole discretion) other than the one Demand Registration required pursuant to this Section 5.1(a3.01(b) maywithin each successive 12-month period beginning on the Restriction Termination Date or any anniversary thereof) have previously been effected. Notwithstanding the foregoing limit of four Demand Registrations, at if, subsequent to the fourth anniversary of the IPO Closing Date, (A) any PE Shareholder owns Common Shares equal to 100% of the number of such PE Shareholder’s Initial Ownership Common Shares and (B) the Company’s board of directors includes a member nominated by such PE Shareholder, then such PE Shareholder shall be entitled to one additional Demand Registration otherwise in accordance with the terms of Section 3.01 (provided that the Demand Notice required by Section 3.01(a) need only be sent by the Company to any other PE Shareholder that satisfies the same demand requirements as the requesting PE Shareholder), which shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining whether the limit of four Demand Registrations have been effected. In addition, if, as of the fourth anniversary of the IPO Closing Date, any Shareholder owns more than 5% of the Company’s issued and outstanding Common Shares, then such Shareholder shall be entitled to one additional Demand Registration otherwise in accordance with the terms of Section 3.01 (provided that the Demand Notice required by Section 3.01(a) need only be sent by the Company to any other Shareholder that satisfies the same demand requirements as the requesting Shareholder), which shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining whether the limit of four Demand Registrations have been effected.
(c) At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registrationa Demand Registration request pursuant to Section 3.01(a) or Section 3.01(b)(ii), revoke such request without liability to any of a Shareholder may withdraw from the other Holders related registration by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking Company. If sufficient Registrable Securities are so withdrawn such that the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such Demand Registration do not meet the applicable threshold(s) required for such Demand Registration pursuant to Section 3.01(a), the Company may cease all efforts to effect such Demand Registration upon such withdrawal and, upon the Company ceasing all efforts to effect registration, such Demand Registration shall be deemed revoked. Notwithstanding clause (e) below, a request, so revoked, shall be considered to be a Demand Registration unless (i) such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company, (ii) at the time of such withdrawal, the Shareholders shall have learned of a material adverse change in which case the condition, business, or prospects of the Company from the condition, business or prospects of the Company at the time of the related registration request and have promptly withdrawn the request after learning of such request information, or (iii) the Requesting Shareholders reimburse the Company for all Registration Expenses (other than the expenses set forth under clause (v) of the definition thereof) incurred prior to the receipt of such revocation, pro rata among such Requesting Shareholders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities of each such Requesting Shareholder that were to be included in the revoked Demand Registration. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a requested registration does not meet the Proceeds Threshold, such requested registration shall not be considered deemed a Demand RegistrationRegistration or a withdrawn registration and shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining the number of Demand Registrations that have been effected.
(bd) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration that is effected or, in the case of any Demand Registration that is not effected, where (i) the failure of such Demand Registration to be effected arose out of the fault of the Company or (ii) the Requesting Shareholders do not elect to pay Registration Expenses in accordance with clause (iii) of the last sentence of Section 3.01(c). For the avoidance of doubt, the Requesting Shareholders shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses (other than the expenses set forth under clause (v) of the definition thereof) in any other circumstance in connection with any Demand Registration, and, in all circumstances in connection with any Demand Registration, shall be liable for and pay all fees and out-of-pocket expenses of the Requesting Shareholders (or the agents who manage their accounts), including, but not limited to, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Requesting Shareholders and any underwriting fees, discounts and commissions attributable to the sale of Registrable Securities.
(e) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 30 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Requesting Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(cf) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholders that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder all Requesting Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in held by each such registration by such HoldersShareholder); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities any securities proposed to be included in such registration registered by the Company (including for the benefit of any other Holder (allocatedPersons not party to this Agreement, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on with such priorities among them as the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included Company shall determine in such registration by such other Holdersits sole discretion).
(dg) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or Requesting Shareholders, the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d3.01 on two occasions during any period of twelve consecutive months for a time period specified in the notice but not exceeding 120 days in the aggregate in any period of twelve consecutive months (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) the Corporation shall effect Company determines that effecting the registration could materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Company or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such registration within one year following notice the request for registrationCompany reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (Markit Ltd.), Registration Rights Agreement (Markit Ltd.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If at any time prior to the fifth anniversary of the Sponsors may, at any time, make date of consummation of the Company’s initial public offering the Company shall receive a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersNotice”) from the Demand Committee that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Registrable Securities and specifying specified in the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior ), specifying the information set forth under Section 2.7(i), then the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as expeditiously as reasonably practicable, subject to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join restrictions in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect Section 2.4, the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) Committee has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; registration under this Section 2.2, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as specified) of such Registrable Securities. If the Demand Committee elects to effect a Demand Registration, the provisions of Section 2.5(a) with respect to the notices required and the determination of the number of Piggyback Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after included in a Piggyback Registration shall apply mutatis mutandis to such Demand Registration, but the expiration inclusion of the 30-day period referred such Registrable Securities pursuant to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to 2.2 shall be included in treated as part of the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the not as a Piggyback Registration hereunder.
(b) The Demand Committee may request an unlimited number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, Registrations at any time prior to the effective fifth anniversary of the date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any consummation of the other Holders by providing a written notice Company’s initial public offering, subject to the Corporation revoking such request, limitations set forth in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)2.4.
(c) Subject to the availability of Form S-3 or any successor registration form to effect a Demand Registration, at the request of the Demand Committee, any Demand Registration shall be a shelf registration effected in accordance with Rule 415 under the Securities Act or any successor or similar rule (a “Shelf Registration”).
(d) At any time, the Demand Committee may revoke such Demand Registration request by 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, whether or not so revoked.
(e) At the request of the Demand Committee, the Demand Registration shall involve an Underwritten Public Offering. If a Demand Registration involves a an Underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Demand Committee that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of Registrable Securities and other securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares exceeds the largest number of Registrable Securities requested to Class A Shares that can be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an sold without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Demand Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatDemand Registration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Demand Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in such registration the Demand Registration by the Demand Sellers Committee and any Continuing Shareholder all Required Third-Party Piggyback Securities (allocatedallocated as between the Covered Persons that have elected to participate in such Demand Registration in the aggregate and the holders of Required Third-Party Piggyback Securities in the aggregate on a Pro Rata Basis, and further allocated among the Covered Persons participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis based on their respective Proposed Participation Amount, in each case, as and if necessary to ensure that the offering does not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such HoldersMaximum Demand Offering Size); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities any securities proposed to be included in such registration registered by the Company or any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any other Holder (allocatedpersons, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on with such priorities among them as the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)Company shall determine.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC), Registration Rights Agreement (Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC), Registration Rights Agreement (Och Daniel)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of If the Sponsors may, at any time, make Company shall receive a written request by the CSH Shareholders (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestrequesting Person, the “Demand Sellers”a "Selling Shareholder") that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any a portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Selling Shareholder's Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “"Demand Registration”") at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation ▇▇▇▇▇ Shareholders and the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Shareholders, and thereupon will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand SellersSelling Shareholders, then held by the Selling Shareholders; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities of the same type as that to which the request by the Selling Shareholders relates which any other ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Shareholder, any ▇▇▇▇▇ Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration or any Servidio Shareholder (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersSelling Shareholders, the “"Holders”") has requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 10 days (one of which shall be a Business Day) after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; Company, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered; provided that, subject to Section 5.01(d) hereof, the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than five Demand Registrations for the CSH Shareholders; and provided further that the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Common Stock requested to be included in such Demand Registration, in the reasonable opinion of CSH exercised in good faith, equals or exceeds $7,500,000. In no event will the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration within any four-month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 3010-day period referred to in paragraph (iiSection 5.01(a)(ii) of this Section 5.1(a)hereof, the Corporation Company will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers Selling Shareholders requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a5.01(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Holders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, in which case such request, so revoked, shall be considered a Demand Registration unless such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company or unless the participating Shareholders reimburse the Company for all costs incurred by the Company in connection with such registration, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(bc) The Company will pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration.
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 5.01 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period all of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all the Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold; provided that if, within 180 days after it has become effective, the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Holders included in SEC or other governmental agency or court such registration will be deemed not to have actually been sold thereunder)effected.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an Underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises underwriter shall advise the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Selling Shareholders that, in its view, (i) the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, including any securities which the Company proposes to be included which are not Registrable Securities) or (ii) the inclusion of some or all of the shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included owned by the Demand Sellers and Holders, in any such case, exceeds the largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to which can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”the "Maximum Offering Size"), the Corporation Company will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(iA) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the parties requesting such Demand Sellers Registration and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration registration); and
(B) second, any securities proposed to be registered by such other Holders)the Company.
(df) The Corporation Upon written notice to each Selling Shareholder, the Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 5.01 on one occasion during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (1) an investment banking firm of recognized national standing shall advise the Company and the Selling Shareholders in writing 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 (2) the Company is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the Company believes, in its reasonable judgment, would not be in the best interests of the Company.
(g) After the Company has effected one Demand Registration by the CSH Shareholders pursuant to this Section 5.01 of Common Stock, the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Shareholders, upon request of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Shareholders owning a majority of the Shares acquired by the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Shareholders on the Closing Date may request that the Company register Common Stock which are Registrable Securities then owned by such ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Shareholders. In no event will the Company be required to effect more than two such Demand Registrations by the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Shareholders. The other provisions of this Article 5 applicable to Demand Registrations requested by the CSH Shareholders shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any such Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Shareholders.
(h) If the Corporation exercises its right any registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1(d)5.01 which is proposed by the Company to be effected by the filing of a registration statement on form S-3 (or any successor or similar short-form registration statement) shall be in connection with an Underwritten Public Offering, and if the managing underwriter shall advise the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the Corporation shall effect use of another form of registration statement is of material importance to the success of such proposed offering, then such registration within one year following the request for registrationshall be effected on such other form.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Stockholders Agreement (Cable Systems Holding LLC), Investors Agreement (Ipc Information Systems Inc), Investors Agreement (Cable Systems Holding LLC)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time following the six-month anniversary of the Sponsors mayEffective Date, at any time, make Requesting Stockholder may give a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, to the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act (other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or Form S-8 or any similar or successor form under the Securities Act) of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Stockholder’s Registrable Securities, which written request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be registered and specifying 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 securities. The Corporation will written request, the Company shall promptly give written 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 30 days ten (10) Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement Registration Statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back ShareholdersRegistration. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsThereafter, the Corporation will Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously soon as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Stockholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; andregistration 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 Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration Stockholder Group (all such ShareholdersStockholder Groups, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Stockholder, and any Stockholder Groups participating in a Piggyback Registration pursuant to Section 2.03, the “HoldersRegistering Stockholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days ten (10) Business Days after such Stockholder Groups receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given the Demand Registration; and
(iii) any Company Securities to be offered or sold by the CorporationCompany; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. ; provided that, subject to Section 2.01(d), the Company shall 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 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 the Specified Period (or such shorter period as the Company may determine in its sole discretion) after the effective date of any other registration statement of the Company (other than a registration statement filed in connection with an employee benefit plan or business combination transaction or a registration statement on Form S-4 or Form S-8 or any similar or successor form thereto) or (ii) in accordance with Section 2.01(f) or (z) any Demand Registration if the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration is less than $20,000,000.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day ten (10) Business Day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a2.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Stockholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Stockholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included thereinin the Demand Registration by each of them. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement Registration Statement relating to such registrationDemand 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 Registration Statement, without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice Registering Stockholders.
(c) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Demand Registration becomes effective; provided, however, that if the Requesting Stockholder revokes its request in whole pursuant to Section 2.01(b), the Corporation revoking Requesting Stockholder shall reimburse the Company for and/or pay directly all Registration Expenses incurred relating to such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(bd) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement Registration Statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained continuously effective for a period of at least 90 (x) one hundred eighty (180) days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Stockholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder) or (y) with respect to a Shelf Registration, until the date set forth in Section 2.05(a)(ii); provided that such Registration Statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 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) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the lead managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Stockholder that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers largest number of shares that can be sold without having a material and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers Requesting Stockholder and any Continuing Shareholder all other Registering Stockholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, to give first priority to the inclusion of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Stockholder and, thereafter, pro rata among such Holders 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 HoldersRegistering Stockholder); and;
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities 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 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 registration by a Registration Statement, make any other Holder 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 (allocatedcollectively, if necessary “Registration Actions”) upon (i) the issuance by the SEC of a stop order suspending the effectiveness of any such Registration Statement or the initiation of proceedings with respect to such a Registration Statement under Section 8(d) or 8(e) of the Securities Act, (ii) the Board’s determination, in its good faith judgment, that any such Registration Action should not be taken because it would reasonably be expected to cause an Adverse Effect 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), (ii) or (iii) above in connection with undertaking a Registration Action, the 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 offering, pro rata among such other Holders date the relevant Suspension Notice is given to the Stockholders and shall be deemed to end on the basis earlier to occur of (i) the relative 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 shares days during which a Suspension Period has been in effect exceeds the ninety (90) day period. If the filing of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it Shelf Registration is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right suspended pursuant to this Section 5.1(d2.01(f), once the Corporation Suspension Period ends the Requesting Stockholder may request a new Demand Registration or a new Shelf Registration (neither such request shall effect such registration within one year following be counted as an additional Demand Registration for purposes of subclause (x) in the request for registrationproviso of Section 2.01(a)). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall not be in breach of, or have failed to comply with, any obligation under this Agreement where the Company 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 (Tribune Publishing Co), Registration Rights Agreement (Tribune Publishing Co)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of If the Sponsors may, at any time, make Company shall receive a written request from the DLJMB Stockholders (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestrequesting person, the “Demand SellersRequesting Stockholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Stockholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Stockholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Requesting Stockholders have requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 1.01, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 1.01(e) and 1.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Stockholders that any other Shareholder entitled Stockholders with rights to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration registration under Section 1.02 (all such ShareholdersStockholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Stockholders, the “HoldersRegistering Stockholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days ten (10) Business Days after such Stockholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. ; provided that, subject to Section 1.01(d) hereof, the Company shall not be obligated to effect (x) more than six Demand Registrations, (y) more than one Demand Registration during any four-month period, or (z) any Demand Registration unless the aggregate gross proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included by all Registering Stockholders in such Demand Registration are at least $20 million in any Demand Registration other than the Initial Public Offering.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day ten (10) Business Day period referred to in paragraph (iiSection 1.01(a)(ii) of this Section 5.1(a)hereof, the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Stockholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Stockholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Stockholders may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Stockholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with each Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Demand Registration is effected.
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 120 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Stockholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 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(e) such that less than 50% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Stockholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Stockholders that, in its view, the number of securities requested Company Securities that the Registering Stockholders and the Company propose to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included include in such registration (including, in each case, exceeds the largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder Registering Stockholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders Stockholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by such Holderseach); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election registered by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationCompany.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (STR Holdings (New) LLC), Registration Rights Agreement (STR Holdings, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of If the Sponsors may, at any time, make Company shall receive a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, a “Registration Request”) from an Investor Party (the “Demand SellersRequesting Investor”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Investor Party’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior Registration Request to each other Investor Party, and thereafter the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor Company shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
of (each such registration shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”): (i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Investor has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
registration under this Section 4.01 and (ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled Investor Parties have requested the Company to register by request received by the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Company within 10 Business Days after such holder receives the Company’s notice of the Demand Registration (all such Shareholders, Investor Parties together with the Demand SellersRequesting Investor, and any Investor Parties participating in a Piggyback Registration pursuant to Section 4.03, the “HoldersRegistering Investors”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; ), all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. ; provided that, (i) subject to Section 4.01(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than (i) two Demand Registrations in any calendar year, other than Demand Registrations to be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any successor thereto), for which an unlimited number of Demand Registrations shall be permitted and (ii) the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $30,000,000.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day 15 Business Day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a4.01(a)(ii), the Corporation will Company shall notify all Registering Investors of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Investors and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included thereinin the Demand Registration. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement Registration Statement relating to such registrationa Demand Registration, the Requesting Investor may revoke such request its Registration Request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Investors, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such Registration Request. A request, so revoked, shall be considered to be a Demand Registration unless (i) such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company (in which case the Company shall be obligated to pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationrevoked request), or (ii) the Requesting Investor reimburses the Company for all Registration Expenses of such revoked request.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected, except as set forth in Section 4.02(b)(ii).
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement Registration Statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder); provided that such Registration Statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 any Governmental Authority and (2) less than 75% of the Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement have been sold thereunder;
(ii) if the Maximum Offering Size is reduced in accordance with Section 4.01(e) such that less than 75% of the Registrable Securities sought to be included in such registration are included; or
(iii) as permitted pursuant to Section 4.01(b) or 4.01(f).
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Registering Investors that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder Registering Investors (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders Registering Investors on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holderstheir Relative Investor Ownership); and;
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities any securities proposed to be included in such registration registered by the Company; and
(iii) third, any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any other Holder (allocatedPersons, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on with such priorities among them as the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)Company shall determine.
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if each Registering Investor (the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or “Delay Notice”), the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d4.01 on two occasions during any period of twelve consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 60 days (which period may not be extended or renewed and provided that such periods in the aggregate shall not exceed 90 days in any period of twelve consecutive months), if the Corporation filing, initial effectiveness or continued use of a Registration Statement relating to a Demand Registration would require the Company to make an Adverse Disclosure (a “Demand Suspension”). No Registration Statement filed and subsequently withdrawn pursuant to this Section 4.01(f) shall effect count as a Demand Registration. The Registering Investors agree to suspend use of the applicable Prospectus in connection with any sale or purchase, or offer to sell or purchase, Registrable Securities, upon receipt of the Delay Notice. The Company shall immediately notify the Registering Investors upon the termination of any Demand Suspension, amend or supplement the Prospectus, if necessary, so it does not contain any untrue statement or omission and furnish to each Registering Investor such numbers of copies of the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented as such Registering Investor may reasonably request. The Company shall, if necessary, supplement or make amendments to the Registration Statement relating to the Demand Registration, if required by the registration form used by the Company for the Demand Registration or by the instructions applicable to such registration within one year following form or by the request for registrationSecurities Act.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Shareholder Agreement (MRC Global Inc.), Purchase Agreement (MRC Global Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either Kriegsman may, upon written notice to the Company at any time followin▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇e of this Warrant Agreement until the Expiration Date, make one request that the Company file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, within sixty (60) days of the Sponsors maydelivery of such notice to the Company, at any time, make a written request registration statement (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, a "Demand Registration") on a form satisfactory to the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration Company to register under the Securities Act of all 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), the Warrant Shares issued or any portion issuable (whether or not yet vested) by way of any such Demand Sellers’ exercise of the Warrant ("Registrable Securities"). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (shall not include any securities that may be sold by a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior person to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating public pursuant to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act of all or during any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
ninety (i90) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationperiod.
(b) A If the Demand Registration is part of or combined with an underwritten primary registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities on behalf of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering Company, and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises underwriters advise the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate Company that in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, their opinion the number of securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the number which can be sold in an orderly manner in such offering within a price range reasonably acceptable to the Company, then the Company will include in such registration (1) first, the securities the Company proposes to sell, (2) second, the Registrable Securities requested to be included therein and any other securities requested to be included therein by other holders entitled to request inclusion of their securities in such registration, pro rata among the holders of such Registrable Securities and other securities on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein and any other securities requested to be included therein by other holders entitled to request inclusion of their securities in such registration, and (3) third, other securities requested to be included in such registration.
(c) If the Demand Registration is part of or combined with an underwritten secondary registration on behalf of holders of the type Company's Common Stock, and the managing underwriters advise the Company that in their opinion the number of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by exceeds the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at number which such securities can be sold (in an “Adverse Effect”)orderly manner in such offering within a price range reasonably acceptable to the holders initially requesting such registration, then the Corporation Company will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i1) first, all the securities requested to be included therein by the holders requesting such registration, and (2) the Registrable Securities and any other securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not other holders entitled to cause an Adverse Effect on the offeringrequest inclusion of their securities in such registration, pro rata among the holders of such Holders securities on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities therein and any other securities requested to be included therein by other holders entitled to request inclusion of their securities in such registration by any other Holder registration.
(allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on d) If the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities actually registered pursuant to the Demand Registration is reduced pursuant to either of subsections (b) or (c) above from the number of shares originally requested to be included registered pursuant to subsection (a) above, then Kriegsman shall be permitted, at any time after the date which is ten (▇▇) ▇▇▇▇ after the effective date of the registration statement filed by the Company pursuant to or in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required connection with the Demand Registration, to effect any make another Demand Registration if in accordance with subsection (a) above for such number of shares of Registrable Securities as was originally requested in the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offeringprior Demand Registration but which were not actually registered; provided, however, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d)notwithstanding subsection (a) above, the Corporation Company shall effect file such other registration statement within one year following twenty (20) days of the request for registrationdelivery to the Company of the notice by Kriegsman requesting such other Demand Registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Warrant Agreement (Immtech International Inc), Warrant Agreement (Immtech International Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If at any time following the earlier of (x) one hundred and eighty (180) days after the effective date of the Sponsors may, at any time, make registration statement for a written request Public Offering and (together with y) the expiration of the period during which the managing underwriters for such Public Offering shall prohibit the Company from effecting any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestpublic sale or distribution of Registrable Securities, the Company shall receive a request from any Investor (the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request, a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days twenty five (25) Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Shareholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellersregistration under this Section 10.01; and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 10.01(e) and Section 10.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholder that any other Shareholder entitled Shareholders with rights to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration registration under Section 10.01 (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders, and any Shareholders participating in a Piggyback Registration pursuant to Section 10.02, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days twenty (20) Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the CorporationDemand Registration; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered; provided that, subject to Section 10.01(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations for each Investor, other than Demand Registration to be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form F-3, for which an unlimited number of Demand Registrations shall be permitted. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any six-month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 3020-day Business Day-period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a10.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholders may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected.
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (i1) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii2) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 one hundred and eighty (180) days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder); provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 SEC or other governmental agency or court and (2) less than fifty percent (50%) 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 10.01(e) such that less than fifty percent (50%) of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholders that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder Requesting Shareholders;
(allocatedii) second, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder Registering Shareholder (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such other Holders Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each such Shareholder); and
(iii) third, any securities proposed to be registered by any other HoldersPersons (including the Company), with such priorities among them as the Company shall reasonably determine.
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if each Requesting Shareholder, the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d10.01 on one occasion during any period of twelve (12) consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding ninety (90) days (which period may not be extended or renewed) (“Deferral Period”), if (i) an investment banking firm of recognized national standing shall advise the Corporation Company and the Requesting Shareholders in writing (which writing shall effect be provided to each Requesting Shareholder) that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of such Company the preparation of which had then been commenced, provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to complete such offering of securities, or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company, with respect to this subsection (ii), provided that the Company shall furnish to each of the Requesting Shareholders a certificate signed by an authorized senior officer of the Company stating on behalf of the Company that in the good faith judgment of the Company, the Company is in possession of material non-public information and the disclosure of which would not be in the best interests of the Company at the specified time. The Company shall not register any securities for the account of itself or for any other Shareholder during such ninety (90) day Deferral Period. For clarification only, a demand right shall not be deemed to have been exercised until such deferred registration within one year shall have been effected.
(g) At any time following the consummation of the initial Public Offering and when the Company is eligible to use a Form F-3 registration statement, each Investor may request the Company in writing to file an unlimited number of Registration Statements on Form F-3 (or any successor form to Form F-3, or any comparable form for registrationRegistration in a jurisdiction other than the United States) for a public offering of Registrable Securities for which the Company is entitled to use Form F-3 or a comparable form to register the requested Registrable Securities. Upon receipt of such a request the Company shall (i) promptly give written notice of the proposed registration to all other Shareholders and (ii) as soon as practicable, and in any event within ninety (90) days of the receipt of such request, cause the Registrable Securities specified in the request to be registered and qualified for sale and distribution in such jurisdictions as such Investor may reasonably request. Each Investor may at any time, and from time to time, require the Company to effect the registration of Registrable Securities under this (g).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Shareholder Agreement (36Kr Holdings Inc.), Shareholder Agreement (36Kr Holdings Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time after the date of the Sponsors mayAgreement, at a BRS Entity or a BRS Demand Transferee or, if registration on Form S-2 or Form S-3 (or any timesuccessor form(s) under the Securities Act) shall be available to B&G Foods, a Canterbury Entity, a CIT Entity, a Canterbury Demand Transferee or a CIT Demand Transferee may make a written request (together for registration with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes the SEC under and in such request, accordance with the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration under provisions of the Securities Act of all or any portion part of any such Demand Sellers’ its, his or her Registrable Securities and specifying Securities; provided, that B&G Foods may, if the intended method Board so determines in the exercise of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior its reasonable judgment that it would be inadvisable to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to effect such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of at such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that time, defer such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested for a single period not to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationexceed 180 days.
(b) A registration requested pursuant BRS Entities, Canterbury Entities and CIT Entities (including each of their respective Demand Transferees) shall each be entitled to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto two (i2) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)Demand Registrations.
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, underwriter(s) shall advise B&G Foods that, in its view, the number amount of securities requested proposed to be included sold in such Demand Registration will exceed the Maximum Offering Size, B&G Foods shall include in such registration, or up to the type Maximum Offering Size, so many of the securities requested proposed to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested registered as would not cause the offering to be included by exceed the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, Maximum Offering Size allocated in the opinion following orders of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
priority: (i) first, all the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration Demand Registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder Selling Shareholder(s), (allocatedii) second, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration Demand Registration by such Holders); and
the Shareholders other than the Selling Shareholder(s) and (iiiii) second, all Registrable Securities any Common Stock proposed to be included in such registration registered by any other Holder B&G Foods; provided that (allocated, y) if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on all the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration Demand Registration by members of any group set forth above are not to be included, selection of Registrable Securities to be included from within such group shall be made pro rata based on the number of Registrable Securities that each member of such group shall have requested to be included therein, and (z) if any Shareholder has requested inclusion in such Demand Registration and if 10% or more of the Registrable Securities requested to be included by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation Shareholder are not so included, such Shareholder shall not be required entitled to effect any an additional Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning hereunder on the date of same terms and conditions as would have applied to such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect Shareholder had such registration within one year following the request for registrationearlier Demand Registration not been effected.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Securities Holders Agreement (BGH Holdings Inc), Securities Holders Agreement (Polaner Inc)
Demand Registration. Subject to the provisions of Section 5.01(d), if the Company is ineligible to use a Shelf Registration Statement or if the Shelf Registration Statement is otherwise unavailable to the Company, the Stockholders (athe “Demanding Holders”) Either of the Sponsors may, at any time, may make a written request demand that the Company promptly prepare and file a registration statement (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersRegistration Statement”) that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion part of any their Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of the value of all the Registrable Securities owned by the Stockholders, which written demand shall describe the amount and type of security to be included in such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities Registration Statement and specifying the intended method method(s) of disposition of distribution thereof, which may include delayed distribution pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (demand a “Demand Registration”). Each Demand Registration shall be for the sale of a number of Registrable Securities equal to or greater than the Registrable Amount. The Company shall, within ten (10) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date Business Days after receipt of the registration statement relating Demand Registration, notify, in writing, all other Stockholders, if any, of such demand, and each holder of Registrable Securities who thereafter wishes to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of include all or any a portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their holder’s Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Demand Registration (each such holder that includes all or a portion of such Shareholdersholder’s Registrable Securities in such Demand Registration, together with the Demand Sellers, the a “HoldersRequesting Holder”) has requested shall so notify the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation Company, in writing, within 30 days five (5) Business Days after the receipt by such Holders other Stockholders of the notice from the Company. Upon receipt by the Company of any such written notice given notification from a Requesting Holder(s), such Requesting Holder(s) shall be entitled to have their Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration and the Company shall effect, as soon thereafter as practicable, the registration of all Registrable Securities requested by the Corporation; all Demanding Holder(s) and Requesting Holder(s) pursuant to such Demand Registration, including by filing a Demand Registration Statement relating thereto as soon as practicable, but not more than sixty (60) days immediately after the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) Company’s receipt of the Demand Registration. Under no circumstances shall the Company be obligated to obtain effectiveness of more than one (1) Demand Registration Statement under this Section 5.02 with respect to any or all Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after within any twelve (12) month period; provided that a Demand Registration shall not count against this limitation unless and until (i) the expiration of Demand Registration Statement has been declared effective by the 30-day period referred to in paragraph Commission, (ii) the Company has complied with all of its obligations under this Section 5.1(a)Agreement with respect thereto, the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in and (iii) the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) Statement has remained effective for a period the Shelf Registration Effectiveness Period; provided, further, that if, after such Demand Registration Statement has been declared effective, an offering of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If pursuant to a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and is subsequently interfered with by any stop order or injunction of the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public OfferingCommission, in writingfederal or state court or any other governmental agency, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by then the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to Registration Statement shall be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary deemed not to cause an Adverse Effect on have been declared effective, unless and until, such stop order or injunction is removed, rescinded or otherwise terminated; provided, further, that the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation Company shall not be obligated or required to effect any file another Demand Registration if Statement until the Board determines in good faith Demand Registration Statement that due has been previously filed with respect to business a Demand Registration becomes effective or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationsubsequently terminated.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investor Rights Agreement (Ares Management Corp), Investor Rights Agreement (Ares Management Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If at any time following the earlier of (x) 180 days after the effective date of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request registration statement for the IPO and (together with y) the expiration of the period during which the managing underwriters for the IPO shall prohibit the Company from effecting any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestpublic sale or distribution of Company Securities, the Company shall receive a request from any of the Preferred Stockholders or BSC (the “Demand SellersRequesting Stockholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Stockholder’s Registrable Securities and specifying Securities, which notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days 15 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Stockholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Requesting Stockholders have requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 4.01, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 4.01(e) and Section 4.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Stockholders that any other Shareholder entitled Stockholders with rights to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration registration under this Section 4.01 (all such ShareholdersStockholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Stockholders, and any Stockholders participating in a Piggyback Registration pursuant to Section 4.02, the “HoldersRegistering Stockholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days 15 Business Days after such Stockholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered, provided that, subject to Section 4.01(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registrations for any Preferred Stockholder or BSC, other than Demand Registration to be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any successor thereto), for which an unlimited number of Demand Registrations shall be permitted, and provided further that the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $40,000,000. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any six-month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 3015-day Business Day-period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a4.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Stockholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Stockholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Stockholders may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Stockholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, .
(c) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in which case such request shall not be considered a connection with any Demand Registration.
(bd) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 calendar days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Stockholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 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 4.01(e) such that less than 66 2⁄3% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Stockholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Stockholders that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers Preferred Stockholders and any Continuing Shareholder BSC (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders entities on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each),
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder Registering Stockholder (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such other Holders Stockholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each such other HoldersStockholder)., and
(diii) The Corporation shall not third, any securities proposed to be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election registered by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationCompany.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Stockholders Agreement (TriVascular Technologies, Inc.), Stockholders Agreement (TriVascular Technologies, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of At any time after the Sponsors maydate that is 180 days after the date hereof (or such earlier date as would permit the Company to cause any Filings required hereunder to be filed on the 180th day after the date hereof), at any time, Person that is a Stockholder (a “Requesting Stockholder”) on the date a Demand is made shall be entitled to make a written request of the Company (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersDemand”) that the Corporation effect the for registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion a number of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying that, when taken together with the intended method number of disposition of Registrable Securities requested to be registered under the Securities Act by such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration Requesting Stockholder’s Affiliates, equals or is greater than the Registrable Amount (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior and thereupon the Company will, subject to the anticipated filing date terms of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securitiesthis Agreement, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; andRequesting Stockholders for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand, which may be an Underwritten Offering;
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that which the Company has been requested to register pursuant to Section 4.01(b); and
(iii) all shares of Common Stock which the Company may elect to register in connection with any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their offering of Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholderspursuant to this Section 4.01, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation but subject to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the CorporationSection 4.01(f); all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Common Stock, if any, to be so registered. Promptly after .
(b) A Demand shall specify: (i) the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the aggregate number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to the extent then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Stockholder (or Requesting Stockholders). Within five days after receipt of a Demand, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand to any other Persons that on the date a Demand is delivered to the Company is a Stockholder (excluding Permitted Transferees which have not signed a joinder as contemplated by Section 2.01). Subject to Section 4.01(f), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by such Demand all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received a written request for inclusion therein. Such written request shall comply with the requirements of a Demand as set forth in this Section 4.01(b).
(c) Each Stockholder shall be entitled to an unlimited number of Demand Registrations until such time as the Stockholders, together, Beneficially Own less than a Registrable Amount.
(d) Demand Registrations shall be on such registration form of the Commission for which the Company is eligible as shall be selected by the Requesting Stockholders whose shares represent a majority of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been requested to register, including, to the extent permissible, an automatically effective registration statement or an existing effective registration statement filed by the Company with the Commission, and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(e) The Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Sellers requesting Registration (A) within one month of a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering in which all Stockholders were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to Section 4.02 (subject to Section 4.01(f)) and provided that at least 50% of the number of Registrable Securities requested by such Stockholders to be included in such Demand Registration were included) or (B) within one month of any other Underwritten Offering pursuant to Section 4.03(e). In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Stockholders) for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 60 days in succession the filing or the effectiveness of a registration under this Section 5.1(astatement for any Demand Registration (but no more than twice, or for more than 90 days in the aggregate, in any period of 12 consecutive months) may, at any time prior to if the effective date Board determines in good faith and in its reasonable judgment that the filing or effectiveness of the registration statement relating to such registrationDemand Registration would cause the disclosure of material, revoke such request without liability to any non-public information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential. In the event of a postponement by the Company of the other Holders by providing filing or effectiveness of a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered registration statement for a Demand Registration, the holders of a majority of Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Stockholder(s) shall have the right to withdraw such Demand in accordance with Section 4.04.
(bf) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 The Company shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all include any securities other than Registrable Securities in a Demand Registration, except with the written consent of Stockholders participating in such Demand Registration that hold a majority of the Holders Registrable Securities included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If Demand Registration. If, in connection with a Demand Registration, any managing underwriter (or, if such Demand Registration involves is not an Underwritten Offering, a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for nationally recognized investment bank engaged in connection with such offering Demand Registration) advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writingCompany, that, in its viewopinion, the number inclusion of all of the securities, including securities requested of the Company that are not Registrable Securities, sought to be included registered in connection with such registration, or Demand Registration would adversely affect the type marketability of securities requested the Registrable Securities sought to be included in such registration (includingsold pursuant thereto, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by then the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration statement only such securities as the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for Company is advised by such offering, underwriter or investment bank can be sold without such adverse effect as follows and in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
following order of priority: (i) first, all Registrable Securities requested up to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration Demand Registration by such Holders); and
(ii) secondthe Stockholders, all Registrable Securities to which, in the opinion of the underwriter can be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on sold without adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, pro rata among such other Holders Stockholders requesting such Demand Registration on the basis of the relative number of shares such securities held by such Stockholders and such Stockholders that are Piggyback Sellers; (ii) second, securities the Company proposes to sell; and (iii) third, all other securities of Registrable Securities the Company duly requested to be included in such registration by statement, pro rata on the basis of the number of such other Holders)securities requested to be included or such other method determined by the Company.
(dg) The Corporation shall not be required Any investment bank(s) that will serve as an underwriter with respect to effect any such Demand Registration or, if such Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, any investment bank engaged in connection therewith, shall be selected (i) by the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition Acquisition Entity for so long as a majority of the Corporation it outstanding Common Stock of the Company is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election owned by its Permitted Transferees and thereafter (ii) by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises Stockholder participating in such Demand Registration that holds (together with its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect Permitted Transferees) a number of Registrable Securities included in such registration within one year following the request for registrationDemand Registration constituting a plurality of all Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Stockholders Agreement (OneMain Holdings, Inc.), Stockholders Agreement (OneMain Holdings, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If at any time following the earlier of (x) 180 days after the effective date of the Sponsors may, at any time, make registration statement for a written request Public Offering and (together with y) the expiration of the period during which the managing underwriters for such Public Offering shall prohibit the Company from effecting any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestpublic sale or distribution of Registrable Securities, the Company shall receive a request from any Financial Investor (the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request, a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Shareholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellersregistration under this Section 5.01; and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 5.01(e) and 5.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholder that any other Shareholder entitled Shareholders with rights to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration registration under Section 5.01 (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders, and any Shareholders participating in a Piggyback Registration pursuant to Section 5.02, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days 25 Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the CorporationDemand Registration; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered; provided that, subject to Section 5.01(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than two Demand Registrations for such Financial Investor, other than Demand Registration to be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form F-3, for which an unlimited number of Demand Registrations shall be permitted. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any six-month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 3025-day Business Day-period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(aSection 5.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholders may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected.
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) (A) unless the registration statement relating thereto (i1) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii2) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder); provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 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 5.01(e) such that less than 662/3% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholders that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder Requesting Shareholders;
(allocatedii) second, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder Registering Shareholder (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such other Holders Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each such Shareholder); and
(iii) third, any securities proposed to be registered by any other HoldersPersons (including the Company), with such priorities among them as the Company shall determine.
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if each Requesting Shareholder, the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(dSection 5.01 on one occasion during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) an investment banking firm of recognized national standing shall advise the Corporation shall effect Company and the Requesting Shareholders in writing that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of such registration within one year 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 Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company.
(g) At any time following the consummation of the initial Public Offering and when the Company is eligible to use a Form F-3 registration statement, each Financial Investor may request the Company in writing to file an unlimited number of Registration Statements on Form F-3 (or any successor form to Form F-3, or any comparable form for registrationRegistration in a jurisdiction other than the United States) for a public offering of Registrable Securities for which the Company is entitled to use Form F-3 or a comparable form to register the requested Registrable Securities. Upon receipt of such a request the Company shall (i) promptly give written notice of the proposed registration to all other Shareholders and (ii) as soon as practicable, and in any event within ninety (90) days of the receipt of such request, cause the Registrable Securities specified in the request to be registered and qualified for sale and distribution in such jurisdictions as such Financial Investor may reasonably request. Each Financial Investor may at any time, and from time to time, require the Company to effect the registration of Registrable Securities under this (g).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Shareholder Agreement (ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc.), Shareholder Agreement (ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of the Sponsors may, If at any time, make time the Company shall receive a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersNotice”) from the Demand Committee that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Registrable Securities and specifying specified in the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior ), specifying the information set forth under Section 2.5(j), then the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as expeditiously as reasonably practicable, subject to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join restrictions in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect Section 2.2(d), the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) Committee has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; registration under this Section 2.2, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(aCommittee shall allocate participation in any Demand Registration ratably among Covered Persons in accordance with their Registrable Securities.
(b) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Demand Committee may revoke such Demand Registration request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, . The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in which case such request shall not be considered a connection with any Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If the sole or managing underwriter of a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate Company in such Public Offering, in writing, that, writing that in its view, opinion the number of Registrable Securities and other securities requested to be included in such registration, or exceeds the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares number of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at securities which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”)in such offering without adversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, the Corporation price that will be paid in such offering or the marketability thereof, the Company will include in such registration the largest greatest number of (i) Registrable Securities proposed to be registered by the holders thereof, (ii) securities having Other Registration Rights that are pari passu with the demand rights granted in respect of Registrable Securities that, hereunder proposed to be registered by the holders thereof and (iii) securities proposed to be registered by the Company for its own account which in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, underwriters can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effectdistribution of the securities being offered, the price that will be paid in such offering or the marketability thereof, ratably among the holders of Registrable Securities, the holders of such Other Registration Rights and the Company, based (A) as follows:
(i) firstbetween the Company and such holders requesting registration, all Registrable Securities on the respective amounts of securities requested to be included registered, and (B) as among the holders requesting registration, on the respective amounts of Registrable Securities (whether requested to be registered pursuant to Sections 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3) and securities subject to such Other Registration Rights, as the case may be, held by each such holder; provided, however, that the Company shall have the right (the “Priority Right”) to receive priority over all holders of Registrable Securities in any Demand Registration to be effected under this Section 2.2 with respect to securities that the Company proposes to include in such registration for its own account by giving written notice of its election to exercise such Priority Right to the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares holders of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such requesting registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)thereof.
(d) The Corporation shall Upon notice to the Demand Committee, the Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 2.2 on up to three occasions during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 120 days in the aggregate (which period may not be required to effect any Demand Registration extended or renewed), if (i) the Board determines shall determine in good faith that due to business or market conditions or effecting the business or financial condition registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Corporation it Company the preparation of which had then been commenced or (ii) the Company is inappropriate at in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that notice the Corporation may elect Board believes in good faith would not to effect registration on such grounds only once be in any twelve-month period beginning on the date best interests of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationCompany.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (FXCM Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (FXCM Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of If the Sponsors may, at any time, make Company shall receive a written request from either DLJMB on behalf of the DLJ Entities or, in the case of a CVC Demand, CVC on behalf of the CVC Entities (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes the DLJ Entities or, in such requestrespect of a CVC Demand, the “Demand Sellers”CVC Entities, shall be referred to herein as a "Requesting Stockholder") that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any a portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Stockholder's Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request, including the CVC Demand, shall be referred to herein as a “"Demand Registration”") at least 30 15 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Other Stockholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation thereupon will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand SellersRequesting Stockholder; and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 5.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as that requested to be registered by the Requesting Stockholder which any other Shareholder Other Stockholder entitled to request the Corporation Company to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back effect an Incidental Registration pursuant to Section 5.02 (all such ShareholdersStockholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Stockholder, the “"Holders”") has requested that the Corporation to Company register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 15 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; Company, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered; provided that, subject to Section 5.01(d) hereof, the Company shall (i) not be obligated to effect more than five Demand Registrations for the DLJ Entities, (ii) be obligated to effect one Demand Registration for the CVC Entities (the "CVC Demand") which shall be exercisable by CVC on behalf of any CVC Entities only if immediately prior thereto (A) the Transfer Percentage of the CVC Entities is less than the Transfer Percentage of the DLJ Entities and (B) the DLJ Entities have transferred (other than to any of their Permitted Transferees) 70% or more of the sum of (x) their collective Initial Ownership of Common Stock and (y) any additional shares of Common Stock issued by the Company to the DLJ Entities after the date hereof in an issuance of Common Stock that was offered to the DLJ Entities and the CVC Entities on a pro rata basis and (iii) not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Common Stock to be included in such Demand Registration, in the reasonable opinion of DLJSC exercised in good faith, equals or exceeds (x) $50,000,000 if such Demand Registration would constitute the First Public Offering, or (y) $25,000,000 in all other cases. In no event will the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any four-month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 3015-day period referred to in paragraph (iiSection 5.01(a)(ii) of this Section 5.1(a)hereof, the Corporation Company will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) Requesting Stockholder may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Stockholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, in which case such request, so revoked, shall be considered a Demand Registration unless the participating Stockholders reimburse the Company for all costs incurred by the Company in connection with such registration, or unless such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand RegistrationRegistration and the Company shall be obligated to pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked request.
(bc) A registration requested The Company will be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 5.1 5.01, regardless of whether it is effected.
(d) A Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days without being subject to any stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the Commission or any other governmental authority for any reason (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders requested to be included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises underwriter shall advise the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Stockholder that, in its view, (i) the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities which the Company proposes to be included which are not Registrable Securities) or (ii) the inclusion of some or all of the Registrable Securities owned by the Demand Sellers and shares Holders, in any such case, exceeds the largest number of Registrable Securities requested to securities which can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”the "Maximum Offering Size"), the Corporation Company will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers Requesting Stockholder and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata rata, among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration registration); provided that if the Transfer Percentage of CVC is less than the Transfer Percentage of the DLJ Entities collectively at such time, the amount of Registrable Securities which will be allocable to CVC pursuant to this subsection shall be increased by an amount such that, after giving effect to the sale of all Registrable Securities in such offering, the Transfer Percentage of CVC would equal the Transfer Percentage of the DLJ Entities collectively;
(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 Holders)Persons with such priorities among them as the Company shall determine.
(df) The Corporation shall not be required to effect If, in connection with any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d)with respect to the Common Shares or Preferred Shares, any Requesting Stockholder shall seek to Transfer any Warrants together with Common Shares or Preferred Shares, the Corporation Company shall effect such registration within one year following at the request of any such Stockholder effect a registration of such Warrants to which the provisions of this Article 5 shall apply mutatis mutandis and a registration, pursuant to a shelf registration statement, so as to permit the resale of the Common Shares for registrationwhich any Warrants so transferred may be exercisable. The Company shall maintain the effectiveness of any such shelf registration statement, and take all actions necessary to permit resale of such Common Shares as may be required by applicable state securities laws.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investors' Agreement (Insilco Holding Co), Investors' Agreement (Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Inc /Ny/)
Demand Registration. (ai) Either At any time following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the closing date of the Sponsors mayIPO, at any timeHolder or group of Holders that holds Registrable Securities (the “Initiating Holder”) that desires to sell shall have the option and right, make exercisable by delivering a written request notice to the Partnership (together a “Demand Notice”), to require the Partnership to, pursuant to the terms of and subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, prepare and file with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes 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 such request, the Demand Notice in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Demand Notice (the “Demand SellersRegistration”).
(ii) that Within two (2) Trading Days of the Corporation effect receipt of the registration under Demand Notice, the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly Partnership shall give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior Notice to all Holders and shall, subject to the anticipated filing date limitations of this Section 2(a), file a Registration Statement covering all of the registration statement relating Registrable Securities that the Holders shall in writing request (such request to be given to the Partnership within three (3) 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 to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously promptly as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held practicable as directed by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (Initiating Holder in accordance with the intended methods thereof) terms and conditions of the Registrable Securities Demand Notice and use all commercially reasonable efforts to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred cause such Registration Statement to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and remain effective under the Securities Act for not less than six (ii6) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (months following the Effective Date or such shorter period in which when all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in covered by such registration Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse EffectEffectiveness Period”); provided, however, that the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation Partnership shall not be required to effect any the registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2(a) unless at least an aggregate of 2,500,000 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 $50 million.
(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 if on Form S-1 (or any equivalent or successor form under the Board determines Securities Act) in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offeringany twelve (12) month period; provided, that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the Corporation may elect contrary, the Partnership shall not be obligated to effect registration any Demand Registration on such grounds only once Form S-1 (or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act) that is not requested by a Sponsor or a Special Successor; and (B) two (2) Demand Registrations on Form S-3 (or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act) in any twelve-twelve (12) month period beginning on period.
(iv) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2(a), the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right Partnership shall not be required to effect a registration or file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 5.1(d2(a): (A) during the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to a good faith estimate, with the approval of a simple majority of the Board of Directors of the General Partner, of the date of filing of, and ending on a date ninety (90) days after the effective date of, a Partnership-initiated registration; 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 of a Demand Notice for registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) if at the time of such request (1) the Partnership is engaged, or has fixed plans with the approval of a simple majority of the Board of Directors of the General Partner to engage, within ninety (90) days of the time of such Demand Notice, in a firm commitment underwritten public offering of Common Units in which the Holders of Registrable Securities include Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2(b), or (2) the Partnership is currently engaged in a self-tender or exchange offer and the filing of a Registration Statement would cause a violation of the Exchange Act; or (C) for a period of up to ninety (90) days, if (1) the General Partner determines that a postponement is in the best interest of the Partnership and its Limited Partners generally due to a pending transaction or (2) the General Partner determines that a postponement is in the best interest of the Partnership due to an investigation or other event (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) and/or Section 7(f) 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), if (A) the Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by a Demand Registration by means of an underwriting and (B) the managing underwriter advises the Partnership that the inclusion of all of the Holders’ Registrable Securities in the subject Registration Statement would have a material adverse effect on the timing or success of the offering, then the Partnership shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities that would otherwise be underwritten pursuant hereto, and the number of Registrable Securities that may be included in the underwriting shall be allocated to the Holders of such Registrable Securities on a pro rata basis based on the number of Registrable Securities held by all such Holders (including the Initiating Holders). Any Registrable Securities excluded or withdrawn from such underwriting 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, then the Registrable Securities to be sold by the 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.
(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 Corporation 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 Holders shall effect 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 within one year 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 Holders to enable the Holders to consummate a public sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof.
(ix) In the event a Holder transfers Registrable Securities included on a Registration Statement and such Registrable Securities remain Registrable Securities following such transfer, at the request for registrationof such Holder, the Partnership shall amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such transferee to offer and sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement.
(x) The Partnership shall use commercially reasonable efforts to 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 Commission and meeting the other requirements of the Exchange Act.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P.), Registration Rights Agreement (Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either To the extent one or more Covered Persons have delivered Elections of Exchange pursuant to the Exchange Agreement in respect of any Quarterly Exchange Date covering Partnership Units having an aggregate market value (based on the most recent closing price of the Sponsors mayCompany’s Class A Common Stock on the securities exchange on which such Class A Common Stock is listed at the time of the applicable Demand Notice (as defined below)) of at least $75 million, the Demand Committee shall have the right at any time, make time prior to the applicable Cut-Off Date to provide a written request to the Company (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersNotice”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of, in the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, (x) the offer and sale by such Covered Persons of all Registrable Securities that the Company shall deliver to such Covered Persons, at or any portion prior to the settlement of such offering, in exchange for the Partnership Units that are the subject of such Elections of Exchange at the applicable Exchange Rate or (y) the offer and sale by the Company of a number of shares of Class A Common Stock (“Primary Issuance Funding Securities”) equal to the product of the number of Partnership Units that are the subject of such Elections of Exchange multiplied by the Exchange Rate, the net proceeds of which issuance (determined after deduction of any underwriting discounts and commissions, but not of any other offering expenses, including Registration Expenses) the Company shall use to acquire from such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying Covered Persons the intended method of disposition Partnership Units that are the subject of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice Elections of such requested registration Exchange (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities), whereupon such Sponsor the Company shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possiblereasonably practicable, the subject to paragraphs (c) and (d) of this Section 2.2, such registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) of the Registrable Securities then held by or Primary Issuance Funding Securities for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) Committee has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; registration under this Section 2.2, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition offer and sale (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities or Primary Issuance Funding Securities to be so registered. Promptly ; provided, however, that the Company will not be obligated to effect any such requested registration within 180 days after the expiration effective date of a previous Demand Registration. The public offering price for any Public Offering of Primary Issuance Funding Securities shall be determined as mutually agreed upon between the 30-day period referred Company and the lead managing underwriters of such a Public Offering. Each Demand Notice delivered pursuant to in paragraph (iithis section 2.2(a) of this shall include the information set forth under Section 5.1(a), 2.5(j) to the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in extent applicable. The Company shall inform the Demand Registration Committee immediately upon request of the other Holders and the number of shares Partnership Units in respect of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(awhich Covered Persons have delivered Elections of Exchange for any Quarterly Exchange Date.
(b) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registrationa Demand Registration, the Demand Committee may revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders Demand Notice by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, Demand Notice. The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in which case such request shall not be considered a connection with any Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the sole or managing Underwriter for such offering advises underwriters advise the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Company that, in its their view, the number of Registrable Securities, Primary Issuance Funding Securities and/or other securities requested that the Company and such Covered Persons intend to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration exceeds the largest number of Registrable Securities, Primary Issuance Funding Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, and/or other securities that can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effectdistribution of the securities being offered, as followsthe price that will be paid in such offering or the marketability thereof (the “Maximum Offering Size”), the Company shall include in such registration, in the following priority, up to the Maximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities or Primary Issuance Funding Securities requested to be included registered in such registration the Demand Registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder Committee (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration proportions as shall be determined by such Holdersthe Demand Committee); and;
(ii) second, all Registrable any securities other than Primary Issuance Funding Securities proposed to be included in such registration registered by the Company for its own account and any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not securities entitled to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities Other Registration Rights requested to be included in registered by the holders thereof, ratably among the Company and the holders of such registration Other Registration Rights, based (A) as between the Company and the holders of such Other Registration Rights, on the respective amounts of securities requested to be registered, and (B) as among the holders of such Other Registration Rights, on the respective amounts of securities subject to such Other Registration Rights held by each such other Holders)holder.
(d) The Corporation shall Upon notice to the Demand Committee, the Company may postpone filing (but not be required the preparation of) a registration pursuant to effect this Section 2.2 for a reasonable time not exceeding 60 days thereafter or 90 days in any Demand Registration 365-day period, if (i) the Board determines or a committee of the Board shall determine in good faith that due to business the filing of such registration statement or market conditions or the business or financial condition effecting a registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Corporation it Company the preparation of which had then been commenced or (ii) the Company is inappropriate at in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which, during the period specified in such time notice the Board or a committee of the Board believes in good faith, would not be in the best interests of the Company, or would have a material adverse effect on any active proposal by the Company or any of its subsidiaries to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once engage in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d)material acquisition, the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationmerger, consolidation, tender offer, other business combination, reorganization, securities offering or other material transaction.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (PJT Partners Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (PJT Partners Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time during the period beginning on the expiration of the Sponsors maytransfer restrictions set forth in Section 4.6 of the Investment Agreement, at any time, make a written Flowers may request on not more than three (together with any other Sponsor Holder 3) occasions that such Sponsor includes in such request, Enstar register the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration Registration Shares under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any for public sale (the "Demand Rights"). Any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities Rights request must be in writing signed by Flowers and specifying must designate the intended method specific number of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior Registration Shares proposed to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes be sold by Flowers in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders public offering and the number proposed plan of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to distribution for the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand RegistrationRegistration Shares.
(b) A Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Section 3, Enstar shall have no obligation hereunder to: (i) register Registration Shares if such registration requested involves 500,000 or fewer Registration Shares or (ii) maintain the effectiveness of any registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective 3 for a period of at least 90 days time exceeding the Distribution Period (or such shorter period as defined in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunderSection 5(g) below).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, Enstar shall be entitled in its view, sole discretion to delay the number filing of securities requested the registration statement covering such Registration Shares for a period of up to be included 90 days from the date of receipt of the request for Demand Rights if its Board of Directors determines in good faith that such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, a delay is in the opinion best interests of Enstar and its shareholders; provided that Enstar shall not have the managing Underwriter for right to exercise such offering, can be sold discretion to delay such filing more than once in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)365-day period.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required Notwithstanding anything to effect any the contrary set forth in this Section 3, if Flowers exercises a Demand Right and subsequently informs Enstar in writing that (i) he desires to withdraw such registration or (ii) he is unable to sell in excess of 50% of the Registration if the Board determines in good faith that Shares covered by such registration statement due to business or a deterioration in market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at other bona fide reason, and Flowers reimburses Enstar for all Registration Expenses incurred by Enstar in connection with such time to undertake a Public Offering; providedterminated registration, that the Corporation may elect then Flowers shall be deemed not to effect have exercised the Demand Right under this Agreement and shall be permitted to exercise such right again in accordance with the terms of Section 3(a) of this Agreement.
(e) If a registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right effected pursuant to this Section 5.1(d3 involves a firm commitment underwritten public offering, Flowers shall have the sole right to select the managing underwriters, subject to the approval of Enstar (such approval not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investment Agreement (Enstar Group Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Flowers Christopher J)
Demand Registration. (a) Either The Company shall give prompt notice to each Shareholder (so long as such Shareholder is an Eligible Shareholder) of each Window Period, which notice shall specify the Maximum Share Number. If at any time during a Window Period or at any time following the fifth anniversary of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestClosing Date, the Company shall receive a request from the Shareholder (the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating Other Shareholders. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to such Demand Registration effect, subject to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request provisions of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect Section 2.01(f), the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Requesting Shareholders have requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) registration under this Section 2.01 and all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholders that any other Shareholder entitled Other Shareholders with rights to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration registration under Section 2.02 (all such Other Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days five (5) Business Days after such Other Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. , provided that,
(i) subject to Section 2.01(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than two Demand Registrations in any twelve-month period,
(ii) the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate number of shares of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds 5% of the Common Shares outstanding at the time the request for the Demand Registration is made,
(iii) the Company shall not be obligated to include in such registration a number of Registrable Securities of the Shareholder which exceeds such Shareholder’s Pro Rata Portion (unless any Other Shareholder who is an Eligible Shareholder shall choose not to participate in such registration up to the full amount of such Other Shareholder’s Pro Rata Portion, in which case each Registering Shareholder may choose to increase the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by his or her Pro Rata Portion of the Shortfall subject to the provisions of Section 2.01(e)),
(iv) the Company shall not be required to effect the registration of Registrable Securities in excess of the Maximum Share Number (the limitations in clauses (ii), (iii) and (iv) of this Section 2.01(a), collectively, the “Public Offering Limitations”),
(v) in no event shall the Company be required to effect a Demand Registration from any Requesting Shareholder unless such Requesting Shareholder at the time the request is made (x) continues to be actively engaged in the businesses of the Firm (in the reasonable judgment of the Underwritten Offering Committee), (y) has suffered a termination of employment by the Firm resulting from a disability or (z) is a Permitted Transferee (a Shareholder who fulfills the criteria in clauses (x)-(z) of this Section 2.01(a)(v), an “Eligible Shareholder”), and
(vi) The Company shall not be required to effect a Demand Registration within 180 days of a Piggyback Registration effected pursuant to Section 2.02.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 30five (5) Business-day Day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a2.01(a), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholder may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request. A request, so revoked, shall be considered to be a Demand Registration unless (i) such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company (in which case the Company shall be obligated to pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such request revoked request) or (ii) the Requesting Shareholder reimburses the Company for all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked request.
(c) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected, except as set forth in Section 2.01(b).
(d) A Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto has become effective under the Securities Act; provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Registration if, after such registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under becomes effective, such registration statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Securities Act and SEC or other governmental agency or court; or
(ii) has remained effective for a period if the Maximum Offering Size is reduced in accordance with Section 2.01(e) such that less than 66 2/3% of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all the Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders sought to be included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Registering Shareholders that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested or are otherwise contractually required to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have that are not Registrable Securities under this Agreement) exceeds the largest number of shares that can be sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, so much of the Company Securities proposed to be registered for the account of the Company as would not cause the offering to exceed the Maximum Offering Size,
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers Registering Shareholders who are Eligible Shareholders and all Company Securities contractually required to be registered for the account of any Continuing Shareholder other Persons (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders and such other Persons on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities or such other Company Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each such HoldersRegistering Shareholder and such other Person); , and
(iiiii) secondthird, all Registrable any Company Securities proposed, but not contractually required, to be included in such registration by registered for the account of any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on Persons with such priorities among them as the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)Company may determine.
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if each Requesting Shareholder, the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or Company may defer the business or financial condition filing of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right statement pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), 2.01 for a reasonable period of time not exceeding 90 days if (i) at the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following time the Company receives the request for registrationsuch Demand Registration, there is (A) material non-public information regarding the Company which, in the judgment of the Board, is not in the Company’s best interest to disclose and which the Company is not otherwise required to disclose or (B) there is a significant business opportunity (including, but not limited to, the acquisition or disposition of assets (other than in the ordinary course of business) or any merger, consolidation, tender offer or other similar transaction) available to the Company which, in the judgment of the Board, is not in the Company’s best interest to disclose; or (ii) prior to receiving the request for such Demand Registration, the Company has determined to effect an offering in connection with which equity securities of the Company are sold to an underwriter or underwriters for reoffering to the public pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, and the Company has determined to proceed with such offering.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Partnership Agreement (Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc.), Partners’ Equity Agreement (Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If at any time after the date six months after the completion of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestInitial Public Offering, the Company shall receive a request from a Shareholder or group of Shareholders (the requesting Shareholder(s) shall be referred to herein as the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”), holding at least thirty percent (30%) of the Registrable Securities then outstanding, that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act (i) for the first Public Offering of the Company after the completion of the Initial Public Offering (the “Follow-On Offering”), at least twenty percent (20%) of the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities then outstanding (or any lesser percentage if the anticipated aggregate offering price, net of underwriting discounts and commissions, would exceed $10,000,000), or (ii) after the completion of the Follow-On Offering, all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities and and, in each case, specifying the intended method of disposition thereof, then the Company shall as promptly as practicable following the date of receipt by the Company of such securities. The Corporation will promptly request give written notice of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 fifteen (15) business days prior to the anticipated filing date after receipt of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, and in any event within ninety (90) days after the date the Demand Registration is given by the Requesting Shareholder, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e), all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Shareholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 2.01, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e) and 2.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholder that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration Shareholders (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register pursuant to Section 2.02, by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days seven Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered, provided that, the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $10,000,000. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than two (2) Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.01.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 30seven-day Business Day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a2.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholder may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request. Notwithstanding clause (d) below, a request, so revoked, shall be considered to be a Demand Registration unless (i) such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company (in which case the Company shall be obligated to pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationrevoked request), or (ii) the Requesting Shareholder reimburses the Company for all Registration Expenses (other than the expenses set forth under clause (v) of the definition of the term Registration Expenses) of such revoked request.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected, unless the Requesting Shareholder elects to pay such Registration Expenses as described in the last sentence of Section 2.01(b).
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that a Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have occurred if, after such registration statement becomes effective, 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.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholder that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder all Registering Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included held by each such Shareholder, or in such registration other proportion as shall mutually be agreed to by all such HoldersRegistering Shareholders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities any securities proposed to be included in such registration registered by the Company (including for the benefit of any other Holder (allocated, if necessary Persons not party to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holdersthis Agreement).
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or Requesting Shareholder, the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d2.01 on two occasions during any period of twelve consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days in the aggregate in any period of twelve consecutive months (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) the Corporation shall effect Company reasonably determines that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Company the preparation of which had then been commenced, (ii) the Company reasonably determines that effecting the registration would materially and adversely interfere with a significant acquisition, corporate reorganization, or other similar transaction involving the Company, (iii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such registration within one year following notice the request for registrationCompany reasonably believes in good faith would not be in the best interests of the Company, or (iv) the Company would be rendered unable to comply with the requirements under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Merus N.V.), Registration Rights Agreement (Merus B.V.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either After the first to occur of the Sponsors mayconsummation of the Initial Public Offering and December 23, 1996, upon the writ ten request of any holder or holders of at any timeleast 662/3% of the outstanding Registrable Securities issued or issuable upon conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestSeries C Preferred Stock, the “Demand Sellers”) Series D Preferred Stock and Series E Preferred Stock requesting that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion part of any such Demand Sellers’ holder's or holders' Registrable Securities and specifying the number thereof to be registered by each such holder and the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly thereof, the Company will, as expeditiously as possible, give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior request to the anticipated filing date all holders of the registration statement relating Registrable Securities, and shall thereupon use its reasonable best efforts to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securitiesAct, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed subject to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsSection 6.1(e), the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Com pany has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellerssuch holder or holders; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request which the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) Company has been requested the Corporation to register by any other holder thereof by written request received by given to the Corporation Company within 30 calendar days after the receipt by such Holders giving of such written notice given by the Corporation; Company (which request shall specify the intended method of disposition of such Registrable Securities), all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. Promptly after Notwithstanding the expiration foregoing provisions of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(asubsection 6.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request Company shall not be considered a Demand Registrationobligated to file more than three registration statements pursuant to this Section 6.1(a) and shall not be obligated to file any registration statement pursuant to this Section 6.1(a) where the proposed aggregate offering price of the securities to be sold thereunder is less than $5 million.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless After the first anniversary of the Initial Public Offering, upon the written request of any holder or holders of a majority of the outstanding Registrable Securities issued or issuable upon conversion of the Series E Preferred Stock (the "Requesting Series E Holders") requesting that the Company effect the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (all or such shorter period in which all part of the Requesting Series E Holders' Registrable Securities of and specifying the Holders included in number thereof to be registered by each such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering holder and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its viewintended method of disposition thereof, the number Company will, as expeditiously as possible, give written notice of securities requested such request to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares all holders of Registrable Securities, and shall thereupon use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant Act, subject to Section 5.26.1(f), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsof:
(i) first, all the Registrable Securities which the Com pany has been so requested to be included in such registration register by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Requesting Series E Holders); and
(ii) secondall other Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to register by any other holder thereof by written request given to the Company within 30 calendar days after the giving of such written notice by the Company (which request shall specify the intended method of disposition of such Registrable Securities), all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of subsection 6.1(b), the Company shall not be obligated to file more than one registration statement pursuant to this Section 6.1(b) and shall not be obligated to file any registration statement pursuant to this Section 6.1(b) where the proposed aggregate offering price of the securities to be sold thereunder is less than $5 million.
(c) At such time as the Company shall have qualified for the use of Form S-3 (or any similar form or forms promulgated by the Commission), the holders of 10% of the then outstanding Registrable Securities shall have the right to request the registration of Registrable Securities on Form S-3. The Company shall give prompt written notice of each such proposed registration to all other record holders of Registrable Securities. Subject to Section 6.1(e) hereof, such other holders shall have the right, by giving written notice to the Company within 30 days from receipt of the Company's notice, to elect to have included in such registration by any other Holder (allocatedsuch of their Registrable Securities as such holders may request in such notice of election. Thereupon, if necessary the Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration on Form S-3 of all Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to register; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to file and use its reasonable best efforts to cause an Adverse Effect to become effective (i) more than one registration on Form S-3 in any one year period or (ii) any such registration statement where the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis proposed aggregate offering price of the relative number of shares of securities to be sold thereunder is less than $2 million. In addition, the Company shall not be obligated to file and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to become effective more than three registration statements pursuant to which Registrable Securities requested are to be included in such registration by such other Holderssold pursuant to this Section 6.1(b). Three registrations effected on Form S-3 pursuant to this Section 6.1(b) shall not be counted as demand registrations pursuant to Section 6.1(a) hereof.
(d) At such time as the Company shall have qualified for the use of Form S-3 (or any similar form or forms promulgated by the Commission), the Requesting Series E Holders shall have the right to request the registration of Registrable Securities on Form S-3. The Corporation Company shall give prompt written notice of such proposed registration to all other record holders of Registrable Securities. Subject to Section 6.1(f) hereof, such other holders shall have the right, by giving written notice to the Company within 30 days from receipt of the Company's notice, to elect to have included in such registration such of their Registrable Securities as such holders may request in such notice of election. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration on Form S-3 of all Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to register; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required obligated to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due file and use its reasonable best efforts to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time cause to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect become effective (i) more than one registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right Form S-3 pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect 6.1(d) or (ii) any such registration within one year following statement where the request for registrationproposed aggregate offering price of the securities to be sold thereunder is less than $2 million. A registration effected pursuant to this Section 6.1(d) shall not be counted as a demand registration pursuant to Section 6.1(b) hereof.
(e) The Company may include in a registration requested under Sections 6.1(a) or 6.1
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Stockholders Agreement (Praecis Pharmaceuticals Inc), Stockholders Agreement (Praecis Pharmaceuticals Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If at any time following the earlier of (x) 180 days after the effective date of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request registration statement for the First Public Offering and (together with y) the expiration of the period during which the managing underwriters for the First Public Offering shall prohibit the Company from effecting any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestpublic sale or distribution of Company Securities, the Company shall receive a joint request from the Quadrangle Entities and the CVC Entities (the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request, a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days 15 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Management Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Requesting Shareholders have requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 5.01, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 5.01(e) and 5.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholders that any other Shareholder entitled Shareholders with rights to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration registration under Section 5.02 (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days 15 Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered, provided that, subject to Section 5.01(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than three Demand Registrations for the Institutional Shareholders, other than Demand Registrations to be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any successor thereto), for which an unlimited number of Demand Registrations shall be permitted; provided further that the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $15,000,000. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any six-month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 3015 Business Day-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a5.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholders may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, .
(c) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in which case such request shall not be considered a connection with any Demand Registration.
(bd) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 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 5.01(e) such that less than 662/3% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholders that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder Institutional Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders entities on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each),
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder Registering Shareholder (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such other Holders Management Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each such Shareholder), and
(iii) third, any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any other HoldersPersons (including the Company), with such priorities among them as the Company shall determine.
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if each Requesting Shareholder, the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d5.01 on one occasion during any period of twelve consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) an investment banking firm of recognized national standing shall advise the Corporation shall effect Company and the Requesting Shareholders in writing 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 registration within one year following notice the request for registrationCompany reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Shareholder Agreement, Shareholders Agreement (Ntelos Holdings Corp)
Demand Registration. (ai) Either of the Sponsors may, at At any time, make each Affiliated Holder shall have, to the extent it holds Registrable Securities, the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Company (an “Affiliated Holder Demand Notice”), to require the Company, pursuant to the terms of and subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, to prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement registering the offering and sale of Registrable Securities (whether by the Affiliated Holder directly or indirectly by Limited Partners) on the terms and conditions specified in the Affiliated Holder Demand Notice, which may include sales on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement (an “Affiliated Holder Demand Registration”). The Affiliated Holder Demand Notice must set forth the number and type of Registrable Securities that the Affiliated Holder anticipates will be included in such Affiliated Holder Demand Registration and the intended methods of disposition thereof. If Registrable Securities are to be distributed by Eclipse Holdings to one or more Limited Partners to permit the sale of such Registrable Securities directly by such Limited Partners as Selling Stockholders (such a distribution, a “Resale Distribution”), Eclipse Holdings shall deliver a written notice to each Limited Partner that (i) specifies the amount of Registrable Securities that Eclipse Holdings estimates distributing to such Limited Partner in the Resale Distribution, and (ii) offers such Limited Partner the right to include all (but not less than all) of such Registrable Securities in the Affiliated Holder Demand Registration. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to include any Registrable Securities to be received by a Limited Partner upon a Resale Distribution in such Affiliated Holder Demand Registration if the Company has received a written request for inclusion therein from such Limited Partner within three (together 3) Business Days after the Company receives the Affiliated Holder Demand Notice.
(ii) During the Form S-3 Eligibility Period, any Non-Affiliated Holder shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Company (a “Non-Affiliated Holder 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 on Form S-3 (or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act Act) registering the offering and sale of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities on the terms and specifying conditions specified in the Non-Affiliated Holder Demand Notice, which may include sales on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement (a “Non-Affiliated Holder Demand Registration”). The Non-Affiliated Holder Demand Notice must set forth the number and type of Registrable Securities that the Initiating Holder anticipates will be included in such Non-Affiliated Holder Demand Registration and the intended method methods of disposition thereof.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Company shall not be required to effectuate a Demand Registration unless the amount of Registrable Securities set forth in the Demand Notice have an aggregate value of at least than $25 million based on the VWAP of such securities. The Corporation will promptly Registrable Securities as of the date of the Demand Notice (the “Minimum Amount”).
(iv) Within five (5) Business Days of the receipt of the Demand Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such requested registration Demand Notice to all Holders (a “Demand Registration”other than the Initiating Holder) at least 30 and, within thirty (30) days prior thereof (except if the Company is not then eligible to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) register for resale the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
on Form S-3, in which case, within ninety (ii90) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholdersdays thereof), together with the Demand Sellersshall, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all subject to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (limitations of this Section 2(a), file a Registration Statement in accordance with the intended methods thereof) terms and conditions of the Demand Notice, which Registration Statement shall cover, in addition to the Registrable Securities set forth in the Demand Notice, all of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to that such Holders shall in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders writing request to be included in the Demand Registration (provided such request is given to the Company within ten (10) days of receipt of notice of the other Holders Demand Notice given by the Company pursuant to this Section 2(a)(iv) and includes such information regarding the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested requesting Holder as is required to be included thereindisclosed in connection with such Demand Registration pursuant to Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Act). The If, following the receipt of written notice from the Company of a Demand Sellers requesting Notice, Eclipse Holdings elects to undertake a registration under this Section 5.1(a) mayResale Distribution to permit its Limited Partners to participate in such Demand Registration, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a Eclipse Holdings shall promptly send written notice to the Corporation revoking Limited Partners participating in the Resale Distribution that specifies the amount of Registrable Securities that Eclipse Holdings anticipates distributing to such requestLimited Partner in the Resale Distribution, and the Limited Partners may include such Registrable Securities in the Demand Registration if written notice is provided by the Limited Partners to the Company within the time period, and with the required information, set forth in the previous sentence. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become and remain effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (A) one hundred eighty (180) days (or two (2) years if a Shelf Registration Statement is requested) after the Effective Date or (B) the date on which case all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold or cease to be Registrable Securities (the “Demand Effectiveness Period”); provided, however, that such period shall be extended for a period of time equal to the period the Selling Stockholders refrain from selling any securities included in such Registration Statement at the request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationof an underwriter of the Company or the Company pursuant to this Agreement.
(bv) A registration requested Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company is not obligated hereunder to effect: (A) a Demand Registration within ninety (90) days of the closing of any Underwritten Offering, or (B) a subsequent Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 5.1 a Demand Notice if a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities covered by such Demand Notice shall not be deemed to already have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained remains effective for a period under the Securities Act and is sufficient to permit offers and sales of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of on the Holders included terms and conditions specified in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)Demand Notice in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in such Demand Notice.
(cvi) If Subject to Section 2(a)(i), a Selling Stockholder may withdraw all or any portion of its Registrable Securities included in a Demand Registration involves from such Demand Registration at any time prior to the effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement. Upon delivery of a Public Offering and notice by a Selling Stockholder to the managing Underwriter for effect that the Selling Stockholder is withdrawing Registrable Securities such offering advises that the Corporation and remaining Registrable Securities are below the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its viewMinimum Amount, the number of securities requested Company shall cease all efforts to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion secure effectiveness of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)applicable Registration Statement.
(dvii) The Corporation Subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition on such appropriate registration form of the Corporation it is inappropriate at Commission (x) as shall be selected by the Company and (y) as shall permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition specified in the Initiating Holder’s request for such time to undertake a Public Offeringregistration; provided, however, that (i) if the Corporation may elect not 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 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), and (ii) any Non-Affiliated Demand Registration must be on Form S-3 (or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act). If at any time a Registration Statement on Form S-3 is effective and a Selling Stockholder provides written notice to the Company that it intends to effect registration an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities included on such grounds only once 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 twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right Demand Registration pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 5.1(d2(a), the Corporation Company shall effect (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 Selling Stockholders shall reasonably request; provided, however, that no such registration within one year or 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 would be required to qualify to do business or register as a broker or dealer, 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 Selling Stockholders to enable the Selling Stockholders to consummate a public sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof.
(ix) In the event a Selling Stockholder transfers Registrable Securities included on a Registration Statement and such Registrable Securities remain Registrable Securities following such transfer, at the request for registrationof such Selling Stockholder, the Company shall amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such transferee to offer and sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to such 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 Selling Stockholder, Affiliates of the Selling Stockholder or transferees of the Selling Stockholder or (B) the Company has received written consent therefor from whom Registrable Securities have been registered on (but not yet sold under) such Registration Statement, other than the Selling Stockholder, Affiliates of the Selling Stockholder or transferees of the Selling Stockholder.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement
Demand Registration. (a) Either of With respect to each Demand Registration undertaken for the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion account of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities Principal Stockholder Party up to (and specifying including) the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such second Demand Registration to that becomes effective as set forth in Section 4.1(b) hereof, and the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) distribution of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after pursuant thereto, the expiration of Company shall bear all reasonable out-of-pocket fees, costs and expenses incurred by the 30-day period referred to in paragraph Company and each Participating Stockholder Party, including, without limitation, (i) all SEC and stock exchange registration and filing fees, (ii) stock exchange listing fees, (iii) fees and expenses of this Section 5.1(acompliance with securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel in connection with blue sky qualifications of the Registrable Securities), (iv) printing expenses (including the Corporation will notify expense of printing Prospectuses), (v) messenger and delivery expenses, (vi) marketing expenses (including, without limitation, expenses in connection with road shows), (vii) reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company and each Principal Stockholder Party and their independent public accountants, and (viii) all Distribution Expenses (all such expenses being herein referred to herein as the Holders to be included in "REGISTRATION EXPENSES"). In the case of any Demand Registration of undertaken thereafter, the other Holders Participating Stockholder Parties shall bear all Registration Expenses incurred by the Company and the Participating Stockholder Parties in connection with such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis according to the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested proposed to be included in such registration by the Participating Stockholder Parties; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that any Registration Expenses attributable to any securities included in the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect Registration by the Company in accordance with Section 4.1(a)(i)(B) hereof shall be borne by the Company on the offering, a pro rata among such Holders on the basis of according to the relative number of shares of such Registrable Securities requested proposed to be included by it in such registration by such Holders)the registration; and
and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that (iix) second, all Registrable Securities the Company shall bear up to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis a maximum of $25,000 for each Participating Stockholder Party of the relative number fees and disbursements of counsel for such Participating Stockholder Party and (y) except to the extent set forth in the foregoing clause (x), each Participating Stockholder Party shall bear the fees and disbursements of its counsel, independent public accountants and other advisors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the ▇▇▇▇ Stockholders are issued shares of Registrable Common Stock in the Merger that have not been registered under the Securities requested Act, the ▇▇▇▇ Stockholders shall be entitled to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any exercise an additional Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition which all of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election Registration Expenses shall be borne by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationCompany.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Stockholders Agreement (Unr Asbestos Disease Claims Trust), Stockholders Agreement (Rohn Industries Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of At any time following the Sponsors mayEffective Date, at subject to any timeLockup Period, make a upon the written request of any Holder (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestcapacity, the a “Demand SellersParty”) requesting that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the amount and intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation thereof, the Company will (x) promptly (but in any event within five (5) days) give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders pursuant to Section 2.2 and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect other holders of Securities entitled to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities notice of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request registration, if any, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, (y) as expeditiously as possiblepossible after a request for registration pursuant to this Section 2.1(a) is given to the Company, file a registration statement to effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(iA) the such Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; andParty in accordance with the intended method of disposition thereof;
(iiB) all other the Registrable Securities that any of other Shareholder entitled to request Holders which the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) Company has been requested the Corporation to register by written request received by given to the Corporation Company within 30 ten (10) days after the receipt by such Holders giving of such written notice given by the CorporationCompany pursuant to Section 2.2; and
(C) all shares of Common Stock which the Company may elect to register in connection with any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2.1. Notwithstanding the extent necessary foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to permit file a registration statement relating to any registration request under this Section 2.1(a) (i) unless the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) aggregate offering price of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly sold in such offering is reasonably expected to be at least $20 million or (ii) within a period of sixty (60) days (or such lesser period as the managing underwriters in an underwritten offering may permit) after the expiration effective date of the 30-day period any other registration statement relating to any registration request under this Section 2.1(a) or relating to any registration referred to in paragraph (ii) Section 2.3. A Demand Party can withdraw all or any portion of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders its Registrable Securities to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, 2.1 at any time prior and, upon receipt of notice thereof, the Company shall cease all efforts to the effective date secure effectiveness of the applicable registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationstatement.
(b) A registration requested pursuant The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless cause the registration statement relating thereto filed pursuant to Section 2.1(a) to be declared effective by the SEC (iif such registration statement is not an automatic shelf registration statement) has promptly. The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to cause the registration statement to become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained remain effective for a period of at least 90 one hundred and eighty (180) days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration statement have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) Each registration statement prepared at the request of a Demand Party shall be effected on such appropriate form as requested by the Demand Party and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(d) The Company will pay all Registration Expenses in connection with each registration of Registrable Securities requested pursuant to this Section 2.1.
(e) If a Demand Registration requested registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 involves an underwritten offering, Holders of a Public Offering majority of the Registrable Securities participating in such offering shall have the right to select the investment banker or bankers and managers to administer the offering, including the lead managing underwriter; provided, however, that such investment banker or bankers and managers shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company. For the avoidance of doubt, each applicable Holder participating in such an underwritten offering shall be responsible for paying the underwriting discounts and commissions applicable to such Holder’s Registrable Securities sold by the underwriters in such underwritten offering.
(f) If a requested registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 involves an underwritten offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Company that, in its viewopinion, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities Securities requested to be included in such registration (includingincluding Securities of the Company which are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the number which can be sold in such offering, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested so as to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested likely to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of, or the market for, the Securities offered in such offering, including then the price at which number of such securities can Securities to be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include included in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, shall be allocated in the opinion following order of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
priority: (i) first, all up to the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers Party and any Continuing Shareholder (allocatedsuch other Holders who have requested to have Registrable Securities included in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2, if necessary not which, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, can be sold without having the adverse effect referred to cause an Adverse Effect on the offeringabove, which number of Registrable Securities shall be allocated pro rata among such the Demand Party and the requesting Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders)statement; and
and (ii) second, and only if all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Party and such other Holders who have requested to have Registrable Securities included in such registration by such other Holders)pursuant to Section 2.2 have been included, the number of Securities the Company proposes to sell that, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, can be sold without having the adverse effect referred to above.
(dg) The Corporation Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be entitled, upon written notice to all applicable Holders, to postpone the filing or the effectiveness of a registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 2.1 for a reasonable period of time, which shall not be required to effect exceed (i) two occasions during any Demand Registration twelve (12)-month period or (ii) thirty (30) days in succession on any one occasion, if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; providedand in its reasonable judgment, after consultation with counsel, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date filing or effectiveness of such election by registration statement would require the Corporationdisclosure of material, non-public information that would otherwise not be required to be disclosed and that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential. If The Company shall immediately notify the Corporation exercises its right pursuant Holders in writing once the Company is able to this Section 5.1(d)proceed with the filing or effectiveness of the registration statement and prepare any necessary amendments or supplements thereto such that the registration statement will not include an untrue statement of material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationcircumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (WCI Communities, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (WCI Communities, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of Subject to the Sponsors maylimitations set forth in this Agreement, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requesttime after the date which is 90 days after the Closing Date, the “Demand Sellers”) that Holder may request the Corporation effect the registration Company to register under the Securities Act of Act, all or any portion (but not less than $2.0 million of the Holder's Restricted Securities) of its Restricted Securities for sale on terms and conditions comparable to those normally applicable to offerings of equity securities in similar circumstances as determined by the Company on Form S-3 or such other form as the Company deems appropriate; provided, however, that the request for registration must be for a Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act. The Company shall be obligated to register Restricted Securities pursuant to this Section 2.2(a) on two occasions only, provided, however, that such registrations shall be counted only if (A) the corresponding Registration Statements have become effective under the Securities Act, and (B) the public offerings have been consummated on the terms and conditions specified therein or if not consummated, such failure was not attributable to an action taken by the Company. The Company shall be entitled to include in any Shelf Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 2.2(a) securities of the Company held by any other shareholder of the Company and, in an underwritten public offering, Common Stock of the Company to be sold by the Company for its own account so long as the inclusion of such Demand Sellers’ Registrable additional securities will not result in a decrease of the amount of Restricted Securities to be registered pursuant to this Section 2.2(a).
(b) In connection with the Shelf Registration Statement, the Company shall comply with all the provisions of Section 2.4 below and specifying shall use its reasonable efforts to effect such registration to permit the sale of the Restricted Securities being sold in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration distribution thereof (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior as indicated in the information furnished to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating Company pursuant to such Demand Registration Section 2.2(c)). Subject to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsSection 2.2(d), the Corporation will Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effectkeep each such Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective, supplemented and amended as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held required by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(iiprovisions of Section 2.2(d) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit ensure that it is available for resales of Restricted Securities by the disposition (in accordance Holder, and to ensure that it conforms with the intended methods thereof) requirements of this Agreement, the Securities Act and the policies, rules and regulations of the Registrable Securities Commission as announced from time to time, for a period of 18 months from the Effective Time or such longer period as required by Section 2.2(d) or such shorter period that will terminate when all the securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement have been sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement or otherwise cease to be so registeredRestricted Securities (the "Effective Period"). Promptly after Upon the expiration occurrence of any event that would cause any Shelf Registration Statement or the 30-day period referred Prospectus contained therein (i) to in paragraph contain a material misstatement or omission or (ii) not to be effective and usable for sale or resale of Restricted Securities during the period required by this Section 5.1(aAgreement, the Company shall file promptly an appropriate amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement or the related Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference, in the case of clause (i), correcting any such misstatement or omission, and, in the Corporation will notify all the Holders case of either clause (i) or (ii), use its reasonable efforts to cause such amendment to be included in the Demand declared effective and such Registration of the other Holders Statement and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested related Prospectus to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(abecome usable for its intended purpose(s) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationas soon as practicable thereafter.
(bc) A registration requested The Holder may not include any of its Restricted Securities in a Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed Agreement unless and until such Holder furnishes to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective Company in writing, within 30 Business Days after receipt of a written request therefor, such information specified in Item 507 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective such other information as the Company may reasonably request for use in connection with a period of at least 90 days (Shelf Registration Statement or such shorter period Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus included therein and in which any application to the NASD. The Holder agrees to furnish promptly to the Company all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested information required to be included disclosed in such registration, or order to make the type of securities requested information previously furnished to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration Company by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)materially misleading.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required Notwithstanding anything to effect any Demand Registration the contrary contained herein, if (x) the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions the registration and distribution of Restricted Securities (or the business use of any such Shelf Registration Statement or financial condition the Prospectus contained therein) would interfere with any proposed or pending material corporate transaction involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or would require premature disclosure thereof or would require the Company to disclose information that the Company has not otherwise made public and that the Company reasonably determines is in the best interests of the Corporation it is inappropriate Company not to disclose at such time time, and (y) the Company notifies the Holder in writing not later than three days following such determination (such notice a "Blackout Notice"), the Company may (A) postpone the filing of such Shelf Registration Statement or (B) allow such Shelf Registration Statement to undertake fail to be effective and usable or elect that such Shelf Registration Statement not be usable for a Public Offeringreasonable period of time, but not in excess of 30 days (a "Blackout Period"); provided, however, that the Corporation may elect aggregate number of days included in all Blackout Periods shall not exceed 90 during any consecutive 12 months and shall not exceed 150 during the period specified in Section 2.2(b) of this Agreement; and provided, further, that the Effective Period referred to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election Section 2.2(b) during which a Shelf Registration Statement is required to be effective and usable shall be extended by the Corporation. If aggregate number of days during which such Shelf Registration Statement was not effective or usable pursuant to the Corporation exercises its right foregoing provisions.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be obligated to file a Shelf Registration Statement in respect of Restricted Securities pursuant to this Section 5.1(d)2.2 if: (i) the Company has previously filed a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to Restricted Securities, and a period of at least 180 days has not elapsed from the Corporation shall effect date on which the Effective Period of such registration within one year following Shelf Registration Statement has expired; and (ii) the request for registrationCompany has previously filed a Company Registration Statement pursuant to which Restricted Securities have been registered under Section 2.3 hereof, and a period of at least 120 days has not elapsed from the Effective Time of such Company Registration Statement.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Wasteco Ventures LTD), Registration Rights Agreement (Compost America Holding Co Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, on or after the earlier of (i) the first anniversary of the Sponsors mayClosing Date or (ii) the registration of shares of Common Stock (other than Broker Shares) held by the Founders or any shareholder holding at least 5% of the Company's then outstanding Common Stock (calculated as though all shares of Preferred Stock are converted into Common Stock), the Purchasers or their Permitted Transferees holding in the aggregate at any time, least 40% of the outstanding Registrable Securities may make a two (2) written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, to the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the Company for registration under the Securities Act of all or the sale of Registrable Securities held by such Registering Purchasers (the "Demand Registration"); provided that (i) BellSouth shall be one of the Purchasers making such request and (ii) the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration pursuant to this Agreement within any portion 12-month period. Promptly following receipt of any such request for a Demand Sellers’ Registration under this Section 8.2.1(a), the Company shall immediately notify any holders of Registrable Securities from whom a request for a Demand Registration has not been received and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to shall include in such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Registrable Securities as such holders may specify in writing within 10 Business Days after receipt of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor notice. The Company shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, cause such registration statement to become effective as expeditiously soon as possible, possible and remain effective for the registration under period ending on the Securities Act of:
earlier of (i) 90 days from the date of effectiveness of said registration statement and (ii) the sale of all of Registrable Securities held by such Registering Purchasers.
(b) The Company shall have the right to include its securities sold on its behalf or on behalf of any other stockholder in any registration initiated as a Demand Registration; provided that: (i) such securities are of the same class as the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellersincluded in such registration; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that if any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration are sold in an underwritten offering, the Company or such other stockholder agrees in writing to sell its securities on the same terms and conditions as apply to the Registrable Securities being sold; and (iii) if any of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration are to be so registered. Promptly after sold in an underwritten offering and the expiration managing underwriter of such underwritten offering reasonably determines in good faith and advises the 30-day period referred to parties that the inclusion in paragraph (ii) such underwritten offering of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders securities proposed to be included in such offering would materially and adversely affect the success of the underwritten offering, then the Company shall include in such registration (but only to the extent of the number of securities that the Company is so advised can reasonably be sold in such offering), FIRST all Registrable Securities duly requested to be registered in such Demand Registration, SECOND any securities the Company is required to register pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, THIRD any other securities held by Persons who received contractual registration rights with respect thereto prior to the date of this Agreement, FOURTH any securities that the Company wishes to register for its own account and FIFTH any securities held by Persons who received contractual registration rights with respect thereto after the date of this Agreement; in each case, determined on a pro rata basis if there is more than one holder of such Registrable Securities or securities, as the case may be. Whenever a registration requested pursuant to this Section is for an underwritten offering, only securities which are to be distributed by the underwriters may be included in the registration.
(c) The Company shall have the right to select the managing underwriter to administer the Demand Registration if such Demand Registration is an underwritten offering, subject to the approval of BellSouth, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Registering Purchasers 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, provided that (x) the Registering Purchasers shall have the right to negotiate the economic terms of the other Holders offering and (y) such underwriting agreement shall be approved by the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested Registering Purchasers, such approval not to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting unreasonably withheld or delayed.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company will be entitled to postpone the filing of a registration under statement required to be filed by it pursuant to this Section 5.1(aAgreement for ninety (90) maydays, if (i) at any time prior to the effective date filing of such registration statement a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company determines, in its good faith business judgment, that such registration and offering is reasonably likely to materially interfere with or otherwise have a material adverse effect on any financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other material transaction or development involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries and (ii) the Company gives the Registering Purchasers written notice of such postponement, provided that such postponements may not in any 365-day period occur more than once, and, provided further, that in the event of any such withdrawal or termination of effectiveness, such registration shall not act as a registration effected for purposes of Section 8.2.1(a). Any such notice need not specify the reasons for such suspension if a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company determines, in its good faith business judgment, that doing so would interfere with or adversely affect such transaction or development or would result in the disclosure of material non-public information. In the event of such postponement, the Company will file such registration statement relating as soon as practicable after it determines, in its good faith business judgment, that such registration and offering will not interfere with the matters described in the first sentence of this Section 8.2.1(d), but in no event more than ninety (90) days after that date that such registration statement would otherwise have been filed, provided that the Registering Purchasers shall have the right to such registration, revoke such withdraw their request without liability to any of the other Holders for Demand Registration by providing a giving written notice to the Corporation revoking Company within ninety (90) days of receipt of the notice of postponement, and in the event of such requestwithdrawal, in which case such the request so withdrawn shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have not been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)made.
(ce) If Each Registration Statement in respect of a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering will be for the offering and sale of such Registrable Securities on such basis as the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public OfferingRegistering Purchasers reasonably request; provided, in writinghowever, that, in its viewexcept as expressly set forth herein, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation Company shall not be required to effect register such Registrable Securities on a continuous or delayed basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act.
(f) The Company shall promptly prepare and file with the Commission such amendments to the registration statements as may be necessary to keep such registration statements effective in accordance with this Section 8.2.1.
(g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if at any Demand Registration if time after the filing of a registration statement, before or after it is declared effective by the Commission, a majority of the Board determines of Directors of the Company determines, in its good faith business judgment, that due such registration and the offering of Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement is reasonably likely to business materially interfere with or market conditions otherwise have a materially adverse effect on any financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other material transaction or development involving the business Company or financial condition any of its affiliates or require the Company to disclose matters that otherwise would not be required to be disclosed at such time, then the Company may require that no distribution of any Registrable Securities be initiated or continued, as the case may be (a "Blackout Period"), by giving written notice to the Registering Purchasers. Any such notice need not specify the reasons for such suspension if a majority of the Corporation it Board of Directors of the Company determines, in its good faith business judgment, that doing so would interfere with or adversely affect such transaction or development. In the event that such notice is inappropriate at given, then until a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company has determined, in its good faith business judgment, that such time registration and distribution would no longer materially interfere with the matters described in the preceding sentence and has given written notice thereof to undertake a Public Offering; the Registering Purchasers, the Company's obligations under this Article VIII will be suspended, provided, that such suspension shall not exceed the Corporation may elect not first to effect occur of (x) the filing of the Company's next filing with the Commission and (y) ninety (90) days. The Company shall extend the period of time the Company is required to maintain effective any registration on such grounds only once in statement required pursuant to Section 8.2.1 by a length of time equal to the aggregate length of the Blackout Periods. In the event of any twelve-month period beginning on the date suspension of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right a registration pursuant to this Section 5.1(d8.2.1(g), the Corporation Registering Purchasers shall effect be entitled to withdraw from such registration within one year following upon written notice to the Company, and in the event of such withdrawal, the request for registrationso withdrawn shall be deemed to have not been made.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Securities Purchase Agreement (Starmedia Network Inc), Securities Purchase Agreement (Starmedia Network Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If one Shareholder or a group of Shareholders holding not less than 15% of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request then Registrable Securities (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders”) request that the Corporation effect the Company file a registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration statement (a “Demand Registration”) and the Company is not eligible to use Form S-3 (or a successor to Form S-3) in connection with the resale of the Registrable Securities to be sold pursuant to the registration statement, the Company: (i) shall promptly give notice thereof at least 30 days ten Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to all Shareholders (not including the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Demand Requesting Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the ); (ii) shall file such registration statement under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities within 45 days after the occurrence of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request request; and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor (iii) thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i1) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e), all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Requesting Shareholders have requested to register by the Demand Sellersregistration under this Section 2.01; and
(ii2) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e), all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Demand Requesting Shareholders that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration Shareholders (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 seven days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) method of disposition specified by the Registering Shareholders of the Registrable Securities Securities) so to be so registered. .
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 30seven-day period referred to in paragraph clause (ii) of this Section 5.1(a2.01(a)(2), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Demand Requesting Shareholders (by majority vote) may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request. A request, so revoked, shall be considered to be a Demand Registration unless (i) such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company (in which case the Company shall be obligated to pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such request shall not be considered a revoked request), or (ii) the Demand RegistrationRequesting Shareholders or any other Shareholder or Shareholders reimburse the Company for all Registration Expenses of such revoked request.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected, unless the Demand Requesting Shareholders elects to pay such Registration Expenses as described in the last sentence of Section 2.01(b).
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(1) unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act Act, and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that a Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have occurred 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 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
(2) if the Maximum Offering Size is reduced in accordance with Section 2.01(e) such that less than a majority of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves an underwritten Public Offering, the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be sold in the Public Offering shall select the investment banking firm or firms to act as the managing underwriter or underwriters in connection with such Public Offering, subject to consent of the Company, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. If a Demand Registration involves an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Registering Shareholders that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i1) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder all Registering Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares Registrable Securities held by each such Shareholder); and
(2) second, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company (including for the benefit of any other Persons not party to this Agreement).
(f) Upon notice to the Registering Shareholders, the Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 2.01 on one occasion during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) the Company reasonably determines 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 Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company.
(g) Notwithstanding anything that may be to the contrary in this Article 2, if the Common Shares are then listed on a national securities exchange and Rule 144 is available in connection with a sale of Registrable Securities, then the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by Demand Registration equals or exceeds $20,000,000 or such Holders); and
(ii) second, lesser amount that constitutes all the Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number Demand Requesting Shareholders (provided that such lesser amount is at least $10,000,000) or all of shares of the Registrable Securities requested then outstanding. Notwithstanding anything that may be to be included the contrary in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation this Article 2, the Company shall not be required to effect (A) more than one registration pursuant to Section 2.01 hereunder within any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelvesix-month period beginning on period, or (B) more than three Demand Registrations hereunder in the date of such election by aggregate.
(h) Notwithstanding anything that may be to the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to contrary in this Section 5.1(d)Article 2, the Corporation Company shall effect such registration within one year following not be obligated to register any Registrable Securities unless the request for registrationholder thereof has notified the Company in writing of its intended method of distribution in a timely manner.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Master Modification Agreement (Behringer Harvard Reit I Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Behringer Harvard Reit I Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either From and after January 1, 2001, the Holders of at least 66 2/3% of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder then outstanding Registrable Securities may notify the Company in writing that such Sponsor includes in Holders desire for the Company, to cause all or a portion of such notifying Holders' Registrable Securities to be registered for sale to the public under the Securities Act. Upon receipt of such written request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation Company will promptly give written notice notify in writing all other Holders of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that request, which Holders shall within twenty days following such Sponsor includes notice from the Company, notify the Company in writing whether such persons desire to have Registrable Securities held by them included in such request and specifying offering. The Company will, promptly following the intended method of disposition expiration of such securitiestwenty day period, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed prepare and file subject to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsprovisions of this Section 1, the Corporation will and use its reasonable best efforts to effectprosecute to effectiveness, as expeditiously as possiblein appropriate filing, with the SEC of a registration statement covering such Registrable Securities and the proposed sale or distribution thereof under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand RegistrationAct.
(b) A Notwithstanding anything in this Section 1.2 to the contrary, the Company shall not be obligated to prepare or File any registration requested statement pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed 1.2 or to have been effected unless prepare or file any amendment or supplement thereto, at any time when the registration statement relating thereto Company, in the good faith judgement of its Board of Directors, reasonably believes that the filing thereof at the time requested, or the offering of securities Pursuant thereto, (i) has become effective under would materially, adversely affect a pending or proposed public offering of the Securities Act and Company's securities, or an acquisition, merger, recapitalization, consolidation, reorganization or similar transaction, negotiations, discussions or pending proposals with respect thereto or (ii) has remained effective would materially adversely affect the business or prospects of the Company in view of the disclosures that may be required thereby, of information about the business, assets, liabilities or operations of the Company not theretofore disclosed; provided, however, that the filing of a registration statement, or any supplement or amendment thereto, by the Company may be deferred pursuant to this Section 1.2 for a period of at least 90 no longer than 180 days (or but only once in every twelve month period) after the delivery of such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)demand notice.
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and Notwithstanding anything in this Section 1.2 to the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
contrary: (i) first, all the Company shall not be required to effect the registration of the Registrable Securities requested pursuant to be included this Section 1.2 more than one time in such registration by any twelve month period and no more than three times in the Demand Sellers aggregate; and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation Company shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if such registration unless at least $10 million of Registrable Securities are to be sold in such registration (with such amount being determined based on the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition price of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning Common Stock on the date of such election by the Corporationinitiating Holder(s) request). If the Corporation exercises its right any registration pursuant to this Section 5.1(d1.2 is in the form of an underwritten offering, the Company will select and obtain the investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers that will administer the offering, which investment bankers must offer terms which are reasonably competitive in the marketplace for similar size companies and similar offerings. The Company shall (together with all Holders proposing to distribute Registrable Securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement, containing usual and customary terms, with the managing underwriter selected for such underwriting. If any holder of Registrable Securities disapproves of the terms of the underwriting such person may elect to withdraw therefrom by written notice to the Company and the managing underwriter. The Registrable Securities so withdrawn shall also be withdrawn from registration.
(d) If any registration statement under this Section 1.2 is not declared effective (except for the reasons specified in Section 1.9 below and except as a result of Holders withdrawing Registrable Securities), then the Corporation holders of Registrable Securities may request an additional registration under this Section 1.2.
(e) No registrations effected under this Section 1.2 shall relieve the Company of its obligations to effect such registration within one year following any registrations under, and pursuant to the request for registrationterms of. Sections 1.3 and 1.4 hereof.
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Sources: Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (Mobility Electronics Inc), Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (Mobility Electronics Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time after the six month anniversary of the Sponsors mayRegistration Date: (i) Shareholders owning a majority of the then outstanding Registrable Shares may on two occasions give the Company written notice (a “Demand Notice”) requiring the Company to file a Registration Statement covering the sale or distribution of, at any timesuch Shareholders’ option, make a written request either (together with any other Sponsor Holder that x) ADSs representing the Registrable Shares owned by such Sponsor includes Shareholders, or (y) in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) event that the Corporation effect the registration Company shall have previously registered under the Securities Act the sale to the public of all or preferred shares, the Registrable Shares owned by such Shareholders, in either case, that are identified in the Demand Notice in accordance with any portion reasonable and lawful method of any distribution selected by them; and (ii) the Company shall within 10 days after receipt of such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly Notice give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back ShareholdersShareholders of their right to include in such Registration Statement any Registrable Shares owned by them (or ADSs representing any Registrable Shares owned by them, as applicable) that such Shareholders shall request the Company to include therein by written notice given to the Company no more than 20 days after receipt of such notice from the Company. Any Sponsor may elect The Company shall thereafter use its commercially reasonable efforts to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration of the Registrable Shares (and/or ADSs representing any Registrable Shares owned by them, as applicable) identified by the Shareholders in the preceding clauses (i) and (ii) as soon as practicable, but in any event within 90 days from receipt of the Demand Notice. If the method of distributing the offering is an underwritten public offering, the Company may designate the managing underwriter for such offering, subject to the approval of the Shareholders holding a majority of the Registrable Shares included referred to in the Demand Notice (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld).
(b) The Company shall not be obligated to use its commercially reasonable efforts to file and cause to become effective: (i) more than two Registration Statements initiated pursuant to Section 2(a); or (ii) any Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) during any period in which any other registration statement (other than on Form S-4 or Form S-8 promulgated under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor successor forms thereto) pursuant to which New Preferred Shares or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed ADSs representing New Preferred Shares are to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration or were sold under the Securities Act of(A) has been filed and not withdrawn or has been declared effective within the prior 180 days and (B) in connection with any such registration statement that has not been declared effective, the Company is in good faith using commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective.
(c) With respect to any registration pursuant to Section 2(a), the Company may include in such registration any Primary Shares or Other Shares (or any ADSs representing Primary Shares or Other Shares); provided, however, that if the managing underwriter advises the Company that the inclusion of all Registrable Shares, Primary Shares and Other Shares (and/or ADSs representing all Registrable Shares, Primary Shares and Other Shares) proposed to be included in such registration would interfere with the successful marketing (including pricing) of all such securities, then the number of Registrable Shares, Primary Shares and Other Shares (and/or ADSs representing Registrable Shares, Primary Shares and Other Shares) proposed to be included in such registration shall be included in the following order:
(i) first, the Registrable Securities then Shares (and/or ADSs representing Registrable Shares, as applicable) held by the Demand Sellers Shareholders requesting that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days Shares (or such shorter period in which all ADSs representing Registrable Securities of the Holders Shares, as applicable) be included in such registration have actually been sold thereunderpursuant to Section 2(a).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, pro rata based upon the number of securities requested Registrable Shares (or ADSs representing Registrable Shares, as applicable) owned by each such Shareholder at the time of such registration; provided, however, that the number of Registrable Shares (or ADSs representing Registrable Shares) held by the Shareholders to be included in such registrationunderwriting shall not be reduced unless all Primary Shares and Other Shares (and/or ADSs representing Primary Shares and Other Shares, as applicable) are first entirely excluded from the underwriting;
(ii) second, the Primary Shares; and
(iii) third, the Other Shares; provided, however, that, a registration shall not be counted as “effected” for the purposes of this Section 2 and shall not count as a registration initiated pursuant to this Section 2 for purposes of Section 2(b)(i) above, if, as a result of an exercise of the underwriter’s cutback provisions in this clause (c), fewer than one-half of the total number of Registrable Shares or ADSs representing Registrable Shares, as applicable, that the type of securities Shareholders have requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)statement are actually included.
(d) The Corporation A requested registration under this Section 2 may be rescinded prior to such registration being declared effective by the SEC by written notice to the Company from those Shareholders who initiated the request; provided, however, that such rescinded registration shall not count as a registration initiated pursuant to this Section 2 for purposes of Section 2(b)(i) above if the Company shall have been reimbursed (pro rata by the Shareholders requesting registration or in such other proportion as they may agree) for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Company in connection with such rescinded registration; provided, further, however, that if, at the time of such rescission, the Shareholders who initiated the request shall have learned of an event that is, or is reasonably likely to result in, a material adverse change in the Company’s business, financial condition or results of operations from that known to such Shareholders at the time of their request and have withdrawn the request with reasonable promptness after learning of such information then the Shareholders shall not be required to effect reimburse the Company for any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelveout-month period beginning on the date of such election of-pocket expenses incurred by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right Company in connection with such rescinded registration and such rescinded registration shall not count as a registration initiated pursuant to this Section 5.1(d2 for purposes of clause (i) of subsection (b), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Azul Sa), Registration Rights Agreement (Azul Sa)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of the Sponsors mayIf, at any time, make time following one hundred and eighty (180) days after the effective date of the registration statement for a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestPublic Offering, the Company shall receive a request from the Designated Holders holding at least five percent (5%) Registrable Securities then outstanding (the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration of the Registrable Securities under the Securities Act of all or any portion such Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities where the anticipated gross proceeds (before the deduction of any such discounts or commissions) would be at least US$200 million (the “Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying Threshold”), then the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request, a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Shareholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellersregistration under this Section 1; and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 1(e) and 2, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholder that any other Shareholder entitled Shareholders with rights to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration registration under this Section 1 (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders, and any Shareholders participating in a Piggyback Registration pursuant to Section 2, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days five (5) Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the CorporationDemand Registration; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered; provided that, subject to Section 1(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations for such Requesting Shareholder, other than Demand Registration to be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form F-3, for which an unlimited number of Demand Registrations (including Shelf Offerings) shall be permitted. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any six- (6-) month period, provided that this restriction shall not apply to the filing of a Shelf Registration Statement and a Shelf Offering off such Shelf Registration Statement. Annex A-1
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day five- (5-) Business Day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a1(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholders may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investor Rights Agreement (KE Holdings Inc.), Investor Rights Agreement (KE Holdings Inc.)
Demand Registration. (ai) Either of At any time during the Sponsors mayfive-year period following the Effective Time, at any time, one or more Requesting Purchasers may make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “"Demand Sellers”Notice") that the Corporation effect the for registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion (a "Demand Registration") of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities (such securities are herein referred to as "Demand Securities") held by such Requesting Purchasers. The Demand Notice will specify the number of Demand Securities proposed to be sold and specifying will also specify the intended method of disposition thereof. Once given, a Demand Notice will be irrevocable. Following receipt of a Demand Notice from such securities. The Corporation Requesting Purchasers, the Company promptly will promptly give written notice of such the requested registration (to all other Purchasers, and will thereafter file a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such on any appropriate form which will cover (1) the Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller Securities that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by such Requesting Purchasers, (2) all other Demand Securities that the Demand Sellers; andCompany has been requested to registered by any other Purchasers by written request given to the Company within 15 days after the Company's giving of written notice of the Requesting Purchasers' requested registration and (3) any other securities the Company determines to register for its own account.
(ii) all Unless the Requesting Purchasers shall consent in writing, no party (other Registrable Securities that than the Company or any other Shareholder entitled Purchaser) shall be permitted to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all offer securities under any such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included thereinRegistration. The Company shall not be required to effect more than three Demand Sellers requesting a registration Registrations under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) 2(a). A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall 2(a) will not be deemed to have been effected (and it shall not count as one of the three Demand Registrations) unless the registration statement Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) Act; provided, however, that if, after such Registration Statement has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities become effective, the offering of the Holders included in Demand 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 actually been sold thereundereffected (and it shall not count as one of the three Demand Registrations).
(ciii) If a the Requesting Purchasers so elect, the offering of Demand Registration involves a Public Offering 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 managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate Participating Purchasers that in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, their view the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by offering is sufficiently large so as to materially and adversely affect the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the success of such offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included Company will include in such registration the aggregate number of Demand Securities which in the view of such managing underwriter or underwriters can be sold without any such material adverse effect; provided, however, that no Demand Securities may be excluded before all securities proposed to be sold by the Company and any other Person have been excluded. If any Demand Securities are excluded, such Holders); andregistration
(iiiv) secondNotwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, all Registrable Securities the Company may postpone the filing, effectiveness, supplementing or amending of a Registration Statement (a "Demand Suspension Notice") for up to be included 90 days if, in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis good faith judgment of the relative number Company's Board of shares Directors, the registration or sale of Registrable the Demand Securities requested would adversely affect a material financing, acquisition, disposition of assets or stock, merger or other comparable transaction or would require the Company to be included make public disclosure of information the public disclosure of which would have a material adverse effect upon the Company; provided further, however that the Company may not give more than one Demand Suspension Notice in any 12 month period. If the Company shall deliver any Demand Suspension Notice with respect to any Demand Registration, such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation Demand Registration shall not be counted in determining whether the Company is required to effect any file more than three Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right Registrations pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationAgreement.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Sonat Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Zilkha Michael)
Demand Registration. (a) Either Request. With respect to (x) Registrable Securities for which the applicable Lock-up Period has expired pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and (y) any Registrable Securities held by the Fund Investor, (i) any Major Investor holding not less than 10% of the Sponsors mayRegistrable Securities held by all VWE Investors, at any time(ii) Sponsor, or (iii) the Fund Investor (such Investor or Investors being, collectively, a “Demanding Investor”) may make a written request (together to Parent for the Registration with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration SEC under the U.S. Securities Act of all or any portion part of such Demanding Investor’s Registrable Securities, which request will specify the number of shares of Registrable Securities to be disposed of by such Demanding Investor and the proposed plan of distribution therefor. Upon the receipt of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying request for Registration pursuant to this Section 4.1(a), Parent will promptly notify the intended method other Investors of disposition the receipt of such securitiesrequest. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to Upon the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion receipt of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes request for Registration made in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis accordance with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requeststerms of this Section 4.1(a), the Corporation Parent will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possibleat the earliest practicable date, the registration such Registration under the U.S. Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Parent has been so requested to register Register by the Demand Sellers; Demanding Investor, and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any Parent has been requested to Register by the other Shareholder entitled Investors pursuant to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation given to Parent within 30 15 days after the receipt by such Holders giving of such written notice given by Parent to such other Investors of the request by the CorporationDemanding Investor; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofSection 4.1(b)) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration Registered; provided that,
(A) Parent will not be required to effect more than a total of the 30-day period referred six demand Registrations pursuant to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a)4.1(a) for the VWE Investors and the Fund Investor, collectively, and will not be required to effect more than a total of three demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) for Sponsor;
(B) if the Corporation intended method of distribution is an underwritten public offering, then Parent will notify all not be required to effect such Registration pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) unless such underwriting will be conducted on a “firm commitment” basis;
(C) if Parent has previously effected a Registration pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) or has previously effected a Registration of which notice has been given to the Holders Investors pursuant to Section 4.2 or Section 4.3, then Parent will not be required to effect any Registration pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) until a period of 180 days will have elapsed from the date on which such previous Registration ceased to be effective;
(D) any Investor whose Registrable Securities were to be included in the Demand any such Registration pursuant to this Section 4.1(a), by written notice to Parent, may withdraw such request and, on Parent’s receipt of the other Holders and the notice of such withdrawal with respect to a number of shares of Registrable Securities requested such that the Investor that has not elected to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall withdraw does not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thathold, in the opinion of aggregate, the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number requisite amount of shares of Registrable Securities requested to require or initiate a request for a Registration under clause (E) of this Section 4.1(a), Parent will not be included in required to effect such registration by Registration; provided that, if the Investor that has elected to withdraw its request for Registration agrees to pay the Expenses related to such HoldersRegistration, then the request for Registration will not be counted for purposes of determining the number of Registrations to which such Investor is entitled pursuant to this Section 4.1(a); and
(iiE) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall Parent will not be required to effect any Demand Registration if to be effected pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) unless the Board determines shares of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in good faith that due to business or market conditions or such Registration have an aggregate price (calculated based upon the business or financial condition Market Price of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on shares of Registrable Securities as of the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationrequest) of at least $10,000,000.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investor Rights Agreement (Vintage Wine Estates, Inc.), Investor Rights Agreement (Bespoke Capital Acquisition Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Either Provided that the Company does not have the Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 effective and usable to such Holder or group of Holders requesting a Demand Registration under this Section 3, any Holder or group of Holders holding, in the aggregate, thirty-five percent (35%) or more of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request Registrable Securities then issued and outstanding (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand SellersOutstanding Amount”) that shall have the Corporation effect right, by written notice given to the registration Company (a “Demand Notice”), to request the Company to register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by such Holder(s); provided, however, that the Registrable Securities requested to be registered constitute at least thirty-five percent (35%) of the Outstanding Amount. Each request for a Demand Registration shall be in writing and shall specify the approximate aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered (which aggregate number of Registrable Securities must either (i) have a value equal to at least $15,000,000 based on the closing price of such securities on the last trading day prior to the date of such request or, in the case no closing price is available, at the anticipated price offered to the public or (ii) equal the total number of Registrable Securities held by a Holders with respect to any Holder. In no event shall the Company be obligated to effectuate more than two (2) Demand Registrations in any 12-month period. A registration shall not count as a Demand Registration until it has become effective. In no event shall Shelf Registrations (and any other filing made pursuant to Section 2 hereof) or Shelf Takedowns be deemed to constitute Demand Registrations.
(b) Upon receipt of a Demand Notice, the Company shall promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days from the date of receipt of such Demand Sellers’ Notice), notify all other Holders, if any, of the receipt of such Demand Notice and allow them the opportunity to include Registrable Securities held by them in the proposed registration by submitting their own Demand Notice. In connection with any Demand Registration in which more than one Holder participates, in the event that such Demand Registration, including any Shelf Takedown thereunder, involves an underwritten offering and specifying the managing underwriter or underwriters participating in such offering advise in writing the Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such offering that the total number of Registrable Securities to be included in such offering exceeds the amount that can be sold in (or during the time of) such offering without delaying or jeopardizing the success of such offering (including the price per share of the Registrable Securities to be sold), then the Registrable Securities to be offered shall be distributed amongst the participating Holders according to each Holder’s overall percentage of ownership in the Company. In the event of such a pro-rata distribution, to the extent that any Holder (or Holders) has not submitted a Demand Notice, or withdraws from the underwriting, then those Shares that would have been allocated pro-rata to the non-participating Holder if they had participated shall be distributed amongst the participating Holders, pro rata according to each participating Holder’s overall percentage of ownership in the Company.
(c) The Company, within thirty (30) days of the date on which the Company receives a Demand Notice given by Holders in accordance with Section 3(a), shall 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, in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition distribution, of the total number of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders in such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such ). Any Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in may, at the request of the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be a Demand Seller Shelf Registration.
(d) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3 continuously effective and usable for the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby (i) in the case of a Registration that is not a Shelf Registration, for a period of one hundred twenty (120) days from the Corporation effect date on which the registration under SEC declares such Registration Statement effective and (ii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, for a period of three (3) years from the date on which the SEC declares such Registration Statement effective, in either case (x) until such earlier date as all of the Registrable Securities Act covered by such Registration Statement have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement, and (y) as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 3. The time period for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all or Delay Periods and all Interruption Periods occurring with respect to such Registration and such period and any portion of extension thereof is hereinafter referred to as the “Effectiveness Period”. If any Registrable Securities remain issued and outstanding after thirty (30) full months following the initial effective date of a Shelf Registration filed pursuant to this Section 3, upon the request of Holder(s) of at least ten percent (10%) of the Registrable Securities then issued and outstanding, the Company shall, within thirty (30) days of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request request, file a new Shelf Registration and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to effectcause to be declared effective as promptly as practical, as expeditiously as possiblesuch new Shelf Registration.
(e) The Company shall be entitled to postpone the filing of any Registration Statement otherwise required to be prepared and filed by the Company pursuant to this Section 3, or suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3, for a reasonable period of time, if the Board of Directors of the Company determines in the Board of Directors’ reasonable good faith judgment that the registration under and distribution of the Registrable Securities Act of:
covered or to be covered by such Registration Statement would (i) materially interfere with any pending material financing, acquisition, disposition, or corporate reorganization involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (ii) require premature disclosure thereof, or (iii) be seriously detrimental to the Company and its stockholders, which such determination shall be made by a majority of the members then serving on the Company’s Board of Directors, and promptly gives the Holders written notice of such determination, containing a general statement of the reasons for such postponement and an approximation of the period of the anticipated delay; provided, however, that (i) the Registrable Securities then held by aggregate number of days included in all delay periods during any consecutive twelve (12) months shall not exceed the Demand Sellers that aggregate of (x) forty-five (45) days minus (y) the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
number of days occurring during all Interruption Periods during such consecutive twelve (12) months and (ii) all other a period of at least ninety (90) days shall elapse between the termination of any delay period or Interruption Period and the commencement of the immediately succeeding delay period. If the Company shall so postpone the filing of a Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Securities to be registered shall have the right to withdraw the request for registration by giving written notice from the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder were to be registered to the Company within forty-five (45) days after receipt of the notice of postponement or, if earlier, the termination of such delay period (and, in the event of such withdrawal, such request shall not be counted for purposes of determining the number of requests for registration to which the Holders of Registrable Securities are entitled pursuant to this Section 3). The Company shall not be entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in initiate or continue a Piggy-Back Registration delay period unless it shall (A) concurrently prohibit sales by all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt other security holders under registration statements covering securities held by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition other security holders and (B) in accordance with the intended methods thereofCompany’s policies from time to time in effect, forbid purchases and sales in the open market by directors and executive officers of the Company.
(f) The Company shall not include any securities (whether for its own account or otherwise) that are not Registrable Securities in any Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3 without the prior written consent of the Holders of a majority in number of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement. Any such securities so included shall be subject to the cut-back provisions of Section 3(a)(ii).
(g) Holders of a majority in number of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred included in a Registration Statement pursuant to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) 3 may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement Registration Statement relating to such registrationRegistration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders (a “Demand Request”) by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request. Any such Demand Request so withdrawn, in which case prior to filing a Registration Statement pursuant to such request Demand Request with the SEC, shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A counted for purposes of determining the number of requests for registration requested to which the Holders of Registrable Securities are entitled pursuant to this Section 5.1 3. Any such Demand Request so withdrawn after filing the Registration Statement pursuant to the Demand Request to which such Registration Statement relates with the SEC shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective counted for a period purposes of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, determining the number of securities requested requests for registration to be included in such registration, or which the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares Holders of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right are entitled pursuant to this Section 5.1(d)3 if the Holders of Registrable Securities who revoked such request reimburse the Company for all its out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the preparation, filing and processing of the Corporation Registration Statement; provided, however, that, if such revocation was based on (i) the Company’s failure to comply in any material respect with its obligations hereunder or (ii) the institution by the Company of a Delay Period or the occurrence of any Interruption Period, such reimbursement shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationnot be required.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (S1 Corp /De/), Merger Agreement (Fundtech LTD)
Demand Registration. (ai) Either of the Sponsors may, at At any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor each Affiliated Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestshall have, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the it holds Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a)Securities, the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders option and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) mayright, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders exercisable by providing delivering a written notice to the Corporation revoking such requestCompany (an “Affiliated Holder Demand Notice”), to require the Company, pursuant to the terms of and subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, to prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement registering the offering and sale of Registrable Securities (whether by the Affiliated Holder directly or indirectly by Limited Partners) on the terms and conditions specified in the Affiliated Holder Demand Notice, which case such request shall not be considered may include sales on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement (an “Affiliated Holder Demand Registration.
”). The Affiliated Holder Demand Notice must set forth the number and type of Registrable Securities that the Affiliated Holder anticipates will be included in such Affiliated Holder Demand Registration and the intended methods of disposition thereof. If Registrable Securities are to be distributed by Eclipse Holdings to one or more Limited Partners to permit the sale of such Registrable Securities directly by such Limited Partners as Selling Stockholders (b) A registration requested pursuant such a distribution, a “Resale Distribution”), Eclipse Holdings shall deliver a written notice to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto each Limited Partner that (i) has become effective under specifies the amount of Registrable Securities Act that Eclipse Holdings estimates distributing to such Limited Partner in the Resale Distribution, and (ii) has remained effective for a period offers such Limited Partner the right to include all (but not less than all) of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of in the Holders included Affiliated Holder Demand Registration. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to include any Registrable Securities to be received by a Limited Partner upon a Resale Distribution in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)Affiliated Holder Demand Registration if the Company has received a written request for inclusion therein from such Limited Partner within three (3) Business Days after the Company receives the Affiliated Holder Demand Notice.
(cii) If During the Form S-3 Eligibility Period, any Non-Affiliated Holder shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Company (a “Non-Affiliated Holder 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 involves Statement on Form S-3 (or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act) registering the offering and sale of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in the Non-Affiliated Holder Demand Notice, which may include sales on a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested delayed or continuous basis pursuant to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, Rule 415 pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement (a “Non-Affiliated Holder Demand Registration”). The Non-Affiliated Holder Demand Notice must set forth the number and type of securities requested to Registrable Securities that the Initiating Holder anticipates will be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Non-Affiliated Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if and the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition intended methods of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationdisposition thereof.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Eclipse Resources Corp), Securities Purchase Agreement (Eclipse Resources Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of Subject to the Sponsors mayrestrictions set forth herein, if at any time, make time the Company receives a written request from the DCP Investor or, after the Golden Gate Demand Eligibility, the Golden Gate Investor (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestas such, and as applicable, the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of thereof (each such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to ), then, within five Business Days, the anticipated filing date Company shall promptly give notice of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Requesting Shareholders have requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 5.1, and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration Shareholders (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested that the Corporation Company register within five Business Days of such Shareholders receipt of the Company’s notice of the Demand Registration (which request to register the Company shall specify the number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered by written request received such Shareholders); provided that no Person may participate in any registration statement pursuant to this Section 5.1(a) unless such Person agrees to sell their Registrable Securities to the underwriters selected as provided in Section 5.5(f) on the same terms and conditions as apply to the Requesting Shareholders; and provided, further, that the Company shall not be obligated to effect (a) more than five Demand Registrations by the Corporation within 30 DCP Investor, (b) more than two Demand Registrations by the Golden Gate Investor and not until after the Golden Gate Demand Eligibility, (c) any Demand Registration unless the aggregate gross proceeds expected to received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included by all Registering Shareholders in such Demand Registration are at least $50 million (unless such Registrable Securities identified in the Demand Registration constitute all remaining Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Shareholder), or (d) more than one Demand Registration during any six-month period.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may delay the filing of a registration statement, or suspend the continued use of a registration statement, required by Section 5.1 (i) for a period up to 90 days after the request to file a registration statement if at the time the Company receives the request to register Registrable Securities, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are engaged in confidential negotiations or other confidential business activities, disclosure of which would be required in such registration statement (but would not be required if such registration statement were not filed), and the Board determines in good faith, after consultation with external legal counsel, that such disclosure would have a material adverse effect on the Company or its business or on the Company’s ability to effect a proposed material acquisition, disposition, financing, reorganization, recapitalization or similar transaction and (ii) for a period of time required by an underwriting agreement relating to a Public Offering of newly issued shares by the Company; provided that such period of time shall not exceed 90 days from the date of such underwriting agreement. A deferral of the filing of a registration statement, or the suspension of the continued use of a registration statement, pursuant to this Section 5.1(b), shall be lifted, and the requested registration statement shall be filed forthwith, if, in the case of a deferral, the negotiations or other activities are disclosed or terminated. In order to defer the filing of a registration statement, or suspend the continued use of a registration statement, pursuant to this Section 5.1(b), the Company shall promptly (but in any event within five days), upon determining to seek such deferral or suspension, deliver to the Requesting Shareholder a certificate signed by an executive officer of the Company stating that the Company is deferring such filing, or suspending the continued use of a registration statement, pursuant to this Section 5.1(b) and a general statement of the reason for such deferral or suspension, as the case may be, and an approximation of the anticipated delay. The Company may defer the filing, or suspend the continued use of, a particular registration statement pursuant to this Section 5.1(b) no more than twice and for no more than 120 days in the aggregate in any twelve-month period; provided that there must be an interim period of at least 60 days between the end of one deferral or suspension period and the beginning of a subsequent deferral or suspension period. The Company agrees, that in the event it exercises its rights under this Section 5.1(b), it shall, within seven days following receipt by such Holders the holders of such written Registrable Securities of the notice given by of deferral or suspension, as the Corporation; all to case may be, update the extent deferred or suspended registration statement as may be necessary to permit the disposition (holders of Registrable Securities to resume use thereof in connection with the offer and sale of their Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended methods thereofapplicable law.
(c) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day five Business Day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a5.1(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify in writing all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registrationDemand Registration, the Requesting Shareholders may revoke in writing such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholder, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request; provided, however, that no such withdrawn demand request shall be deemed to have been a Demand Registration if (i) such demand request is withdrawn prior to the filing by the Company of a registration statement pursuant thereto, or (ii) such withdrawal is due to the disclosure of material adverse information relating specifically to the Company that was not known by the Requesting Shareholder at the time it submitted its demand request, provided, that, in which case either event, the Requesting Shareholder elects to bear all expenses associated with such withdrawn demand request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationand the registration statement pursuant thereto.
(bd) Except as expressly set forth herein, the Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with each Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, the Registering Shareholders of such Registrable Securities shall be responsible for any brokerage or underwriting commissions and taxes of any kind (including, without limitation, transfer taxes) with respect to any disposition, sale or transfer of Registrable Securities.
(e) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act Act, and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder); provided, that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 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 if the Maximum Offering Size is reduced in accordance with Section 5.1(f) such that less than 75% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholder sought to be included in such registration are included.
(cf) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholder that, in its view, the number of securities requested Registrable Securities that the Registering Shareholders and the Company (if any) propose to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included include in such registration (including, in each case, shares exceeds the largest number of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder Registering Shareholders (such Registrable Securities allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders the Requesting Shareholder and the other holders of Registrable Securities on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each, unless the managing underwriter reasonably determines otherwise, in which case the allocation of such HoldersRegistrable Securities shall be in the manner reasonably determined by the managing underwriter); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election registered by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationCompany.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Shareholder Agreement (Reliant Software, Inc.), Shareholder Agreement (Community Choice Financial Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time after the Trigger Date, if the Company shall receive a request from a Shareholder or group of Shareholders, in each case holding at least 10% of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request outstanding Company Securities (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the requesting Shareholder(s) shall be referred to herein as the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof, then the Company shall as promptly as practicable following the date of receipt by the Company of such securities. The Corporation will promptly request give written notice of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days 10 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e), all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Shareholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 2.01, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e) and 2.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholder that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration Shareholders (all such other Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register pursuant to Section 2.02, by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days five Business Days after such other Shareholders received the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered, provided that the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $10,000,000 or such lesser amount that constitutes all of the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities (provided that such lesser amount is at least $5,000,000). In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than two Demand Registrations or Underwritten Takedowns hereunder.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 30five-day Business Day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a2.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholder may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request. A request, so revoked, shall be considered to be a Demand Registration unless (i) such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company (in which case the Company shall be obligated to pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked request), including without limitation if the Requesting Shareholder shall have learned of a material adverse change, or any development or event involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business or properties of the Company from that known to the Requesting Shareholder at the time of its request shall not be considered and have withdrawn the request with reasonable promptness after learning of such information, or (ii) the Requesting Shareholder reimburses the Company for all Registration Expenses incurred by it as a Demand Registrationresult of such revoked request.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such registration is effected, unless the Requesting Shareholder elects to pay such Registration Expenses as described in the last sentence of Section 2.01(b).
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that a Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have occurred 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 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 50% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholder sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholder that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder all Registering Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in held by each such registration by such HoldersShareholder); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities any securities proposed to be included in such registration registered by the Company (including for the benefit of any other Holder (allocated, if necessary Persons not party to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holdersthis Agreement).
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or Requesting Shareholder, the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d2.01 on two occasions during any period of twelve consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) the Corporation shall effect Company reasonably determines 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 registration within one year following notice the request for registrationCompany reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (AC Immune SA), Registration Rights Agreement (AC Immune SA)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If, on or after the earlier to occur of December 31, 2006, or the Sponsors may, at any time, make expiration of 180 days after the Company shall have first offered its securities pursuant to a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 Act, Initiating Holders shall notify the Company in writing that such Holders intend to offer or cause to be offered for sale to the public all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of under such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested circumstances as would require registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration thereof under the Securities 1933 Act or qualification thereof under one or more state securities laws of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes jurisdictions in such request and specifying which the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed offer is to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsmade, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effectCompany will, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) notify Holders other than the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers Initiating Holders that the Corporation it has been so requested to register by Registrable Securities under the Demand Sellers; and
1933 Act pursuant to this Section 8.2, and (ii) all use its best efforts to cause such securities as may be requested by any Holder thereof to be registered under the 1933 Act, if applicable, and registered or qualified under any state securities laws to the extent required (in the opinion of counsel referred to in this Section 8.2) to permit the sale or other disposition thereof in the manner described by the person requesting such registration. The Holders shall have a total of four such rights to demand registration of Registrable Securities that under this Section 8.2. In addition to the above-described demand registration rights, the holders of Preferred Stock of the Company shall have a total of two rights to demand registration of Registrable Securities held by them under this Section 8.2.
(b) If holders of securities of the Company other than Holders who are entitled, by contract with the Company, to have such securities included in such a registration (the “Other Holders”) request such inclusion, the Initiating Holders shall offer to include the securities of such other Holders in any other Shareholder entitled registration pursuant to request the Corporation this Section 8.2. The Company (together with all Holders and Other Holders proposing to include their Registrable Securities securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together registration) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the Demand Sellers, underwriter or representative of the underwriters (the “HoldersUnderwriter”) has requested selected to underwrite such offering by a majority in interest of the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all Initiating Holders, subject to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) approval of the Registrable Securities to Company, which approval shall not be so registeredunreasonably withheld. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 5.1(a)8.2, if the underwriter advises the Initiating Holders in writing that marketing factors require a limitation on the number of shares to be underwritten, the Corporation will notify Initiating Holders shall so advise all the Holders to and Other Holders whose securities would otherwise be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders underwritten pursuant hereto, and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to that may be included in such registrationthe registration and underwriting shall be allocated among all Holders in proportion, or as nearly as practicable, to the type respective amounts of securities Registrable Securities which they had requested to be included in such registration (includingand underwriting at the time of filing the registration statement, in each case, and to the extent that additional shares of Registrable Securities requested to may be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for underwriting, among all Other Holders requesting such offering, can be sold inclusion in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effectproportion, as follows:
(i) firstnearly as practicable, all Registrable Securities to the respective amount of securities which they had requested to be included in such registration and underwriting. No Registrable Securities or other securities excluded from the underwriting by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis reason of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to Underwriter’s marketing limitations shall be included in such registration. If any Holder or Other Holder who has requested inclusion in such registration as provided herein disapproves of the terms of the underwriting, such person may elect to withdraw therefrom by written notice to the Company, the Underwriter and the Initiating Holders. The securities so withdrawn shall also be withdrawn from registration. If the Underwriter has not limited the number of Registrable Securities or other securities to be underwritten, the Company may include its securities for its own account in such registration if the Underwriter so agrees and if the number of Registrable Securities which would otherwise have been included in such registration and underwriting will not thereby be limited.
(c) The registration of Registrable Securities under this Section 8.2 shall be at the Company’s expense, except that Holders and Other Holders participating in a registration pursuant hereto shall pay their pro rata brokerage or underwriting commissions or discounts relating to the sale owned by them; and the Company shall also pay the fees and expenses of any one special counsel retained by such Holders); andHolders or Other Holders and except that after the second demand registration under this Section 8.2 demand registrations shall be at the expense of the Holders participating in the registration. Initiating Holders who exercise a right to demand registration under this Section 8.2 may withdraw the exercise and cause the Company either not to file or to withdraw the filing of the registration statement at anytime prior to the effectiveness of such statement, provided that:
(i) If the exercise is so withdrawn prior to filing of the registration statement, then the withdrawal of the exercise will not be deemed to have been the exercise of a demand registration right;
(ii) secondIf effectiveness of the registration statement is delayed by more than 90 days by the Company and the exercise is withdrawn prior to effectiveness of the registration statement, all Registrable Securities then the withdrawal of the exercise will not be deemed to have been the exercise of a demand registration right;
(iii) Any withdrawals other than the withdrawals specified in (i) and (ii) above shall be deemed to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not a demand pursuant to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the CorporationSection 8.2 hereof. If the Corporation exercises its withdrawn demand registration right pursuant is not deemed to this Section 5.1(d)have been the exercise of a demand registration right, as provided in subparagraphs (i) and (ii) above, then the Corporation withdrawing Holder shall effect pay or reimburse the legal, auditing and printing expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in connection with the attempted registration; but if the withdrawn demand registration right is deemed to be an exercise as provided in subparagraph (iii) above, then the Company shall pay all expenses incurred by it in connection with the attempted registration if the Company would have been responsible for paying the expenses of preparation of such registration within one year following the request for registrationstatement.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Note Purchase Agreement, Note Purchase Agreement (Exa Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time after the date that is 180 days after the date hereof (or such earlier date (i) as would permit the Company to cause any filings required hereunder to be filed on the 180th day after the date hereof or (ii) as is permitted by waiver of the Sponsors mayIPO Underwriting Agreement), at any time, Person that is a Shareholder (a “Requesting Shareholder”) on the date a Demand is made shall be entitled to make a written request of the Company (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersDemand”) that the Corporation effect the for registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion an amount of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying that, when taken together with the intended method amounts of disposition of Registrable Securities requested to be registered under the Securities Act by such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration Requesting Shareholder’s Affiliates, equals or is greater than the Registrable Amount (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior and thereupon the Company will, subject to the anticipated filing date terms of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securitiesthis Agreement, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; andRequesting Shareholders for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand, which may be an Underwritten Offering;
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that which the Company has been requested to register pursuant to Section 4.1(b); and
(iii) all Common Shares which the Company may elect to register in connection with any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their offering of Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholderspursuant to this Section 4.1, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation but subject to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the CorporationSection 4.1(f); all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Common Shares, if any, to be so registered. Promptly after .
(b) A Demand shall specify: (i) the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the aggregate number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be registered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to the extent then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Shareholder (or Requesting Shareholders). Within five days after receipt of a Demand, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand to any other Persons that on the date a Demand is delivered to the Company is a Shareholder, provided, however, that no notice shall be required so long as the Shareholders, together, have Beneficial Ownership of at least 40% of the Voting Power of the Company. Subject to Section 4.1(f), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by such Demand all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received a written request for inclusion therein (i) if a notice by the Company is required by this paragraph, within five days after such notice by the Company has been given, or (ii) if no notice by the Company is required by this paragraph, within five days after receipt by the Company of such Demand. Such written request shall comply with the requirements of a Demand as set forth in this Section 4.1(b).
(c) Each Shareholder shall be entitled to an unlimited number of Demand Registrations until such time as the Shareholders, together, Beneficially Own less than a Registrable Amount.
(d) Demand Registrations shall be on such appropriate registration form of the Commission as shall be selected by the Requesting Shareholders, including, to the extent permissible, an existing effective registration statement filed by the Company with the Commission, and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(e) The Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration (A) within three months of a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering in which all Shareholders were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to Section 4.2 (subject to Section 4.1(f)) and at least 50% of the number of Registrable Securities requested by such Shareholders to be included thereinin such Demand Registration were included) or (B) within three months of any other Underwritten Offering pursuant to Section 4.3(f). The Demand Sellers requesting In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Shareholders) for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 60 days in succession the filing or the effectiveness of a registration under this Section 5.1(astatement for any Demand Registration (but no more than twice, or for more than 90 days in the aggregate, in any period of 12 consecutive months) may, at any time prior to if the effective date Board determines in good faith and in its reasonable judgment that the filing or effectiveness of the registration statement relating to such registrationDemand Registration would cause the disclosure of material, revoke such request without liability to any non-public information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential. In the event of a postponement by the Company of the other Holders by providing filing or effectiveness of a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered registration statement for a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number holders of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares a majority of Registrable Securities requested to be included held by the Requesting Shareholder(s) shall have the right to withdraw such Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to in accordance with Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)4.4.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Shareholder Agreement (SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd.), Shareholder Agreement (SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time after the six month anniversary of the Sponsors maydate hereof, at any time, Persons that on the date a Demand (as hereafter defined) is made constitute a Stockholder (a “Requesting Stockholder”) shall be entitled to make a written request of the Company (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersDemand”) that the Corporation effect the for registration under the Securities Act of all an amount of Registrable Securities that, when taken together with the amounts of Registrable Securities requested to be registered under the Securities Act by such Requesting Stockholder’s Affiliates, equals or any portion is greater than the Registrable Amount (based on the number of any Registrable Securities outstanding on the date such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration is made) (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior and thereupon the Company will, subject to the anticipated filing date terms of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securitiesthis Agreement, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; andRequesting Stockholders for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand;
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that which the Company has been requested to register pursuant to Section 3.1(b); and
(iii) all shares of Common Stock which the Company may elect to register in connection with any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their offering of Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration pursuant to this Section 3.1, but subject to Section 3.1(g);
(all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”iv) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Common Stock, if any, to be so registered. Promptly after .
(b) A Demand shall specify: (i) the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the aggregate number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included thereinregistered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to the extent then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Stockholder (or Requesting Stockholders). The Within five days after receipt of a Demand, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand Sellers requesting to any other Persons that on the date a registration under Demand is delivered to the Company constitute a Stockholder. Subject to Section 3.1(g), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by such Demand all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received a written request for inclusion therein within ten days after the Company’s notice required by this paragraph has been given. Such written request shall comply with the requirements of a Demand as set forth in this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration3.1(b).
(bc) Each Stockholder shall be entitled to an aggregate of four Demand Registrations.
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto and shall not count as a Demand (i) unless a registration statement with respect thereto has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 60 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration Demand Registration have actually been sold thereunder), (ii) if, after it has become effective, such Demand Registration becomes subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Commission or other governmental agency or court for any reason or (iii) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such Demand Registration are not satisfied, other than by reason of some act or omission by such Requesting Stockholders.
(ce) If Demand Registrations shall be on such appropriate registration form of the Commission as shall be selected by the Requesting Stockholders and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(f) The Company shall not be obligated to (i) maintain the effectiveness of a registration statement under the Securities Act, filed pursuant to a Demand Registration, for a period longer than 60 days or (ii) effect any Demand Registration involves (A) within six months of a Public “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering in which all Piggyback Stockholders were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to Section 3.2 (subject to Section 3.1(g)) and at least 50% of the number of Registrable Securities requested by such Stockholders to be included in such Demand Registration were included, (B) within four months of any other Demand Registration or (C) if, in the Company’s reasonable judgment, it is not feasible for the Company to proceed with the Demand Registration because of the unavailability of audited financial statements. In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Stockholders) for up to 120 days the filing or the effectiveness of a registration statement for any Demand Registration (but no more than twice in any period of 12 consecutive months) if the Board determines in good faith and in its reasonable judgment that the filing or effectiveness of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration would cause the disclosure of material, non-public information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential. In the event of a postponement by the Company of the filing or effectiveness of a registration statement for a Demand Registration, the holders of a majority of Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Stockholder(s) shall have the right to withdraw such Demand in accordance with Section 3.4.
(g) The Company shall not include any securities other than Registrable Securities in a Demand Registration, except with the written consent of Stockholders participating in such Demand Registration that hold a majority of the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration. If, in connection with a Demand Registration, any managing Underwriter for underwriter (or, if such offering Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, a nationally recognized independent investment bank selected by the Initial Stockholder or any of the Permitted Transferees thereof (to the extent a Stockholder hereunder), reasonably acceptable to the Company, and whose fees and expenses shall be borne solely by the Company) advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public OfferingCompany, in writing, that, in its viewopinion, the number inclusion of all of the securities, including securities requested of the Company that are not Registrable Securities, sought to be included registered in connection with such registration, or Demand Registration would adversely affect the type marketability of securities requested the Registrable Securities sought to be included in such registration (includingsold pursuant thereto, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by then the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration statement only such securities as the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for Company is advised by such offering, underwriter can be sold without such adverse effect as follows and in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
following order of priority: (i) first, all Registrable Securities requested up to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration Demand Registration by such Holders); and
(ii) secondthe Stockholders, all Registrable Securities to which, in the opinion of the underwriter can be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on sold without adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, pro rata among such other Holders Stockholders requesting such Demand Registration on the basis of the relative number of shares such securities requested to be included by such Stockholders and such Stockholders that are Piggyback Sellers; (ii) second, securities the Company proposes to sell; and (iii) third, all other securities of Registrable Securities the Company duly requested to be included in such registration by statement, pro rata on the basis of the amount of such other Holders)securities requested to be included or such other method determined by the Company.
(dh) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Anytime that a Demand Registration if involves an Underwritten Offering, the Board determines Company shall select the investment banker or investment bankers and managers that will serve as lead and co-managing underwriters with respect to the offering of such Registrable Securities, which shall be reasonably acceptable to Stockholders participating in good faith such Demand Registration that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition hold a majority of the Corporation it is inappropriate at Registrable Securities included in such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationDemand Registration.
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Sources: Investor Rights Agreement (GateHouse Media, Inc.), Investor Rights Agreement (GateHouse Media, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of the Sponsors may, at any time, One or more Requesting Shareholders shall be entitled to make a written request of the Company (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersDemand”) that the Corporation effect the for registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion an amount of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying that, in the intended method aggregate taking into account all of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration the Requesting Shareholders, equals or is greater than the Registrable Amount (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior and thereupon the Company will, subject to the anticipated filing date terms of the registration statement relating this Agreement, use its commercially reasonable efforts to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously promptly as possible, the registration practicable under the Securities Act of:
(i) the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; andRequesting Shareholders for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand;
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that which the Company has been requested to register pursuant to Section 2.1(b); and
(iii) all equity securities of the Company which the Company may elect to register in connection with any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their offering of Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation pursuant to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporationthis Section 2.1; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Shares, if any, to be so registered. Promptly after .
(b) Each Demand shall specify: (i) the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the aggregate number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included thereinregistered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, if then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Shareholder (or Requesting Shareholders). Within five (5) business days after receipt of a Demand, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand to all other Shareholders, if any. Subject to Section 2.1(h), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by such Demand all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received a written request for inclusion therein within ten (10) days after the Company’s notice required by this paragraph has been mailed. Such written request shall comply with the requirements of a Demand as set forth in this Section 2.1(b).
(c) Demand Registrations shall be on (i) if option (ii) and (iii) below are not available, Form S-1 or any similar long-form registration (“Long-Form Registration”), (ii) if option (iii) below is not available, Form S-3 or any similar short form registration, if such short form registration is then available to the Company, or (iii) Form S-3ASR if the Company is, at the time a Demand is made, a Well-Known Seasoned Issuer (a Demand Registration under each of clauses (ii) and (iii), a “Short-Form Registration”), in each case, in compliance with the Securities Act and in the form of registration statements that the Company has customarily prepared and filed with the SEC for issuances of its Shares. The Company shall not be required to effect more than two Long-Form Registrations per fiscal year.
(d) Effective Demand Sellers requesting Registration. A Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected:
(i) unless a registration statement with respect thereto has been declared effective by the SEC and remains effective in compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act and the laws of any U.S. state or other jurisdiction applicable to the disposition of Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement until such time as all of such Registrable Securities shall have been disposed of in accordance with such registration statement or there shall cease to be any Registrable Securities;
(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 Entities or court for any reason other than a violation of applicable law solely by any Selling Shareholder and has not thereafter become effective;
(iii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the conditions to closing specified in an underwriting agreement applicable to the Company are not satisfied or waived other than by reason of any breach or failure by any Selling Shareholder; or
(iv) if the Company effects a postponement, declares a Suspension Period or similarly delays the exercise of rights under this Section 5.1(aAgreement pursuant to the terms in the paragraph below or the terms of this Agreement generally. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to (i) maymaintain the effectiveness of a Long-Form Registration, at filed pursuant to a Demand Registration, for a period longer than 75 days or (ii) effect any time prior to Demand Registration (A) within six (6) months of the effective date of a registration statement with respect to a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering in which all Piggyback Sellers were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to Section 2.2 (and at least 50% of the number of Registrable Securities requested by such Piggyback Sellers to be included in such Demand Registration were included), (B) within three (3) months of the effective date of a registration statement with respect to any other Demand Registration, (C) within 90 days from the date on which a Marketed Underwritten Offering was priced or (D) if, in the reasonable judgment of the Board, it is not feasible for the Company to proceed with the Demand Registration because of the unavailability of audited or other required financial statements or financial information, provided that the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain such financial statements or financial information as promptly as practicable. In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Shareholders) the filing or the effectiveness of a registration statement for any Demand Registration (but no more than twice in any period of twelve (12) consecutive months and in no event for more than an aggregate of one-hundred twenty (120) days in any three-hundred sixty-five (365) consecutive day period) if the Board determines in its reasonable judgment that the filing or effectiveness of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves would cause the disclosure of material, non-public information that the Company has a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, provided, however, that such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation postponement shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate terminate at such time to undertake that such information is no longer material, non-public information or the Company no longer has a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on bona fide business purpose for preserving such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationinformation as confidential.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Apollo Management Holdings GP, LLC), Transaction Agreement (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time during the Warrant Exercise Term, any "Majority Holder" (as such term is defined in Section 7.4(d) below) of the Sponsors mayRegistrable Securities shall have the right (which right is in addition to the piggyback registration rights provided for under Section 7.3 hereof), exercisable by written notice to the Company (the "Demand Registration Request"), to have the Company prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), on one occasion, at any timethe sole expense of the Company (other than the pro rata portion of underwriting discounts, make if any, attributable to the Holder's Registrable Securities and the expenses of Holder's counsel and advisors), a written request Registration Statement and such other documents, including a prospectus, as may be necessary (together in the opinion of both counsel for the Company and counsel for such Majority Holder), in order to comply with any other Sponsor Holder that the provisions of the Act, so as to permit a public offering and sale of the Registrable Securities until such Sponsor includes in such request, time as (i) the “Demand Sellers”sale of all Registrable Securities by the holders thereof or (ii) receipt by the holders thereof of an opinion of Company's counsel that the Corporation effect the Registrable Securities may be immediately publicly sold without registration under the Securities Act Act.
(b) The Company covenants and agrees to give written notice of any Demand Registration Request to all or any portion holders of the Registrable Securities within ten (10) days from the date of the Company's receipt of any such Demand Sellers’ Registration Request. After receiving notice from the Company as provided in this Section 7.4(b), holders of Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation Company to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back the Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities Statement to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders filed pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including 7.4(a) hereof by notifying the price at which Company of their decision to include such securities can be sold within ten (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number 10) days of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion their receipt of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)Company's notice.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Warrant Agreement (Commonwealth Associates), Warrant Agreement (Commonwealth Associates)
Demand Registration. (a) Either Section 2.1 of the Sponsors mayRegistration Rights Agreement is hereby amended and restated as follows: Subject to Section 2.4, at any time and from time to time, make a Holder of Registrable Securities (other than any Investor or P▇▇▇▇▇) may, by written notice to the Corporation, request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect a Public Offering of Registrable Securities expected to result in gross sale proceeds of at least $50,000,000 (a “BPEA/TELUS Demand Registration”). Notwithstanding the registration under foregoing, subject to Section 2.4, the Securities Act Sponsor Investor may, by written notice to the Corporation, request that the Corporation effect one (1) Public Offering of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation Public Offering will promptly give written notice of such requested registration not be subject to a minimum expected gross sale proceeds amount (a “Sponsor Demand Registration” and, together with a BPEA/TELUS Demand Registration, a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior ). All requests made pursuant to this Section 2.1 will specify the anticipated filing date aggregate number or amount of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of to be registered at such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying Initiating Holder’s request, the intended method methods of disposition thereof, and, subject to Section 2.4, the jurisdiction(s) in which such registration is requested (being the United States and any province or territory of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed Canada). Subject to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsSection 2.4, the Corporation will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect such Demand Registration in the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that jurisdiction in which the Corporation has been so requested to register register. The Corporation may include in any such Demand Registration other securities of the Corporation for sale for its own account or for the account of any holder of its securities other than pursuant to this Article 2 (including Registrable Securities of the Shareholders and P▇▇▇▇▇, subject to the limitations under the P▇▇▇▇▇ Agreement, and Pre-IPO Holders), subject to Section 4.3; provided that if P▇▇▇▇▇ ceases to be an employee of the Corporation due to resignation, retirement or termination for cause by the Corporation, the rights of P▇▇▇▇▇ to participate in a Demand Sellers; and
Registration shall terminate. Notwithstanding any limitations under this Agreement (iiincluding Sections 2.4 and 2.5 thereof), the Investors are hereby deemed to have requested, and the Corporation acknowledges and agrees to file and use its commercially reasonable efforts to make effective, as of the date hereof, an automatic shelf registration statement (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) (the “Automatic Shelf Registration Statement”), if available, or a shelf registration statement on Form F-10 (the “F-10 Registration Statement”), if the Automatic Shelf Registration Statement is not available, covering all other Registrable Securities, including the Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled will be issued to request the Investors in the transactions contemplated by the Acquisition Agreement and the LLC Agreement. The Corporation shall use its commercially reasonable efforts, in compliance with applicable law, to cause such Automatic Shelf Registration Statement or F-10 Registration Statement to be filed as soon as reasonably possible after the time of closing of the transactions contemplated by the Acquisition Agreement (“Acquisition Closing Date”), and, in the case of the F-10 Registration Statement, to become effective as soon as practicable thereafter. To the extent that an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement or F-10 Registration Statement is effective at the time of the Acquisition Closing Date, the Corporation shall file, as soon as reasonably possible after the Acquisition Closing Date and in compliance with applicable law, any prospectus supplement or any post-effective amendment and otherwise take any action necessary to include their each of the Holders that own Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back as selling shareholders pursuant to such Automatic Shelf Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary Statement or F-10 Registration Statement so as to permit the disposition (in accordance resale of each such Holder’s Registrable Securities. For the avoidance of doubt, if a Shelf Registration Statement is effective at the time of the Acquisition Closing Date and such Shelf Registration Statement covers, or any prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment thereto is filed to cover, the resale of the Investors’ Registrable Securities as of the Acquisition Closing Date, no additional registration statement will be filed with respect to any Registrable Securities on the Acquisition Closing Date. Any Demand Registration by BPEA can only be requested after BPEA has fully complied with the intended methods thereof) of the TELUS ROFR. Any Holder that has requested its Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the a Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2.1 (including any Initiating Holder) may withdraw all or any portion of the other Holders and the number of shares of its Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The in a Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, Registration from such Demand Registration at any time prior to the effective date execution of the registration statement relating underwriting agreement related to such registration, revoke Demand Registration. Upon receipt of a notice to such request without liability effect from an Initiating Holder with respect to any all of the other Holders Registrable Securities included by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, Initiating Holder(s) in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following cease all efforts to secure effectiveness of the request for registrationapplicable Registration Statement.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (TELUS International (Cda) Inc.), Stock Purchase Agreement (TELUS International (Cda) Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either From and after the date that is six (6) months after the date of this Agreement, in case the Sponsors may, at any time, make Company shall receive from the Investor a written request or requests that the Company effect a Registration (“Demand Registration”), which if the Company is a WKSI as of the filing date thereof, shall be an automatic Shelf Registration Statement, and any related qualification or compliance, with respect to all or any part of the Registrable Securities owned by the Investor, then the Company shall file and use its best efforts (i) to cause the Registration Statement covering such Registrable Securities to be declared effective under the Securities Act (unless it becomes effective automatically upon filing) as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, and (ii) to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until such date as is the earlier of (x) the date on which all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold or (y) the date on which the Registrable Securities may be sold without any restriction pursuant to Rule 144. (b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided above, the Company shall not be obligated to effect any such Registration, qualification or compliance pursuant to this Section 2.2: (1) if the aggregate anticipated price to the public of any Registrable Securities which the Investor proposes to sell pursuant to such registration, together with the aggregate anticipated price to the public of any other Sponsor Holder securities of the Company entitled to inclusion in such registration, is less than US$50,000,000 (or the equivalent thereof in other currencies), unless such Registration covers all remaining Registrable Securities; (2) if the Company shall furnish to the Investor a certificate certifying the same signed by the Chief Executive Officer stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, it would be materially detrimental to the Company and its shareholders for such registration to be effected at such time, in which event the Company shall have the right to defer the filing of the Registration Statement no more than once during any twelve (12) month period for a period of not more than ninety (90) days after receipt of the request of the Investor under this Section 2.2(a); provided, however, that such Sponsor includes in period shall terminate if the Company registers any of its other Shares during such period; or (3) if the Company has, within the six (6) month period preceding the date of such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the already effected a registration under the Securities Act other than a registration from which the Registrable Securities of the Investor have been excluded (with respect to all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Investor requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders ) pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders2.1(b).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Naspers LTD), Share Purchase Agreement (Naspers LTD)
Demand Registration. 2.1 If the Company shall receive on or after the date that is nine (a9) Either of months following the Sponsors may, at any time, make date hereof a written request from the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities then outstanding (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand SellersInitiating Investors”) that the Corporation Company file a registration statement under the Securities Act for an offering of the Registrable Securities on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”), covering the registration of Registrable Securities with an aggregate offering price, net of any placement agent fees, broker’s fees, and commissions on similar discounts, fees or commissions, of at least $5 million, then the Company shall, within ten (10) days of the receipt thereof, give written notice of such request to all holders of the Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the limitation of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect as soon as practicable, and in any event within ninety (90) days of the receipt of such request, the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities which the holders request to be registered within twenty (20) days of the mailing of such notice by the Company. Any request made pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall be addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Company and shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be registered, the intended methods of disposition thereof which shall not include any underwritten, agency or similar method and that the request is for a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1. In connection with the Demand Registration, the Company shall:
(a) Be entitled to postpone for up to ninety (90) days from the date of request of the Initiating Investor the filing of any Demand Registration statement otherwise required to be prepared and filed pursuant to Section 2.1, if the board of directors of the Company determines, in its good faith reasonable judgment, that such registration and the Transfer or Registrable Securities contemplated thereby would materially interfere with, or require premature disclosure of, any financing, acquisition or reorganization involving the Company or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities its wholly owned subsidiaries and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will Company promptly give written gives the Initiating Investors notice of such requested registration determination;
(a “Demand Registration”b) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use Use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, have the registration declared effective under the Securities Act of:as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any event within ninety (90) days of the receipt of the request for the registration, giving due regard to the need to prepare current financial statements, conduct due diligence and complete other actions that are reasonably necessary to effect a registered public offering;
(ic) Use its reasonable best efforts to keep the relevant registration statement Continuously Effective for the lesser of two (2) years or until such time as all holders who included Registrable Securities then held in the Registration Statement no longer hold any Registrable Securities (the “Registration Period”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, if for any reason the effectiveness of a registration pursuant to this Section 2 is suspended or postponed, the foregoing period shall be extended by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellersaggregate number of days of such suspension or postponement; and
(iid) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled Be obligated to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration effect no more than one (all such Shareholders, together with the 1) Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) Registration. For purposes of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a)preceding sentence, the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) unless a registration statement with respect thereto has become effective under effective, or (ii) if after such registration statement has become effective, such registration or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Commission or other governmental agency or court for any reason not attributable to the Selling Investors and such interference is not thereafter eliminated.
2.2 A registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall be on such appropriate registration form of the Commission as shall (i) be selected by the Company and be reasonably acceptable to the Majority Selling Investors and (ii) permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method of disposition specified in Section 2.1.
2.3 The Company shall furnish to one firm of counsel for the Selling Investors (selected by Majority Selling Investors) copies of the filed registration statement or prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto in the form substantially as proposed to be filed with the Commission at least five (5) business days prior to filing for review and comment by such counsel, which opportunity to comment shall include the right to contest disclosure if the applicable Selling Investor reasonably believes that such disclosure contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
2.4 The Company shall prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and supplements to such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection with such registration statement as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act and rules thereunder with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such registration statement. The Company shall amend the registration statement or supplement the prospectus so that it will remain current and in compliance with the requirements of the Securities Act for the Registration Period, and if during such period any event or development occurs as a result of which the registration statement or prospectus contains a misstatement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, the Company shall promptly notify each Selling Investor, amend the registration statement or supplement the prospectus so that each will thereafter comply with the Securities Act and furnish to each Selling Investor of Registrable Securities such amended or supplemented prospectus, which each such Investor shall thereafter use in the Transfer of Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement. Pending such amendment or supplement each such Investor shall cease making offers or Transfers of Registrable Securities pursuant to the prior prospectus. In the event that any Registrable Securities included in a registration statement subject to, or required by, this Agreement remain unsold at the end of the period during which the Company is obligated to use its reasonable best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement, the Company may file a post-effective amendment to the registration statement for the purpose of removing such Securities from registered status.
2.5 The Company shall furnish to each Selling Investor of Registrable Securities, without charge, such numbers of copies of the registration statement, any pre-effective or post-effective amendment thereto, the prospectus, including each preliminary prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, in each case in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules thereunder, and such other related documents as any such Selling Investor may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of Registrable Securities owned by such Selling Investor.
2.6 The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts (i) to register and qualify the securities covered by such registration statement under such other securities or Blue Sky laws of such states or jurisdictions as shall be reasonably requested by the Majority Selling Investors, and (ii) has remained effective for to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of a period registration statement, or the lifting of at least 90 days any suspension of the qualification (or such shorter period in which all exemption from qualification) of the offer and transfer of any of the Registrable Securities in any jurisdiction, at the earliest possible moment; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition thereto to qualify to do business, subject itself to taxation in any such states or jurisdictions or to file a general consent to service of process in any such states or jurisdictions.
2.7 The Company shall promptly notify each Selling Investor of any stop order issued or threatened to be issued by the Commission in connection therewith (and take all reasonable actions required to prevent the entry of such stop order or to remove it if entered).
2.8 The Company shall make generally available to its security holders an earnings statement satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Holders Securities Act no later than ninety (90) days after the end of the twelve (12)-month period beginning with the first month of the Company’s first fiscal quarter commencing after the effective date of each registration statement filed pursuant to this Agreement.
2.9 The Company shall make available for inspection by any Selling Investor and the representatives of such Selling Investor (but not more than one firm of counsel to such Selling Investors), all financial and other information as shall be reasonably requested by them, and provide the Selling Investor and the representatives of such Selling Investor the opportunity to discuss the business affairs of the Company with its principal executives and independent public accountants who have certified the audited financial statements included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (includingstatement, in each case, shares as shall be necessary to enable them to exercise their due diligence responsibility under the Securities Act; provided, however, that information that the Company determines, in good faith, to be confidential and which the Company advises such Person in writing, is confidential shall not be disclosed unless such Person signs a confidentiality agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Company or the related Selling Investor of Registrable Securities requested agrees to be included responsible for such Person’s breach of confidentiality on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Company.
2.10 The Company shall provide and cause to be maintained a transfer agent and registrar for all Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement from and after a date not later than the Demand Sellers and shares effective date of such registration statement.
2.11 The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to provide a CUSIP number for the Registrable Securities prior to the earlier of the listing of such Registrable Securities on the New York Stock Exchange or the effective date of the first registration statement including Registrable Securities.
2.12 The Company shall take such other actions as are reasonably required in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)Registration.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investment Agreement (Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either Demand Registration Other Than on Form F-3 or Form S-3.
(i) Subject to the terms of the Sponsors maythis Agreement, at any timetime or from time to time following the date that is six (6) months after the closing of a Qualified IPO, make any Holder(s) of at least 50% of the then outstanding Class A Registrable Securities (the “Class A Initiating Holder”) may request in writing that the Company effect a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that Registration on the stock exchange for the Qualified IPO. Upon receipt of such Sponsor includes in such a request, the “Demand Sellers”Company shall (x) that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand proposed Registration to all the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities(y) as soon as practicable, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) cause the Registrable Securities then held by specified in the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholdersrequest, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”any Registrable Securities of any Holder who requests in writing to join such Registration within fifteen (15) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by Company’s delivery of written notice, to be Registered and/or qualified for sale and distribution in such Holders jurisdiction as the Class A Initiating Holder may request. The Company shall be obligated to effect no more than two (2) Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(i) that have been declared and ordered effective, provided that if the sale of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders sought to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 2.1(a)(i) is not consummated for any reason other than due to the action or inaction of the Class A Initiating Holder in such Registration, such Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected constitute one of the Registration rights granted pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(i). The Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under aggregate proceeds from the Securities Act and offering that is the subject of the Registration exceeds US$10,000,000.
(ii) has remained effective for Subject to the terms of this Agreement, at any time or from time to time following the date that is six (6) months after the closing of a period Qualified IPO, any Holder(s) of at least 90 days 30% of the then outstanding Series A Registrable Securities (or the “Series A Initiating Holder”) may request in writing that the Company effect a Registration on the stock exchange for the Qualified IPO. Upon receipt of such shorter period a request, the Company shall (x) promptly give written notice of the proposed Registration to all the other Holders and (y) as soon as practicable, use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registrable Securities specified in which all the request, together with any Registrable Securities of any Holder who requests in writing to join such Registration within fifteen (15) days after the Holders included Company’s delivery of written notice, to be Registered and/or qualified for sale and distribution in such registration jurisdiction as the Series A Initiating Holder may request. The Company shall be obligated to effect no more than two (2) Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(ii) that have actually been sold thereunderdeclared and ordered effective, provided that if the sale of all of the Registrable Securities sought to be included pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(ii) is not consummated for any reason other than due to the action or inaction of the Series A Initiating Holder including the Registrable Securities in such Registration, such Registration shall not be deemed to constitute one of the Registration rights granted pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(ii).
(ciii) If Subject to the terms of this Agreement, at any time or from time to time following the date that is six (6) months after the closing of a Demand Qualified IPO, any Holder(s) of at least 30% of the then outstanding Series B Registrable Securities (the “Series B Initiating Holder”) may request in writing that the Company effect a Registration involves on the stock exchange for the Qualified IPO. Upon receipt of such a Public Offering request, the Company shall (x) promptly give written notice of the proposed Registration to all the other Holders and (y) as soon as practicable, use its reasonable best efforts to cause the managing Underwriter Registrable Securities specified in the request, together with any Registrable Securities of any Holder who requests in writing to join such Registration within fifteen (15) days after the Company’s delivery of written notice, to be Registered and/or qualified for such offering advises the Corporation sale and the Holders who have requested to participate distribution in such Public Offeringjurisdiction as the Series B Initiating Holder may request. The Company shall be obligated to effect no more than two (2) Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(iii) that have been declared and ordered effective, in writing, that, in its view, provided that if the number sale of securities requested all of the Registrable Securities sought to be included pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(iii) is not consummated for any reason other than due to the action or inaction of the Series B Initiating Holder including the Registrable Securities in such registrationRegistration, or such Registration shall not be deemed to constitute one of the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders Registration rights granted pursuant to this Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders2.1(a)(iii).
(div) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, at any time or from time to time following the date that is six (6) months after the closing of a Qualified IPO, any Holder(s) of at least 30% of the then outstanding Series C Registrable Securities (the “Series C Initiating Holder”) may request in writing that the Company effect a Registration on the stock exchange for the Qualified IPO. Upon receipt of such a request, the Company shall (x) promptly give written notice of the proposed Registration to all the other Holders and (y) as soon as practicable, use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registrable Securities specified in the request, together with any Registrable Securities of any Holder who requests in writing to join such Registration within fifteen (15) days after the Company’s delivery of written notice, to be Registered and/or qualified for sale and distribution in such jurisdiction as the Series C Initiating Holder may request. The Corporation Company shall not be required obligated to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right no more than two (2) Registrations pursuant to this Section 5.1(d2.1(a)(iv) that have been declared and ordered effective, provided that if the sale of all of the Registrable Securities sought to be included pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(iv) is not consummated for any reason other than due to the action or inaction of the Series C Initiating Holder including the Registrable Securities in such Registration, such Registration shall not be deemed to constitute one of the Registration rights granted pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(iv).
(v) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, at any time or from time to time following the date that is six (6) months after the closing of a Qualified IPO, any Holder(s) of at least 50% of the then outstanding Series D Registrable Securities (the “Series D Initiating Holder”) may request in writing that the Company effect a Registration on the stock exchange for the Qualified IPO. Upon receipt of such a request, the Corporation Company shall (x) promptly give written notice of the proposed Registration to all the other Holders and (y) as soon as practicable, use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registrable Securities specified in the request, together with any Registrable Securities of any Holder who requests in writing to join such Registration within fifteen (15) days after the Company’s delivery of written notice, to be Registered and/or qualified for sale and distribution in such jurisdiction as the Series D Initiating Holder may request. The Company shall be obligated to effect no more than two (2) Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(v) that have been declared and ordered effective, provided that if the sale of all of the Registrable Securities sought to be included pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(v) is not consummated for any reason other than due to the action or inaction of the Series D Initiating Holder including the Registrable Securities in such registration within Registration, such Registration shall not be deemed to constitute one year of the Registration rights granted pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(v). The Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(v) unless the aggregate proceeds from the offering that is the subject of the Registration exceeds US$10,000,000.
(vi) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, at any time or from time to time following the date that is six (6) months after the closing of a Qualified IPO, any Holder(s) of at least 30% of the then outstanding Series E Registrable Securities (the “Series E Initiating Holder”) may request in writing that the Company effect a Registration on the stock exchange for registrationthe Qualified IPO. Upon receipt of such a request, the Company shall (x) promptly give written notice of the proposed Registration to all the other Holders and (y) as soon as practicable, use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registrable Securities specified in the request, together with any Registrable Securities of any Holder who requests in writing to join such Registration within fifteen (15) days after the Company’s delivery of written notice, to be Registered and/or qualified for sale and distribution in such jurisdiction as the Series E Initiating Holder may request. The Company shall be obligated to effect no more than two (2) Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(vi) that have been declared and ordered effective, provided that if the sale of all of the Registrable Securities sought to be included pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(vi) is not consummated for any reason other than due to the action or inaction of the Series E Initiating Holder in such Registration, such Registration shall not be deemed to constitute one of the Registration rights granted pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(vi).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Share Purchase Agreement (eHi Car Services LTD), Share Purchase Agreement (eHi Car Services LTD)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of At any time after the Sponsors maydate that is 180 days after the date hereof (or such earlier date (i) as would permit the Company to cause any filings required hereunder to be filed on the 180th day after the date hereof or (ii) as is permitted by waiver under the IPO Underwriting Agreement), at any time, Person that is a Stockholder (a “Requesting Stockholder”) on the date a Demand is made shall be entitled to make a written request of the Company (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersDemand”) that the Corporation effect the for registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion a number of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying that, when taken together with the intended method number of disposition of Registrable Securities requested to be registered under the Securities Act by such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration Requesting Stockholder’s Affiliates, equals or is greater than the Registrable Amount (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior and thereupon the Company will, subject to the anticipated filing date terms of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securitiesthis Agreement, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; andRequesting Stockholders for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand, which may be an Underwritten Offering;
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that which the Company has been requested to register pursuant to Section 4.1(b); and
(iii) all shares of Common Stock which the Company may elect to register in connection with any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their offering of Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholderspursuant to this Section 4.1, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation but subject to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the CorporationSection 4.1(f); all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Common Stock, if any, to be so registered. Promptly after .
(b) A Demand shall specify: (i) the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the aggregate number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to the extent then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Stockholder (or Requesting Stockholders). Within five days after receipt of a Demand, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand to any other Persons that on the date a Demand is delivered to the Company is a Stockholder (excluding Fortress Affiliate Stockholders which have not signed a joinder as contemplated by Section 2.1). Subject to Section 4.1(f), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by such Demand all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received a written request for inclusion therein. Such written request shall comply with the requirements of a Demand as set forth in this Section 4.1(b).
(c) Each Stockholder shall be entitled to an unlimited number of Demand Registrations until such time as the Stockholders, together, Beneficially Own less than a Registrable Amount.
(d) Demand Registrations shall be on such registration form of the Commission for which the Company is eligible as shall be selected by the Requesting Stockholders whose shares represent a majority of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been requested to register, including, to the extent permissible, an automatically effective registration statement or an existing effective registration statement filed by the Company with the Commission, and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(e) The Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Sellers requesting Registration (A) within one month of a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering in which all Stockholders were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to Section 4.2 (subject to Section 4.1(f)) and provided that at least 50% of the number of Registrable Securities requested by such Stockholders to be included in such Demand Registration were included) or (B) within one month of any other Underwritten Offering pursuant to Section 4.3(e). In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Stockholders) for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 60 days in succession the filing or the effectiveness of a registration under this Section 5.1(astatement for any Demand Registration (but no more than twice, or for more than 90 days in the aggregate, in any period of 12 consecutive months) may, at any time prior to if the effective date Board determines in good faith and in its reasonable judgment that the filing or effectiveness of the registration statement relating to such registrationDemand Registration would cause the disclosure of material, revoke such request without liability to any non-public information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential. In the event of a postponement by the Company of the other Holders by providing filing or effectiveness of a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered registration statement for a Demand Registration, the holders of a majority of Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Stockholder(s) shall have the right to withdraw such Demand in accordance with Section 4.4.
(bf) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 The Company shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all include any securities other than Registrable Securities in a Demand Registration, except with the written consent of Stockholders participating in such Demand Registration that hold a majority of the Holders Registrable Securities included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If Demand Registration. If, in connection with a Demand Registration, any managing underwriter (or, if such Demand Registration involves is not an Underwritten Offering, a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for nationally recognized investment bank engaged in connection with such offering Demand Registration) advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writingCompany, that, in its viewopinion, the number inclusion of all of the securities, including securities requested of the Company that are not Registrable Securities, sought to be included registered in connection with such registration, or Demand Registration would adversely affect the type marketability of securities requested the Registrable Securities sought to be included in such registration (includingsold pursuant thereto, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by then the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration statement only such securities as the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for Company is advised by such offering, underwriter or investment bank can be sold without such adverse effect as follows and in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
following order of priority: (i) first, all Registrable Securities requested up to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration Demand Registration by such Holders); and
(ii) secondthe Stockholders, all Registrable Securities to which, in the opinion of the underwriter can be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on sold without adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, pro rata among such other Holders Stockholders requesting such Demand Registration on the basis of the relative number of shares such securities held by such Stockholders and such Stockholders that are Piggyback Sellers; (ii) second, securities the Company proposes to sell; and (iii) third, all other securities of Registrable Securities the Company duly requested to be included in such registration by statement, pro rata on the basis of the number of such other Holders)securities requested to be included or such other method determined by the Company.
(dg) The Corporation shall not be required Any investment bank(s) that will serve as an underwriter with respect to effect any such Demand Registration or, if the Board determines such Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, any investment bank engaged in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition connection therewith, shall be selected (i) by FIG LLC, for so long as a majority of the Corporation it outstanding Common Stock of the Company is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election owned by the Corporation. If Initial Stockholder, its Permitted Transferees and any Fortress Affiliate Stockholder, and thereafter (ii) by the Corporation exercises Stockholder participating in such Demand Registration that holds (together with its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect Permitted Transferees) a number of Registrable Securities included in such registration within one year following the request for registrationDemand Registration constituting a plurality of all Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Shareholder Agreement (Springleaf Holdings, Inc.), Shareholder Agreement (Springleaf Holdings, LLC)
Demand Registration. (a) Either Subject to the conditions of the Sponsors maythis Section 2.1, if at any timetime after March 14, make 2012 the Company shall receive a written request from a Holder or group of Holders that the Company register under the Securities Act Shares with an aggregate value (together with any other Sponsor Holder that based on the SC Trading Average) of at least $1.0 million as of the date of such Sponsor includes in such request, the request (a “Demand SellersDemanding Holder”) that then the Corporation effect Company shall, subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, effect, as promptly as reasonably practicable, the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying that the intended method of disposition of such securitiesHolder requests to be registered. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of Any such requested registration (shall hereinafter be referred to as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the ” and any such registration statement relating filed with the SEC shall be referred to such as a “Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “HoldersStatement.”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested If a demanding Holder so elects, an offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 5.1 a Demand Registration shall not be deemed in the form of an underwritten offering. Such demanding Holder shall have the right to have been effected unless select the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under managing underwriter or underwriters to administer the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (offering; provided such managing underwriter or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)Company.
(c) If The Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2.1: (i) after the Company has effected five (5) registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1, and each of such registrations has been declared or ordered effective and kept effective by the Company as required by Section 2.4(a) of this Agreement; (ii) with respect to a registration of Registrable Securities during the period starting with the date thirty (30) days prior to the Company’s good faith estimate of the launch date of, and ending on a date ninety (90) days after the closing date of, a Company-initiated registered offering of equity securities or securities convertible into or exchangeable for equity securities; provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all commercially reasonable efforts to launch such registered offering; (iii) during any Scheduled Black-out Period; (iv) if the Company has notified the Holder that in the good faith judgment of the Company, it would be materially detrimental to the Company or its securityholders for such registration to be effected at such time or (v) if the filing or initial effectiveness of a Demand Registration involves Statement at any time would require the Company to make disclosure of any event that the Board of Directors of the Company determines would not be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders due to a Public Offering pending transaction, investigation or other event, including any public disclosure of material non-public information, where such disclosure would, at that time, materially adversely affect the Company and its shareholders, in which events described above in clauses (ii), (iv) and (v), the Company shall have the right to defer such filing for a period of not more than ninety (90) days after receipt of the request of the Holder; provided that such right to delay a request shall be exercised by the Company for not more than two periods in any twelve (12) month period and not more than ninety (90) days in the aggregate in any twelve (12) month period.
(d) Promptly upon receipt of any request for a Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2.1(a) (but in no event more than five Business Days thereafter), the Company shall deliver a written notice (a “Demand Notice”) of any such registration request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities, and the managing Underwriter Company shall include in such Demand Registration all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for such offering advises inclusion therein within ten Business Days after the Corporation date that the Demand Notice has been delivered. All requests made pursuant to this Section 2.1(d) shall specify the aggregate amount of Registrable Securities to be registered and the Holders who have requested to participate intended method of distribution of such securities.
(e) If the managing underwriter or underwriters of a proposed underwritten offering of the Registrable Securities included in such Public Offering, a Demand Registration advise the Board of Directors of the Company in writing, writing that, in its viewor their opinion, the number of securities requested to be included in such registrationDemand 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 type of market for the securities requested offered, the securities to be included in such registration Demand Registration shall be:
(includingi) first, in each case, shares up to 100% of the Registrable Securities requested that the demanding Holder proposes (or Holders propose) to be included by include in the Demand Sellers Registration;
(ii) second, and shares of Registrable Securities requested only if all the securities referred to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would in clause (i) have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”)been included, the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the such managing Underwriter for such offering, underwriter or underwriters can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effecthaving such adverse effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested with such number to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, allocated pro rata among the Holders that have requested to participate in such Holders Demand Registration based on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested then held by each such Holder (provided that any securities thereby allocated to a Holder that exceed such Holder’s request shall be included reallocated among the remaining requesting Holders in such registration by such Holderslike manner); and
(iii) third, and only if all the securities referred to in clause (ii) secondhave been included, all Registrable Securities the number of securities that the Company proposes to be included include in such registration by any other Holder (allocatedthat, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on in the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis opinion of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to managing underwriter or underwriters can be included in sold without having such registration by such other Holders)adverse effect.
(dg) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect Any registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d)2.1 may be required by the demanding Holders to be effected by means of a shelf registration statement filed with the SEC if the Company qualifies to file using either (i) Form F-3 or S-3 or (ii) any successor form or other appropriate form under the Securities Act (a “Shelf Registration Statement”) relating to any or all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the methods and distribution set forth in the Shelf Registration Statement and Rule 415 under the Securities Act. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause any Shelf Registration Statement to remain effective, including by filing extensions of the Shelf Registration Statement, until the termination of the period contemplated in Section 2.6. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act in order to permit the prospectus forming a part thereof to be usable by Holders until the earlier of (i) the date as of which all Registrable Securities have been sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement or another registration statement filed under the Securities Act (but in no event prior to the applicable period referred to in Section 4(3) of the Securities Act and Rule 174 thereunder) and (ii) until the termination of the period contemplated in Section 2.6.
(h) If the continued use of such Shelf Registration Statement at any time would require the Company to make disclosure of any event that the Board of Directors of the Company determines would not be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders due to a pending transaction, investigation or other event, including any public disclosure of material non-public information, where such disclosure would, at that time, materially adversely affect the Company and its shareholders, the Corporation Company may, upon giving at least ten days’ prior written notice of such action to the Holders, suspend all Holders’ ability to use the Shelf Registration Statement (a “Shelf Suspension”); provided that the Company shall effect not be permitted to exercise a Shelf Suspension for more than two periods in any twelve (12) month period and not more than ninety (90) days in the aggregate in any twelve (12) month period. In the case of a Shelf Suspension, the Holders agree to suspend use of the applicable prospectus in connection with any sale or purchase of, or offer to sell or purchase, Registrable Securities, upon receipt of the notice referred to above. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders upon the termination of any Shelf Suspension, amend or supplement the prospectus, if necessary, so it does not contain any material untrue statement or omission and furnish to the Holders such registration within one year following numbers of copies of the request for registrationprospectus as so amended or supplemented as the Holders may reasonably request.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (Seaspan CORP)
Demand Registration. (a) Either The Holders shall have the right, during the period (the "Registration Period") commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on the third anniversary of the Sponsors maydate of this Agreement, at any timeby written notice (the "Demand Notice") given to the Company, make a written to request (together the Company to register under and in accordance with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration under provisions of the Securities Act of all or any portion of the Registrable Shares designated by such Holders; provided, however, that the aggregate number of Registrable Shares requested to be registered pursuant to any Demand Notice and pursuant to any related Demand Notices received pursuant to the following sentence shall be at least 5,000,000. Upon receipt of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying Notice, the intended method Company shall promptly notify all other Holders of disposition the receipt of such securitiesDemand Notice and allow them the opportunity to include Registrable Shares held by them in the proposed registration by submitting their own Demand Notice. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “In connection with any Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to Registration in which more than one Holder participates, in the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to event that such Demand Registration involves an underwritten offering and the managing underwriter or underwriters participating in such offering advise in writing the Holders of Registrable Shares to be included in such offering that the other Sponsor total number of Registrable Shares to be included in such offering exceeds the amount that can be sold in (or during the time of) such offering without delaying or jeopardizing the success of such offering (including the price per share of the Registrable Shares to be sold), then the amount of Registrable Shares to be offered for the account of such Holders and shall be reduced pro rata on the basis of the number of Registrable Shares to be registered by each such Holder. The Holders as a group shall be entitled to three Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2 unless any Demand Registration does not become effective or is not maintained for a period (whether or not continuous) of at least 120 days (or such shorter period as shall terminate when all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect the Registrable Shares covered by such Demand Registration have been sold pursuant thereto), in which case the Holders will be entitled to join in an additional Demand Registration pursuant hereto.
(b) The Company, within 45 days of the request of date on which the Company receives a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes Notice given by Holders in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securitiesaccordance with Section 2(a) hereof, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis file with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsSEC, and the Corporation will Company shall thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to effectcause to be declared effective, as expeditiously as possible, a Registration Statement on the appropriate form for the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholdersand sale, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereofof distribution, of the total number of Registrable Shares specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice, which may include a "shelf" registration (a "Shelf Registration") pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a "Demand Registration").
(c) The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to keep each Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 2 continuously effective and usable for the resale of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after Shares covered thereby (i) in the expiration case of a Registration that is not a Shelf Registration, for a period of 120 days from the 30-day period referred to in paragraph date on which the SEC declares such Registration Statement effective and (ii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, for a period of 180 days from the date on which the SEC declares such Registration Statement effective, in either case (x) until all the Registrable Shares covered by such Registration Statement have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement), and (y) as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.1(a2.
(d) The Company shall be entitled to postpone the filing of any Registration Statement otherwise required to be prepared and filed by the Company pursuant to this Section 2, or suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 2, for a reasonable period of time, but not in excess of 90 days (a "Delay Period"), if any executive officer of the Corporation will notify all Company determines that in such executive officer's reasonable judgment and good faith the registration and distribution of the Registrable Shares covered or to be covered by such Registration Statement would materially interfere with any pending material financing, acquisition or corporate reorganization or other material corporate development involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or would require premature disclosure thereof and promptly gives the Holders written notice of such determination, containing a general statement of the reasons for such postponement and an approximation of the period of the anticipated delay; provided, however, that (i) the aggregate number of days included in all Delay Periods during any consecutive 12 months shall not exceed the aggregate of (x) 180 days minus (y) the number of days occurring during all Hold Back Periods and Interruption Periods during such consecutive 12 months and (ii) a period of at least 60 days shall elapse between the termination of any Delay Period, Hold Back Period or Interruption Period and the commencement of the immediately succeeding Delay Period. If the Company shall so postpone the filing of a Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Shares to be registered shall have the right to withdraw the request for registration by giving written notice from the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Shares that were to be registered to the Company within 45 days after receipt of the notice of postponement or, if earlier, the termination of such Delay Period (and, in the event of such withdrawal, such request shall not be counted for purposes of determining the number of requests for registration to which the Holders of Registrable Shares are entitled pursuant to this Section 2). The time period for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all Delay Periods, all Hold Back Periods and all Interruption Periods occurring during such Registration and such period and any extension thereof is hereinafter referred to as the "Effectiveness Period". The Company shall not be entitled to initiate a Delay Period unless it shall (A) to the extent permitted by agreements with other security holders of the Company, concurrently prohibit sales by such other security holders under registration statements covering securities held by such other security holders and (B) in accordance with the Company's policies from time to time in effect, forbid purchases and sales in the open market by senior executives of the Company.
(e) Except to the extent required by agreements with other security holders of the Company entered into prior to the date of the Merger Agreement, the Company shall not include any securities that are not Registrable Shares in any Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 2 without the prior written consent of the Holders of a majority in number of the Registrable Shares covered by such Registration Statement.
(f) Holders of a majority in number of the Registrable Shares to be included in the Demand a Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested Statement pursuant to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) 2 may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement Registration Statement relating to such registrationRegistration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, in which case . The Holders of Registrable Shares who revoke such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant reimburse the Company for all its out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the preparation, filing and processing of the Registration Statement; provided, however, that, if such revocation was based on the Company's failure to this Section 5.1 comply in any material respect with its obligations hereunder, such reimbursement shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)required.
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Time Warner Inc), Merger Agreement (Turner Broadcasting System Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time following the Closing Date and as many times as may be required for the disposition of all Registrable Securities, the Sponsors may, at any time, make Initiating Holders may give a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, to the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Holder’s Registrable Securities, which written request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be registered and specifying the intended method of disposition of thereof (each such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”); provided that, subject to Section 2.1(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration (w) with respect to Registrable Securities that are subject to transfer restrictions (other than those pursuant to the Securities Act or applicable state or other securities laws) pursuant to this Agreement or the ModSpace Warrant Agreement, as applicable, (x) within 90 days after the effective date of a previous Registration Statement (or such shorter period as the Company may determine in its sole discretion) pursuant to which the Holders were permitted to register the offer and sale under the Securities Act, and actually sold at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by such Holders or (y) as provided in Section 2.1(f). Thereafter, the Company shall promptly, and in any event, within five (5) days after receiving such request, give written notice of the proposed registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the all other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect Existing Investors, which Existing Investors shall have piggyback rights with respect thereto pursuant to join in Section 2.3 of the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request Existing Agreement, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously soon as possiblepracticable, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the first, all Registrable Securities then for which the requesting Initiating Holder(s) has requested a Demand Registration under this Section 2.1;
(ii) second, the number of Existing Investor Securities requested by any Existing Investor specified in a written request received by the Company within five (5) days after written notice regarding such Existing Investor’s piggyback rights with respect to such Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2.3 of the Existing Agreement to be included in such Demand Registration by any such Existing Investor equal to the difference between the Maximum Offering Size and number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration pursuant to clause (i) above, based on the pro rata percentage of Exisiting Investor Securities held by such Existing Investors (determined based on the Demand Sellers that aggregate number of Existing Investor Securities held by each such Existing Investor);
(iii) third, the Corporation has been so number of Registrable Securities requested to register by any other Holder specified in a written request received by the Company within five (5) days after written notice regarding such other Holder’s piggyback rights with respect to such Demand Sellers; Registration pursuant to Section 2.3 of this Agreement to be included in such Demand Registration by such other Holders equal to the difference between the Maximum Offering Size and the number of Registrable Securities and Existing Investor Securities requested pursuant to clauses (i) and
(ii) all other above, based on the pro rata percentage of Registrable Securities that any held by such other Shareholder entitled to request Holders (determined based on the Corporation to include their aggregate number of Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration held by each such other Holder); and
(all such Shareholdersiv) fourth, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation any Common Stock to register by written request received be offered or sold by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the CorporationCompany; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after At any time the expiration Company is eligible for use of the 30-day period referred to an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, if specified in paragraph such notice for a Demand Registration, such registration shall occur on such form.
(iib) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement Registration Statement relating to such registrationDemand Registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written requesting Holder may, upon notice to the Corporation revoking Company, revoke its request in whole or in part with respect to the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested by such request, requesting Holder to be included in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand RegistrationRegistration Statement.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Demand Registration becomes effective.
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement Registration Statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained continuously effective for a period of at least 90 (x) 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder) or (y) with respect to a Shelf Registration, until the date set forth in Section 2.5(a)(ii); provided that such Registration Statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 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 2.1(e) such that less than 66.67% of the Registrable Securities of the Holders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) The Company shall not include in any Demand Registration or Shelf Registration any securities that are not Registrable Securities or Existing Investor Securities without the prior written consent of the Holders of the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration or Shelf Registration. If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the lead managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate of the Registrable Securities included in such Public Offering, in writing, Demand Registration that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities and Existing Investor Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers largest number of shares that can be sold without having a material and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration registration, up to the largest number of Maximum Offering Size, Registrable Securities that, and Existing Investor Securities in the opinion order of the priority described in Sections 2.1(a)(i)-(iii), above. The lead managing Underwriter underwriter or underwriters selected for such offering, can registration shall be sold selected in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holdersaccordance with Section 2.5(f).
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Company may postpone for up to effect any 60 days (i) the filing or effectiveness of a Registration Statement for a Demand Registration or Shelf Registration (except the Shelf Registration pursuant to Section 2.2(a)(I)) or (ii) the commencement of a Shelf Public Offering if the Board of Directors of the Company determines in its reasonable good faith judgment that due to business such Demand Registration, Shelf Registration or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Shelf Public Offering, as applicable, (i) materially interferes with a significant acquisition, corporate organization, financing, securities offering or other similar transaction involving the Company; (ii) requires premature disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; or (iii) renders the Company unable to comply with requirements under the Securities Act or Exchange Act; provided, that in such event the Corporation Initiating Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their request therefor 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. The Company may elect not to effect registration on such grounds delay a Demand Registration, Shelf Registration or Shelf Public Offering hereunder only once twice in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationtwelve (12) consecutive months.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (WillScot Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If at any time following the Closing of the Sponsors mayPurchase Agreement, at any time, make the Company shall receive a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, a “Demand Notice”) from the Stockholder (referred to herein as the “Demand SellersRequesting Stockholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Stockholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days 2 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing pricing date of the registration statement offering relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request stockholders having similar rights and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Stockholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellersregistration under this Section 2.01; and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(d) and 2.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Stockholder that any other Shareholder entitled stockholders with rights to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration registration (all such Shareholdersstockholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Stockholder, and any stockholders participating in a Piggyback Registration pursuant to Section 2.02, the “HoldersRegistering Stockholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days one (1) Business Day after such Registering Stockholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the CorporationDemand Registration; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred ; provided, however, that, subject to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a2.01(c), the Corporation will notify all the Holders Company shall not be obligated to be included in the effect more than one Demand Registration within a 12 month period requested by the Stockholder; and further provided, that a Demand Notice may only be made if the sale of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included thereinregistered in the aggregate is reasonably expected to result in gross cash proceeds in excess of $10,000,000. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effectuated.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Stock Issuance and Purchase Agreement (Uqm Technologies Inc), Stock Issuance and Purchase Agreement (Uqm Technologies Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If the Company shall receive a request from, in the case of a ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Investor Demand, any ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Investor or, in the Sponsors maycase of a HSBC Co-Investor Demand, at any time, make HSBC Co-Investor (in the case of a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Investor Demand, the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Investor or, in the case of a HSBC Co-Investor Demand, the HSBC Co-Investor shall be referred to herein as the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request, including a HSBC Co-Investor Demand, shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days 20 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Shareholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 5.01, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 5.01(e) and 5.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholder that any other Shareholder entitled Shareholders with rights to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration registration under Section 5.01 or Section 5.02 (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder, and any Shareholders participating in a Piggyback Registration pursuant to Section 5.02, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days 15 Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered, provided that, subject to Section 5.01(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than (i) four Demand Registrations in the aggregate for the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Investors (each, a “▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Investor Demand”), other than any Demand Registration to be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any successor thereto), for which an unlimited number of Demand Registrations shall be permitted or (ii) one Demand Registration for the HSBC Co-Investors (the “HSBC Co-Investor Demand”) (it being understood that any such HSBC Co-Investor Demand can occur only following the first anniversary of the First Public Offering); provided further that the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate gross proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $50,000,000. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any six-month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 3015-day Business Day-period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a5.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholder may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected.
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 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 5.01(e) such that less than 66 2/3% of the Registrable Securities of the Registering Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholder that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder all other Registering Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders other Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each such HoldersShareholder); , and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities any securities proposed to be included in such registration by registered for the account of any other Holder Persons (allocatedincluding the Company), if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on with such priorities among them as the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)Company shall determine.
(df) The Corporation shall Upon notice to each Registering Shareholder, the Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 5.01 on one occasion during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days (which period may not be required to effect any Demand Registration extended or renewed), if (i) an investment banking firm of recognized national standing shall advise the Company and the Requesting Shareholder in writing 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) the Board determines shall have determined in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition Company is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such Company.
(g) At any time to undertake a following the consummation of the First Public Offering; provided, upon the request of a Majority in Interest of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Investors, the Company shall use its best efforts to file a “shelf’ registration statement (the “Shelf Registration”) with respect to the Registrable Securities on an appropriate form pursuant to Rule 415 (or any similar provision that may be adopted by the Corporation may elect not SEC) under the Securities Act and to cause such Shelf Registration to become effective and to keep such Shelf Registration in effect registration on such grounds only once until the Shareholders shall no longer hold any Registrable Securities. Any offer or sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration in any twelve-month period beginning on underwritten Public Offering shall be deemed to be a Demand Registration subject to the date provisions of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d5.01(a), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Shareholders Agreement (Tops Markets Ii Corp), Shareholders’ Agreement (Tops PT, LLC)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time following the second (2nd) anniversary of the Sponsors maydate of this Agreement, at any timein the event that Shelf Registration Statement is not effective with the SEC covering all of the Registrable Securities of the Holders, make the Holders shall have the right, subject to the rules and regulations of the SEC, by delivering a written request notice to the Company (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersNotice”) that ), to require the Corporation effect Company to register under and in accordance with the registration under provisions of the Securities Act the number of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities Beneficially Owned by the Holders and requested by such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration Notice to be so registered (a “Demand Registration”); provided, however , that the Holders in the aggregate shall not be entitled pursuant to this Section 2.02 to require the Company to effectuate more than two (2) Demand Registrations (which may collectively include underwritten Demand Registrations and Company Supported Distributions) during the Term of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the at least 30 days prior 5,000,000 Preferred Shares (as adjusted for splits, dividends, reclassifications and the like) convert into the applicable number of Conversion Shares then the number of Demand Registrations that the Company may be obligated to undertake shall increase to three (3) and if at least 10,000,000 Preferred Shares (as adjusted for splits, dividends, reclassifications and the like) convert into the applicable number of Conversion Shares then the number of Demand Registrations that the Company may be obligated to undertake shall increase to four (4) and the Holders shall be entitled to deliver a Demand Notice for up to the anticipated filing date two additional Demand Registrations any time after such conversion of the registration statement relating to such Preferred Shares into Conversion Shares has taken place. A Demand Registration to Notice shall also specify the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholdersexpected method or methods of disposition of the applicable Registrable Securities. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request Following receipt of a Demand Seller Notice, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to file, as promptly as reasonably practicable, but not later than forty-five (45) days after receipt by the Company of such Demand Notice provided that a Suspension Period is not in effect, a Registration Statement relating to the Corporation effect offer and sale of the registration Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by the Holders in accordance with the methods of distribution elected (a “Demand Registration Statement”) and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act of all or as promptly as practicable after the filing thereof. The Holders agree that if any portion of Holder intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering it shall promptly so advise the Company and the Company shall cooperate with the Holder to facilitate such Sponsor or distribution, including the actions required pursuant to Sections 2.05(a)(ix)-(xv) and, if a Company Supported Distribution is requested, Section 2.05(a)(xvi) so long as the Holders have not previously exhausted the limit for such Company Supported Distributions specified in Section 2.05(a)(xvi).
(b) The Holders agree that the Company may include any other Sponsor Holder Other Securities covered by any Existing Registration Rights Agreements that it deems appropriate in any Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Agreement, subject to the cutback limitations set forth in Section 2.02(c) and Section 2.02(d).
(c) In the event that the SEC sets forth a limitation on the securities that may be registered on a particular Demand Registration Statement, the Company may reduce the number of securities to be registered on such Sponsor includes Demand Registration Statement to such number of securities as allowed by the SEC; provided, that, the Company shall include in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
Registration Statement (i) first, the quantity of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration Statement and (ii) second, any remaining amounts, if any, shall be allocable to holders of Other Securities, pro rata, based on the number of Other Securities proposed by the Company to be included in such Demand Registration Statement and the number of Other Securities Beneficially Owned by each such holder of Other Securities.
(d) If any of the Registrable Securities then held by registered pursuant to a Demand Registration are to be sold in a firm commitment underwritten offering, and the Demand Sellers managing underwriter of such underwritten offering advises the Company or Holders in writing that it is their good faith opinion that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other total number or dollar amount of Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled proposed to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities be sold in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholdersoffering, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation any Other Securities proposed to register by written request received be included by the Corporation within 30 days after Company or holders thereof which are entitled to include securities in such Registration Statement, exceeds the receipt by such Holders total number or dollar amount of such written notice given by securities that can be sold without having an adverse effect on the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) price, timing or distribution of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after included together with all such Other Securities, then there shall be included in such firm commitment underwritten offering the expiration number or dollar amount of Registrable Securities and such Other Securities that in the opinion of such managing underwriter can be sold without so adversely affecting such offering, and such number of Registrable Securities and Other Securities shall be allocated for inclusion as follows:
(i) first, up to eighty five percent (85%) of the 30-day period referred to total shares included in paragraph such underwritten offering shall be comprised of the Registrable Securities for which inclusion in such underwritten offering was requested by the Holders; and
(ii) of this Section 5.1(a)second, the Corporation will notify all Company may include up to fifteen percent (15%) or such lower amount of the Holders total shares included in such underwritten offering; and
(iii) third, any remaining amounts, if any, shall be allocable to holders of Other Securities, pro rata, based on the number of Other Securities proposed by the Company to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders such underwritten offering and the number of shares Other Securities Beneficially Owned by each such holder of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(aOther Securities;
(e) may, at any time prior to In the effective date event of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant , the Company shall be required to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless maintain the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under continuous effectiveness of the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective applicable Registration Statement for a period of at least 90 one hundred twenty (120) days (after the effective date thereof or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder)sold.
(cf) If Any Holder whose Registrable Securities are covered by a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and shall have the managing Underwriter right to notify the Company that it has determined that the Registration Statement relating to the Demand Registration be abandoned or withdrawn with respect to such Registrable Securities, in which event the Company shall promptly abandon or withdraw such Registration Statement with respect to such Registrable Securities. In the event that the Company has not yet filed the Demand Registration Statement with the SEC, such abandoned Demand Registration Statement shall not count against the limit for such offering advises Demand Registrations specified in Section 2.02(a). However, if the Corporation Company has already filed the Demand Registration Statement with the SEC and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its viewrequest that it be withdrawn, the number Holders agree that such withdrawn Demand Registration Statement shall count against the limit for Demand Registrations specified in Section 2.02(a) and will reimburse the Company for all Registration Expenses incurred by the Company in connection with such withdrawn Demand Registration Statement, unless (i) such abandonment or withdrawal is based upon material adverse information concerning the Company that the Company has not publicly disclosed in compliance with applicable securities Laws at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Company’s receipt of securities requested to be included in such registrationwithdrawal request, or the type (ii) there occurs an event or series of securities requested to be included in such registration related events that (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an A) has a material adverse effect on the business, assets, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the Company or (B) has caused a Market Material Adverse Effect.
(g) In the case that Holders request a Company Supported Distribution in connection with a Demand Registration, the Holders shall have the right to notify the Company that they have determined that the offering be abandoned or withdrawn, in which event the Company shall promptly abandon or withdraw all activities undertaken in connection with such offering with respect to Registrable Securities. In the event that the Company has not yet Launched the offering, including such withdrawn or abandoned offering shall not count against the price at which limit of such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”Company Supported Distributions set forth in Section 2.05(a)(xvi). However, if such offering is abandoned or withdrawn after the Corporation offering has Launched, then such abandoned or withdrawn offering will include count against the limit of such Company Supported Distributions set forth in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
Section 2.05(a)(xvi) unless (i) firstsuch abandonment or withdrawal is based upon material adverse information concerning the Company that the Company has not publicly disclosed in compliance with applicable securities Laws at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Company’s receipt of such withdrawal request, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
or (ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder there occurs an event or series of related events that (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect A) has a material adverse effect on the offeringbusiness, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis assets, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included Company or (B) has caused a Market Material Adverse Effect. In the event that such offering is abandoned or withdrawn for any reason other than the reason set forth in such registration by such other Holders).
clauses (di) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition (ii) of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; providedpreceding sentences, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on Holders shall reimburse the date of such election Company for all Registration Expenses incurred by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect Company in connection with any such registration within one year following the request for registrationabandoned or withdrawn Company Supported Distribution.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (General Electric Co), Registration Rights Agreement (General Electric Co)
Demand Registration. (a) Either Subject to the provisions of this Article II, Black Canyon shall have the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request right (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand SellersRight”) that the Corporation effect the to request registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Registrable Securities held by any of the Black Canyon Entities and specifying their respective Affiliates (referred to herein as the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give “Requesting Holders”) by delivering a written notice to the principal business office of the Company, which notice identifies the Requesting Holders and specifies the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such requested registration (the “Registration Request”). Subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 2.2(d), the Company will thereupon use its best efforts to effect the registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or on any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying form available to the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act Company of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held requested to be registered by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand SellersRequesting Holders; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) securities of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders Company proposed to be included in such registration by the Demand holders of registration rights granted other than pursuant to this Agreement (the “Other Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(aRights”).
(b) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registrationa Demand Registration, Black Canyon may revoke such Demand Registration request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, . The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in which case such request shall not be considered a connection with any Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant . Except as otherwise set forth herein, there shall be no limit to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period number of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)Demand Registrations that Black Canyon may request.
(c) If the sole or managing underwriter of a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate Company in such Public Offering, in writing, that, writing that in its view, opinion the number of Registrable Securities and other securities requested to be included in such registration, or exceeds the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares number of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities that can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”)in such offering without adversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, the Corporation price that will be paid in such offering or the marketability thereof, the Company will include in such registration the largest greatest number of (i) Registrable Securities proposed to be registered by the holders thereof, (ii) securities having Other Registration Rights that are pari passu with the demand rights granted in respect of Registrable Securities thathereunder proposed to be registered by the holders thereof and (iii) securities proposed to be registered by the Company for its own account, which, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offeringunderwriters, can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effectdistribution of the securities being offered, the price that will be paid in such offering or the marketability thereof, ratably among the holders of Registrable Securities, the holder of such Other Registration Rights and the Company, based (A) as follows:
(i) firstbetween the Company and such holders requesting registration, all Registrable Securities on the respective amounts of securities requested to be included in such registered, and (B) as among the holders requesting registration by (whether the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocatedRequesting Holders or otherwise), if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares respective amounts of Registrable Securities (whether requested to be included in registered pursuant to Sections 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3) and securities subject to such registration Other Registration Rights, as the case may be, held by each such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)holder.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Any Demand Registration if requested must be for a firmly underwritten public offering to be managed by an underwriter or underwriters of recognized national standing selected by Black Canyon and reasonably acceptable to the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationCompany.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Malibu Boats, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Malibu Boats, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time after the occurrence of a Put Dishonor, upon the written request of the Sponsors may, at any time, make holders of a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder majority of the Registrable Securities requesting that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation State Auto Financial effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion part of any such Demand Sellers’ holders' Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method number of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request to be registered and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof (a "REGISTRATION REQUEST"), State Auto Financial will promptly, and in no event more than ten (10) Business Days after receipt of such securitiesRegistration Request, whereupon give written notice (a "NOTICE OF DEMAND REGISTRATION") of such Sponsor shall be deemed request to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the all other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsholders of Registrable Securities, the Corporation and thereupon will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation which State Auto Financial has been so requested to register by such holders of a majority of the Demand SellersRegistrable Securities; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled the holders of which have made written requests to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation State Auto Financial for registration thereof within 30 20 days after the receipt by such Holders giving of such written notice given by the Corporation; Notice of Demand Registration (which requests shall specify the intended method of disposition thereof), all to the extent necessary requisite to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. Promptly after If requested by the expiration holders of a majority of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in any Demand Registration, the method of disposition of all Registrable Securities included in such registration by shall be an underwritten offering effected in accordance with SECTION 7.4(a) hereof. Subject to paragraph (e) of this SECTION 7.1, State Auto Financial may include in such registration other securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person. If any security holders of State Auto Financial (other than the holders of Registrable Securities in such capacity) register securities of State Auto Financial in a Demand Sellers Registration in accordance with this SECTION 7.1, such holders shall pay the fees and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, expenses of their counsel and their pro rata among such Holders share, on the basis of the relative number respective amounts of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be the securities included in such registration by on behalf of each such Holders); and
(ii) secondholder, all Registrable Securities to be included in of the Registration Expenses if the Registration Expenses for such registration are not paid by State Auto Financial for any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)reason.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Standby Purchase Agreement (State Auto Financial Corp), Standby Purchase Agreement (State Auto Financial Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of At any time after the Sponsors maydate that is 180 days after the date hereof (or such earlier date (i) as would permit the Company to cause any filings required hereunder to be filed on the 180th day after the date hereof or (ii) as is permitted by waiver under the IPO Underwriting Agreement), at any time, Person that is a Stockholder (a “Requesting Stockholder”) on the date a Demand is made shall be entitled to make a written request of the Company (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersDemand”) that the Corporation effect the for registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion a number of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying that, when taken together with the intended method number of disposition of Registrable Securities requested to be registered under the Securities Act by such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration Requesting Stockholder’s Affiliates, equals or is greater than the Registrable Amount (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior and thereupon the Company will, subject to the anticipated filing date terms of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securitiesthis Agreement, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; andRequesting Stockholders for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand, which may be an Underwritten Offering;
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that which the Company has been requested to register pursuant to Section 4.1(b); and
(iii) all shares of Common Stock which the Company may elect to register in connection with any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their offering of Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholderspursuant to this Section 4.1, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation but subject to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the CorporationSection 4.1(f); all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Common Stock, if any, to be so registered. Promptly after .
(b) A Demand shall specify: (i) the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the aggregate number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to the extent then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Stockholder (or Requesting Stockholders). Within five days after receipt of a Demand, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand to any other Persons that on the date a Demand is delivered to the Company is a Stockholder (excluding Fortress Affiliate Stockholders which have not signed a joinder as contemplated by Section 2.1). Subject to Section 4.1(f), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by such Demand all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received a written request for inclusion therein. Such written request shall comply with the requirements of a Demand as set forth in this Section 4.1(b).
(c) Each Stockholder shall be entitled to an unlimited number of Demand Registrations until such time as the Stockholders, together, Beneficially Own less than a Registrable Amount.
(d) Demand Registrations shall be on such registration form of the Commission for which the Company is eligible as shall be selected by the Requesting Stockholders whose shares represent a majority of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been requested to register, including, to the extent permissible, an automatically effective registration statement or an existing effective registration statement filed by the Company with the Commission, and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(e) The Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Sellers requesting Registration (A) within one month of a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering in which all Stockholders were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to Section 4.2 (subject to Section 4.1(f)) and provided that at least 50% of the number of Registrable Securities requested by such Stockholders to be included in such Demand Registration were included or (B) within one month of any other Underwritten Offering pursuant to Section 4.3(e). In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Stockholders) for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 60 days in succession the filing or the effectiveness of a registration under this Section 5.1(astatement for any Demand Registration (but no more than twice, or for more than 90 days in the aggregate, in any period of 12 consecutive months) may, at any time prior to if the effective date Board determines in good faith and in its reasonable judgment that the filing or effectiveness of the registration statement relating to such registrationDemand Registration would cause the disclosure of material, revoke such request without liability to any non-public information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential. In the event of a postponement by the Company of the other Holders by providing filing or effectiveness of a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered registration statement for a Demand Registration, the holders of a majority of Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Stockholder(s) shall have the right to withdraw such Demand in accordance with Section 4.4.
(bf) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 The Company shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all include any securities other than Registrable Securities in a Demand Registration, except with the written consent of Stockholders participating in such Demand Registration that hold a majority of the Holders Registrable Securities included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If Demand Registration. If, in connection with a Demand Registration, any managing underwriter (or, if such Demand Registration involves is not an Underwritten Offering, a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for nationally recognized investment bank engaged in connection with such offering Demand Registration) advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writingCompany, that, in its viewopinion, the number inclusion of all of the securities, including securities requested of the Company that are not Registrable Securities, sought to be included registered in connection with such registration, or Demand Registration would adversely affect the type marketability of securities requested the Registrable Securities sought to be included in such registration (includingsold pursuant thereto, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by then the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration statement only such securities as the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for Company is advised by such offering, underwriter or investment bank can be sold without such adverse effect as follows and in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
following order of priority: (i) first, all Registrable Securities requested up to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration Demand Registration by such Holders); and
(ii) secondthe Stockholders, all Registrable Securities to which, in the opinion of the underwriter can be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on sold without adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, pro rata among such other Holders Stockholders requesting such Demand Registration on the basis of the relative number of shares such securities held by such Stockholders and such Stockholders that are Piggyback Sellers; (ii) second, securities the Company proposes to sell; and (iii) third, all other securities of Registrable Securities the Company duly requested to be included in such registration by statement, pro rata on the basis of the number of such other Holders)securities requested to be included or such other method determined by the Company.
(dg) The Corporation shall not be required Any investment bank(s) that will serve as an underwriter with respect to effect any such Demand Registration or, if the Board determines such Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, any investment bank engaged in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition connection therewith, shall be selected (i) by FIG LLC, for so long as a majority of the Corporation it outstanding Common Stock of the Company is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election owned by the Corporation. If Initial Stockholders, their Permitted Transferees and any Fortress Affiliate Stockholder, and thereafter (ii) by the Corporation exercises Stockholder participating in such Demand Registration that holds (together with its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect Permitted Transferees) a number of Registrable Securities included in such registration within one year following the request for registrationDemand Registration constituting a plurality of all Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Shareholder Agreement (Intrawest Resorts Holdings, Inc.), Shareholder Agreement (Intrawest Resorts Holdings, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either Subject to the Stockholder’s satisfaction of its obligations under Section 5.25 of the Sponsors mayPurchase Agreement with respect to the financial statements then required, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestfrom and after the end of the Lock-Up Period, the Stockholder may request in writing (a “Demand SellersRequest”) (a) that the Corporation effect Company file a prospectus supplement (the registration “Takedown Prospectus Supplement”) to an effective Shelf Registration Statement filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act with respect to the Registrable Securities identified in the Request (a “Takedown Request”) 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 Act all or any portion part of any such Demand Sellers’ the Registrable Securities and specifying that are Beneficially Owned by the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration 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 Request, even if such offering is a Takedown Request conducted pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement and regardless of 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 (i) an aggregate market value as of the date of such Request of at least 30 days prior fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) and (ii) the 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 anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating such Request of at least twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000). The Company shall not be obligated to such effect a Demand Registration to or Takedown Request during the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in sixty (60) day period following the request effective date of a Registration Statement pursuant to any other Demand Seller that Registration or the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion closing of any underwritten offering pursuant to a Takedown Request. Each Request pursuant to this Section 5.1(a) shall be in writing and shall specify the number of Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request requested to be registered and specifying the intended method of disposition distribution of such securitiesRegistrable Securities. Nothing in this Article 5 shall affect, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed supersede or otherwise modify any of the restrictions on Transfer set forth in Article 2 or any other provision of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, underwritten overnight bought deals will count as a Request.
(b) Subject to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis the Stockholder’s satisfaction of its obligations under Section 5.25 of the Purchase Agreement with respect to the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsfinancial statements then required, the Corporation will Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effectfile within ninety (90) days after the Closing Date an automatic shelf registration statement (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) on Form S-3 (an “Automatic Shelf Registration Statement”), or if the Company does not qualify as expeditiously a well-known seasoned issuer as possible, the registration defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of:
(ia “WKSI”), a Registration Statement (which shall be on Form S-3 if the Company is then eligible to use such form) permitting the public resale of Registrable Securities, on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 of the Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (Act in accordance with the intended methods thereof) requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder (including any Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, a “Shelf Registration Statement”), or otherwise designating an existing Shelf Registration Statement with the SEC, covering the sale or distribution of all of the Registrable Securities from time to time by the Stockholder pursuant to one or more Takedown Requests, including by way of underwritten offering, block trade or other distribution plan designated by the Stockholder, and to cause such Shelf Registration Statement to become or be so registered. Promptly after deemed effective by the expiration end of the 30Lock-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationup Period.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
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Sources: Stockholders Agreement (Colfax CORP), Stockholders Agreement (Circor International Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of At any time after the Sponsors mayClosing Date but not later than the date which is sixty (60) days after the Closing Date, at any time, make not less than two Stockholders (the "Initiating Stockholders") may request in a written request (together notice that Synetic file with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the SEC a registration statement under the Securities Act of all (or a similar document pursuant to any portion other statute then in effect corresponding to the Securities Act), covering the registration of any or all Registrable Securities, up to and including the Maximum Registrable Amount for each Initiating Stockholder, held by such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration Initiating Stockholders (a “"Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to ", the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to first such Demand Registration to being the "First Demand Registration"), provided that there must be included in such registration at least the Minimum Registrable Number of shares of Registrable Securities. Following receipt of any notice under this Section 2.02(a), Synetic shall (i) within five (5) business days notify the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect Stockholder of such request in writing, (ii) within thirty (30) days cause to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration be filed under the Securities Act a registration statement to register the resale of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of Securities, up to and including the Maximum Registrable Amount for each such Sponsor or any Stockholder, that the Initiating Stockholders and such other Sponsor Holder that Stockholder, given such Sponsor includes in such request notice, have requested be registered and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will (iii) use its reasonable best efforts to effect, cause the registration to be declared effective by the SEC as expeditiously soon as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:.
(ib) At any time not less than one (1) year after the effective date of the First Demand Registration, any Stockholder may request a second Demand Registration in the manner set forth in Section 2.02(a) above for the balance of such Stockholder's then Registrable Securities then held by (the "Second Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(aRegistration"), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to provided that there must be included in such registration at least the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number Minimum Registrable Number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request and there shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares excess of of the Maximum Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares Amount. Following receipt of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to any notice under this Section 5.22.02(b), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
Synetic shall (i) first, within five (5) business days notify the other Stockholder(s) of such request in writing and (ii) within thirty (30) days cause to be filed under the Securities Act a registration statement to register the resale of all Registrable Securities that the Stockholders, given such notice, have requested be registered and (iii) uses its reasonable best efforts to cause the registration to be included in such registration declared effective by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)SEC as soon as possible.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Synetic Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Synetic Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time beginning at such time as the Company is eligible to use a registration statement on Form S-3 under the Act (or applicable successor form) for secondary offerings of securities and ending five (5) years after the effective date of the Sponsors mayPublic Offering, at any time“Majority Holder” (as such term is defined in Section 6.4(c) below) of the Registrable Securities shall have the right (which right is in addition to the piggyback registration rights provided for under Section 6.3 hereof), make a exercisable by written request notice to the Company (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand SellersRegistration Request”), to have the Company prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) that on one occasion, at the Corporation effect sole expense of the registration Company (except as provided in Section 6.5(b) hereof), a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or applicable successor form) and such other documents, including a prospectus, as may be necessary (in the opinion of both counsel for the Company and counsel for such Majority Holder) in order to comply with the provisions of the Act, so as to permit a public offering and sale of the Registrable Securities by the Holders thereof. The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to become effective under the Act so as to permit a public offering and sale of the Registrable Securities by the Holders thereof. Once effective, the Company will use its best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement until the earlier of (i) the date that all of the Registrable Securities have been sold or (ii) the date the Holders thereof receive an opinion of counsel to the Company that all of the Registrable Securities may be freely traded without registration and without volume restrictions under the Act under Rule 144 promulgated under the Act or otherwise.
(b) The Company covenants and agrees to give written notice of any Demand Registration Request to all or any portion Holders of the Registrable Securities within ten (10) business days from the date of the Company’s receipt of any such Demand Sellers’ Registration Request. After receiving notice from the Company as provided in this Section 6.4(b), holders of Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation Company to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back the Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities Statement to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders filed pursuant to Section 5.2), would 6.4(a) hereof by notifying the Company of their decision to have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold included within fifteen (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number 15) business days of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion their receipt of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)Company’s notice.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Underwriting Agreement (Wireless Ronin Technologies Inc), Underwriting Agreement (Wireless Ronin Technologies Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If at any time after 180 days following the completion of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestFirst Public Offering, the Company shall receive a request from a Shareholder or group of Shareholders, in each case holding at least 40% of the Registrable Securities (the requesting Shareholder(s) shall be referred to herein as the “Demand SellersInitial Requesting Shareholders”) ), that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Initial Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly thereof, then the Company shall give written notice (a “Demand Notice”) of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days to the other Shareholders, which notice shall be given not later than five Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to Registration. Such other Shareholders may, upon notice received by the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in Company no later than two Business Days after the request date of notice of a Demand Seller Registration, request that the Corporation Company also effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such other Shareholder’s Registrable Securities of (such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying requesting Shareholders, together with the intended method of disposition of such securitiesInitial Requesting Shareholder(s), whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed referred to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with herein as the other Demand Sellers“Requesting Shareholders”). Upon receiving such requestsThereafter, subject to the restrictions in Section 2.01(e), the Corporation will Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the of all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Requesting Shareholders have requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all registration under this Section 2.01 to the extent necessary to permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities so to be registered (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) thereof as aforesaid), provided that the Company shall be permitted to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities other than the Registrable Securities (including for the benefit of Persons not party to this Agreement) as part of any Demand Registration; provided further that the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate gross proceeds expected to be so registered. Promptly after received from the expiration sale of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included thereinin such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $20,000,000 or such lesser amount that constitutes all of the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities (provided that such lesser amount is at least $10,000,000). The In no event shall the Company be required to effect (i) more than one Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(aRegistration hereunder within any six-month period or (ii) mayany Demand Registration if, at the time of such request, four or more Demand Registrations and Underwritten Takedowns (as defined below) have previously been effected ((i) and (ii) hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Demand Registration Limitations”).
(b) At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registrationa Demand Registration, revoke such request without liability to any of a Shareholder may withdraw from the other Holders related registration by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking Company. If sufficient Registrable Securities are so withdrawn such that the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such Demand Registration does not meet the applicable threshold required for such Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2.01(a), the Company may cease all efforts to effect such Demand Registration, and upon the Company ceasing all efforts to effect registration, such Demand Registration shall be deemed revoked. A request, in which case such request so revoked, shall not be considered to be a Demand Registration for purposes of the Demand Registration Limitations unless (i) such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company or (ii) the Requesting Shareholders reimburse the Company for all Registration Expenses (other than the expenses set forth under clause (v) of the definition of the term Registration Expenses) incurred prior to such revocation, pro rata among such Requesting Shareholders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities of such Requesting Shareholders that were to be included in such revoked Demand Registration.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such registration is effected, unless the Requesting Shareholders elect to pay such Registration Expenses as described in the last sentence of Section 2.01(b).
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred (other than as provided in Section 2.01(b)) unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 30 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Requesting Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholder that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder all Requesting Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each such HoldersShareholder; provided, that Warrant Shares shall be treated as "Registrable Securities" and holders of Warrant Shares shall be treated as "Shareholders" for the purpose of this Section 2.01(e)(i) only); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities any securities proposed to be included in such registration registered by the Company (including for the benefit of any other Holder (allocated, if necessary Persons not party to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holdersthis Agreement).
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any the Requesting Shareholders, the Company may postpone effecting a Demand Registration on two occasions during any period of twelve consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days in the aggregate in any period of twelve consecutive months, if (i) the Board of Directors of the Company reasonably determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or effecting the business or financial condition registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Corporation it Company the preparation of which had then been commenced, or (ii) the Company is inappropriate at in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that notice the Corporation may elect Board of Directors of the Company reasonably believes would not to effect registration on such grounds only once be in any twelve-month period beginning on the date best interests of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationCompany.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Novo Nordisk a S), Registration Rights Agreement (Affimed N.V.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of If the Sponsors may, at any time, make Company shall receive a written request from one or more Shareholders (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the requesting Shareholder(s) shall be referred to herein as the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days ten (10) Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 2.01(e), all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Shareholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 2.01, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 2.01(e) and Section 2.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholder that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has requested the Corporation Company to register pursuant to Section 2.02, by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days seven (7) Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $10,000,000 or such lesser amount that constitutes all of the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities; provided, the proceeds expected are no less than $1,00,000.00. The Company shall file the initial registration statement with the SEC as promptly as possible, but in any event within fifteen (15) days for a Form S-3 and thirty (30) days for any other form. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than two (2) Demand Registrations hereunder within any one (1) year period and no more than six (6) Demand Registrations hereunder in total.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day seven (7) Business Day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a2.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholder may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request. A request, so revoked, shall be considered to be a Demand Registration unless (i) such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company (in which case the Company shall be obligated to pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationrevoked request) or (ii) the Requesting Shareholder reimburses the Company for all Registration Expenses of such revoked request.
(bc) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 The Company shall be liable for and shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected, and regardless of whether a Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred, unless the Requesting Shareholder elects to pay such Registration Expenses as described in the last sentence of Section 2.01(b).
(d) A Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 one hundred eighty (180) days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder); provided, however, that a Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have occurred if, after such registration statement becomes effective, (x) 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 (y) less than 90% of the Registrable Securities included in such registration statement have been sold thereunder;
(ii) if the Maximum Offering Size is reduced in accordance with Section 2.01(e) such that less than 75% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included;
(iii) if the Requesting Shareholder determines in good faith to withdraw (prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such request) the proposed registration due to marketing or regulatory reasons;
(iv) if the registration statement relating to such request is not declared effective within ninety (90) days of the date such registration is first filed with the SEC; or
(v) if the conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement or purchase agreement entered into in connection with the registration relating to such request are not satisfied (other than as a result of a material default or breach thereunder by the Requesting Shareholder).
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholder that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any security that the Company proposes to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of that are not Registrable Securities requested (including any security for the benefit of any other Person not a party to this Agreement)) exceeds the largest number of shares that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder all Registering Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in held by each such registration by such HoldersShareholder); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities any securities proposed to be included in such registration registered by the Company (including for the benefit of any other Holder (allocated, if necessary Person not a party to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holdersthis Agreement).
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or Requesting Shareholder, the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d2.01 on one occasion during any period of six (6) consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding sixty (60) days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) the Corporation shall effect Company reasonably determines 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 registration within one year following notice the request for registrationCompany reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Centerline Holding Co), Registration Rights Agreement (Centerline Holding Co)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If on any one occasion after the earlier of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request Initial Public Offering or two (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, 2) years from the “Demand Sellers”date of this Agreement (including an occasion of registration on Form S- 1 or its then equivalent) that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act one or more Holders of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date a majority of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by shall notify the Demand Sellers Company in writing that the Corporation has been so requested it or they intend to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other offer or cause to be offered PORTIONS OF THIS EXHIBIT WERE OMITTED AND HAVE BEEN FILED SEPARATELY WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION PURSUANT TO THE COMPANY'S APPLICATION REQUESTING CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT UNDER RULE 406 OF THE SECURITIES ACT. EXECUTION COPY Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellersfor public sale, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation Company will so notify all Holders of Registrable Securities, including all Holders who have a right to register by acquire Registrable Securities. Upon written request received by the Corporation of any Holder given within 30 ten (10) business days after the receipt by such Holders Holder from the Company of such written notice given by notification, the Corporation; all Company will use its best efforts to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) cause such of the Registrable Securities as may be requested by any Holder thereof (including the Holder or Holders giving the initial notice of intent to offer) to be so registeredregistered under the Securities Act as expeditiously as possible. Promptly after The Company shall not be required to effect more than one registration pursuant to this Section 3; provided, however, that if the expiration of Company determines to include shares to be sold by it or any stockholders other than the 30-day period referred Holders in any registration requests pursuant to in paragraph (ii) this Section 3, such registration shall be deemed to have been a registration under Section 2 of this Section 5.1(a)Agreement, the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting not a registration under this Section 5.1(a3, if the Holders of Registrable Securities are unable to include in any such Registration Statement all of the Registrable Securities initially requested for inclusion in such Registration Statement, either as a result of any limitation on the registration of shares placed by the underwriters or for any other reason. The Company shall not be obligated or required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 3: (a) mayif the registration would be the Company's Initial Public Offering and does not (or in the opinion of the underwriters is not likely to) constitute a Qualified Public Offering; or (b) during the period commencing on the Company's filing of, at any time prior to and ending on the date one hundred and twenty (120) days following the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability any Registration Statement pertaining to any registration initiated by the Company, for the account of the Company, or by Company in response to the exercise of demand registration rights by other stockholders of the Company, if the written request of Holders for demand registration pursuant to this Section 3 shall have been received by providing a written the Company after the Company has given notice to all Holders of Registrable Securities stating that the Corporation revoking Company is commencing a registration; provided, however, that the Company shall use its best efforts in good faith to cause any such requestRegistration Statement to be filed and to become effective as expeditiously as shall be reasonably possible and provided further that in the case of any registration initiated by the Company in response to the exercise of demand registration rights of other stockholders of the Company, the Holders of Registrable Securities shall have been able to include in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) registration all of the Registrable Securities requested by the Holders for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2 above. A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) unless a Registration Statement with respect thereto has become been declared effective under by the Securities Act and Commission or (ii) has remained if the Registration Statement does not remain effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all beyond the effective date thereof or, with respect to an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities, until 45 days after the commencement of the distribution by the holders of the Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) Registration Statement. If a Demand registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 is deemed not to have been effected as provided herein, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect one demand registration pursuant hereto without giving effect to such requested registration. Short-Form Registration involves a Public Offering and on Form S-3. In addition to the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and rights provided to the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested in Sections 2 and 3 hereof, if one or more Holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities shall notify the Company in writing that it or they intend to offer or cause to be included offered Registrable Securities for public sale, and the Company shall determine that such registration can be effected on Form S-3 (or any similar form promulgated by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”Commission), the Corporation Company will include in such registration the largest number so notify each Holder of Registrable Securities, including each PORTIONS OF THIS EXHIBIT WERE OMITTED AND HAVE BEEN FILED SEPARATELY WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION PURSUANT TO THE COMPANY'S APPLICATION REQUESTING CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT UNDER RULE 406 OF THE SECURITIES ACT. EXECUTION COPY Holder who has a right to acquire Registrable Securities, and then will, as expeditiously as possible, use its best efforts to effect qualification and registration under the Securities that, in the opinion Act on said Form S-3 of all or such portion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested as the Holder or Holders shall specify; provided, however, that the Company will not be required to be included in such effect a registration by pursuant to this Section 4 unless the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holder or Holders on the basis of the relative number are requesting registration of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
having an aggregate expected public offering price (iibefore deduction of underwriting discounts and expenses of sale) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) at least $500,000. The Corporation Company shall not be obligated or required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d)4 during the period commencing on the Company's filing of, and ending on the Corporation shall effect such registration within date one year hundred and twenty (120) days following the effective date of, any Registration Statement pertaining to any underwritten registration initiated by the Company, for the account of the Company, if the written request of Holders for registrationsuch demand registration pursuant to this Section 4 shall have been received by the Company after the Company shall have given to all Holders of Registrable Securities a written notice stating that the Company is commencing an underwritten registration initiated by the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall use its best efforts in good faith to cause any such Registration Statement to be filed and to become effective as expeditiously as shall be reasonably possible. The obligations of the Company under this Section 4 shall expire at any time after the Company has effected three registrations for the benefit of the Holders of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Strategic Alliance Agreement (Altus Pharmaceuticals Inc.), Strategic Alliance Agreement (Altus Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of the Sponsors mayIf, at any timetime after the conclusion of the Applicable Holdback Period with respect to the First Public Offering, make the Company shall receive a written request from (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request1) both the CVC US Securityholder Representative (on behalf of one or more of the entities comprising CVC US or their Permitted Transferees) and the FP Securityholder Representative (on behalf of one or more of the entities comprising FP or their Permitted Transferees) or (2) after the first anniversary of the date hereof, (A) either the CVC US Securityholder Representative (on behalf of one or more of the entities comprising CVC US or their Permitted Transferees) or the FP Securityholder Representative (on behalf of one or more of the entities comprising FP or their Permitted Transferees) or (B) the CVC Asia Pacific Securityholder Representative (on behalf of one or more of the CVC Asia Pacific Investors or their Permitted Transferees) (either of the foregoing, a “Demand SellersRegistration”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any a portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Securityholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 15 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to each Non-Requesting Securityholder. Upon the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request Company’s giving notice of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsrequested registration, the Corporation Company will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; Requesting Securityholders and, if they are not Requesting Securityholders, any Institutional Securityholder, CVC Asia Pacific Investors, Peninsula, and each of their respective Permitted Transferees participating in such registration, then held by the Requesting Securityholders and such participating Institutional Securityholder, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 5.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class or series as that any other Shareholder requested to be registered by the Requesting Securityholders that are held by a Securityholder not covered by Section 5.01(a)(i) entitled to request the Corporation Company to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back effect an Incidental Registration pursuant to Section 5.02 (all such ShareholdersSecurityholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Securityholders, the “Holders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 15 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; Company, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. Promptly after , provided that the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request Company shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant obligated to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If effect a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and unless the managing Underwriter for such offering advises gross aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the Corporation and sale of the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities Common Shares requested to be included in such registration, Demand Registration equal or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatexceed $25,000,000 or, in the opinion case of a Shortform Registration, $5,000,000. In no event will the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not Company be required to effect any more than one Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in hereunder within any twelvefour-month period beginning on and the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant CVC Asia Pacific Securityholder Representative shall not be entitled to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request make more than two requests for registrationDemand Registrations.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Securityholders' Agreement, Securityholders’ Agreement (MagnaChip Semiconductor CORP)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of If the Sponsors may, at any time, make Company shall receive a written request by the LLC or its Permitted Transferees or DLJIP (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestrequesting Person, the “Demand Sellers”a "Selling Stockholder") that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any a portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Selling Stockholder's Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “"Demand Registration”") at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Other Stockholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation thereupon will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand SellersSelling Stockholders, then held by the Selling Stockholders; and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 5.01(e), all other Registrable Securities of the same type as that to which the request by the Selling Stockholders relates which any other Shareholder Other Stockholder entitled to request the Corporation Company to include their Registrable Securities effect an Incidental Registration (as such term is defined in a Piggy-Back Registration Section 5.02) pursuant to Section 5.02 (all such ShareholdersStockholders, together with the Demand SellersSelling Stockholders, the “"Holders”") has requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 15 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; Company, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered; provided that, subject to Section 5.01(d) hereof, the Company shall not be obligated to effect (A) more than six Demand Registrations for the LLC and its Permitted Transferees or (B) one Demand Registration for DLJIP (which Demand Registration right may not be exercised prior to the earlier of (1) five years from the Closing Date and (2) the date that is 180 days after an Initial Public Offering); and provided further that the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Common Stock to be included in such Demand Registration, in the reasonable opinion of DLJ Merchant Banking II, Inc. exercised in good faith, equals or exceeds (Y) $30,000,000 if such Demand Registration would constitute the Initial Public Offering, or (Z) $10,000,000 in all other cases. In no event will the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration within any four-month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 3015-day period referred to in paragraph (iiSection 5.01(a)(ii) of this Section 5.1(a)hereof, the Corporation Company will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers Selling Stockholders requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Holders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, in which case such request, so revoked, shall be considered a Demand Registration unless the participating Stockholders reimburse the Company for all costs incurred by the Company in connection with such registration, or unless such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(bc) The Company will pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration.
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected (i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder); provided that if after any registration statement requested pursuant to this Section becomes effective (x) 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 (y) less than 75% of the Registrable Securities included in such registration statement has been sold thereunder, such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand Registration or (ii) if the Maximum Offering Size (as defined below) is reduced in accordance with Section 5.01(e) or 5.01(f) such that less than 66 2/3% of the Registrable Securities of the Selling Stockholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an Underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises underwriter shall advise the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Selling Stockholders that, in its view, (i) the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities which the Company proposes to be included which are not Registrable Securities) or (ii) the inclusion of some or all of the Registrable Securities owned by the Demand Sellers and shares Holders, in any such case, exceeds the largest number of Registrable Securities requested to securities which can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”the "Maximum Offering Size"), the Corporation Company will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(iA) first: (1) in the case of a Demand by the LLC and its Permitted Transferees, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers Selling Stockholder and any Continuing Shareholder by all of its Permitted Transferees and CRL, DLJIP, BB, Carlyle, and the TCW Entities (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders Persons on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included registered), or (2) in the case of a Demand by DLJIP, all Securities requested to be registered by the Selling Stockholder and by all of its Permitted Transferees and BB, Carlyle, and the TCW Entities (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among such registration by such HoldersPersons on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be registered); and;
(iiB) second: (1) in the case of a Demand by the LLC and its Permitted Transferees, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration), or (2) in the case of a Demand by DLJIP, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the LLC and its Permitted Transferees and by CRL (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among such other HoldersHolders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration);
(C) third: (1) in the case of a Demand by the LLC and its Permitted Transferees, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company, or (2) in the case of a Demand by DLJIP, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration); and
(D) fourth: in the case of a Demand by DLJIP, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company.
(df) If the Company files a shelf registration statement with respect to the High Yield Warrants, the Company shall notify the holders of the Warrants at least 20 days prior to such filing. The Corporation holders of the Warrants shall have the right (which shall not be required deemed to effect any be a use of a Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(dright), by notice to the Corporation Company, to include the Warrants in such shelf registration statement. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, this Agreement shall effect not be construed to confer on any Stockholder (other than holders of Warrants in their capacity as such, together with any Persons entitled to indemnification hereunder in connection therewith) any rights in connection with such shelf registration within one year following the request for registrationstatement.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investors' Agreement (Charles River Laboratories Holdings Inc), Investors' Agreement (Charles River Laboratories Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If the Company shall receive a request from a Shareholder or group of Shareholders (the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, requesting Shareholder(s) shall be referred to herein as the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days 10 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e), all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Shareholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 2.01, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e) and 2.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholder that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration Shareholders (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register pursuant to Section 2.02, by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days seven Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered; provided, however, that, the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $10,000,000 or such lesser amount that constitutes all of the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities (provided that such lesser amount is at least $5,000,000). In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any three-month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 30seven-day Business Day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a2.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholder may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request. A request, so revoked, shall be considered to be a Demand Registration unless (i) such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company (in which case the Company shall be obligated to pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationrevoked request), or (ii) the Requesting Shareholder reimburses the Company for all Registration Expenses of such revoked request.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected, unless the Requesting Shareholder elects to pay such Registration Expenses as described in the last sentence of Section 2.01(b).
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that a Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have occurred 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 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 662/3% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholder that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder all Registering Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in held by each such registration by such HoldersShareholder); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities any securities proposed to be included in such registration registered by the Company (including for the benefit of any other Holder (allocated, if necessary Persons not party to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holdersthis Agreement).
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or Requesting Shareholder, the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d2.01 on one occasion during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 45 days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) the Corporation shall effect Company reasonably determines 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 registration within one year following notice the request for registrationCompany reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (RCS Capital Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (RCS Capital Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of the Sponsors mayIf, at any time, make time following the earlier of one hundred and eighty (180) days after the effective date of the registration statement for a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestQualified IPO, the Company shall receive a request from the Designated Holders holding at least five percent (5%) Registrable Securities then outstanding (the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration of the Registrable Securities under the Securities Act of all or any portion such Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities where the anticipated gross proceeds (before the deduction of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying discounts or commissions) would be at least US$200 million, then the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request, a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Shareholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellersregistration under this Section 1; and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 1(e) and 2, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholder that any other Shareholder entitled Shareholders with rights to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration registration under this Section 1 (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders, and any Shareholders participating in a Piggyback Registration pursuant to Section 2, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days five (5) Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the CorporationDemand Registration; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered; provided that, subject to Section 1(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than a total of three (3) Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 1. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration hereunder within any six- (6-) month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day five- (5-) Business Day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a1(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholders may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such registration is effected.
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (i1) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii2) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 one hundred and eighty (180) days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder); or
(ii) if the Maximum Offering Size is reduced in accordance with Section 1(e) so that less than fifty percent (50%) of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering an underwritten public offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholders that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder Requesting Shareholders;
(allocatedii) second, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder Registering Shareholder (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such other Holders Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each such Shareholder); and
(iii) third, any securities proposed to be registered by any other HoldersPersons (including the Company), with such priorities among them as the Company shall determine.
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if each Requesting Shareholder, the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d1 on one occasion during any period of twelve (12) consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding ninety (90) days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) an investment banking firm of recognized national standing shall advise the Corporation Company and the Requesting Shareholders in writing 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) the Company is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company.
(g) After the closing of an initial public offering, the Company shall effect use its reasonable best efforts to qualify for registration on Form F-3. At any time following one hundred and eighty (180) days after the effective date of the registration statement for a Qualified IPO and when the Company is eligible to use a Form F-3 registration statement, each Designated Holder may request the Company in writing to file a Registration Statement on Form F-3 (or any successor form to Form F-3, or any comparable form for Registration in a jurisdiction other than the United States) for a public offering of Registrable Securities (including without limitation a Registration Statement for the sale on a continuous or a delayed basis by the holders of the Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act and/or any similar rule that may be adopted by the SEC) for which the Company is entitled to use Form F-3 or a comparable form to register the requested Registrable Securities. Upon receipt of such a request the Company shall (i) promptly give written notice of the proposed registration to all other holders of Registrable Securities and (ii) as soon as practicable, and in any event within one year following hundred and twenty (120) days of the receipt of such request, cause the Registrable Securities specified in the request to be registered and qualified for registrationsale and distribution in such jurisdictions as such Designated Holder may reasonably request. Each Designated Holder may at any time, and from time to time, require the Company to effect the registration of Registrable Securities under this Section 1(g).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Shareholders Agreement (MINISO Group Holding LTD), Shareholders Agreement (MINISO Group Holding LTD)
Demand Registration. (a) Either Upon the written request of Stockholders holding an aggregate of 50% of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) outstanding Registrable Securities requesting that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion part of any such Demand Sellers’ the Registrable Securities owned by such Stockholders and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof, but subject to the limitations set forth herein, the Company will promptly (but in no event more than five business days after the receipt of such securities. The Corporation will promptly request) give written notice of such requested registration (to all other Stockholders, and the Company shall file with the Commission as promptly as practicable after sending such notice, and use its best efforts to cause to become effective, a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request registering the offering and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act sale of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; Stockholders, and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request which the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) Company has been requested the Corporation to register by any other Stockholder by written request received by given to the Corporation Company within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders giving of such written notice given by the Corporation; Company (which request shall specify the intended method of disposition of such Registrable Securities), all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofmethod thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered (a "Demand Registration"); provided, that (A) the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement pursuant to this Section 2(a) with respect to more than an aggregate of two registrations, and (B) the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement pursuant to this Section 2(a) unless the aggregate amount of Registrable Securities that any Stockholders seek to register pursuant to such Section constitutes at least 50% of all Registrable Securities held by Stockholders.
(b) If in accordance with Section 10 hereof a requested registration pursuant to this Section 2 is to be in the form of an underwritten offering through underwriters, the Company shall designate as underwriters investment banking firms of national reputation that are satisfactory to the Stockholders holding a majority of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing . If a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A requested registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration 2 involves a Public Offering an underwritten offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate Company in such Public Offering, in writing, writing that, in its viewopinion, the number of securities requested to be included in such registrationregistration (including securities of the Company which are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the number which can be sold in such offering without a significant adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the type Registrable Securities offered, the Company will (subject to the last sentence of securities this paragraph) include in such registration only the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by registration. In the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including event that the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by exceeds the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocatednumber which, if necessary not in the opinion of such managing underwriter, can be sold, then the Company will include in such registration only the number of Registrable Securities which, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, can be sold, such number to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, be allocated pro rata among such Holders all requesting Stockholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested then held by each such holder (provided, that any shares thereby allocated to any such holder that exceed such holder's request shall be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all reallocated among the remaining requesting holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on like manner). In the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on event that the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by is less than the number which, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, can be sold, the Company may include in such registration the securities the Company or any other Holders)holder of the Company's securities proposes to sell up to the number of securities that, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, can be sold without an adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the Registrable Securities offered.
(dc) The Corporation Company shall be entitled to postpone for a reasonable period of time (not to exceed 120 days, which may not thereafter be extended) the filing of any registration statement otherwise required to effect any Demand Registration if be prepared and filed by it pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof if, at the time it receives a request for such registration, the Board of Directors of the Company determines in good faith that due to business such offering will materially interfere with a pending or market conditions contemplated financing, merger, sale of assets, recapitalization or the business or financial condition other similar corporate action of the Corporation it is inappropriate at Company, in which case the Company shall have furnished to holders of Registrable Securities requesting such time registration an officers' certificate to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that effect. After such period of postponement the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation Company shall effect such registration within one year following as promptly as practicable without further request from the holders of Registrable Securities, unless such request for registrationhas been withdrawn.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Unitedglobalcom Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time after the date that is 180 days after the date hereof (or such earlier date (i) as would permit the Company to cause any filings required hereunder to be filed on the 180th day after the date hereof or (ii) as is permitted by waiver of the Sponsors mayIPO Underwriting Agreement), at any time, Person that is a Shareholder (a “Requesting Shareholder”) on the date a Demand is made shall be entitled to make a written request of the Company (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersDemand”) that the Corporation effect the for registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion an amount of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying that, when taken together with the intended method amounts of disposition of Registrable Securities requested to be registered under the Securities Act by such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration Requesting Shareholder's Affiliates, equals or is greater than the Registrable Amount (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior and thereupon the Company will, subject to the anticipated filing date terms of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securitiesthis Agreement, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; andRequesting Shareholders for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand, which may be an Underwritten Offering;
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that which the Company has been requested to register pursuant to Section 4.1(b); and
(iii) all Common Shares which the Company may elect to register in connection with any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their offering of Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholderspursuant to this Section 4.1, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation but subject to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the CorporationSection 4.1(f); all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Common Shares, if any, to be so registered. Promptly after .
(b) A Demand shall specify: (i) the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the aggregate number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be registered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to the extent then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Shareholder (or Requesting Shareholders). Within five days after receipt of a Demand, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand to any other Persons that on the date a Demand is delivered to the Company is a Shareholder, provided, however, that no notice shall be required so long as the Shareholders, together, have Beneficial Ownership of at least 40% of the Voting Power of the Company. Subject to Section 4.1(f), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by such Demand all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received a written request for inclusion therein (i) if a notice by the Company is required by this paragraph, within five days after such notice by the Company has been given, or (ii) if no notice by the Company is required by this paragraph, within five days after receipt by the Company of such Demand. Such written request shall comply with the requirements of a Demand as set forth in this Section 4.1(b).
(c) Each Shareholder shall be entitled to an unlimited number of Demand Registrations until such time as the Shareholders, together, Beneficially Own less than a Registrable Amount.
(d) Demand Registrations shall be on such appropriate registration form of the Commission as shall be selected by the Requesting Shareholders, including, to the extent permissible, an existing effective registration statement filed by the Company with the Commission, and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(e) The Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration (A) within three months of a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering in which all Shareholders were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to Section 4.2 (subject to Section 4.1(f)) and at least 50% of the number of Registrable Securities requested by such Shareholders to be included thereinin such Demand Registration were included) or (B) within three months of any other Underwritten Offering pursuant to Section 4.3(f). The Demand Sellers requesting In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Shareholders) for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 60 days in succession the filing or the effectiveness of a registration under this Section 5.1(astatement for any Demand Registration (but no more than twice, or for more than 90 days in the aggregate, in any period of 12 consecutive months) may, at any time prior to if the effective date Board determines in good faith and in its reasonable judgment that the filing or effectiveness of the registration statement relating to such registrationDemand Registration would cause the disclosure of material, revoke non-public information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential. In the event of a postponement by the Company of the filing or effectiveness of a registration statement for a Demand Registration, the holders of a majority of Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Shareholder(s) shall have the right to withdraw such request without liability to Demand in accordance with Section 4.4.
(f) The Company shall not include any securities other than Registrable Securities in a Demand Registration, except with the written consent of Shareholders participating in such Demand Registration that hold a majority of the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration. If, in connection with a Demand Registration, any managing underwriter (or, if such Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, a nationally recognized independent investment bank selected by FIG LLC, the Initial Shareholder or any of the other Holders by providing a written notice Permitted Transferees thereof (to the Corporation revoking such requestextent a Shareholder hereunder), in which case such request reasonably acceptable to the Company, and whose fees and expenses shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(bborne solely by the Company) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public OfferingCompany, in writing, that, in its viewopinion, the number inclusion of all of the securities, including securities requested of the Company that are not Registrable Securities, sought to be included registered in connection with such registration, or Demand Registration would adversely affect the type marketability of securities requested the Registrable Securities sought to be included in such registration (includingsold pursuant thereto, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by then the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration statement only such securities as the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for Company is advised by such offering, underwriter or investment bank can be sold without such adverse effect as follows and in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
following order of priority: (i) first, all Registrable Securities requested up to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration Demand Registration by such Holders); and
(ii) secondthe Shareholders, all Registrable Securities to which, in the opinion of the underwriter can be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on sold without adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, pro rata among such other Holders Shareholders requesting such Demand Registration on the basis of the relative number of shares such securities held by such Shareholders and such Shareholders that are Piggyback Sellers; (ii) second, securities the Company proposes to sell; and (iii) third, all other securities of Registrable Securities the Company duly requested to be included in such registration by statement, pro rata on the basis of the amount of such other Holders)securities requested to be included or such other method determined by the Company.
(dg) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Any time that a Demand Registration if involves an Underwritten Offering, the Board determines Company shall select the investment banker or investment bankers and managers that will serve as lead and co-managing underwriters with respect to the offering of such Registrable Securities, which shall be reasonably acceptable to Shareholders participating in good faith such Demand Registration that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition hold a majority of the Corporation it is inappropriate at Registrable Securities included in such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationDemand Registration.
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Sources: Shareholder Agreement (SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of Subject to the Sponsors maylimitations and provisions set forth in this subsection 2.1(a) and subsections 2.1(b), 2.l(c) and 2.l(d) below, at any timetime from and after the earlier of (A) June 8, make 2007 or (B) one year following the closing of the Corporation's first firm-commitment underwritten initial public offering (the "Initial Public Offering"), the Required Preferred Holders may notify the Corporation in writing that such Required Preferred Holders desire for the Corporation to cause all or a portion of such Required Preferred Holders' Registrable Securities to be registered for sale to the public under the Securities Act; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Required Preferred Holders shall not be entitled to request that the Corporation register Registrable Securities for sale to the public pursuant to this subsection 2.l(a) at any time within six months after the effective date of a registration statement filed by the Corporation in connection with a public offering in which the Preferred Holders shall have been entitled to join pursuant to this subsection 2.l(a) or subsections 2.2 or 2.3 hereof. Upon receipt of such written request (together with any by the Required Preferred Holders, the Corporation shall promptly notify in writing all other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in Holders of such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that and such other Holders shall have a period of ten Business Days following such notice from the Corporation effect to notify the Corporation in writing whether such other Holders, or any of them, desire to have Registrable Securities held by them registered for sale to the public under the Securities Act. Thereafter, subject to the conditions, limitations and provisions set forth below in this subsection 2.l(a) and in subsections 2.1(b), 2.1(c) and 2.1(d) hereof, the Corporation shall, promptly following the expiration of such ten Business Day period, prepare and file, and use its best efforts to prosecute to effectiveness, an appropriate filing with the Commission of a registration statement covering all of those Registrable Securities with respect to which registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion has been requested pursuant to this subsection 2.l(a). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this subsection 2.l(a), the Corporation shall have no obligation of any such Demand Sellers’ kind whatsoever with respect to any request to register Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying pursuant to this subsection 2.l(a) unless the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all aggregate probable gross proceeds to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the selling Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and for the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior registered for sale to the effective date public pursuant to this subsection 2.l(a) is at least $10,000,000 (as determined by the Board of Directors of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand RegistrationCorporation).
(b) A Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in subsection 2.l(a) above, the Corporation shall not be obligated to prepare or file any registration requested statement pursuant to subsection 2.l(a) hereof, or to prepare or file any amendment or supplement thereto, at any time when the Corporation, in the good faith judgment of its Board of Directors, reasonably believes that the filing thereof at the time requested, or the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant thereto, (a) would materially adversely affect a pending or proposed public offering of Common Stock, or an acquisition, merger, recapitalization, consolidation, reorganization or similar transaction, or any negotiations, discussions or pending proposals with respect thereto or (b) would materially adversely affect the business or prospects of the Corporation in view of the disclosures that may be required thereby of information about the business, assets, liabilities or operations of the Corporation not theretofore disclosed; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the filing of a registration statement, or any supplement or amendment thereto, by the Corporation may be deferred pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto subsection 2.l(b) for no longer than (i) has become effective under if such deferment is pursuant to clause (a) above, 60 calendar days after the Securities Act and abandonment or consummation of any of the foregoing proposals or transactions or (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 if such deferment is pursuant to clause (b) above, 60 calendar days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of beyond the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)time-requested.
(c) The Corporation shall be entitled to include in any registration statement filed or to be filed by the Corporation pursuant to subsection 2.l(a) above shares of Common Stock to be sold by the Corporation for its own account. If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering any offering pursuant to subsection 2.l(a) above shall be in the form of an underwritten offering, and the managing Underwriter for underwriter or underwriters of such offering advises offering, in good faith, advise the Corporation and the selling Preferred Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, writing that in its view, or their opinion the number aggregate amount of securities shares of Common Stock requested to be included in such registrationoffering (including the Registrable Securities, any shares of Common Stock to be offered for the account of the Corporation and any shares of Common Stock to be offered for the account of any other security holders of the Corporation) would materially adversely affect the success of such offering or the type price of securities the shares of Common Stock to be offered, then the Corporation shall reduce the number of shares of Common Stock to be included in such offering to the amount of Common Stock which the managing underwriter or underwriters have advised can be sold in such offering, said reduction to be effected in the following order: (x) first, any or all shares of Common Stock requested to be included in such registration (includingoffering by such other security holders of the Corporation, PRO RATA among such other stockholders in each case, proportion to the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested Common Stock sought to be included registered by such other security holders, (y) second, any or all shares of Common Stock to be sold by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders Corporation pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold and (an “Adverse Effect”)z) third, the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, any or all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration offering by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocatedHolders, if necessary not PRO RATA among the Holders in proportion to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative respective number of shares of Registrable Securities requested sought to be included in such registration registered by such the selling Preferred Holders); and
(ii) second, all . The Preferred Holders proposing to distribute Registrable Securities to be included through such underwriting shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the managing underwriter selected for such registration underwriting by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition mutual agreement of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that and the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.Required Preferred
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Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time and from time to time, a Majority-in-Interest of the Sponsors mayHolders shall have the right, at any timeby written notice (the "Demand Notice") given to the Company, make to request the Company to file with the SEC a written request (together Registration Statement with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of respect to all or any portion of the Registrable Shares held by such Holders and/or the Registrable Shares issuable upon conversion of Shares held by such Holders, as designated by such Holders. Upon receipt of any such Demand Sellers’ Notice, the Company shall promptly, but in no event more than five days after receipt thereof, notify all other Holders of the receipt of such Demand Notice and, subject to the limitations set forth below, shall include in the proposed registration all Registrable Securities Shares with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within 20 days after delivery of the Company's notice. In connection with any Demand Registration in which more than one holder of securities participates, in the event that such Demand Registration involves an underwritten offering and specifying the intended method managing underwriter or underwriters participating in such offering advise in writing the Holders of disposition Registrable Shares and the holders of other securities to be included in such offering that the total number of Registrable Shares and other securities to be included in such offering exceeds the amount that can be sold in (or during the time of) such offering without delaying or jeopardizing the success of such offering (including the price per share of the Registrable Shares and other securities to be sold), then the amount of Registrable Shares and other securities to be offered for the account of such Holders shall be reduced as follows: first, pro rata on the basis of the number of securities other than Registrable Shares and Warrant Shares requested to be registered by the holders of such securities; and second, pro rata on the basis of the number of Warrants Shares and Registrable Shares requested to be registered by the holders of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice Holders as a group shall be entitled to two Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 1; provided, that any Demand Registration that does not become effective or is not maintained for the time period required in accordance with Section 1(c) shall not count as one of such Demand Registrations, except as set forth in Section 1(f); provided, further, that if the Demanding Holders have requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to inclusion in such Demand Registration and 75% or less of the securities so requested to be included have been included, the Holders as a group shall be entitled to an additional Demand Registration hereunder on the same terms and conditions as would have applied to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholdershad such earlier Demand Registration not been made. Any Sponsor may elect Anything herein to join in the request of contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall not be required to effect a Demand Seller that Registration pursuant to this Section 1 within a period of six (6) months after the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion effective date of any Registrable Securities other Demand Registration.
(b) The Company, within 45 days of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be date on which the Company receives a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis Notice given by Holders in accordance with Section 1(a) hereof, shall file with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsSEC, and the Corporation will Company shall thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to effectcause to be declared effective within 90 days following the date the Company receives such Demand Notice, as expeditiously as possible, a Registration Statement on the appropriate form for the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholdersand sale, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereofof distribution requested by the Holders, of the total number of Registrable Shares specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a "Demand Registration").
(c) The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to keep each Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 1 continuously effective and usable for the resale of the Registrable Securities Shares covered thereby for a period of 270 days from the date on which the SEC declares such Registration Statement effective, as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 1, or in the case of a Shelf Registration, for a period of two years from the date that the SEC declares such "shelf" Registration Statement effective, or if shorter, until all the Registrable Shares covered by such Registration Statement have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement.
(d) The Company shall be entitled to postpone the filing of any Registration Statement otherwise required to be so registered. Promptly after prepared and filed by the expiration Company pursuant to this Section 1, or suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 1, for a reasonable period of time which shall be as short as practicable, but in any event not in excess of 60 days (a "Delay Period"), if the Company determines in good faith that the registration and distribution of the 30-day Registrable Shares covered or to be covered by such Registration Statement would materially interfere with any pending material financing, acquisition or corporate reorganization or other material corporate development involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or would require premature disclosure thereof and promptly gives the Holders written notice of such determination, containing a statement of the reasons for such postponement and an approximation of the period referred to of the anticipated delay; provided, however, that (i) the aggregate number of days included in paragraph all Delay Periods during any consecutive 12 months shall not exceed the aggregate of (x) 180 days minus (y) the number of days occurring during all Interruption Periods during such consecutive 12 months and (ii) a period of this Section 5.1(a)at least 60 days shall elapse between the termination of any Delay Period or Interruption Period and the commencement of the immediately succeeding Delay Period. If the Company shall so postpone the filing of a Registration Statement, the Corporation will notify all Holders of Registrable Shares to be registered shall have the right to withdraw the request for registration by giving written notice to the Company from the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Shares that were to be included registered within 45 days after receipt of the notice of postponement or, if earlier, the termination of such Delay Period. The time period for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all Delay Periods and all Interruption Periods occurring during such Registration and any extension thereof is hereinafter referred to as the "Effectiveness Period". The Company shall not be entitled to initiate a Delay Period unless it shall (A) to the extent permitted by agreements with other security holders of the Company, concurrently prohibit sales by such other security holders under registration statements covering securities held by such other security holders and (B) in accordance with the Company's policies from time to time in effect, forbid purchases and sales in the Demand Registration open market by senior executives of the other Company.
(e) The Demanding Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement Registration Statement relating to such registrationa Demand Registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request. In the event of such revocation, the Demanding Holders shall reimburse the Company for all of its out-of-pocket expenses incurred in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected connection with the preparation, filing and processing of the Registration Statement, unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) there has become effective under been a material adverse change in the Securities Act business, assets, properties, condition (financial or other), results of operations or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries, since the time of the Demand Notice, (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days such revocation was based on the Company's failure to comply in any material respect with its obligations hereunder or (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities iii) the Demanding Holders choose to count the Demand Registration as one of the Demand Registrations to which the Demanding Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunderare entitled pursuant to the penultimate sentence of Section 1(a).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
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Demand Registration. All expenses other than underwriting discounts and commissions incurred in connection with registrations, filings or qualifications pursuant to Section 1.2, including (awithout limitation) Either all registration, filing and qualification fees, printers’ and accounting fees, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, and the reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel for the selling Holders selected by them with the approval of the Sponsors mayCompany, at any timewhich approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestshall be borne by the Company; provided, the “Demand Sellers”) however, that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or Company shall not be required to pay for any portion expenses of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior proceeding begun pursuant to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
Section 1.2 if (i) the registration request was initiated by the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities then held by and the Demand Sellers that registration request is subsequently withdrawn at the Corporation has been so requested to register by request of the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) a majority of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph registered (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case all participating Holders shall bear such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant expenses in proportion to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatproposed to be registered), in unless the opinion Holders of a majority of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested agree to forfeit their right to one demand registration pursuant to Section 1.2(a)(ii)(A); (ii) the registration request was initiated by the Holders of a majority of the Series D Preferred Stock (or the Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof) and the registration request is subsequently withdrawn at the request of the Holders of a majority of the Series D Preferred Stock (or the Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof) to be included registered (in which case all participating Holders shall bear such registration by expenses in proportion to the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested proposed to be included in such registered), unless the Holders of a majority of the Series D Preferred Stock (or the Common Stock issued upon conversion of thereof) agree to forfeit their right to one demand registration by such Holderspursuant to Section 1.2(a)(ii)(B); and
(iiiii) second, all Registrable Securities the registration request was initiated by the Holders of a majority of the Series E Preferred Stock (or the Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof) and the registration request is subsequently withdrawn at the request of the Holders of a majority of the Series E Preferred Stock (or the Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof) to be included registered (in which case all participating Holders shall bear such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not expenses in proportion to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested proposed to be included registered), unless the Holders of a majority of the Series E Preferred Stock (or the Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof) agree to forfeit their right to one demand registration pursuant to Section 1.2(a)(ii)(C); (iv) the registration request was initiated by the Holders of a majority of the Series E-1 Preferred Stock (or the Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof) and the registration request is subsequently withdrawn at the request of the Holders of a majority of the Series E-1 Preferred Stock (or the Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof) to be registered (in which case all participating Holders shall bear such expenses in proportion to the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be registered), unless the Holders of a majority of the Series E-1 Preferred Stock (or the Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof) agree to forfeit their right to one demand registration pursuant to Section 1.2(a)(ii)(D); or (v) the registration request was initiated by the Holders of a majority of the Series G Preferred Stock (or the capital stock issued upon conversion thereof, determined on an as converted to Common Stock basis) and the registration request is subsequently withdrawn at the request of the Holders of a majority of the Series G Preferred Stock (or the capital stock issued upon conversion thereof, determined on an as converted to Common Stock basis) to be registered (in which case all participating Holders shall bear such other Holdersexpenses in proportion to the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be registered).
, unless the Holders of a majority of the Series G Preferred Stock (dor the capital stock issued upon conversion thereof, determined on an as converted to Common Stock basis) The Corporation agree to forfeit their right to one demand registration pursuant to Section 1.2(a)(ii)(E), provided further, however, that if at the time of such withdrawal, the Holders have learned of a material adverse change in the condition, business, or prospects of the Company from that known to the Holders at the time of their request and have withdrawn the request with reasonable promptness following disclosure by the Company of such material adverse change, then the Holders shall not be required to effect pay any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right expenses and shall retain their rights pursuant to this Section 5.1(d1.2(a)(ii)(A), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration(B), (C), (D) or (E), as applicable.
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Demand Registration. (a) Either of If the Sponsors mayCompany shall receive a request from O’Brien (in this case, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, O’Brien shall be referred to herein as the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days 10 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Shareholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 2.01, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e) and 2.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholder that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration Shareholders (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register pursuant to Section 2.02, by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days 5 Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered, provided that, the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $50,000,000. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any six-month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 305-day Business Day-period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a2.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholders may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request. A request, so revoked, shall be considered to be a Demand Registration unless (i) such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company (in which case the Company shall be obligated to pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationrevoked request), or (ii) the Requesting Shareholders reimburse the Company for all Registration Expenses of such revoked request.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected, except as set forth in Section 2.01(b).
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 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.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholder that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Requesting Shareholder (allocated, if there is more than one Requesting Shareholder and if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders entities on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each),
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder Registering Shareholder (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such other Holders Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each such Shareholder), and
(iii) third, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company or for the account of any other Holders)third party.
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or Requesting Shareholder, the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d2.01 on up to two occasions during any period of twelve consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days in the aggregate (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) the Corporation shall effect Company reasonably determines that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of such registration within one year following Company the request for registrationpreparation 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 Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company.
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Demand Registration. (a) Either Subject to any contractual obligations to the contrary, if at any time prior to the first Quarterly Exchange Date pursuant to Section 2.2(a)(iv) of the Sponsors mayExchange Agreement, at any time, make the Company shall receive a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the a “Demand SellersNotice”) from the Demand Committee that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Registrable Securities and specifying specified in the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior ), specifying the information set forth under Section 2.7(i), then the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as expeditiously as reasonably practicable, subject to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join restrictions in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect Section 2.4, the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) Committee has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; registration under this Section 2.2, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as specified) of such Registrable Securities. If the Demand Committee elects to effect a Demand Registration, the provisions of Section 2.5(a) with respect to the notices required and the determination of the number of Piggyback Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after included in a Piggyback Registration shall apply mutatis mutandis to such Demand Registration, but the expiration inclusion of the 30-day period referred such Registrable Securities pursuant to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to 2.2 shall be included in treated as part of the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the not as a Piggyback Registration hereunder.
(b) The Demand Committee may request an unlimited number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, Registrations at any time prior to the effective date first Quarterly Exchange Date pursuant to Section 2.2(a)(iv) of the registration statement relating to such registrationExchange Agreement, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice subject to the Corporation revoking such request, limitations set forth in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)2.4.
(c) Subject to the availability of an Existing Registration Statement or Form S-3 (or any successor registration form) to effect a Demand Registration, at the request of the Demand Committee, any Demand Registration shall be a shelf registration effected in accordance with Rule 415 under the Securities Act or any successor or similar rule (a “Shelf Registration”).
(d) At any time, the Demand Committee may revoke such Demand Registration request by 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, whether or not so revoked.
(e) At the request of the Demand Committee, the Demand Registration shall involve an Underwritten Public Offering. If a Demand Registration involves a an Underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Demand Committee that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of Registrable Securities and other securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares exceeds the largest number of Registrable Securities requested to Class A Shares that can be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an sold without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Demand Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatDemand Registration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Demand Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in such registration the Demand Registration by the Demand Sellers Committee and any Continuing Shareholder all Required Third-Party Piggyback Securities (allocatedallocated as between the Covered Persons that have elected to participate in such Demand Registration in the aggregate and the holders of Required Third-Party Piggyback Securities in the aggregate on a Pro Rata Basis, and further allocated among the Covered Persons participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis based on their respective Proposed Participation Amount, in each case, as and if necessary to ensure that the offering does not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such HoldersMaximum Demand Offering Size); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities any securities proposed to be included in such registration registered by the Company or any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any other Holder (allocatedpersons, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on with such priorities among them as the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)Company shall determine.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC)
Demand Registration. (a) Either The Purchasers hereby waive any and all rights they may have to request a Demand Registration (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) as provided for in Section 3 of the Sponsors mayRegistration Rights Agreement and agree that only the Sellers or their Affiliates may request a Demand Registration, until such time (if any) as the Sellers, together with their Affiliates, are no longer permitted to exercise such rights under the Registration Rights Agreement (including as the result of any sale or other Transfer of Notes or Shares to any other party), at any time, make which point such waiver shall be of no further force and effect and the Purchasers shall have all rights of a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that under Section 3 of such Sponsor includes agreement. Except as set forth in such requestthe preceding sentence and in Section 9(a) of the Assignment Agreement, the “Demand Sellers”Purchasers shall be entitled to all rights, and subject to all obligations, of a Holder (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act Registration Rights Agreement, including without limitation all rights of all or any portion of any such a Participating Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities Holder and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Participating Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join Holder (as defined in the request of Registration Rights Agreement), and a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration Purchaser under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand RegistrationExchange Agreement.
(b) A registration requested The Purchasers acknowledge that pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities 2.04 of the Holders included Notes, at the option of the Company, the Notes may be exchanged for preferred equity interests in the Company on substantially identical economic and other terms. The Purchasers agree that the Sellers shall have the right to consent to the terms of any such registration preferred equity interests as long as the economic terms remain substantially identical to the Notes, provided, that the Purchasers shall also have actually been sold thereunderthe right to consent to the terms of any such preferred equity interests if the Sellers are no longer permitted to exercise such consent right (including as the result of any sale or other Transfer of Notes or Shares to any other party).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand The Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary hereby agree not to cause an Adverse Effect on enter into any agreement which provides any rights to any purchaser of Notes or Shares with respect to the offering, pro rata among preferred equity consent rights under the Notes which are more favorable to such Holders on purchaser than the basis of rights granted to the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to Purchasers under this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration5.03.
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Sources: Purchase Agreement (Txu Corp /Tx/)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of Subject to the Sponsors maylimitations provided herein, at any timetime after the effective date of the Company's first registration statement under the Securities Act, make a upon the written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder specifying that such Sponsor includes in such requestit is being made pursuant to this Section 3.1) of one or more Holders of Restricted Securities representing 51% or more of the Restricted Securities at the time outstanding, the “Demand Sellers”) requesting that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion part of any such Demand Sellers’ Holders' Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying (x) the intended method of disposition thereof, (y) whether or not such requested registration is to be an underwritten offering, and (z) the price range (net of underwriting discount and commissions) acceptable to such securities. The Corporation Holder or Holders to be received for such Registrable Securities, the Company will promptly within ten (10) business days after the Company receives such written request give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date all other Holders of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying thereupon the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation Company will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the effect an effective registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellerssuch Holders; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request which the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) Company has been requested the Corporation to register by the other Holders thereof by written request received by given to the Corporation Company within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders giving of such written notice given by the Corporation; Company (which request shall specify the same information called for by the original request to effect registration described above), all to the extent necessary requisite to permit the disposition (in accordance with Section 3.1(b) hereof) of the intended Registrable Securities so to be registered. If the Company is required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 3.1 and the Company furnishes to the Holders of Registrable Securities requesting such registration a certificate signed by the President of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company it would be seriously detrimental to the Company and its shareholders for such registration statement to be filed on or before the date such filing would otherwise be required hereunder and it is therefore necessary to defer the filing of such registration statement, the Company shall have the right to defer such filing for a period of not more than ninety (90) days after receipt of the request for such registration from the Holder or Holders of Registrable Securities requesting such registration; provided that during such time the Company may not file a registration statement for securities to be issued and sold for its own account or that of anyone other than the Holder or Holders of Registrable Securities requesting such registration.
(b) The Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be included in such registration statement shall determine the method of distribution of the Registrable Securities so included; provided, however, that if no agreement of Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be included in such registration statement is obtained, then if Holders of thirty percent (30%) of the Registrable Securities to be included in such registration statement request an underwritten public offering, an underwritten public offering shall be the method of distribution with other methods thereofpermitted to the extent the managing underwriter for such offering, in its sole discretion, agrees to other methods of distribution being covered by such registration statement.
(c) Whenever the Company shall effect a registration pursuant to this Section 3.1 in connection with an underwritten offering, no securities other than Registrable Securities shall be included among the securities covered by such registration unless (i) the managing underwriter of such offering shall have advised each Holder of Registrable Securities to be covered by such registration in writing that the inclusion of such other securities would not adversely affect such offering or (ii) the Holders of a majority or more of all Registrable Securities to be covered by such registration shall have consented in writing to the inclusion of such other securities.
(d) Registrations under this Section 3.1 shall be on such appropriate registration form of the Commission (i) as shall be selected by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Holders of a majority or more of the Registrable Securities to be registered, and (ii) as shall permit the disposition of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the method or methods of disposition selected pursuant to Section 3.l(b).
(e) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 3.1 or in Section 3.2, all expenses incurred in connection with an effective registration pursuant to Section 3.1 and each registration pursuant to Section 3.2 (excluding in each case underwriter's discounts and commissions applicable to Registrable Securities), including, without limitation, in each case, all registration, filing and National Association of Securities Dealer fees; all fees and expenses of complying with securities or blue sky laws; all word processing, duplicating and printing expenses, messenger, delivery and shipping expenses; fees and disbursements of the accountants and counsel for the Company including the expenses of any special audits or "cold comfort" letters or opinions required by or incident to such registrations; and the reasonable fees and disbursements of one firm of counsel retained by the Holders of such Registrable Securities, premiums and other costs of policies of insurance against liabilities arising out of the public offering of the Registrable Securities, any fees and disbursements of underwriters customarily paid by issuers or sellers of securities, but excluding underwriting discounts and commissions, if any, shall be borne by the Company. In all cases, each Holder of Registrable Securities shall pay the underwriter's discounts and commissions applicable to the securities sold by such Holder.
(f) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 3.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected (i) unless a registration statement with respect thereto has become effective (unless a substantial cause of the failure of such registration statement to become effective shall be attributable to one or more Holders of Registrable Securities whose Restricted Securities were to have been included in such registration statement), (ii) if after it has become effective, such registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Commission or other governmental agency or court for any reason, resulting in a failure to consummate the offering of Registrable Securities offered thereby, (iii) if after a registration statement with respect thereto has become effective, the offering of Registrable Securities offered thereby is not consummated due to factors beyond the control of the Holders of such Registrable Securities, including without limitation in the context of a proposed firm commitment underwriting, the fact that the underwriters have advised the Holders of such Registrable Securities that such Registrable Securities cannot be sold at a net price equal to or above the net price anticipated at the time of filing of the preliminary prospectus or (iv) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied (unless a substantial cause of such conditions to closing not being satisfied shall be attributable to one or more Holders of Registrable Securities whose Registrable Securities were included in such registration statement).
(g) If a requested registration pursuant to this Section 3.1 involves an underwritten offering, the underwriter or underwriters thereof shall be selected by the Company with the approval of the Holders of a majority or more of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(bh) A If a requested registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration 3.1 involves a Public Offering an underwritten offering, and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises underwriter shall advise the Corporation and the Holders who have requested Company in writing (with a copy to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, each Person requesting registration) that, in its viewopinion, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or registration exceeds the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at number which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in such offering within a price range acceptable to the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Holders of a majority or more of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration, then the Registrable Securities requested to be registered pursuant to this Section 3.1 shall be reduced to the number of Registrable Securities which the Company is so advised can be sold in (or during the time of) such offering by first decreasing any securities to be registered on behalf of any other Person other than the Holder requesting such registration and second, but only if the number of securities to be registered by all such other Persons shall have been reduced to zero, by decreasing the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder Other Securities requested to be registered (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among the Persons requesting such Holders registration on the basis of the relative number percentage of shares Other Securities held by such Person immediately prior to the filing of the registration statement with respect to such registration) and then, to the extent necessary, by decreasing the Registrable Securities (other than the Other Securities) requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
registered (ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among the Persons requesting such other Holders registration on the basis of the relative number of shares percentage of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (other than Other Securities) held by such Person immediately prior to the filing of the registration statement with respect to such registration). In connection with any registration as to which the provisions of this clause (h) apply, no securities other Holders)than Registrable Securities shall be covered by such registration.
(di) The Corporation Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 3. 1, the Company shall not be required by this Section 3.1 to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offeringmore than one effective registration statement; provided, however, the Company shall be required by this Section 3.1 to effect, at the sole expense of the holders of Registrable Securities requesting registration (unless such registration is a demand registration exercised pursuant to the other provisions of this Section 3.1 in which case the Company will bear the expenses of such registration in accordance with Section 3.1(e)), an unlimited number of registrations on Form S-3 (or any successor similar form), provided that the Corporation may elect not Registrable Securities to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date be registered thereon are expected to have an aggregate disposition price (before deductions for underwriting discounts and commissions) of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationat least $500,000.
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Sources: Registration and Anti Dilution Rights Agreement (Edutrek Int Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of Any Cornerstone Transferee Group shall have the Sponsors mayoption and right, at any time, make exercisable by delivering a written request to the Company (together a “Demand Request”), to require the Company to, pursuant to the terms of and subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, prepare and file with any other Sponsor Holder the SEC 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 Request, which may include sales on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 pursuant to a registration statement on Form F-3 (a “Demand Registration”), as more fully set forth in Section 3.3 below. The Demand Request must set forth the number of Registrable Securities that such Sponsor includes Cornerstone Transferee Group intends to include in such requestDemand Registration and the intended methods of disposition thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, each Cornerstone Transferee Group shall have the “right to make an unlimited number of Demand Sellers”Requests pursuant to the foregoing provisions.
(b) If the Company shall receive a Demand Request from a Cornerstone Transferee Group that the Corporation effect Company file a registration statement under the Securities Act covering the registration of all or a portion of the Registrable Securities owned by such Cornerstone Transferee Group (or any member(s) thereof), then the Company shall, subject to the limitations of this Section 3.1, effect, as expeditiously as reasonably possible, the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) method of the Registrable Securities distribution thereof that such Cornerstone Transferee Group, and any Piggyback Holders pursuant to their rights under Section 3.2, request to be so registeredregistered and as set forth in such Demand Request, subject to the provisions of Section 3.1(c). Promptly after Notwithstanding the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a)foregoing, the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request Company shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A obligated to effect any such registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed 3.1 prior to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities earlier of the Holders included IPO Lock-Up Expiration Date or waiver of such 180-day period by the underwriters in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)accordance with the underwriting agreement entered into with respect to the IPO.
(c) If a Cornerstone Transferee Group (or any member(s) thereof) intends to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by its request by means of an underwritten public offering, it shall so advise the Company as a part of their request made pursuant to this Section 3.1 or any request pursuant to Section 3.3. Such Cornerstone Transferee Group shall have the right to select the investment bank or banks and managers to administer any offering made in connection with a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering Request, including the lead managing underwriter; provided, that such investment bank or banks and managers shall be reasonably acceptable to the managing Underwriter for Company; and provided further, that if the applicable Cornerstone Transferee Group declines to exercise such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its viewright, the number of securities requested Company shall select the investment bank or banks and managers to administer the offering, but the applicable Cornerstone Transferee Group shall continue to have such right pursuant to this Section 3.1(b) in any subsequent underwritten public offering.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company shall not be included in such registration, or obligated to effect a registration pursuant to Section 3.1 unless the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included registered by the Demand Sellers and shares of Cornerstone Transferee Group, together with the Registrable Securities requested to be included registered by other any Piggyback Holders pursuant to Section 5.2)3.2, would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold are reasonably expected to result in aggregate gross cash proceeds (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include without regard to any underwriting discount or commission) in such registration the largest number excess of Registrable Securities that, (x) twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) in the opinion case of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold a registration on Form F-1 or any similar or successor long-form registration or (y) ten million dollars ($10,000,000) in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effectcase of a registration on Form F-3 or any similar or successor short-form registration, each as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect based on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis VWAP as of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationDemand Request.
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Sources: Shareholder Agreement (Hygo Energy Transition Ltd.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either Upon the written request from time to time (a "REQUEST") of any of the Sponsors may, at any time, make Blackstone Entities (a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”"DEMAND PARTY") that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion part of any such Demand Sellers’ Party's Registrable Securities and specifying the amount and intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation thereof, the Company will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securitiesShareholders and, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsas expeditiously as possible, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i1) the such Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand SellersParty; and
(ii2) all other the Registrable Securities that any of other Shareholder entitled to request Shareholders which the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) Company has been requested the Corporation to register by written request received by given to the Corporation Company within 30 10 days after the receipt by such Holders giving of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to Company (which request shall specify the extent necessary to permit the amount and intended method of disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(asuch securities), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior Party shall have the right to select the effective date of managing underwriter or underwriters to administer the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders offerings covered by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registrationits Requests.
(b) A If a requested registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration 2.2 involves a Public Offering an underwritten offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate Company in such Public Offering, in writing, writing that, in its viewopinion, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or registration by the type Shareholders exceeds the largest number of securities requested to which can be included sold in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have offering without having an adverse effect on such offering, offering (including the price at which such the securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), sold) then the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest such number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by which, in the opinion of such Holders); and
(ii) secondmanaging underwriter, can be sold without having the adverse effect described above, which number shall be allocated PRO RATA among all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect requesting Shareholders based on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares Registrable Securities then held by each such requesting Shareholder. In the event that the number of Registrable Securities which the Shareholders have requested to include is less than the number of securities which, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, can be included sold in such offering without having the adverse effect referred to above, then the Company shall be entitled to include in such registration, for its own account, up to that number of securities which, in the opinion of such managing underwriter, can be sold without having the adverse result on the offering referred to above.
(c) If a requested registration by pursuant to this Section 2.2 involves an underwritten offering and the managing underwriter advises the Company that, in its opinion, certain disclosure is of material importance to the success of such other Holders)proposed offering, then the Company shall cooperate with the managing underwriter to provide such disclosure. The Company agrees to include in any registration statement all information which, in the reasonable view of counsel to the underwriters (if any) or Designated Counsel, is required to be included.
(d) The Corporation Demand Party shall not be required permitted to request that any registration under this Section 2.2 be made under Rule 415 under the Securities Act (the "SHELF REGISTRATION"). The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect any Demand such Shelf Registration and to keep it continuously effective until such date on which there are no Registrable Securities covered by such registration. During the period during which the Shelf Registration is effective, the Company shall supplement or make amendments to the Shelf Registration, if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election required by the Corporation. If Securities Act or if reasonably requested by the Corporation exercises Demand Party or an underwriter of Registrable Securities to be sold pursuant thereto, including to reflect any specific plan of distribution or method of sale, and shall use its right reasonable best efforts to have such supplements and amendments declared effective, if required, as soon as practicable after filing.
(e) The Company will pay all Registration Expenses in connection with each registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration2.2.
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Demand Registration. (ai) Either At any time and from time to time commencing sixty (60) days after the consummation of a Qualified IPO upon written notice to the Sponsors may, at any time, make Company (a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand SellersNotice”) delivered by a Qualified Stockholder or Qualified Stockholders requesting that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of any or all or any portion of any the Registrable Securities held by such Qualified Stockholder(s), the Company shall promptly (but in any event, not later than five (5) Business Days following the Company’s receipt of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying Demand Notice) give written notice of the intended method of disposition receipt of such securitiesDemand Notice to all other Stockholders that, whereupon such Sponsor to its knowledge, hold Registrable Securities (each, a “Demand Eligible Stockholder”). The Company shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its commercially reasonable best efforts, within thirty (30) days following the receipt of such Demand Notice (subject to compliance with any applicable covenants in any underwriting agreement for a previous registration), to file the appropriate Registration Statement (the “Demand Registration Statement”) and use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possibleat the earliest practicable date, the registration under the Securities Act of:
and under the applicable state securities laws of (iA) the Registrable Securities then held by which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Qualified Stockholder(s) in the Demand Sellers; and
Notice, (iiB) all other Registrable Securities of the same class or series as those requested to be registered by the Qualified Stockholder(s) that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) Company has been requested the Corporation to register by the Demand Eligible Stockholders by written request received (the “Demand Eligible Stockholder Request”) given to the Company within twenty (20) days following the receipt of such Demand Notice, and (C) any Registrable Securities to be offered and sold by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; Company, in each case subject to Section 4.2(a)(ii), all to the extent necessary required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofof disposition) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a)4.2 to the contrary, the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request Company shall not be considered a obligated to (I) effect more than two (2) Demand Registration.
Registrations in any one hundred eighty (b180)-day period, (II) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on earlier than sixty (60) days from the date of such election by effectiveness of a prior Demand Registration Statement or (III) effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations on behalf of the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationMajor Stockholders collectively.
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Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time after the occurrence of a Put Dishonor, upon the written request of the Sponsors may, at any time, make holders of a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder majority of the Registrable Securities requesting that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation State Auto Financial effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion part of any such Demand Sellers’ holders' Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method number of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request to be registered and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof (a "REGISTRATION REQUEST"), State Auto Financial will promptly, and in no event more than 10 Business Days after receipt of such securitiesRegistration Request, whereupon give written notice (a "NOTICE OF DEMAND REGISTRATION") of such Sponsor shall be deemed request to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the all other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsholders of Registrable Securities, the Corporation and thereupon will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation which State Auto Financial has been so requested to register by such holders of a majority of the Demand SellersRegistrable Securities; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled the holders of which have made written requests to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation State Auto Financial for registration thereof within 30 20 days after the receipt by such Holders giving of such written notice given by the Corporation; Notice of Demand Registration (which requests shall specify the intended method of disposition thereof), all to the extent necessary requisite to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. Promptly after If requested by the expiration holders of a majority of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in any Demand Registration, the method of disposition of all Registrable Securities included in such registration by shall be an underwritten offering effected in accordance with Section 7.04(a) hereof. Subject to paragraph (e) of this Section 7.01, State Auto Financial may include in such registration other securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person. If any security holders of State Auto Financial (other than the holders of Registrable Securities in such capacity) register securities of State Auto Financial in a Demand Sellers Registration in accordance with this Section 7.01, such holders shall pay the fees and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, expenses of their counsel and their pro rata among such Holders share, on the basis of the relative number respective amounts of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be the securities included in such registration by on behalf of each such Holders); and
(ii) secondholder, all Registrable Securities to be included in of the Registration Expenses if the Registration Expenses for such registration are not paid by State Auto Financial for any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)reason.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
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Sources: Standby Purchase Agreement (State Auto Financial Corp)
Demand Registration. After the occurrence of an Exercise Event (aas such term is defined in the Warrant Agreement), the holders of a number of Warrants, Warrant Shares 9 and Registrable Securities (the "Subject Equity") Either equivalent to at least a majority of the Sponsors mayoutstanding Subject Equity, at any from time to time, may make a written request to the Company to effect up to two registrations (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requesteach, the “a "Demand Sellers”Registration") that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securitiesSubject Equity. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 Within 20 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by request for a Demand Registration, the Corporation; Company shall (i) notify the Holders of all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph Subject Equity that a Demand Registration has been requested, (ii) of this Section 5.1(a)prepare, file with the Corporation will notify all the Holders SEC and use its best efforts to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested cause to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act within 150 days of such demand a Registration Statement with respect to such Subject Equity and (iiiii) has remained keep such registration statement continuously effective for a until the earlier to occur of (A) the date that is 60 days after such effectiveness (the "Effectiveness Period") and (B) such period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which time as all Registrable Securities of the Holders Subject Equity included in such registration statement shall have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for . Any such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, request will specify the number of securities requested shares of Subject Equity proposed to be sold and will also specify the intended method of disposition thereof. Within 30 days after receipt by any Holder of Subject Equity of such notice from the Company, such Holder may request in writing that such Holder's Subject Equity be included in such registration, or Registration Statement and the type Company shall include in such Registration Statement the Subject Equity of securities any such Holder requested to be so included in (the "Included Securities"). Each such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included request by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders shall specify the number of Included Securities proposed to be sold and the intended method of disposition thereof. Subject to Sections 2.1(b) and 2.1(f) hereof, the Company shall be required to effect a Demand Registration of Subject Equity pursuant to this Section 2.1(a) up to a maximum of two occasions. If such demand occurs during the "lock up" or "black out" period (not to exceed 180 days) imposed on the basis Company pursuant to or in connection with any underwriting or purchase agreement relating to an underwritten Rule 144A or registered public offering of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock, the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation Company shall not be required to effect any so notify holders of Subject Equity and file such Demand Registration if Statement prior to the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date end of such election "lock up" or "black out" period, in which event the Company will use its best efforts to cause such Demand Registration statement to become effective no later than the later of (i) 150 days after such demand or (ii) 30 days after the end of such "lock up" or "black out" period. In the event of any "lock up" or "black out" period or any underwriting or other purchase agreement, the Company shall so notify the holders of Registrable Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in lieu of filing and causing to become effective a Demand Registration, the Company may satisfy its obligation with respect to such Demand Registration by making and consummating (or having its designee make and consummate) an offer to purchase all Subject Equity at a price at least equal to Current Market Value (as defined in the Corporation. If Warrant Agreement, but without the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(dinclusion of clause (i)(a) thereof), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationless any applicable Exercise Price.
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Sources: Warrant Registration Rights Agreement (Dti Holdings Inc)
Demand Registration. (aA) Either Request for Registration. As used in this Agreement, "Restricted Stock" shall mean all shares of Common Stock received by the Holders pursuant to the Stock Exchange Agreement, dated as of May 21, 1997, by and among the Company, HAM Marine, Inc., ▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Ltd. and each of the Sponsors mayHolders, together with any securities issued or issuable with respect to any such Common Stock by way of stock dividend or stock split or in connection with a combination of shares, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other reorganization or otherwise. As to any particular issued Restricted Stock, such securities shall cease to be Restricted Stock when (i) a registration statement with respect to the sale of such securities shall have become effective under the Securities Act and such securities shall have been disposed of in accordance with such registration statement, (ii) such securities shall have been distributed by the Holders to the public pursuant to Rule 144 (or any successor provision) under the Securities Act, (iii) such securities shall have been otherwise transferred by the Holders, new certificates representing the transferred securities not bearing a legend restricting further transfer shall have been delivered by the Company to the transferees thereof the and subsequent disposition of such securities shall not require registration or qualification of such securities under the Securities Act or any similar state law then in force, (iv) such securities shall have ceased to be outstanding, or (v) the Holders thereof shall agree in writing that such Restricted Stock shall no longer be Restricted Stock. The Holders and any permitted assignee of any of the Holder's rights and duties hereunder are referred to herein as the "Holders" and a Holder selling or distributing Restricted Stock pursuant hereto is referred to herein as a "selling Holder." Subject to the conditions and limitations set forth in Section 5 of this Agreement, at any timetime and from time to time after the limitation period referred to in Section 1, the Holder or Holders of Restricted Stock holding in the aggregate Twenty Percent (20%) of the number of shares of Restricted Stock then outstanding may make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the for registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion part of any such its or their Restricted Stock pursuant to this Section 2 ("Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities Registration"), provided that the number of shares of Restricted Stock proposed to be sold or distributed shall be at least Twenty Percent (20%) of the aggregate number of shares of Restricted Stock then outstanding. Such request will specify the aggregate number of shares of Restricted Stock proposed to be sold or distributed and specifying will also specify the intended method of disposition thereof. Within ten (10) business days after receipt of such securities. The Corporation request, the Company will promptly give written notice of such requested registration request to all other Holders of Restricted Stock and include in such registration all Restricted Stock with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within fifteen (a “Demand Registration”15) at least 30 business days prior to after the anticipated filing date receipt by the applicable Holder of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back ShareholdersCompany's notice. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in Each such request will also specify the aggregate number of shares of Restricted Stock to be registered and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof. No other party, including the Company (but excluding another Holder of such securitiesRestricted Stock), whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed permitted to be a offer securities under any such Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with Registration unless the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holder or Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in requesting the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating consent thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Friede Goldman International Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time after the 12 month anniversary of the Sponsors mayfinal Warrant Date and provided the Registrable Securities, at upon exercise, are not otherwise qualified for sale under an exemption available under the Securities Act, holders of an aggregate of 50% of all outstanding Placement Agent Warrants may exercise their "DEMAND REGISTRATION RIGHTS" as described herein for registration covering the public sale of Registrable Securities hereunder. As soon as practicable thereafter, the Company shall use its best efforts to file a registration statement with respect to the Registrable Securities which holders have requested to be registered and obtain the effectiveness thereof, and to take all other action necessary under any timefederal or state law or regulation to permit such Registrable Securities to be sold or otherwise disposed of, make and the Company shall maintain such compliance with each such federal and state law and regulation for the period necessary for such holders to effect the proposed sale or other disposition; PROVIDED THAT the Company shall have the right to delay such registration under certain circumstances for up to 90 days during any 12 month period. The Company shall be required to effect one registration or qualification pursuant to this Section 5.2, and shall not be obligated to effect a written request (together registration during the six month period commencing with the date of any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ in which Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so were registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested The managing underwriter and the co-manager (if any), and the independent price required under the rules of the NASD (if any), of the offering pursuant to any registration under this Section 5.1 5.2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless selected and obtained by the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)Company.
(c) The Company may delay any registration under this Section 5.2 for not more than 90 days if management determines in good faith that such delay is necessary to consummate a pending transaction, If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises registration is delayed, management will notify the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate holders of Placement Agent Warrants within three weeks after receipt of notice specified in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion 5.2(a) of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation delay but shall not be required to effect provide any Demand Registration if information to any holder regarding the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions existence or the business or financial condition nature of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registrationpending transactions.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Placement Agent Warrant Agreement (Coronado Industries Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of At any time during the Sponsors mayfive year period following the Closing Date, at any time, one or more Requesting Purchasers may make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”"DEMAND NOTICE") that the Corporation effect the for registration under the Securities Act (a "DEMAND REGISTRATION") of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Registrable Securities held by such Requesting Purchasers. The Demand Notice will specify the number of shares of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold and specifying will also specify the intended method of disposition thereof. Following receipt of a Demand Notice from such securities. The Corporation Requesting Purchasers, the Company promptly will promptly give written notice of such the requested registration (to all other Purchasers, and will thereafter file a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or on any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation appropriate form which will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
cover (i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
such Requesting Purchasers and (ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) Company has been requested the Corporation to register by any other Purchasers by written request received by given to the Corporation Company within 30 15 days after the receipt by such Holders Company's giving of such written notice given by of the CorporationRequesting Purchasers' requested registration. Unless each Participating Purchaser shall consent in writing, no party (including the Company) other than any Purchaser, USAA Real Estate Company ("REALCO") or La Salle Advisory Limited Partnership ("LASALLE") shall be 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 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; all to provided, however that if, after such Registration Statement has become effective, the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration such registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the 30-day period referred 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). Participating Purchasers holding in paragraph (ii) excess of this Section 5.1(a), 50% of the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Registrable Securities covered by a Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, may at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement Registration Statement relating to such registration, registration revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders a Demand Notice by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, Company (in which case such request Demand Registration shall not be considered a count as one of the three Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested Registrations). If Participating Purchasers holding in the aggregate in excess of 50% of the Registrable Securities covered by the Demand Registration so elect, the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) shall be in the form of an Underwritten Offering. If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering the managing underwriter or underwriters of such offering advise the Company and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate Participating Purchasers in such Public Offering, writing that in writing, that, in its view, their opinion the number of securities Registrable Securities and shares of Realco or LaSalle, if any, requested to be included in such registration, or offering is sufficiently large to materially and adversely affect the type success of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation Company will include in such registration the largest aggregate number of Registrable Securities thatand shares of Realco or LaSalle, if any, requested to be included which in the opinion of the such managing Underwriter for such offering, underwriter or underwriters can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in any such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offeringmaterial adverse effect; provided, however, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date no Registrable Securities or shares of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d)Realco or LaSalle, the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.if any, may
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (American Industrial Properties Reit Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either At any time after the occurrence of a Put Dishonor, upon the written request of the Sponsors may, at any time, make holders of a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder majority of the Registrable Securities requesting that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation State Auto Financial effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion part of any such Demand Sellers’ holders' Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method number of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request to be registered and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof (a "Registration Request"), State Auto Financial will promptly, and in no event more than ten (10) Business Days after receipt of such securitiesRegistration Request, whereupon give written notice (a "Notice of Demand Registration") of such Sponsor shall be deemed request to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the all other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requestsholders of Registrable Securities, the Corporation and thereupon will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation which State Auto Financial has been so requested to register by such holders of a majority of the Demand SellersRegistrable Securities; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled the holders of which have made written requests to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation State Auto Financial for registration thereof within 30 20 days after the receipt by such Holders giving of such written notice given by the Corporation; Notice of Demand Registration (which requests shall specify the intended method of disposition thereof), all to the extent necessary requisite to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. Promptly after If requested by the expiration holders of a majority of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in any Demand Registration, the method of disposition of all Registrable Securities included in such registration by shall be an underwritten offering effected in accordance with Section 7.4(a) hereof. Subject to paragraph (e) of this Section 7.1, State Auto Financial may include in such registration other securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person. If any security holders of State Auto Financial (other than the holders of Registrable Securities in such capacity) register securities of State Auto Financial in a Demand Sellers Registration in accordance with this Section 7.1, such holders shall pay the fees and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, expenses of their counsel and their pro rata among such Holders share, on the basis of the relative number respective amounts of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be the securities included in such registration by on behalf of each such Holders); and
(ii) secondholder, all Registrable Securities to be included in of the Registration Expenses if the Registration Expenses for such registration are not paid by State Auto Financial for any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)reason.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Standby Purchase Agreement (State Auto Financial Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If at any time following the earlier of (x) 180 days after the effective date of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request registration statement for the First Public Offering and (together with y) the expiration of the period during which the managing underwriters for the First Public Offering shall prohibit the Company from effecting any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestpublic sale or distribution of Company Securities, the Company shall receive a joint request from the Quadrangle Entities and the CVC Entities (the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request, a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days 15 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Management Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Requesting Shareholders have requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 5.01, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 5.01(e) and 5.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholders that any other Shareholder entitled Shareholders with rights to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration registration under Section 5.02 (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days 15 Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered, provided that, subject to Section 5.01(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than three Demand Registrations for the Institutional Shareholders, other than Demand Registration to be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any successor thereto), for which an unlimited number of Demand Registrations shall be permitted; provided further that the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $15,000,000. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any six-month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 3015 Business Day-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a5.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholders may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, .
(c) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in which case such request shall not be considered a connection with any Demand Registration.
(bd) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 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 5.01(e) such that less than 66 2/3% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholders that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder Institutional Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders entities on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each),
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder Registering Shareholder (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such other Holders Management Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each such Shareholder), and
(iii) third, any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any other HoldersPersons (including the Company), with such priorities among them as the Company shall determine.
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if each Requesting Shareholder, the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d5.01 on one occasion during any period of twelve consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) an investment banking firm of recognized national standing shall advise the Corporation shall effect Company and the Requesting Shareholders in writing 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 registration within one year following notice the request for registrationCompany reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company.
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Demand Registration. Subject to clause (ai) Either of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestbelow, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the Investor may request registration under the Securities Act (a "Demand Registration") of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ the Registrable Securities and specifying on Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration (a "Short Form Registration"). The Investor's request for a Demand Registration shall specify the intended method approximate number of disposition Registrable Securities requested to be registered. Within ten days after receipt of such securities. The Corporation request, the Company will promptly give written notice of such requested registration to all other security holders and will include in such registration the Registrable Securities and such other securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within 15 days after the receipt of the Company's notice.
(a “i) The Company shall not be required to effect the Demand Registration”Registration contemplated by this Section 2(a) at least 30 days prior unless the Company and the transaction proposed to be registered are eligible for Short Form Registration providing for automatic incorporation by reference of reports filed pursuant to the anticipated filing date Exchange Act. The Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make a Short-Form Registration available for the sale of the registration statement relating Registrable Securities. After the Company has qualified for the use of a Short-Form Registration and for so long as the Investor owns any Registrable Securities, the Investor shall be entitled to request one Short-Form Registration. The Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the effectiveness of such Demand Short Form Registration at all times until the earliest to occur of (i) the sale of all of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the other Sponsor Holders and Registration Statement, (ii) the date on which all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect of the Registrable Securities become eligible for sale within a three (3) month period pursuant to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration Rule 144 under the Securities Act and (iii) the date on which the shares of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities are transferred to any Person other than an Affiliate of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method Investor (the latest of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed which to occur to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with known as the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and"Termination Date").
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (ifor purposes of Section 2(a)(i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followshereof if:
(iA) firstsuch registration does not become effective and remain effective until the Termination Date, all without interference by the issuance by the SEC of any stop order with respect thereto or any other order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or prospectus;
(B) the registration or qualification for the offer or sale of the Registrable Securities requested in any jurisdiction is suspended for any reason or proceedings for any such purpose are initiated or threatened;
(C) the Investor withdraws its request for registration in its entirety at any time because the Investor reasonably believed that the Registration Statement or any prospectus related thereto contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be included stated therein or necessary to make the statements made therein (in the case of any prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, notified the Company of such fact and requested that the Company correct such alleged misstatement or omission, and the Company has refused to correct such alleged misstatement or omission;
(E) the Company fails to comply with the provisions of this Agreement or any other agreement, document or instrument entered into in connection with such required registration, other than by reason of some act or omission by the holders of the Registrable Securities that were to have been registered and sold; or
(F) such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary does not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration become effective within one year following hundred eighty (180) days after filing with the request for registrationSEC.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Nstor Technologies Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either For a period of five (5) years from the closing of the Sponsors mayPublic Offering, any "Majority Holder" (as such term is defined in Section 7.4(d) below) of the Registrable Securities shall have the right (which right is in addition to the piggyback registration rights provided for under Section 7.3 hereof), exercisable by written notice to the Company (the "Demand Registration Request"), to have the Company prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on one occasion, at the sole expense of the Company (excluding fees and expenses of the Majority Holder's counsel and any timeunderwriting or selling commissions), make a written request Registration Statement and such other documents, including a prospectus, as may be necessary (together in the opinion of both counsel for the Company and counsel for such Majority Holder) in order to comply with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the registration under provisions of the Securities Act Act, so as to permit a public offering and sale of the Registrable Securities by the Holders thereof for nine (9) consecutive months.
(b) The Company covenants and agrees to give written notice of any Demand Registration Request to all or any portion Holders of the Registrable Securities within ten (10) days from the date of the Company's receipt of any such Demand Sellers’ Registration Request. After receiving notice from the Company as provided in this Section 7.4(b), Holders of Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation Company to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back the Registration Statement to be filed pursuant to Section 7.4(a) hereof by notifying the Company of their decision to have such securities included within ten (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”10) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the of their receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)Company's notice.
(c) If In addition to the registration rights provided for under Section 7.3 hereof and subsection (a) of this Section 7.4, for a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and period of five (5) years from the managing Underwriter for such offering advises closing of the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, any Holder of Registrable Securities shall have the right, exercisable by written request to the Company, to have the Company prepare and file with the Commission, on one occasion in writingrespect of such Holders of Registrable Securities, thata Registration Statement so as to permit a public offering and sale of such Registrable Securities for nine (9) consecutive months, in its viewprovided, however, that all costs incident thereto shall be at the number expense of securities requested to be the Holders of the Registrable Securities included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares Registration Statement. If a Holder of Registrable Securities requested shall give notice to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares Company at any time of Registrable Securities requested its or their desire to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including exercise the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right granted pursuant to this Section 5.1(d7.4(c), then within ten (10) days after the Corporation Company's receipt of such notice, the Company shall effect give notice to the other Holders of Registrable Securities advising them that the Company is proceeding with such registration within one year following and offering to include therein the Registrable Securities of such Holders, provided they furnish the Company with such appropriate information in connection therewith as the Company shall reasonably request for registrationin writing. The Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 7.4(c) may include other securities of the Company which are held by officers or directors of the Company, or which are held by persons who, by virtue of agreements with the Company, are entitled to include their securities in such Registration Statement.
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Demand Registration. (a) Either of Upon the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that of one or more holders of Warrant Shares, which request will state the intended method of disposition by such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) holders and will request that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion part of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition Warrant Shares of such securities. The Corporation will promptly holders, the Company will, within 10 days after receipt of such request, give written notice of such requested registration to all registered holders of Warrant Shares, Series A Securities, Series B Securities and Series C Securities, and thereupon (a “Demand Registration”except as expressly provided herein) at least 30 days prior will use its best efforts to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration ("Demand Registration") under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes (x) the Warrant Shares included in such the initial request and specifying for registration (for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition of stated in such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
request) and (i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(iiy) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholdersshares of Series A Registerable Common Stock, together with the Demand Sellersshares of Series B Registerable Common Stock and shares of Series C Registerable Common Stock, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by holders of which have made written request received by to the Corporation Company for registration thereof within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given from the Company, provided that:
(a) the Company shall be required to effect only two Demand Registrations hereunder, each of which must be initially requested by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) holders of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period record of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities a majority of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and Warrant Shares outstanding at the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion time of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in request; provided that the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation Company shall not be required to effect more than one registration during any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelveone-month year period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d)5.1, Paragraph 7(a) of the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following Series A Agreement, Section 7.1 of the Series B Agreement or Section 7.1 of the Series C Agreement;
(b) if the holders of Warrant Shares who initiated the request for registration.registration intend to sell their Warrant Shares by means of an underwriting (whether on a "best efforts" or a "firm commitment" basis), they shall so advise the Company as part of their request, and the Company shall include such information in the notice to the holders of Series A Securities, Series B Securities and Series C Securities. In that event, the other holders of Warrant Shares, Series A Securities, Series B Securities and Series C Securities shall have the right to include their Warrant Shares or shares of Series A Registerable Common Stock, Series B Registerable Common Stock and Series C Registerable Common Stock in the underwriting (unless otherwise mutually agreed by a majority in interest of the holders of the Warrant Shares, Series A Securities, Series B Securities and Series C Securities). The managing underwriter for such offering shall be selected by the Board of
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Sources: Common Stock Warrant (Apollon Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If the Company shall receive a notice from either UDCL or one or more Somerset Group Members whose collective Aggregate Ownership of Shares (direct and/or indirect) is not less than 15% of the Sponsors maytotal outstanding Shares of the Company, at any timecalculated on a Fully-Diluted basis (UDCL or such requesting Somerset Group Members (acting as a group), make as the case may be, a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request"REQUESTING SHAREHOLDER"), the “Demand Sellers”) requesting that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Shareholder's Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of thereof (each such securities. The Corporation will request, a "DEMAND REGISTRATION," any Demand Registration by such requesting Somerset Group Members, a "SOMERSET DEMAND REGISTRATION" and any Demand Registration by UDCL, a "UDCL DEMAND REGISTRATION"), then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) Registration at least 30 days 15 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereafter shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possiblepossible but in any event within 60 days after the Demand Registration date, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) all Registrable Securities for which the Requesting Shareholders have requested registration under this Section 5.01, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 5.01(f) and 5.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholders that any Shareholders with rights to request registration under Section 5.02 (all such Shareholders, together with the Requesting Shareholders, the "REGISTERING SHAREHOLDERS") have requested the Company to register by request received by the Company within 15 Business Days after such Shareholders receive the Company's notice of the Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities then held by so to be registered; provided that, subject to Section 5.01(e), the Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Sellers Registration (on any form) during a Lock-Up Period or more than (i) one Demand Registration (on any form) in any 6-month period (other than Demand Registrations pursuant to a Shelf Registration, with respect to which the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than one Demand Registration (on any form) in any 3-month period), (ii) 2 UDCL Demand Registrations on Form S-1 or (iii) 2 Somerset Demand Registrations on Form S-1 (it being understood that clauses (ii) and (iii) shall not limit the Corporation has been so ability of UDCL or the Somerset Group Members as Requesting Shareholders, to request an unlimited number of Demand Registrations on Form S-3 in accordance with the other provision of this Section 5.01(a)). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be required to effect any Demand Registrations unless the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to register by be included in such Demand Registration meets the Minimum Value.
(b) Subject to Section 5.01(a), if at any time after the Company is eligible to file a registration statement on Form S-3, any Requesting Shareholder makes a Demand Sellers; Registration to effect a Shelf Registration, then the Company shall promptly give notice of such Demand Registration at least 15 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Shelf Registration to the other Shareholders and thereupon shall use its best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible but in any event within 60 days after such Demand Registration date, the Shelf Registration of:
(i) all Registrable Securities for which the Requesting Shareholders have requested registration under this Section 5.01(b), and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested by the Requesting Stockholders that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has Registering Shareholders have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.Section
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Demand Registration. (a) Either of At any time commencing six (6) months after the Sponsors mayPublic Offering, at any time, the Selling Shareholders may make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation effect the for registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) part of the Registrable Securities owned by the Selling Shareholders (a "Demand Registration"), PROVIDED that the Company shall not be obligated to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph effect (i) any Demand Registration covering less than 160,000 Registrable Shares, (ii) more than one Demand Registration pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.1(a2.1 in any twelve-month period and (iii) more than two Demand Registrations during the term of this Agreement, one of which may be exercised by ▇▇▇▇▇ International Trust LLC and one of which may be exercised by holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities at the time owned by the Selling Shareholders other than ▇▇▇▇▇ (the "Non-▇▇▇▇▇ Selling Shareholders"), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the . Any request for a Demand Registration of will specify the other Holders and the aggregate number of shares of Registrable Securities requested proposed to be included thereinsold by the Selling Shareholders making the demand and will also specify the intended method of disposition thereof. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) mayIf the demand by Non-▇▇▇▇▇ Selling Shareholders is made by less than all of the Non-▇▇▇▇▇ Selling Shareholders, at the Company shall give notice promptly of such demand to those Non-▇▇▇▇▇ Selling Shareholders that have not participated in such demand. If any time such Non-▇▇▇▇▇ Selling Shareholders notify the Company prior to the effective date filing of the any registration statement relating pursuant to such demand that they wish to include some or all of their Registrable Shares in such registration, such persons shall be considered Demanding Selling Shareholders (as defined herein) with respect to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration will not count as a Demand Registration until it has become effective. In addition, if more than 50% of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall 2.1 are excluded from the offering in accordance with Section 2.3, such offering will not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for count as a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder)Demand Registration.
(c) If a the offering of such Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and is an underwritten offering, the Selling Shareholders making such demand shall select the book-running managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested any additional investment bankers and managing Underwriters to be included used in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on connection with the offering, pro rata among PROVIDED that such Holders on Underwriters and investment bankers must be reasonably satisfactory to the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)Company.
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Jones International Networks LTD /Co/)
Demand Registration. (a) Either If one Shareholder or a group of Shareholders holding not less than 20% of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request then Registrable Securities (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders”) request that the Corporation effect the Company file a registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration statement (a “Demand Registration”) and the Company is not eligible to use Form S-3 (or a successor to Form S-3) in connection with the resale of the Registrable Securities to be sold pursuant to the registration statement, the Company: (i) shall promptly give notice thereof at least 30 days ten Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to all Shareholders (not including the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Demand Requesting Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the ); (ii) shall file such registration statement under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities within 60 days after the occurrence of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request request; and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor (iii) thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i1) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e), all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Requesting Shareholders have requested to register by the Demand Sellersregistration under this Section 2.01; and
(ii2) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e), all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Demand Requesting Shareholders that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration Shareholders (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 seven days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) method of disposition specified by the Registering Shareholders of the Registrable Securities Securities) so to be so registered. .
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 30seven-day period referred to in paragraph clause (ii) of this Section 5.1(a2.01(a)(2), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Demand Requesting Shareholders (by majority vote) may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request. A request, so revoked, shall be considered to be a Demand Registration unless (i) such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company (in which case the Company shall be obligated to pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such request shall not be considered a revoked request), or (ii) the Demand RegistrationRequesting Shareholders or any other Shareholder or Shareholders reimburse the Company within thirty (30) days of such revocation for all Registration Expenses of such revoked request.
(bc) A registration requested pursuant The Company shall be liable for and shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected, unless the Demand Requesting Shareholders elects to this pay such Registration Expenses as described in the last sentence of Section 5.1 2.01(b).
(d) Except as provided in Section 2.01(b), a Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(1) unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act Act, and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that a Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have occurred 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 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
(2) if the Maximum Offering Size is reduced in accordance with Section 2.01(e) such that less than a majority of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) The Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration within 90 days after the effective date of a previous Piggyback Registration in which holders of Registrable Securities were permitted to register, and actually sold, seventy-five percent (75%) of the shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. If a Demand Registration involves an underwritten Public Offering, the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be sold in the Public Offering shall select the investment banking firm or firms to act as the managing underwriter or underwriters in connection with such Public Offering, subject to consent of the Company, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. If a Demand Registration involves an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Registering Shareholders that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i1) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder all Registering Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares Registrable Securities held by each such Shareholder); and
(2) second, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company (including for the benefit of any other Persons not party to this Agreement).
(f) Upon notice to the Registering Shareholders, the Company may postpone effecting a Demand Registration (including an Underwritten Takedown) pursuant to this Section 2.01 on one occasion during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) the Company reasonably determines that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Company the preparation of which had then been commenced, (ii) the Company reasonably believes that effecting the registration would render the Company unable to comply with, or cause a violation of, applicable securities laws, or (iii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company, including due to any proposed or pending material corporate reorganization or other material corporate transaction involving the Company.
(g) Notwithstanding anything that may be to the contrary in this Article 2, if the Common Shares are then listed on a national securities exchange and Rule 144 is available in connection with a sale of Registrable Securities, then the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by Demand Registration equals or exceeds $20,000,000 or such Holders); and
(ii) second, lesser amount that constitutes all the Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number Demand Requesting Shareholders (provided that such lesser amount is at least $10,000,000) or all of shares of the Registrable Securities requested then outstanding. Notwithstanding anything that may be to be included the contrary in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation this Article 2, the Company shall not be required to effect (A) more than one registration pursuant to Section 2.01 hereunder within any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelvesix-month period beginning on period, or (B) more than three Demand Registrations hereunder in the date of such election by aggregate.
(h) Notwithstanding anything that may be to the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to contrary in this Section 5.1(d)Article 2, the Corporation Company shall effect such registration within one year following not be obligated to register any Registrable Securities unless the request for registrationholder thereof has notified the Company in writing of its intended method of distribution in a timely manner.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Behringer Harvard Multifamily Reit I Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of Subject to the Sponsors mayconditions set forth below in this Section 2 and also to the conditions set forth in Section 3 hereof, at any time on and after ________________, 1996 but on or before _________________, 2001 the Company will at any time, make upon the written request of any Investor, prepare and file and use its best efforts to cause to become effective a registration statement on Securities and Exchange Commission Forms S-1 or S-3 or any similar form then in effect ("Registration Statement") complying with the Securities Act covering such number of Registrable Securities as shall be specified in the Investor's written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requesta "Demand Registration"). Each Demand Registration request shall, subject to Section 3(b) hereof, specify whether the registration shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3, the “total aggregate number of the Registrable Securities proposed to be sold and the proposed method of distribution; provided, however, that subject to Section 3(b) hereof, the Company is required to effect not more than two (2) Demand Sellers”Registrations on Form S-1 during the term of this Agreement.
(b) that Within three (3) business days of receipt of a Demand Registration request under Section 2(a) from any Investor, the Corporation effect Company shall notify all other Investors at their respective addresses as shown on the books of the Company of a proposed registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws and such Investors shall have the opportunity for a period of all or any portion ten (10) business days after receipt of any such Demand Sellers’ notice to notify the Company in writing of their intention to have included in such registration such number of Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor as shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellersspecified in their response. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
Within three (i3) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 business days after the receipt by such Holders expiration of such written notice given ten (10) business day period, the Company will notify all the Investors to be included in such registration of the other holders and the number of Registrable Securities to be included therein.
(c) At the election of the Investor requesting the Demand Registration, the offering or distribution of Registrable Securities so registered shall be pursuant to a firm commitment underwriting. The managing underwriter shall be an investment banking firm selected by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (holders of a majority in accordance with the intended methods thereof) aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after registered by the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a)selling Investors, the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior but subject to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registrationCompany's approval, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request approval shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have unreasonably withheld. The Company will enter into an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.underwriting agreement
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Demand Registration. (a) Either 6.1. Upon the written request of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) and/or Permitted Transferee that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation Option Shares, the Company will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior use its best efforts to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been Option Shares so requested to register be registered. However, the Company shall have no obligation to effect more than two (2) registrations of the Option Shares.
6.2. Whenever the Company shall effect a registration pursuant to this Section 6 in connection with an offering by one or more holders of registrable securities, no securities other than registrable securities or securities issuable pursuant to that certain Warrant to Purchase Common Stock (35,000 shares) dated [**], issued to [**] shall be included among the securities covered by such registration unless the managing underwriter, if any, of such offering shall have advised each selling holder of registrable securities to be covered by such registration in writing that the inclusion of such other securities would not adversely affect such offering. In addition, if any of the registrable securities covered by such registration are to be sold in an underwritten offering, any other person who wishes to include his securities in the registration must agree in writing to sell his securities on the same terms and conditions as apply to the registrable securities being sold.
6.3. Registration by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration Company under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date shall be on such appropriate registration form of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") as shall be selected by the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand RegistrationCompany.
(b) A 6.4. The Company will pay all registration costs and expenses in connection with any registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 by each of the Holder or the Permitted Transferee which obligation of the Company to pay all registration costs and expenses shall not be deemed to have been effected unless exceed two (2) registrations. Such registrations may include the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act Option Shares and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities other registrable shares of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering Company. The cost of any and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion all subsequent registrations of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.Option
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Demand Registration. Subject to Section 2.3 at any time and from time to time after ninety (a90) Either days after the Closing Date, the Holders of a majority in interest of the Sponsors may, at any time, then-outstanding number of Registrable Securities shall have the right to make a written request (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand Sellers”) that the Corporation demand to effect the one or more registration statements under the Securities Act covering all of their Registrable Securities (the “Demanding Holders”), by delivering a written demand therefor to the Company, 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. Any such request by any Demanding Holder pursuant to this subsection 2.1.1 is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration” (with respect to any Demand Registration, the Demanding Holders making such demand for registration being referred to as the “Initiating Holders”). Subject to Section 2.3, the Demanding Holders shall be entitled to request (and the Company shall be required to effect) an aggregate of one (1) Demand Registration in any twelve (12)-month period pursuant to this subsection 2.1.1 with respect to any or all or Registrable Securities; provided, however, that a Demand Registration shall not be counted for such purposes unless a Registration Statement has become effective; provided, further, that a Demand Registration shall be counted for such purposes if all of the Registrable Securities requested by the Demanding Holders to be registered on behalf of the Demanding Holders in such Demand Registration have been so registered. The Company shall give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such Demand Registration Request to each of the Holders of record of Registrable Securities as promptly as practicable but no later than ten (10) Business Days after receipt of the Demand Registration Request. The Company, subject to Section 2.3, shall include in a Demand Registration (a) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (b) the Registrable Securities of any portion other Holder of Registrable Securities which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Subsection 2.1.1 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Holder) within five (5) calendar days following the receipt of any such Demand Sellers’ Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securitiesExercise Notice. The Corporation will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effectCompany shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to Section 2.3, use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) file or confidentially submit with the Commission (no later than (A) thirty (30) days from the Company’s receipt of the applicable Demand Registration Request if the Demand Registration is on Form S-1 or similar long-form registration or (B) thirty (30) days from the Company’s receipt of the applicable Demand Registration Request if the Demand Registration is on Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration), (ii) cause to be declared effective as soon as reasonably practicable such registration statement under the Securities Act of:
(i) that includes the Registrable Securities then held by the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Company has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such Shareholdersregister, together with the Demand Sellers, the “Holders”) has requested the Corporation to register by written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after the receipt by such Holders of such written notice given by the Corporation; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (for distribution in accordance with the intended methods thereofmethod of distribution and (iii) if requested by the Initiating Holders, obtain acceleration of the Registrable Securities to be so registered. Promptly after the expiration of the 30-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a), the Corporation will notify all the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(b) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as follows:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Strong Global Entertainment, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of the Sponsors may, If at any time, make time or from time to time the Company shall receive a written request from (together with x) a Holder or Holders holding more than 50% of the then outstanding Registrable Securities or (y) any other Sponsor Initial Holder that (such Sponsor includes in such requestrequesting Person(s), the “Demand SellersRequesting Holders”) ), that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand SellersRequesting Holders’ Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request, a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 21 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Holders, and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect the Company shall effect (subject to join the limitations set forth in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effectSections 2.01(e) hereof), as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Requesting Holders have requested to register by the Demand Sellers; andregistration under this Section 2.01, or
(ii) all other Registrable Securities that any other Shareholder entitled to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration Holders (all such ShareholdersHolders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Holders, the “Registering Holders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 14 days after the receipt by such Holders receive the Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofof disposition specified in such request) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered. ; provided that no Person may participate in any registration statement pursuant to this Section 2.01(a) for an underwritten offering unless such Person agrees to sell its Registrable Securities to the underwriters selected as provided in Section 2.06(f) on the same terms and conditions as apply to the Requesting Holders (including pursuant to the terms of any over-allotment or “green shoe” option requested by the managing underwriter; provided that no Holder will be required to sell upon exercise of the over-allotment option more than the proportionate amount of Registrable Securities that such Holder has requested the Company to include in such offering) and completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements; provided, however, that no such Registering Holder shall be required to make any representations or warranties in connection with any such registration other than representations and warranties as to (i) such Person’s ownership of its Registrable Securities to be transferred free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances, (ii) such Person’s power and authority to effect such transfer, and (iii) such matters as may be reasonably requested pertaining to such Person’s compliance with securities laws; provided, further, however, that the obligation of such Person to indemnify pursuant to any such underwriting arrangements shall be several, not joint and several, among such Persons selling Registrable Securities, and the liability of each such Person shall be in proportion thereto; and provided, further, that such liability shall be limited to the net amount received by such Person from the sale of its Registrable Securities pursuant to such offering; provided that, subject to Section 2.01(d) hereof, the Company shall not be obligated to:
(A) effect any Demand Registration pursuant to clauses (x) and (y) of the first paragraph of this Section 2.01(a) unless the aggregate gross proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included by all Registering Holders in such Demand Registration are at least $40 million (prior to deducting underwriting discounts and commissions);
(B) effect more than one Demand Registration per Holder pursuant to clause (x) of the first paragraph of this Section 2.01(a) or effect more than two Demand Registrations in the aggregate pursuant to clause (y) of the first paragraph of this Section 2.01(a);
(C) effect a Demand Registration within 180 days of any registration effected pursuant to Article II hereof.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 3014-day period referred to in paragraph (iiSection 2.01(a)(ii) of this Section 5.1(a)hereof, the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Holders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Registering Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included thereinregistered. The Any Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, Registration may be revoked by the Holders of Registrable Securities who requested such Demand Registration at any time prior to any time of sale by providing a notice to the Company; provided that, unless such Demand Registration is revoked by such Holders of Registrable Securities prior to the time it has become effective date as a result of the disclosure of information concerning the Company that is materially adverse to the Company or the trading price of the Common Stock (which disclosure is made by the Company after the date that such registration statement is requested pursuant to Section 2.01(a)), such request for Demand Registration shall be counted for purposes of determining the number of Demand Registrations to which such Registering Holders are entitled to pursuant to this Section 2.01 unless such Registering Holders pay in full all Registration Expenses relating to such registration, revoke such request without liability to any of the other Holders by providing a written notice to the Corporation revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with each Demand Registration, regardless of whether such registration is effected.
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless (A) the registration statement relating thereto (i) has shall have become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has shall have remained effective for a period of at least 90 180 consecutive days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Registering Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that such registration shall not be considered a Demand Registration if, after such registration statement becomes effective, such registration statement (or the use of the related prospectus) is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court, and (B) if in connection with an underwritten offering, all customary conditions in the applicable underwriting agreement shall have been satisfied, other than any failure primarily due to an act, omission or misrepresentation of the Holder(s) participating therein; or
(ii) if due to the Demand Maximum Offering Size provision of Section 2.01(e) hereof, less than 75% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Holders sought to be included in such registration are actually included in such registration.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering an underwritten public offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation and the Requesting Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested shares that the Registering Holders propose to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included include in such registration (including, in each case, exceeds the largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectDemand Maximum Offering Size”), the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed in this Section 2.01(e), up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsDemand Maximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers Requesting Holders and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by any other Registering Holders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Demand Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among such HoldersRequesting Holders and other Registering Holders on the basis of the relative number of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities any shares of Common Stock proposed to be included registered by the Company for its own account.
(f) The Company may defer the filing (but not the preparation) of a registration statement required by Section 2.01 hereof until a date not later than 90 days after the date of the request to file such registration statement if (i) at the time the Company receives the request to register shares, the Company is engaged in confidential negotiations or other confidential business activities or the Board of Directors of the Company determines that the Company is at such time otherwise in possession of material non-public information with respect to the Company, in each case, disclosure of which would be required in such registration by any other Holder statement (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall but would not be required to effect any Demand Registration if such registration statement were not filed), and the Board of Directors of the Company determines in good faith that due such public disclosure at that time would be materially detrimental to business the Company and its stockholders (other than, if applicable, the Holders requesting such registration), or market conditions or (ii) prior to receiving the business or financial condition request to register shares, the Board of Directors of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not Company had resolved to effect a registered underwritten public offering of Company equity securities for the Company’s account and the Company had taken substantial steps (including selecting a managing underwriter for such offering) and is actively proceeding with reasonable diligence to effect such offering. A deferral of the filing of a registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right statement pursuant to this Section 5.1(d2.01(f) shall be lifted, and the requested registration statement shall be filed forthwith, if, in the case of a deferral pursuant to clause (i) of the preceding sentence, the negotiations or other activities are terminated or publicly disclosed (or such material non-public information has been publicly disclosed), or, in the case of a deferral pursuant to clause (ii) of the preceding sentence, the proposed registration for the Company’s account is abandoned. In order to defer the filing of a registration statement pursuant to this Section 2.01(f), the Corporation Company shall effect promptly (but in any event within 7 days), upon determining to seek such deferral, deliver to each Holder requesting such registration within a certificate signed by an executive officer of the Company stating that the Company is deferring such filing pursuant to this Section 2.01(f) and (unless such Holder had previously requested in writing that the Company not disclose to it such information under this paragraph) a general statement of the reason for such deferral and an approximation of the anticipated delay (to the extent it shall be legally permissible for the Company to so disclose such information to such Holder). The Company may defer the filing of a registration statement pursuant to clause (ii) of the first sentence of this Section 2.01(f) twice in any 360-day period and the period of deferrals shall not exceed 180 days in the aggregate over any 360-day period. In the event of any deferral pursuant to this Section 2.01(f) lasting longer than 60 days, the holders of Registrable Securities initially requesting such Demand Registration shall be entitled to withdraw such request, and if such request is withdrawn, such Demand Registration shall not count as one year following of the request for permitted Demand Registrations hereunder and the Company shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such registration.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Universal American Corp.)
Demand Registration. (a) Either of the Sponsors may, If at any timetime following the Closing Date, make the Company shall receive a written request from the Crestview Shareholder (together with any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request, the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholder”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion (so long as the value of any such Demand Sellers’ portion shall be equal to a minimum of $5 million for a S-1 registration and $1 million for a S-3 registration) of such Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof and the number of such securities. The Corporation will Registrable Securities for which the Requesting Shareholder has requested registration under this Section 5.01 (the “Crestview Request Amount”), then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days 20 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Other Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possiblereasonably practicable, the registration under the Securities Act Act, but subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 5.01(e) and 5.02, of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation Requesting Shareholder has been so requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 5.01, and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholder and those that any other Shareholder entitled Shareholders with rights to request registration under Section 5.02 (the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration (all such ShareholdersRequesting Shareholder, together with the Demand Sellersany Shareholders participating in a Piggyback Registration pursuant to this Section 5.01(a)(ii) and Section 5.02, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days 10 Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered; provided that, subject to Section 5.01(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than four (4) Demand Registrations for the Crestview Shareholder, other than Demand Registrations to be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any successor thereto), for which an unlimited number of Demand Registrations shall be permitted. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any six-month period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 3010-day Business Day-period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(a5.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholder may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, in which case such request shall not be considered a Demand Registration.
(bc) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected.
(d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 120 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder); provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand 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 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 5.01(e) such that less than 662/3% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(ce) If a Demand Registration involves a an underwritten Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering underwriter advises the Corporation Company and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, Requesting Shareholders that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type shares of securities Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested including any securities that the Company proposes to be included by that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Demand Sellers and largest number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to that can be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities shares can be sold (an the “Adverse EffectMaximum Offering Size”), then the Corporation will Company shall include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities thatregistration, in the opinion of priority listed below, up to the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsMaximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration registered by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder Registering Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to cause an Adverse Effect on exceed the offeringMaximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Holders entities on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by such Holderseach); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities any securities proposed to be included in such registration registered by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders)Company.
(df) The Corporation shall not be required Upon notice to effect any Demand Registration if each Registering Shareholder, the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake Company may postpone effecting a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d5.01 on one occasion during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) an investment banking firm of recognized national standing shall advise the Corporation shall effect Company and the Requesting Shareholders in writing that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of such registration within one year following Company the request for registrationpreparation of which had then been commenced or is contemplated in the near term or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company.
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Demand Registration. (a) Either If at any time following the earlier of (x) 180 days after the effective date of the Sponsors may, at any time, make a written request registration statement for the First Public Offering and (together with y) the expiration of the period during which the managing underwriters for the First Public Offering shall prohibit the Company from effecting any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such requestpublic sale or distribution of Company Securities, the Company shall receive a joint request from the Quadrangle Entities and the CVC Entities (the “Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders”) that the Corporation Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any such Demand Sellers’ Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities. The Corporation will thereof, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request, a “Demand Registration”) at least 30 days 15 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Sponsor Holders Management Shareholders and all Piggy-Back Shareholders. Any Sponsor may elect to join in the request of a Demand Seller that the Corporation effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of any Registrable Securities of such Sponsor or any other Sponsor Holder that such Sponsor includes in such request and specifying the intended method of disposition of such securities, whereupon such Sponsor thereupon shall be deemed to be a Demand Seller on a pari passu basis with the other Demand Sellers. Upon receiving such requests, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) the all Registrable Securities then held by for which the Demand Sellers that the Corporation has been so Requesting Shareholders have requested to register by the Demand Sellers; registration under this Section 5.01, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 5.01(e) and 5.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholders that any other Shareholder entitled Shareholders with rights to request the Corporation to include their Registrable Securities in a Piggy-Back Registration registration under Section 5.02 (all such Shareholders, together with the Demand SellersRequesting Shareholders, the “HoldersRegistering Shareholders”) has have requested the Corporation Company to register by written request received by the Corporation Company within 30 days 15 Business Days after such Shareholders receive the receipt by such Holders Company’s notice of such written notice given by the Corporation; Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be so registered, provided that, subject to Section 5.01(d), the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than three Demand Registrations for the Institutional Shareholders, other than Demand Registrations to be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any successor thereto), for which an unlimited number of Demand Registrations shall be permitted; provided further that the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $15,000,000. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any six-mon th period.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the 3015 Business Day-day period referred to in paragraph (ii) of this Section 5.1(aSection 5.01(a)(ii), the Corporation Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration identities of the other Holders Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Demand Sellers requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a) may, at At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholders may revoke such request request, without liability to any of the other Holders Registering Shareholders, by providing a written notice to the Corporation Company revoking such request, .
(c) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in which case such request shall not be considered a connection with any Demand Registration.
(bd) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 90 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder).
(c) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing Underwriter for such offering advises the Corporation and the Holders who have requested to participate in such Public Offering, in writing, that, in its view, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration, or the type of securities requested to be included in such registration (including, in each case, shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Demand Sellers and shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included by other Holders pursuant to Section 5.2), would have an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (an “Adverse Effect”), the Corporation will include in such registration the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of the managing Underwriter for such offering, can be sold in the priorities listed below without causing an Adverse Effect, as followsoccurred:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Sellers and any Continuing Shareholder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such Holders); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by any other Holder (allocated, if necessary not to cause an Adverse Effect on the offering, pro rata among such other Holders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by such other Holders).
(d) The Corporation shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration if the Board determines in good faith that due to business or market conditions or the business or financial condition of the Corporation it is inappropriate at such time to undertake a Public Offering; provided, that the Corporation may elect not to effect registration on such grounds only once in any twelve-month period beginning on the date of such election by the Corporation. If the Corporation exercises its right pursuant to this Section 5.1(d), the Corporation shall effect such registration within one year following the request for registration.
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Sources: Shareholders Agreement (Quadrangle Gp Investors LLC)