Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). (b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 6 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Astris Energi Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Astris Energi Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Astris Energi Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder for such purpose) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by required pursuant to written comments received from the HoldersCommission upon a review of such Registration Statement) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject A with respect to the terms of this Agreement, the Holders. The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly soon as possible after the filing thereofbut, but in any event not event, no later than the Effectiveness DateDate for such Registration Statement, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earliest of (i) the date when which is five years after the date that the Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission or (ii) such time as all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold resold by the Holders without volume restrictions pursuant to under Rule 144(k) as determined by promulgated under the counsel to Securities Act or (iii) the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to date on which the Company’s transfer agent and Holders shall have publicly sold all the affected Holders Registrable Securities (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If for any reason the Commission does not permit all of the Shares and all Warrant Shares to be included in the Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a), or for any other reason any Registrable Securities are not permitted by the Commission to be included in a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement, then the Company shall prepare and file as soon as possible after the date on which the Commission shall indicate as being the first date or time that such filing may be made, but in any event by the 30th day following such date, an additional Registration Statement covering the resale of all Registrable Securities not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415, on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case such registration shall be on another appropriate form for such purpose). Each such Registration Statement shall contain (except if otherwise required pursuant to written comments received from the Commission upon a review of such Registration Statement) the "Plan of Distribution" attached hereto as Annex A with respect to the Holders. The Company shall cause each such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as possible but, in any event, no later than the Effectiveness Date for such Registration Statement, and shall use its best efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act during the entire Effectiveness Period.
(c) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) hereof, the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the prior to its required Effectiveness Date, or (viii) after a the Effective Date, such Registration Statement is first declared ceases to be effective by and available to the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective Holders as to all Registrable Securities for to which it is required to be effective, or cover at any time prior to the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, expiration of its Effectiveness Period for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during more than 20 Trading Days (any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or and (ivii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 20 Trading Day Day-period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then then, in addition to any other rights available to the Holders may have hereunder under the Transaction Documents or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01% of the aggregate purchase price paid by Investment Amount of such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date thereof (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price Investment Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1512% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 5 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Generex Biotechnology Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Generex Biotechnology Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Generex Biotechnology Corp)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 SB-2 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3SB-2, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (viv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 ten (10) consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12 month twelve (12)-month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 ten (10) or 15 fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , then, on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderHolder based on the per Share Purchase Price. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1512% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if an Event or the continuation of an Event is caused solely as a result of an act or omission by a Holder, the Company shall not be liable to pay liquidated damages to such Holder that otherwise would result on account of such Event or continuation of an Event.
Appears in 4 contracts
Sources: Warrant Share Registration Rights Agreement (Java Detour Inc.), Share Registration Rights Agreement (Java Detour Inc.), Share Registration Rights Agreement (Java Detour Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall use its best efforts to prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if SB-2 and shall register the Company is not then eligible to register for resale of the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case Shares and the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith)Warrant Shares. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective as provided herein. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement (a) have been sold sold, transferred or disposed of pursuant to the Registration Statement or an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act or (b) may be sold by non-affiliates without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is (i) not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in shares, as liquidated damages and not be deemed as a penalty, equal to have satisfied this clause (i)), or 1% of the aggregate Shares purchased by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and if (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (viii) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities not sold, disposed of or transferred for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable SecuritiesSecurities through no fault of their own, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period cases twenty Trading Days (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any days) in the aggregate during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (ivii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date on which such 15 twenty Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is curedcured or no more than a total of twelve months from the Closing Date, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cashshares, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price paid Shares owned by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderHolder no more than a total of twelve months from the Closing date. If In no way will the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, more than 2% per month if the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to misses both the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in fullFiling Date and Effective Date. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Shares and Warrant Purchase Agreement (Xfone Inc), Shares and Warrant Purchase Agreement (Xfone Inc), Shares and Warrant Purchase Agreement (Xfone Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the 1. The Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the register for resale of some or all (depending on the limitations set out in this Agreement) of the Registrable Securities with the Commission simultaneous with the filing of a registration statement with the Commission for an the initial public offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be of shares of the Company’s ordinary shares on Form S-3 F-1 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. F-1”).
2. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) 3. If the registration is being made pursuant to a registered public offering that is to be made by underwriter(s), the Company shall so advise the Holders of the Registrable Securities eligible for inclusion in such Registration Statement pursuant to Section 3. In that event, the right of any Holder to registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in such registered public offering to the extent provided herein. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if at any time the SEC takes the position that the offering of some or all of the Registrable Securities in a Registration Statement is not filed eligible to be made on a delayed or prior to continuous basis under the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with provisions of Rule 461 promulgated 415 under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to persuade the SEC that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) offering contemplated by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective a valid secondary offering and not an offering “by or on behalf of the Commissionissuer” as defined in Rule 415. The Holder shall have the right to participate in any meetings or discussions regarding the SEC’s position and to comment on any written submission made to the SEC with respect thereto. In the event that, despite the Company’s commercially reasonable efforts and compliance with the terms of this Section 2(c), the Company fails SEC refuses to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is curedalter its position, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% (i) remove from the Registration Statement such portion of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by (the “Cut Back Shares”) and/or (ii) agree to such restrictions and limitations on the registration and resale of the Registrable Securities as the SEC may require to assure the Company’s compliance with the requirements of Rule 415 (collectively, the “SEC Restrictions”); provided however, that the Company shall not agree to name any Holder as an “underwriter” in such Registration Statement without the prior written consent of such Holder. If The Company shall so advise all Holders (except those Holders who failed to timely elect to include their Registrable Securities or have indicated to the Company fails their decision not to pay any liquidated damages pursuant do so), and indicate to this Section each such Holder the number of shares of Registrable Securities that may be included in full within seven days after the registration. The number of ordinary shares that may be included in the F-1, subject to the SEC Restrictions if any, shall be allocated first to the Company and then, subject to obligations and commitments existing as of the date payablehereof, to all selling stockholders, including the Company will pay interest thereon at Holders, who have requested to sell in the registration on a rate pro rata basis according to the number of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted shares requested to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Eventincluded therein.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Private Placement Subscription Agreement (ZK International Group Co., Ltd.), Private Placement Subscription Agreement (ZK International Group Co., Ltd.), Private Placement Subscription Agreement (ZK International Group Co., Ltd.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, Date the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Company shall cause the Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith)become effective and remain effective as provided herein. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and . The Company shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is the earlier of when (i) all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or (ii) all Registrable Securities may be sold immediately without registration under the Securities Act and without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) ), as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) Within three business days after the Effective Date of a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)Statement, the Company shall not cause its counsel to issue a blanket opinion in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, to its transfer agent stating that the Registrable Securities are subject to an effective registration statement and can be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file reissued free of restrictive legend upon notice of a sale by a Purchaser and confirmation by such Purchaser that he has complied with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Actprospectus delivery requirements, within five Trading Days of the date provided that the Company is notified (has not advised the transfer agent orally or in writing, whichever is earlierwriting that the opinion has been withdrawn. Copies of the blanket opinion required by this Section 2(b) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not shall be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay delivered to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of Purchaser within the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Eventtime period set forth above.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Protein Polymer Technologies Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Conversion Services International Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Conversion Services International Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing DateAs promptly as reasonably practical, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on Form S-1 or another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder herewith as the Purchaser may consent) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the HoldersPurchaser) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to Exhibit B. The Company and Purchasers acknowledge that, at the terms time of this AgreementAmendment, the Company is in the process of re-auditing certain financial statements which may impact the filing of the Registration Statement and that, therefore, the Company may not be in a position to file any such Registration Statement until following the re-audit of such financials and the filing of the related reports under the Exchange Act.
(b) The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under by the Securities Act Commission as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, thereof and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the such time as all Shares can be sold under Rule 144 in any consecutive 180-day period or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(bc) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the The Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond notify Purchaser in writing to comments made by the Commission promptly (and in respect of such Registration Statement any event within 15 one Trading Days Day) after the receipt of comments by or notice receiving notification from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a the Registration Statement to be has been declared effective, or .
(ivd) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder This Section has been deleted in its entirety and is not declared effective by no longer applicable.
(e) This Section shall continue in the Commission on or before form set forth in the Effectiveness Date, or Agreement.
(vf) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by This Section shall continue in the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or form set forth in the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an EventAgreement.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Common Stock Purchase Agreement (Venture Tech Assets Ltd.), Common Stock Purchase Agreement (SB Asia Infrastructure Fund L.P.), Common Stock Purchase Agreement (Intelligroup Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all 100% of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the such Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Each Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the each Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the each such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission.
(b) If: (i) If during the Effectiveness Period, the number of Registrable Securities at any time exceeds 100% of the number of shares of Common Stock then registered in a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if Statement, then the Company files a shall, as necessary, file as soon as reasonably practicable an additional Registration Statement without affording covering the Holder resale by the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall Holders of not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days less than 100% of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect number of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Barnabus Energy, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Barnabus Energy, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Barnabus Energy, Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed agreed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than prior to the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is five years after the date that the Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders Purchasers (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a the Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a the Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, Act within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior the Company fails to respond to any comments made by the date when Commission within twenty Trading Days after the receipt of such comments, or (iv) the Registration Statement filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after the Registration Statement is first filed with and declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails Registration Statement ceases to file be effective as to all Registrable Securities to which it is required to relate at any time prior to the expiration of the Effectiveness Period without being succeeded within twenty Trading Days by an amendment to the Registration Statement or by a pre-effective subsequent Registration Statement filed with the Commission, (vi) an amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made the Registration Statement is not filed by the Company with the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 fifteen Trading Days after of the receipt of comments by or notice from Commission’s notifying the Commission Company that such amendment is required in order for a the Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (ivvii) a the Company suspends the use of the Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on Holders for more than sixty consecutive days or before during any 365-day period suspends the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a use of the Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 120 days during (any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day Day-period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause clauses (iii) or (vi) the date which such 15 fifteen Trading Day Day-period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause clauses (v) and (vii) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, twenty Trading Day period is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”)) , then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable lawthen: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date thereof (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 158% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages Notwithstanding the foregoing, the maximum liability of the Company after the date hereof pursuant to this Section 2(b) shall not exceed $3,500,000 (and the terms Company shall have no obligation to make any payments after the date hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior pursuant to this Section 2(b) to the cure extent that the aggregate of an Eventall such payments would exceed $3,500,000).
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Common Stock and Warrant Purchase Agreement (Waller Joel N), Registration Rights Agreement (Wilsons the Leather Experts Inc), Common Stock and Warrant Purchase Agreement (Wilsons the Leather Experts Inc)
Registration. (a) On The Company’s registration obligations set forth in this Section 2 including its obligations to file one or prior to more Registration Statements, obtain effectiveness of such Registration Statements, and maintain the Filing Date, continuous effectiveness of such Registration Statements that have been declared effective shall begin on the Company shall prepare date hereof and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of continue until all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may permanently be sold without volume any restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and reasonably acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Registration Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company shall, on or prior to the Filing Date (if Deadline, prepare and file with the Company files SEC a Registration Statement without affording on Form F-1 or Form F-3 covering the Holder resale by the opportunity Investor of Registrable Securities. Each Registration Statement prepared pursuant hereto shall register for resale at least the number of Ordinary Shares equal to review the Required Registration Amount as of date the Registration Statement is initially filed with the SEC. Each Registration Statement shall contain the “Selling Shareholders” and comment on “Plan of Distribution”. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have each Registration Statement declared effective by the same SEC as required by Section 3(a)soon as practicable, but in no event later than the Effectiveness Deadline. Within two days following the date of effectiveness,, the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration SEC in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated 424 under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days 1933 Act the final Prospectus to be used in connection with sales pursuant to such Registration Statement. Prior to the filing of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to with the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is curedSEC, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as furnish a penalty, 2.0% draft of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant Registration Statement to the Purchase Agreement Investor for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holdertheir review and comment in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 3(a) hereof. If The Investor shall furnish comments (if any) on the Registration Statement to the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after twenty-four (24) hours of the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily receipt thereof from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an EventCompany.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Dragon Victory International LTD), Registration Rights Agreement (Dragon Victory International LTD)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form permitting registration of the Registrable Securities for resale by such Holders in accordance herewithherewith and the methods of distribution elected by the Holders herein). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions registration under the Securities Act pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days . None of the date that Company's security holders (other than the Company is notified (orally or Holders of Registrable Securities) shall have the right to include any of the Company's securities in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event2.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Securities Purchase Agreement (Escalon Medical Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Escalon Medical Corp)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until for a period of two years from the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders Effective Date (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 20 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 15 calendar consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 30 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period calendar days is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 15 or 15 30 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1510% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Securities Purchase Agreement (Bulldog Technologies Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Bulldog Technologies Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder , subject to the provisions of Section 2(d)and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by at least a majority in interest of the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible reasonably practical after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, thereof and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on a Trading Day.
(b) If: (i) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company will promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 3(a2(d)with respect to filing on Form S-3 or other appropriate form.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced by the Company it its sole discretion.
(d) If Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or ) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form and (ii) undertake to register the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Registrable Securities Acton Form S-3 as soon as such form is available; provided, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that effect until such time as a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to on Form S-3 covering the date when such Registration Statement is first Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (SurePure, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (SurePure, Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to Not later than the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a draft Registration Statement covering on Form S-1 relating to the resale of by the Holders all (or such other number as the Commission will permit) of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415Securities. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e); with respect to filing on Form S-1 or other appropriate form, and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to the payment of liquidated damages; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included by any Person other than a Holder;
c. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Conversion Shares (applied, in the case that some Conversion Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Conversion Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Holder’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(d) If: (i) a the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) herein, the Company shall not be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the effective date when such of a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionStatement, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days ten (10) calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the Effectiveness DateDate of the Initial Registration Statement, or (v) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days but no or more than an aggregate of 15 fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or and (iv) ), the date on which such Event occurs, or and for purposes purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day ten (10) calendar day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (v) the date on which such 10 ten (10) or 15 fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to the product of 1.0% of multiplied by the aggregate purchase price Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(e) If Form S-1 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-1 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-1 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (CannaVEST Corp.), Registration Rights Agreement (CannaVEST Corp.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” "PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION" attached hereto as Annex ANNEX A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”"EFFECTIVENESS PERIOD"). The Company shall promptly notify the Holders via facsimile of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on the same day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission. Failure to so notify the Holder within 1 Trading Day of such notification shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(b). The Company shall, within 1 Trading Day of the day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission, file a Form 424(b)(5) with the Commission. After the date hereof, if the Company becomes eligible to use Form S-3 for the resale of the Registrable Securities, the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to amend or file a new registration statement on Form S-3 for the resale of the Registrable Securities.
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 10 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days Trading Days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event"EVENT,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day 10 calendar day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 calendar day period or 15 day Trading Day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”"EVENT DATE"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , then, on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Genius Products Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Genius Products Inc)
Registration. (a) On or As soon as reasonably practicable following the written request of any Devon Party, but in any event prior to the Filing Datedate that is 90 days after such written request, the Company Partnership shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering under the Securities Act to permit the public resale of Registrable Securities then outstanding from time to time as permitted by Rule 415 of the Securities Act with respect to all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415specified by such Devon Parties. The Registration Statement required hereunder filed pursuant to this Section 2.1(a) shall be on Form S-3 (except if such appropriate registration form of the Company is not then eligible to register for SEC as shall be selected by the Partnership so long as it permits the public resale of the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case from time to time pursuant to Rule 415 of the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith)Securities Act or such other similar rule as is then applicable. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company Partnership shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the each Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 2.1(a) to be declared effective under effective, supplemented, amended or replaced to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for the resale of all Registrable Securities Act as promptly as possible after by the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act Unitholders until the date when earliest of (i) all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(kdistributed in the manner set forth and as contemplated in such Registration Statement and (ii) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders there are no longer any Registrable Securities outstanding (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) IfIn the event that a Unitholder (together with any Affiliates that are Unitholders) elects to dispose of Registrable Securities pursuant to an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities (the “Participating Unitholders”), the Partnership will, at the request of the Participating Unitholders (an “Underwritten Offering Request”), use its reasonable best efforts to file a prospectus supplement that shall be deemed to be part of a Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2.1(a) that is useable for a resale of Registrable Securities by the Participating Unitholders conducted pursuant to an underwritten offering; provided, however, that in no event shall the Partnership be required to file a prospectus supplement or Registration Statement (as applicable) or otherwise participate in more than two (2) underwritten offerings during any twelve-month period; provided, that if the Partnership determines in good faith that effecting an underwritten offering on behalf of the Unitholders would have an adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of a primary offering of Common Units by the Partnership, then the Partnership shall be entitled, not more than once in any 360-day period, to postpone any such underwritten offering for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 30 consecutive days. The Underwritten Offering Request will specify the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities proposed by the Participating Unitholders to be included in such underwritten offering (calculated based on the volume-weighted average trading price of the Common Units for the 20 Business Days prior to the date of the Underwritten Offering Request), which aggregate value may not be less than $50 million. Participating Unitholders may change the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be offered in any underwritten offering at any time prior to commencement of such offering unless the Partnership has been advised by the managing Underwriter or Underwriters for such underwritten offering that such change will have an adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the Common Units in the underwritten offering. Participating Unitholders will be permitted to rescind an Underwritten Offering Request at any time prior to the public announcement of the underwritten offering; provided, that (i) the Participating Unitholders reimburse the Partnership for all reasonable, out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Partnership in connection with such underwritten offering and (ii) the Unitholders will not be entitled to submit an Underwritten Offering Request during the two months following the date of the rescission.
(c) The Partnership will use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2.1(a) to be declared effective as promptly as practicable and no later than 180 days following the date of written request set forth in Section 2.1(a). The Partnership further agrees to use its reasonable best efforts to supplement or make amendments to each such Registration Statement as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement effective for the Effectiveness Period, including (A) to respond to the comments of the SEC, if any, (B) as may be required by the registration form utilized by the Partnership for such Registration Statement or by the instructions to such registration form, (C) as may be required by the Securities Act, or (D) as may be reasonably requested in writing by the Participating Unitholders or any Underwriter and reasonably acceptable to the Partnership. The Partnership agrees to furnish to the Participating Unitholders copies of any such supplement or amendment no later than the time it is first being used or filed with the SEC. A Registration Statement when it becomes or is declared effective (including the documents incorporated therein by reference) will comply as to form in all material respects with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading (and, in the case of any prospectus contained in such Registration Statement, in the light of the circumstances under which a statement is made). As soon as practicable following the effective date of a Registration Statement, but in any event within three (3) Business Days of such date, the Partnership shall notify the Unitholders of the effectiveness of such Registration Statement.
(d) Subject to the following sentence, the Partnership may include in any underwritten offering any securities for its own account or for the account of holders of Common Units (other than Unitholders). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if the lead Underwriters of an underwritten offering advise the Partnership that, in their reasonable opinion the number of Equity Interests (including any Registrable Securities) that the Partnership, the Participating Unitholders and any other Persons intend to include in any underwritten offering is such that the success of any such offering would be materially and adversely affected, including with respect to the price at which the securities can be sold, then the number of Common Units or other Equity Interests to be included in the Registration Statement for the account of the Partnership, the Participating Unitholders and any other Persons will be reduced to the extent necessary to reduce the total number of securities to be included in any such underwritten offering to the number recommended by such lead Underwriter; provided, however, that such reduction shall be made: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on first, to remove or prior reduce any Common Units or other Equity Interests proposed to be offered by the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review Partnership for its own account and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) second, to remove or reduce pro rata among the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days Participating Unitholders and any other holders of the date that the Company is notified (orally Common Units or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement other Equity Interests requested to be declared effective, registered or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day perioddisposed of, as applicable, is exceeded being referred so that the total number of Equity Interests to as “Event Date”), then be included in addition to any other rights such offering for the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each account of all such Event Date Persons will not exceed the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid number recommended by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Eventlead Underwriter.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Unitholder Agreement (EnLink Midstream Partners, LP), Unitholder Agreement (Devon Energy Corp/De)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the The Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all 125% of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 SB-2 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3SB-2, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”"). The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on the same day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission. Failure to so notify the Holder within 1 Trading Day of such notification shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(b).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, ; or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commissionits Effectiveness Date, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 14 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, ; or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the by its Effectiveness Date, ; or (v) after the Effectiveness Date, a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, Securities for in any such case 10 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 calendar days during any 12 12-month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” ", and for purposes of clause (iii) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day 14 calendar day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to outstanding principal of the Purchase Agreement Notes for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderHolder for the first 30 days (pro-rated for partial months) after the Event Date and an additional 1.5% for any subsequent 30-day period (pro-rated for partial months), thereafter. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1520% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Global Axcess Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Global Axcess Corp)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by required pursuant to written comments received from the HoldersCommission upon a review of such Registration Statement) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” in substantially the form attached hereto as Annex A. Subject A (which may be modified to respond to comments, if any, provided by the terms of this Agreement, the Commission). The Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereofbut, but in any event not event, no later than the Effectiveness DateDate for such Registration Statement, and shall shall, subject to Section 7(d) hereof, use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (i) the date when that is two years after the Closing Date and (ii) the date on which all Registrable Securities covered by the securities under such Registration Statement have been sold or may ceased to be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders Registrable Securities (the “Effectiveness Period”). It is agreed and understood that the Company shall, from time to time, be obligated to file one or more additional Registration Statements to cover any Registrable Securities which are not registered for resale pursuant to a pre-existing Registration Statement.
(b) If: (i) a Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, in the event that the Commission limits the amount of Registrable Securities that may be included and sold by Holders in any Registration Statement, including the Initial Registration Statement, pursuant to Rule 415 or any other basis, the Company may, after giving notice to the Holders, reduce the number of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement is not filed on behalf of the Holders in whole or in part (in case of an exclusion as to a portion of such Registrable Securities, such portion shall be allocated pro rata among such Holders in proportion to the respective numbers of Registrable Securities represented by Shares requested to be registered by each such Holder over the total amount of Registrable Securities represented by Shares) (such Registrable Securities, the “Reduction Securities”); provided, however, that prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)taking any such action, the Company shall not be deemed obligated to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails use its commercially reasonable efforts to file advocate with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.registration of
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Securities Purchase Agreement (Obalon Therapeutics Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Obalon Therapeutics Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”"). The Company shall promptly notify the Holders via facsimile of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on the same day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission. Failure to so notify the Holder within 2 Trading Days of such notification shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(b).
(b) If: (i) a the Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a the Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a the Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such the Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such the Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a the Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a the Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a the Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, Securities for in any such case 10 15 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 30 calendar days during any 12 12-month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” ", and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day 10 calendar day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 15 or 15 30 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; provided, however, that the liquidated damages payable by any Holder shall not exceed 22% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for the Registrable Securities then held by such Purchaser. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Cytrx Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Cytrx Corp)
Registration. (a) On or prior to Not later than the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a draft Registration Statement covering (on Form S-1 or Form S-3 or other appropriate form) relating to the resale by the Holders of all (or such other number as the Commission will permit) of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415Securities. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-3 or Form S-1 or such other appropriate form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included by any Person other than a Holder; and
b. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Registrable Securities held by such Holders. In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Holder’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(d) If: (i) a the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) herein, the Company shall not be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five (5) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the effective date when such of a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionStatement, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days fifteen (15) calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) after the effective date of a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness DateStatement, or (v) after a such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days during (any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or (iv) ), the date on which such Event occurs, or and for purposes purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day fifteen (15) calendar day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (viv) the date on which such 10 or 15 fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, period is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to the product of 1.0% of multiplied by the aggregate purchase price Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable with regard to the Registerable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after on the date payablethe Event occurs. For purposes of determining the shares of Common Stock to be issued, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate closing price of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from Common Stock on the Trading Market of the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an EventEven occurs will be used.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Force Protection Video Equipment Corp.), Registration Rights Agreement (Force Protection Video Equipment Corp.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the SEC a Registration Statement covering the resale of all 100% of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Initial Registration Statement required shall be filed on Foul’ S-1 and each other Registration Statement filed hereunder shall be on Form Foul’ S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form Foul’ S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form foul’ such as Foul’ S-1 in accordance herewith, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by at least 60% in interest of the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such H▇▇▇▇▇’s express prior written consent. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when that all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the SEC, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. New York City time on the Trading Day immediately after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the SEC as required by Rule 424.
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the SEC informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and (i) use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the SEC and/or (ii) withdraw the Initial Registration Statement and file a new registration statement (the “New Registration Statement”), in each case, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the SEC, on Form S-1 or Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e); with respect to filing on Form S-1 or Foil S-3 or other appropriate form, and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to the payment of liquidated damages; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment or New Registration Statement, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the SEC for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, SEC’s Securities Act Rules Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the SEC or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the SEC for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the Company shall first reduce or eliminate any securities to be included other than the Registrable Securities. In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such H▇▇▇▇▇’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement or files a New Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to file with the SEC, as promptly as allowed by the SEC or SEC Guidance, one or more registration statements on Form S-1 or Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended, or the New Registration Statement.
(d) If: (i) a the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) herein, the Company shall not be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission SEC a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under by the SEC pursuant to the Securities Act, within five (5) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission SEC that a such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the effective date when such of a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionStatement, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission SEC in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 twenty (20) Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission SEC that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission on or before SEC by the Effectiveness DateDate of the Initial Registration Statement, or (v) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 more than ten (10) consecutive days but no Trading Days or more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period fifteen (15) Trading Days (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Days) during any 12-month period, other than with respect to the filing of a post-effective amendment on Form S-1 after the Company has filed an Annual Report on Form 10-K with the SEC (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or and (iv) ), the date on which such Event occurs, or and for purposes purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (iii) the date which such 15 ten (10) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (v) the date on which such 10 ten (10) or 15 day fifteen (15) Trading Day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to the product of 2.0% of multiplied by the aggregate purchase price Subscription Amount (as defined in the Investment Agreement) paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Investment Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to a Holder under this Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held shall be 20.00% of the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such HolderHolder pursuant to the Investment Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days five (5) Business Days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% twelve percent (12%) per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms terns hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(e) If Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form and (ii) agrees to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 as soon as reasonably practicable after such foul’ is available, provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the SEC. The Initial Registration Statement shall be filed on Form S-1.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in no event shall the Company be peunitted to name any Holder or affiliate of a Holder as an “underwriter” without the prior written consent of such H▇▇▇▇▇.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (International Battery Metals Ltd.), Registration Rights Agreement (International Battery Metals Ltd.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 10 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such cases 15 consecutive Trading Days or in any individual case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days 25 Trading Days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 10 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 15 or 15 day 25 Trading Day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Ableauctions Com Inc), Securities Purchase Agreement (Ableauctions Com Inc)
Registration. (a) On At any time after the Demand Date, the Holders shall be entitled to demand in writing that the Company effect a registration under the Securities Act of all or prior part of their Registrable Securities on Form S-3 or any similar short-form ("Short-Form") registration statement ("Short-Form Registrations"), if available, specifying in the request the number of Registrable Securities to be registered by the Holders and the intended method of distribution thereof (such notice is hereinafter referred to as an "S-3 Holder Request"); provided, that the Company shall be obligated to effect a registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2.2 only if the anticipated aggregated offering price for such Registrable Securities is in excess of $10,000,000, provided, further, that the Company shall not be obligated to file and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to become effective a registration statement pursuant to this Section 2.2 until a period equal to the Filing DateHoldback Period shall have elapsed from the effective date of the Prior Public Offering; and provided, further, that if, while a registration request is pending pursuant to this Section 2.2, the Board of Directors of the Company makes a good faith determination that the filing or effectiveness of a registration statement would require the public disclosure of material information, the disclosure of which would adversely affect the Company, the Company shall prepare and file with not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2.2 until such material information is disclosed to the Commission public or ceases to be material; provided, however, that the Registration Statement covering foregoing delay shall in no event exceed 120 days. The Holders of Registrable Securities will be entitled to request an unlimited number of Short-Form Registrations. After the resale of all Company has become subject to the reporting requirements of the Registrable Securities for an offering Exchange Act, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be make Short-Form Registrations on Form S-3 (except if available for the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the sale of Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”)Securities.
(b) If, in connection with any Underwritten Offering pursuant to Section 2.2(a), the Managing Underwriter thereof advises the Company in writing that in its opinion the number of Securities (including, for purposes of this Section 2.2(b), securities of the Company which the Company has proposed to include in such offering) proposed to be included in such offering should be limited due to market conditions, the Company will promptly so advise the Holders and Other Holders, as applicable, and Securities shall be excluded from such offering in the following order until such limitation has been met: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior Other Securities requested to be included in such offering pursuant to Section 2.2(c), if any, shall be excluded until all of the Filing Date Other Securities shall be so excluded, (if ii) Securities that the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity has elected to review include in such offering, if any, shall be excluded until all such Securities have been excluded, and, (iii) thereafter, any Registrable Securities requested to be included in such offering pursuant to Sections 2.2(a) and comment (c) shall be excluded pro rata, based on the same respective number of Registrable Securities as required to which registration has been so requested by each Holder.
(c) Upon receipt of any S-3 Holder Request subject to Section 3(a2.2(a), the Company shall not be deemed will give prompt written notice to have satisfied this clause all other Holders and all Other Holders and will, as expeditiously as possible, use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i)), or ) all Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register by the Holders; and
(ii) all other Registrable Securities which the Company fails has been requested to file with register by any other Holder thereof and all Other Securities, if applicable, by written request given to the Commission a Company within 30 calendar days after the giving of such written notice by the Company (which request for acceleration shall specify the intended method of disposition of such Securities), all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the intended methods thereof as aforesaid) of the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement so to be declared effective, or registered.
(ivd) If a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages requested registration pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable2.2 involves an Underwritten Offering, the Holders representing a majority of Registrable Securities included in such registration shall have the right, with the approval of the Company (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), to select the Managing Underwriter.
(e) The Company will pay interest thereon at a rate all Registration Expenses in connection with registrations of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid Registrable Securities effected by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages it pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Eventthis Section 2.2.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Teligent Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Teligent Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 S-1 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form Form S-3 in accordance herewith) subject to the provisions of Section 2(e). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such H▇▇▇▇▇’s express prior written consent. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when that all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on a Trading Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. (Eastern time) on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424.
(b) If: (i) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 3(a2(e); provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall not be deemed obligated to have satisfied use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this clause Agreement, if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of registrable securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (i)and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of registrable securities), or (ii) unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced and is subordinate in priority of registration rights held by prior investors that are not current Affiliates of the Company. In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company fails shall give the Holder at least three (3) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such H▇▇▇▇▇’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission a request or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Securities ActInitial Registration Statement, within five Trading Days as amended.
(d) If Form S-1 is not available for the registration of the date resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-1 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company is notified (orally or shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that effect until such time as a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to on Form S-1 covering the date when such Registration Statement is first Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in no event shall the Company fails be permitted to file name any Holder or affiliate of a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by Holder as any Underwriter without the Commission in respect prior written consent of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Reed's, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Reed's, Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the The Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an a selling stockholder resale offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best reasonable commercial efforts to file each Registration Statement no later than the Filing Date and to cause the each Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the Effectiveness Date, and . The Company shall use its best reasonable commercial efforts to keep the each Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when which is the earlier date of when: (i) all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold sold; or (ii) all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement may be sold without volume restrictions registration under the Securities Act pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the each, an “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) . If: (i) a the Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date Date; or (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(aii), the Company shall not be deemed or its counsel fail to have satisfied this clause respond to SEC comments related to the Registration Statement within 30 calendar days of receipt ((i)), or ) and (ii) collectively referred to herein as an “Event”), then (as full relief for the Company fails damages to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days Purchaser by reason of the date that the Company is notified (orally occurrence of any such Event, which remedy shall be exclusive of any other remedies available at law or in writingequity), whichever Company shall issue to Holders, for each day that an Event has occurred and is earliercontinuing, warrants to purchase one percent (1.0%) of the aggregate Warrant Shares purchased by Purchaser in the Commission that a Registration Statement will not offering, on the same terms and conditions as the Warrant Shares purchased in the offering (as adjusted for any stock splits, stock dividends, combinations, recapitalizations or similar events occurring after the date hereof) (the “Additional Warrant Shares”). The Additional Warrant Shares shall be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior issued to the date when Holders (at no cost to the Holders) in proportion to the number Registrable Securities held by such Registration Statement is first declared effective by Holder on the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect Event Date.
(b) Within three business days of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, the Company shall cause its counsel to issue a blanket opinion to the Company’s transfer agent stating that the shares are subject to an effective registration statement and can be reissued free of restrictive legend upon notice of a sale by the Holder and confirmation by the Holder that it has complied with the prospectus delivery requirements, provided that the Company has not advised the transfer agent orally or in writing that the opinion has been withdrawn. Copies of the blanket opinion required by this Section 2(b) shall be delivered to the Holder within the time frame set forth above.
(vc) The Company may require each Holder of Registrable Securities as to which any registration is being effected to furnish to the Company, within 10 calendar days after written request therefor has been made by the Company, such information regarding the distribution of such Holder’s Registrable Securities as is required by law to be disclosed in the Registration Statement (the “Requisite Information”).
(d) No Holder shall be entitled to use the Prospectus if such Holder shall have failed to furnish the information required by this Section 2(c), and such information with respect to such Holder shall have been included in the Prospectus, unless the Company shall have failed timely to fulfill its obligations under this Section. If any information furnished to the Company by a Holder for inclusion in a Registration Statement is first declared effective by or the CommissionProspectus becomes materially misleading, it ceases for any reason such Holder agrees (i) to remain continuously effective as furnish promptly to the Company all Registrable Securities for which it is information required to be effective, or disclosed in such Registration Statement in order to make the Holders are information previously furnished to the Company not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” materially misleading and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) to stop selling or offering for sale Registrable Securities pursuant to the date on which Registration Statement until such five Trading Day period is exceeded, Holder’s receipt of the copies of a supplemented or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which amended Prospectus correcting such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the disclosure. The Company shall pay have no obligation to each keep a Prospectus usable with respect to a particular Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and or to give notice that a Prospectus is not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid usable by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by extent such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall Prospectus is not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid usable by such Holder pursuant because current Requisite Information with respect to such Holder is not included therein because such Holder has not provided such information to the Purchase Agreement for Company in accordance with this Section 2(c).
(e) Notwithstanding any Registrable Securities then other provision of this Agreement, if any Commission guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of shares of the Company’s capital stock to be registered in the Registration Statement), the number of Shares to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced on a pro rata basis among the Holders based on the total number of unregistered Shares held by such Holder. If each Holder without penalty to the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section The Company shall file a new registration statement as soon as reasonably practicable covering the resale by the Holders of not less than the number of shares of such Shares that are not registered in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an EventRegistration Statement.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Barfresh Food Group Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Barfresh Food Group Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 S-1 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3S-1, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If for any reason the Commission does not permit all of the Shares to be included in the Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a), then the Registrable Securities that are included in such offering shall be allocated among the Holders in proportion (as nearly as practicable) to the number of Registrable Securities owned by each Holder, or in such other proportions as shall mutually be agreed to by all such Holders. To facilitate the allocation of shares in accordance with the above provisions, the Company may round the number of shares allocated to any Holder to the nearest 100 shares. If for any reason the Commission does not permit all of the Shares to be included in the Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a) or for any other reason any Registrable Securities are not then included in a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement, then the Company shall prepare and file as soon as possible after the date on which the Commission shall indicate as being the first date or time that such filing may be made, but in any event by its Filing Date, an additional Registration Statement covering the resale of all Registrable Securities not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. Each such Registration Statement shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) the "Plan of Distribution" attached hereto as Annex A. The Company shall use its best efforts to cause each such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as possible but, in any event, no later than its Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act during its entire Effectiveness Period.
(c) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) hereof, the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 30 calendar days (the “Response Date”) after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iviii) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the its Effectiveness Date, or (viv) after during the Effectiveness Period, a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any and all such case 10 consecutive days but no cases for more than an aggregate of 15 days 20 Trading Days (the “Grace Period”) during any 12 12-month period during the Effectiveness Period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iviii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period 30 calendar days is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (viv) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, 20 Trading Days is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01.5% of the aggregate purchase price Investment Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price Investment Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1510% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event, except in the case of the first Event Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any day on which a Force Majeure has occurred or is continuing shall not count toward the calculation of the number of days for the Filing Date, the Effectiveness Date, the Response Date and a Grace Period.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Soligenix, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Dor Biopharma Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration Statement shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Major Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject The Company shall cause the Registration Statement to the terms of this Agreement, the become effective and remain effective as provided herein. The Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement (a) have been sold pursuant to the Registration Statement or an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act or (b) may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the a Major Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)); provided, however, that if a Holder fails to provide the Company with any information that is required to be provided in the Registration Statement with respect to such Holder pursuant to Section 3(k), then the Filing Date shall be extended until two Trading Days following the date of receipt by the Company of such required information, or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 fifteen Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period cases twenty-five Trading Days (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any days) in the aggregate during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 fifteen Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day periodtwenty-five Trading Day period is exceeded, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.02% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Securities Purchase Agreement (Cortex Pharmaceuticals Inc/De/), Securities Purchase Agreement (Cortex Pharmaceuticals Inc/De/)
Registration. (a) 2.1 On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective effective, subject to Sections 3(c), 3(i) and 6(d) below, under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) 2.2 If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by complying with Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further reviewreview (unless the Company provides notice to the Holders of a circumstance contemplated by Section 3(c)(vi) that would make it appropriate to suspend the filing of the Registration Statement and the related Prospectus for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 10 Trading Days), or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 15 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 30 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period (or, if there is a delay in filing as a result of a circumstance contemplated by Section 3(c)(vi), 10 Trading Day period) is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 15 or 15 30 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; provided, however, that under no circumstances shall the Company be required to pay hereunder to any Holder during any one month period in excess of an aggregate of 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section 2(b) in full within seven days 10 Trading Days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Securities Purchase Agreement (First Virtual Communications Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (First Virtual Communications Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best all reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best all reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on the same day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission. Failure to so notify the Holder within 1 Trading Day of such notification shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(b). The Company shall, within 2 Trading Days of the day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission, file a Form 424(b)(5), to the extent a Form 424(b) filing is legally required, with the Commission.
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 20 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 30 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 60 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day 20 calendar day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 30 or 15 60 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , then, on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Tripath Technology Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Tripath Technology Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 15 calendar consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period calendar days is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 calendar day period, as applicable, period is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; provided, however, with respect to liquidated damages that accrue pursuant to clause (iv), the rate at which liquidated damages will accrue during the first 30 days following the Effectiveness Date shall be 1.0%. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, liquidated damages shall be the sole and exclusive remedy of a Holder with respect to any Events that occur hereunder prior to the 8 month anniversary of the date hereof but shall be in addition to any other rights such Holder may have under applicable law after such 8 month anniversary.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Mace Security International Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Mace Security International Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to Not later than the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering on Form S-1 relating to the resale of by the Holders all (or such other number as the Commission will permit) of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415Securities. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e); with respect to filing on Form S-1 or other appropriate form, and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to the payment of liquidated damages; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included by any Person other than a Holder;
c. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Conversion Shares (applied, in the case that some Conversion Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Conversion Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Holder’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(d) If: (i) a the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) herein, the Company shall not be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the effective date when such of a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionStatement, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days ten (10) calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the Effectiveness DateDate of the Initial Registration Statement, or (v) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days but no or more than an aggregate of 15 fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or and (iv) ), the date on which such Event occurs, or and for purposes purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day ten (10) calendar day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (v) the date on which such 10 ten (10) or 15 fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to the product of 1.0% of multiplied by the aggregate purchase price Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(e) If Form S-1 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-1 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-1 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Force Protection Video Equipment Corp.), Registration Rights Agreement (Force Protection Video Equipment Corp.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all 100% of the Registrable Securities on such Filing Date for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415; provided, however, if the number of Registrable Securities shall equal or exceed 30% of the issued and outstanding Common Stock on the actual filing date of the initial Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), then the initial Registration Statement shall register a number of shares which shall be 10,000 shares less than the number of shares which is 30% of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such actual filing date, and the remaining Registrable Securities shall be subject to Section 3(c)(ii). In such event, the number of shares to be registered for each Holder shall be reduced pro-rata among all Holders. Each Holder shall have the right to designate which of its Registrable Securities shall be eliminated from such initial Registration Statement (the “Cutback Shares”). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 S-1 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3S-1, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by at least an 85% majority in interest of the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold sold, or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 without any restrictions or limitations and without the requirement to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1), as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. New York City time on a Trading Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile or electronic mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of a Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. New York City time on the Trading Day after the Effective Date (as defined in the Purchase Agreement), file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424. Failure to so notify the Holder within 1 Trading Day of such notification of effectiveness or failure to file a final Prospectus as foresaid shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(b).
(b) If: If (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) herein, the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commissionits Effectiveness Date, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 10 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the by its Effectiveness Date, or (v) after the Effectiveness Date, a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, Securities for in any such case more than 10 consecutive calendar days but no or more than an aggregate of 15 30 calendar days during any 12 12-month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any calendar days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day 10 calendar day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 30 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderHolder (2) in no event will the Company be liable for liquidated damages under this Agreement in excess of 1.5% of the aggregate Subscription Amount of the Holders in any 30-day period and (3) the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to a Holder under this Agreement shall be eighteen percent (18%) of the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Blue Sky Media Corp), Securities Purchase Agreement (Blue Sky Media Corp)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the The Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all 125% of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 SB-2 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3SB-2, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall immediately notify the Holders of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on the same day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission. Failure to so notify the Holder within 1 Trading Day of such notification shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(b).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, ; or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commissionits Effectiveness Date, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 30 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, ; or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the by its Effectiveness Date, ; or (v) after the Effectiveness Date, a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, Securities for in any such case 10 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 calendar days during any 12 12-month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause (iii) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day 30 calendar day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to outstanding principal of the Purchase Agreement Notes for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderHolder for the first 30 days (or part thereof) after the 30th or 90th day, as the case may be, and an additional 1.5% for any subsequent 30-day period (or part thereof), thereafter. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Worldwater Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Worldwater Corp)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the No later than each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Subject to the provisions of Section 2(d), each Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be F-3 or on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder , and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by at least 85% in interest of the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such Holder’s express prior written consent. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when that all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed addressed, delivered and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Depositary and Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) . The Company shall request effectiveness of a Registration Statement is not filed on telephonically or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission submitting a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under pursuant to the Securities Act, within five in either case as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Days Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders by e-mail of the date effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company is notified telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. (orally or New York City time) on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424.
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in writingSection 2(a), whichever is earlier) if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form F-3 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to filing on Form F-3 or other appropriate form, provided, however, that, prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included other than Registrable Securities;
b. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by the Warrant Shares underlying the Warrants (applied, in the case that some Warrant Shares underlying the Warrants may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Warrant Shares underlying the Warrants held by such Holders); and
c. Third, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by the Ordinary Shares underlying the ADSs (applied, in the case that some Ordinary Shares underlying the ADSs may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Ordinary Shares underlying the ADSs held by such Holders). In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such H▇▇▇▇▇’s allotment. Subject to Section 2(d), in the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form F-3 (or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in the event Form F-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form F-3 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to on Form F-3 covering the date when such Registration Statement is first Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in no event shall the Company fails be permitted to file name any Holder or affiliate of a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by Holder as any “underwriter” without the Commission in respect prior written consent of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Securities Purchase Agreement (Evaxion Biotech a/S), Registration Rights Agreement (Evaxion Biotech a/S)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities on such Filing Date for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by at least an 85% majority in interest of the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the sooner of the second anniversary of the date when of such effectiveness or the date that all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold sold, or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 415, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the amount of Registrable Securities required to be included in the Registration Statement is as described in this Section 2 shall not filed on or prior to exceed the Filing Date (if the Company files maximum amount of Registrable Securities which may be included in a Registration Statement without affording exceeding registration limitations imposed by the Holder SEC pursuant to Rule 415 under the opportunity to review and comment Securities Act (the “Rule 415 Amount”). In the event that less than all of the Registrable Securities are included in the Registration Statement as a result of such limitations, then the Company will file additional Registration Statements each registering the Rule 415 Amount, seriatim, until all of the Registrable Securities have been registered. The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of the Registration Statement as of 5:00 pm Eastern time on a Trading Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of the Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 am Eastern time on the second Trading Day after the Filing Date, file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Section 3(a), Rule 424. All selling shareholders included on the Company applicable Registration Statement shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days given notice of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect effectiveness of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after substantially at the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Eventsame time.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (CNS Response, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (CNS Response, Inc.)
Registration. As soon as possible following the Closing Date (a) On or prior to but not later than the Filing Date), the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a "shelf" Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an a secondary or resale offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except or if such form is not available to the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another form appropriate form for such registration in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than one hundred and twenty (120) days after the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Closing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file including filing with the Commission a request for acceleration of effectiveness in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, Act within five Trading (5) Business Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not be subject to further review, or ) and to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until such date as is the earlier of (iiix) prior to the date when all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, have been sold or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (ivy) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (iithe Registrable Securities may be sold without any restriction pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred counsel to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter, addressed to the Company's transfer agent to such effect (the "Effectiveness Period"). Upon the initial filing thereof, the Registration Statement shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0cover at least 100% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to shares of Common Stock for issuance upon the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; conversion of the Preferred Stock and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0100% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant shares of Common Stock for issuance upon the exercise of the Warrants. Such Registration Statement also shall cover, to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable extent allowable under the Securities then held by Act and the Rules promulgated thereunder (including Securities Act Rule 416), such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payableindeterminate number of additional shares of Common Stock resulting from stock splits, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (stock dividends or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) similar transactions with respect to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an EventRegistrable Securities.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investor Rights Agreement (Genetronics Biomedical Corp), Investor Rights Agreement (Transmeridian Exploration Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior At any time and from time to time following the Filing DateInitial Expiration Time, the Company shall agrees that upon the written request of the Investor (a “Demand Registration”), it will as promptly as reasonably practical prepare and file with a registration statement (a “Registration Statement”) under the Commission Securities Act as to the number of shares of Registrable Securities specified in such request; provided, however, that (i) the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than one Demand Registration Statement covering the resale of all of in any 180-day period and (ii) the Registrable Securities of the Investor (and any of its permitted transferees holding Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 5.01) for an offering which a Demand Registration has been requested shall have a value (based on the average closing price per share of Common Stock for the ten trading days preceding the delivery of the Investor’s request for such Demand Registration) of not less than $5,000,000. Each such request for a Demand Registration shall specify the number of shares of Registrable Securities proposed to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder offered for sale and shall be on Form S-3 (except also specify the intended method of distribution thereof; provided, however, that the Investor may change such number if such change shall not materially adversely affect the Company is timing or success of the offering, so long as such change does not then eligible to register for resale the result in less than $5,000,000 of Registrable Securities on Form S-3, being included in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). Statement.
(b) The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain Company agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts (except if otherwise directed by the Holdersi) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the any Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible reasonably practicable after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, thereof and shall use its best efforts (ii) to keep such Registration Statement effective for a period of not less than 75 days, or, if earlier, the period sufficient to complete the distribution of the Registrable Securities. The Company further agrees to supplement or make amendments to the Registration Statement continuously as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement effective under for the Securities Act until period set forth in clause (ii) above. Upon the date expiration of the time period set forth in clause (ii) above, a Demand Registration shall count as a completed Demand Registration for purposes of determining when all future Demand Registrations which can be requested pursuant to this Section 3.01, subject to paragraph (e) below.
(c) In the event an offering of shares of Registrable Securities covered involves one or more Underwriters, the Investor shall select the lead Underwriter and any additional Underwriters in connection with the offering from a list of nationally-recognized investment banks reasonably agreed to between the Company and the Investor.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.01, the Investor may not request a Demand Registration within the 90-day period after a Registration Statement for Common Stock has been filed by the Company (for its own account or for any other security holders) with and declared effective by the SEC, unless such Registration Statement has been withdrawn; provided, however, the forgoing limitation will not apply if the Investor was not given the opportunity, in accordance with Section 3.02, to include its Registrable Securities in the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”described in this Section 3.01(d).
(be) If: (i) Any Investor Party holding Registrable Securities included in a Registration Statement is not filed on shall be permitted to remove all or any part of the Registrable Securities held by it from any Registration Statement at any time prior to the Filing Date (if effective date of the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell covering such Registrable Securities; provided, for in any however, that such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to Demand Registration shall nonetheless count as an “Event,” and a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages determining when future Demand Registrations can be requested pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after 3.01, unless the date payable, Investor reimburses the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or for all registration expenses incurred by the Company in connection with such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Eventwithdrawn Demand Registration.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investor Rights Agreement (DHT Holdings, Inc.), Investment Agreement (DHT Holdings, Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the 2.1 The Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the register for resale of some or all (depending on the limitations set out in this Agreement) of the Registrable Securities with the Commission simultaneous with the filing of a registration statement with the Commission for an the initial public offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be of shares of the Company’s ordinary shares on Form S-3 F-1 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. F-1”).
2.2 Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) 2.3 If the registration is being made pursuant to a registered public offering that is to be made by underwriter(s), the Company shall so advise the Holders of the Registrable Securities eligible for inclusion in such Registration Statement pursuant to Section 3. In that event, the right of any Holder to registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in such registered public offering to the extent provided herein. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if at any time the SEC takes the position that the offering of some or all of the Registrable Securities in a Registration Statement is not filed eligible to be made on a delayed or prior to continuous basis under the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with provisions of Rule 461 promulgated 415 under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to persuade the SEC that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) offering contemplated by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective a valid secondary offering and not an offering “by or on behalf of the Commissionissuer” as defined in Rule 415. The Holder shall have the right to participate in any meetings or discussions regarding the SEC’s position and to comment on any written submission made to the SEC with respect thereto. In the event that, despite the Company’s commercially reasonable efforts and compliance with the terms of this Section 2(c), the Company fails SEC refuses to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is curedalter its position, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% (i) remove from the Registration Statement such portion of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by (the “Cut Back Shares”) and/or (ii) agree to such restrictions and limitations on the registration and resale of the Registrable Securities as the SEC may require to assure the Company’s compliance with the requirements of Rule 415 (collectively, the “SEC Restrictions”); provided however, that the Company shall not agree to name any Holder as an “underwriter” in such Registration Statement without the prior written consent of such Holder. If The Company shall so advise all Holders (except those Holders who failed to timely elect to include their Registrable Securities or have indicated to the Company fails their decision not to pay any liquidated damages pursuant do so), and indicate to this Section each such Holder the number of shares of Registrable Securities that may be included in full within seven days after the registration. The number of ordinary shares that may be included in the F-1, subject to the SEC Restrictions if any, shall be allocated first to the Company and then, subject to obligations and commitments existing as of the date payablehereof, to all selling stockholders, including the Company will pay interest thereon at Holders, who have requested to sell in the registration on a rate pro rata basis according to the number of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted shares requested to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Eventincluded therein.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Private Placement Subscription Agreement (Fuqin Fintech LTD), Private Placement Subscription Agreement (Fuqin Fintech LTD)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if unless the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by the HoldersHolders and except to the extent the Company determines that modifications thereto are required under applicable law) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than prior to the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two years after the date that the Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall notify the Holders via facsimile within one (1) Trading Day of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on the same day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission.
(b) If: (i) a the Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a the Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionEffectiveness Date, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such the Registration Statement within 15 10 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a the Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a the Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a the Effectiveness Date, the Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, Securities for 10 consecutive Trading Days or in any such individual case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days Trading Days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 10 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day Trading Day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) then, on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each every monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) thereof until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% per month of (i) the aggregate purchase price Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder and covered (or to be covered) by the Registration Statement, and (ii) if the Warrants are “in the money” and then held by the Holder, the value of any outstanding Warrants (valued at the difference between the average Closing Price during the applicable month and the Exercise Price multiplied by the number of shares of Common Stock the Warrants are exercisable into). If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Wave Systems Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Wave Systems Corp)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the The Company shall prepare and file with the Commission within 60 days following the Registration Statement covering the resale of Closing and use all of the Registrable Securities for an offering reasonable efforts to be made on have declared effective as soon as practicable thereafter, a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be registration statement on Form S-3 (except or, if the Company is not then eligible to register use Form S-3, then another appropriate form) providing for the resale by the Holders of all of the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case (the "Shelf Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewithStatement"). The Shelf Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed may include securities other than those held by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and . Cellegy shall use its best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective under effective, pursuant to the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations promulgated thereunder, until (i) the date when all such Registrable Securities covered by cease to meet the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions definition of Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i))7.1, or (ii) the Company's obligations hereunder terminate; provided, however:
(i) that the Holders will sell the Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration only during a "Permitted Window" (as defined below);
(ii) if the Company fails furnishes to file the Holders a certificate signed by the President or Chief Executive Officer 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 sales to be made from such Shelf Registration Statement at such time (or, in the case a "Notice of Resale" (as defined below) has been given, that would be seriously detrimental to the Company and its shareholders for the Permitted Window to commence at such time) due to (A) the existence of a material development or potential material development involving the Company which the Company would be obligated to disclose in the Prospectus contained in the Shelf Registration Statement, which disclosure would in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company be premature or otherwise inadvisable at such time or (B) concurrent public filings with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under of other registration statements, then the Securities Act, within five Trading Days Company will have the right to defer the filing (the "Deferral Right") of the Shelf Registration Statement (or the commencement of the Permitted Window, as the case may be) for a period of not more than 60 days after the date it would otherwise be required to file the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 7.2(a) (or after receipt of the Notice of Resale, as the case may be); provided, however, that the Company is notified (orally or will not utilize the Deferral Right more than once in writingany twelve month period; and provided further, whichever is earlier) by however, that the Commission that a Company may defer the filing of the Shelf Registration Statement (or the commencement of the Permitted Window as the case may be) for up to 180 days if so requested by an underwriter in connection with an underwritten offering of the Company's securities so long as any selling shareholders in such underwritten offering are subject to a lock-up agreement of the same duration (other than with respect to the Company securities to be sold by such selling shareholders in such underwritten offering); and
(iii) that the Company will not be “reviewed,” required to effect any such registration, qualification or is not subject compliance under applicable state blue sky laws in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would thereby be required to further review, qualify to do business or (iii) prior to execute a general consent to service of process. In the date when such event that the Shelf Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required shall cease to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages promptly prepare and not as file a penalty, equal to 2.0% of new registration statement covering the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by and shall use its best efforts to have such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each registration statement declared effective as soon as possible. Any such Event Date (if the applicable Event registration statement shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as be considered a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event"Shelf Registration Statement" hereunder.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Common Stock Purchase Agreement (Four Partners), Common Stock Purchase Agreement (Cellegy Pharmaceuticals Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 S-1 or SB-2 at the Company’s election (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3S-1 or SB-2, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on the same day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission. Failure to so notify the Holder within 1 Trading Day of such notification shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(b).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective[intentionally omitted], or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , then, on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Stinger Systems, Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Stinger Systems, Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all 150% of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on the same day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission. Failure to so notify the Holder within 1 Trading Day of such notification shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(b).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 20 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 20 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 30 calendar days, or 45 calendar days in the event that the reason that such Registration Statement is not effective is the result of the fact that the Company has entered into a merger or strategic acquisition, during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day 20 calendar day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 20, 30 or 15 45 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , then, on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 0.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Global National Communications Corp.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to Not later than the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a draft Registration Statement covering on Form S-1 relating to the resale by the Holders of all of (or such other number as the Commission will permit) the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415Securities. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its best efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e); with respect to filing on Form S-1 or other appropriate form, and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to the payment of liquidated damages; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
i. First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included by any Person other than a Holder; and
ii. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by the Shares (applied, in the case that some Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least three (3) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Holder’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(d) If: (i) a the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a the Initial Registration Statement without affording giving the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) herein, the Company shall not be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five (5) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the effective date when such of a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionStatement, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 ten (10) Trading Days Days, after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the Effectiveness DateDate of the Initial Registration Statement, or (v) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 more than ten (10) consecutive days but no Trading Days or more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period fifteen (15) Trading Days (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or and (iv) ), the date on which such Event occurs, or and for purposes purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (iii) the date which such 15 fifteen (15) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (v) the date on which such 10 ten (10) or 15 day fifteen (15) Trading Day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% equal to the product of one-half of one percent (0.5%) multiplied by the aggregate purchase price Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderInvestment Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% eighteen percent (18%) per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. The Company shall not be liable for liquidated damages under this Agreement as to any Registrable Securities which are not permitted by the Commission to be included in a Registration Statement due solely to the Commission’s guidance on Rule 415 from the time that it is determined that such Registrable Securities are not permitted to be registered until such time as the provisions of this Agreement as to the additional Registration Statements required to be filed hereunder are triggered, in which case the provisions of this Section 2(d) shall once again apply. In such case, the liquidated damages shall be calculated to only apply to the percentage of Registrable Securities which are permitted in accordance with Rule 415 to be included in such Registration Statement.
(e) If Form S-1 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-1 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-1 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Intercloud Systems, Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five two Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) writing by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 20 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 calendar consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five two (2) Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period 20 calendar days is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such applicable Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.01.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1512% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Focus Enhancements Inc)
Registration. The Company covenants and agrees:
(a) On or prior At any time and from time to time, the Holder may make a written request to the Filing DateCompany (a "Demand Notice") that the Company register the offer and sale of all or any part of the Holder's Registrable Securities under the 1933 Act ( a "Demand Registration"). Upon receipt of a Demand Notice, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to file within 60 days after the date of the Demand Notice a Registration Statement with the SEC registering the Registrable Securities included in the Demand Notice for resale. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective by the SEC within 120 days after the date of the Demand Notice. Such reasonable best efforts shall include, but not be limited to, promptly responding to all comments received from the staff of the SEC. Should the Company receive notification from the SEC that the Registration Statement will receive no action or no review from the SEC, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the cause such Registration Statement covering the resale to become effective within five business days of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415such SEC notification. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed Once declared effective by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this AgreementSEC, the Company shall use all reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to remain continuously effective throughout the Registration Period. Notwithstanding anything in this section 2(a) to the contrary, the Holder shall be entitled to no more than two Demand Registrations.
(b) The offering of such Registrable Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement shall be in the form of either an underwritten offering or through the use of brokers or in privately negotiated transactions, in either case as selected by the Holder within no more than five (5) business days following the date of the Demand Notice. In the event that the Holder elects that the offering be an underwritten offering, the Company and the Holder shall enter into a customary underwriting agreement with such underwriter(s) (and the Holder may at its best option require that the representations, warranties and covenants of the Company to or for the benefit of the underwriter(s) also are made for the benefit of the Holder).
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may delay in filing the Registration Statement and may withhold efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereofbecome effective, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to if the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to determines in good faith that such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: registration will (i) a Registration Statement materially and adversely interfere with or affect the negotiation or completion of any actual or pending material transaction that is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if being contemplated by the Company files (whether or not a Registration Statement without affording final decision has been made to undertake such transaction) at the Holder time the opportunity right to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i))delay or withhold efforts is exercised, or (ii) involve initial or continuing disclosure obligations that are not in the best interests of the Company's stockholders. The Company may exercise such right to delay or withhold efforts not more than once and for not more than sixty (60) days. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary that may be contained in this Agreement, if the Company fails exercises its right to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally delay or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commissionwithhold efforts, the Company fails shall use its reasonable best efforts to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by have the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required declared effective, as the case may be, at the earliest practicable date after the Company's reasons for delaying or withholding efforts are no longer applicable (but subject to the time limitation in the immediately preceding sentence).
(d) Whenever the Company proposes to register (including on behalf of a selling stockholder) any of its securities under the 1933 Act (except for the registration of securities to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by offered pursuant to an employee benefit plan on Form S-8 or pursuant to a registration made on Form S-4, or any successor forms) at any time other than pursuant to a Demand Registration and the Commission on or before registration form to be used may be used for the Effectiveness Dateregistration of the Registrable Securities (a "Piggyback Registration"), it will so notify the Holder in writing no later than the earlier to occur of (i) the tenth (10th) day following the Company's receipt of notice of exercise of other demand registration rights, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant 30 days prior to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary anticipated date of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant filing. Subject to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payableprovisions of section 2(f), the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of include in the Piggyback Registration all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion from the Holder with fifteen (15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to business days after the Holder, accruing daily from 's receipt of the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in fullCompany's notice. The liquidated damages pursuant to Holder may withdraw all or any part of the terms hereof shall apply on Registrable Securities from a daily pro-rata basis for Piggyback Registration at any portion of a month time before ten (10) business days prior to the cure effective date of the Piggyback Registration. The Company, the Holder and any person who hereafter becomes entitled to register its securities in a registration initiated by the Company shall sell their securities on the same terms and conditions.
(e) If the managing underwriter gives the Company its written opinion that the total number of securities requested to be included in the Piggyback Registration exceeds the number of securities that can be sold, the Company will include the securities in the registration in the following order of priority: (i) first, all securities the Company or the shareholder for whom the Company is effecting the registration, as the case may be, proposes to sell; (ii) second, up to the full number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration; and (iii) third, any other securities requested to be included, allocated among the holders of such securities in such proportions as the Company and those holders may agree.
(f) If any Piggyback Registration is an Eventunderwritten offering, the Company and the Holder shall enter into a customary underwriting agreement with the underwriter(s) administering the offering. The Holder may not participate in any Piggyback Registration without (i) agreeing to sell securities on the basis provided in the underwriting arrangements approved by the Company, and (ii) completing all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents required by the underwriting arrangements.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Credit Agreement (E-Dentist Com Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review; provided, however, that between five and ten Trading Days of the receipt of such "no review" notice, if the Company has failed to file a request for acceleration, then the Company shall only be required, on each such Trading Day, to pay a pro-rata portion of the liquidated damages due on the Event Date, as set forth in this Section 2(b), or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 30 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 60 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 30 or 15 60 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Mpower Holding Corp)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 SB-2 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3SB-2, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (vii) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 20 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 30 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (ivii) the date on which such Event occurs, is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, 20 or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 30 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) as Purchasers’ exclusive remedy, on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if an Event or the continuation of an Event is caused solely as a result of an act or omission by a Holder, the Company shall not be liable to pay liquidated damages to such Holder that otherwise would result on account of such Event or continuation of an Event.
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Registration. (a) On or prior to the No later than each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Subject to the provisions of Section 2(d), each Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be F-3 or on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder , and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by at least 85% in interest of the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such Holder’s express prior written consent. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when that all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed addressed, delivered and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Depositary and Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) . The Company shall request effectiveness of a Registration Statement is not filed on telephonically or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission submitting a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under pursuant to the Securities Act, within five in either case as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Days Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders by e-mail of the date effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company is notified telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. (orally or in writingNew York City time) on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, whichever is earlier) by file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424.
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective as required by the Commission, covering the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect maximum number of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement Registrable Securities permitted to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective registered by the Commission, it ceases on Form F-3 or such other form available to register for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all resale the Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penaltysecondary offering, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant subject to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to filing on Form F-3 or other appropriate form, provided, however, that, prior to filing such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is curedamendment, the Company shall pay be obligated to each Holder an amount use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in cashaccordance with the SEC Guidance, as liquidated damages including without limitation, Compliance and not Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a penaltysecondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), 2.0% unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the aggregate purchase price paid Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included other than Registrable Securities;
b. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by such Holder pursuant the Warrant Shares underlying the Warrants (applied, in the case that some Warrant Shares underlying the Warrants may be registered, to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Warrant Shares underlying the Warrants held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.Holders); and
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Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall use its best efforts to prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” "PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION" attached hereto as Annex ANNEX A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”"EFFECTIVENESS PERIOD").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (viv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 25 calendar consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 40 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Days) (subject to tolling extension as provided by Section 3(k))(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event"EVENT,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (viv) the date on which such 10 25 or 15 40 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”"EVENT DATE"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cashand, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Implant Sciences Corp)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject The Company shall cause the Registration Statement to the terms of this Agreement, the become effective and remain effective as provided herein. The Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 10 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 cases 15 Trading Days (which need not be consecutive days but no more than an days) in the aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause clauses (iii) the date which such 15 10 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, Trading Day period is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.02% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Registration. (a) On or prior to The Sponsor and SPAC shall ensure that the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: Investor Shares (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if extent feasible and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations shall be registered for resale as part of any registration statement issuing shares before or in connection with the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i))De-SPAC Closing, or (ii) the Company fails to file if no such registration statement is filed in connection with the Commission a request De-SPAC Closing, shall promptly be registered for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under resale pursuant to the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) first registration statement filed by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not SPAC or the surviving entity following the De-SPAC Closing, which shall be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to filed no later than 45 days after the date when such Registration Statement is first De-SPAC Closing and declared effective by the Commission, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission no later than 150 days after the Company fails De-SPAC Closing (the “Registration Requirement”). The SPAC or the surviving entity following the De-SPAC Closing will use its commercially reasonable efforts to file provide a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect draft of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after registration statement to the receipt Investor for review at least two (2) business days in advance of comments by filing the registration statement; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall the SPAC or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to surviving entity following the De-SPAC Closing be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder delay or postpone the filing of such registration statement as a result of or in connection with Investor’s review. Without modifying the foregoing and in furtherance of Sponsor and SPAC’s obligations under this Section 1.4, upon the reasonable request of Sponsor or SPAC, Investor agrees to (and shall cause any of its permitted assigns to agree to), solely in relation to the Subscription Shares, enter into a joinder agreement relating to any registration or investor rights agreement (each a “Joinder”) which the Sponsor is not declared effective by or becomes subject to, as at the Commission on or before De-SPAC Closing. If the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it Investor is required to enter into a Joinder, then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary, Investor shall be effectivereleased with respect to the Subscription Shares from any transfer or lock-up restrictions under the relevant underlying agreements to the same extent as any other holder of SPAC founder shares, (including the Sponsor) is released from such restrictions. Except as envisaged by this Agreement, the Sponsor shall not sell, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any SPAC securities owned by the Holders are not permitted Sponsor until the Capital Investment has been repaid to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable SecuritiesInvestor as a return of capital, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period the Investor Shares have been transferred or issued (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from Investor and the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an EventRegistration Requirement has been complied with.
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Sources: Subscription Agreement (Armada Acquisition Corp. I)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 SB-2 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3SB-2, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (viv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , then, on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderHolder based on the per Unit based on the per Unit Purchase Price. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1512% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if an Event or the continuation of an Event is caused solely as a result of an act or omission by a Holder, the Company shall not be liable to pay liquidated damages to such Holder that otherwise would result on account of such Event or continuation of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc.)
Registration. As soon as possible following the Closing Date (a) On or prior to but not later than the Filing Date), the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a “shelf” Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an a secondary or resale offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except or if such form is not available to the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another form appropriate form for such registration in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than ninety (90) days after the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Closing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file including filing with the Commission a request for acceleration of effectiveness in accordance with Rule 461 12dl-2 promulgated under the Securities Act, Exchange Act within five Trading (5) Business Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not be subject to further review, or ) and to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until such date as is the earlier of (iiix) prior to the date when all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement is first declared effective have been sold or (y) with respect to any Holder, such time as all Registrable Securities held by such Holder may be sold without any restriction pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the Commission, counsel to the Company fails pursuant to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing written opinion letter, addressed to comments made by the Commission in respect of Company’s transfer agent to such effect (the “Effectiveness Period”). Such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after also shall cover, to the receipt extent allowable under the Securities Act and the Rules promulgated thereunder (including Securities Act Rule 416), such indeterminate number of comments by additional shares of Common Stock resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or notice from similar transactions with respect to the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registrable Securities. The Registration Statement filed or required in accordance with Section 2 may include other shares of the Company with respect to be filed hereunder is which registration rights have been granted, and may include shares of the Company being sold for the account of the Company; provided, however, that such inclusions do not declared effective by adversely affect the Commission on or before registration of the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Investor Rights Agreement (Biosante Pharmaceuticals Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the HoldersHolders or the Commission) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five (5) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days fifteen (15) calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 fifteen (15) calendar consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12 twelve (12) month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period ten (10) calendar days is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 ten (10) or 15 fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to two percent (2.0% %) of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to two percent (2.0% %) of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days Trading Days after the date such amount is payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% eighteen percent (18%) per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415415 or the relevant provisions permitting the filing of a Registration Statement by a foreign private issuer. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 F-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3F-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of -------- Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this ------------ ------- Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”"). The Company shall immediately notify the --------------------- Holders via facsimile of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on the same day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission. Failure to so notify the Holder within 1 Trading Day of such notification shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(b).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 20 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day 20 calendar day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any ---------- other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , then, on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% during the first two months that an Event continues and thereafter 2.0% monthly of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; provided, however, if -------- ------- the Company files another registration Statement prior to the Effective Date of the Registration Statement, liquidated damages, if any, that accrue prior to the Effective Date of the Registration Statement shall be 2% per month until the Effective Date, notwithstanding the foregoing provision. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) If the Company issues additional Shares pursuant to Section 4.15 of the Purchase Agreement (such date, the "Additional Registration ------------------------ Date"), then the Company shall file as soon as reasonably practicable but ---- in any case prior to the 45th day after the Additional Registration Date, an additional Registration Statement covering the resale by the Holders of all of such Shares and cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective within 120 days of the Additional Registration Date. Such filing date and date to be effective shall be deemed Filing Dates and Effectiveness Dates for purposes of determining liquidated damages on such Registrable Securities.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Sinovac Biotech LTD)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415415 (or any successor or similar provision adopted by the Commission then in effect). The Each Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company or such other appropriate form of registration statement as is not then eligible available to register for resale the effect a registration of Registrable Securities subject to the provisions of Section 2(e), and shall contain a Prospectus in such form as to permit the Holders to sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415 under the 1933 Act (or any successor or similar provision adopted by the SEC then in effect) beginning on Form S-3, in which case the effective date for such Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith)Statement. The Each Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” and “Selling Shareholder” sections, forms of which are attached hereto as Annex A. A and Annex B, respectively; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such H▇▇▇▇▇’s express prior written consent. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act Act, and to be supplemented and amended to the extent necessary to ensure that such Registration Statement is available or, if not available, that another Registration Statement is available, for the resale of all the Registrable Securities held by the Holders until the date when that all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day. The Company shall promptly notify the Holders by e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424. Failure to so notify the Holder within one (1) Trading Day of such notification of effectiveness or failure to file a final Prospectus as foresaid shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(d). When effective, a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 2(a) (including the documents incorporated therein by reference) will comply as to form in all material respects with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of any Prospectus or supplement thereto, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its best efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e); with respect to filing on Form S-3 or other appropriate form; and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to the payment of liquidated damages; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included other than Registrable Securities; and
b. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by the Common Warrant Shares (applied, in the case that some Common Warrant Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Common Warrant Shares held by such Holders).
c. Third, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by the Shares and Pre-Funded Warrant Shares (applied, in the case that some Shares and Pre-Funded Warrant Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Shares and Pre-Funded Warrant Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least three (3) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such H▇▇▇▇▇’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(d) If: (i) a the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) herein or the Company subsequent withdraws the filing of the Registration Statement, the Company shall not be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)) as of the Filing Date), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the effective date when such of a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionStatement, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days ten (10) calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the Effectiveness DateDate of the Initial Registration Statement (provided that, if the Registration Statement does not allow for the resale of Registrable Securities at prevailing market prices (i.e., only allows for fixed price sales), the Company shall have been deemed to have not satisfied this clause) or (v) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days but no or more than an aggregate of 15 fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or and (iv) ), the date on which such Event occurs, or and for purposes purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day ten (10) calendar day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (v) the date on which such 10 ten (10) or 15 fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to the product of 2.0% of multiplied by the aggregate purchase price Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(e) If Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in no event shall the Company be permitted to name any Holder or affiliate of a Holder as any “underwriter” without the prior written consent of such Holder.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (INVO Fertility, Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 S-1 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder Form S-3) and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by at least 85% in interest of the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. A and substantially the “Selling Securityholder” section attached hereto as Annex B; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such Holder’s express prior written consent. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when that all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile or by e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424.
(b) If: (i) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 3(a2(d); provided, however, that, prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall not be deemed obligated to have satisfied use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this clause Agreement, if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (i)and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), or (ii) unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the Company fails shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included other than Registrable Securities;
b. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by the Warrant Shares (applied, in the case that some Warrant Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Warrant Shares held by such Holders); and
c. Third, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Shares (applied, in the case that some Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Holder’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that or SEC Guidance provided to the Company is notified or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(orally or in writing, whichever is earlierd) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior Notwithstanding anything to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commissioncontrary contained herein, in no event shall the Company fails be permitted to file name any Holder or affiliate of a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by Holder as any Underwriter without the Commission in respect prior written consent of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (IntelGenx Technologies Corp.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, Date the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Company shall cause the Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith)become effective and remain effective as provided herein. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and . The Company shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is the earlier of when (i) all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or (ii) all Registrable Securities may be sold immediately without registration under the Securities Act and without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) ), as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) Within three business days after the Effective Date of a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)Statement, the Company shall not cause its counsel to issue a blanket opinion in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, to its transfer agent stating that the Registrable Securities are subject to an effective registration statement and can be deemed to reissued free of restrictive legend upon notice of a sale by the Purchaser and confirmation by the Purchaser that they have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file complied with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Actprospectus delivery requirements, within five Trading Days of the date provided that the Company is notified (has not advised the transfer agent orally or in writing, whichever is earlierwriting that the opinion has been withdrawn. Copies of the blanket opinion required by this Section 2(b) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not shall be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior delivered to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by Purchaser within the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month time period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Eventset forth above.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Conversion Services International Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the previously unregistered Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the each Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any no event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the each Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two years after the date that such Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a any Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a such Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) hereof, the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) the Company fails to respond to any comments made by the Commission within ten Trading Days after the receipt of such comments (or 15 Trading Days with respect to comments regarding solely to accounting matters), or (iv) after its Effective Date, such Registration Statement ceases to be effective and available to the Holders thereunder as to all Registrable Securities to which it is required to relate (whether upon the delivery of an Advice pursuant to Section 6(d) or otherwise) at any time prior to the date when expiration of its Effectiveness Period without being succeeded within fifteen Trading Days by an amendment to such Registration Statement is first or by a subsequent Registration Statement filed with and declared effective by the Commission, or (v) an amendment to a Registration Statement is not filed by the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by with the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 fifteen Trading Days after of the receipt of comments by or notice from Commission's notifying the Commission Company that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (ivvi) the Common Stock is not listed or quoted, or is suspended from trading on the Nasdaq National Market or another Trading Market for a period of three Trading Days (which need not be consecutive Trading Days), or (vii) the conversion or exercise rights of the Holders pursuant to the Debentures or Warrants, as the case may be, are suspended for any reason, or (viii) any Registration Statement filed or required to shall not be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date, or Date (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i), (vii) or (ivviii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 ten day-period is exceeded, of for purposes of clauses (iv) or (v) the date which such fifteen Trading Day Day-period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (vvi) the date on which such 10 or 15 day periodthree Trading Day period is exceeded, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then then, in addition to any other rights available to the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable lawHolders: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement; and (y) on each the first monthly anniversary of each such Event Date thereof (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held and (z) on each monthly anniversary thereafter of each such Event Date thereof (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such Holderdate) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company shall prepare and file a supplement to the appropriate Registration Statement (if permitted for such purpose under the Securities Act) within 5 Trading Days following the issuance of a New Warrant, or (if such supplement is not permitted for such purposes under the Securities Act), a new Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days following the issuance of a New Warrant.
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Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 SB-2 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3SB-2, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (viv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , then, on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderHolder based on the per Share Purchase Price. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1512% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if an Event or the continuation of an Event is caused solely as a result of an act or omission by a Holder, the Company shall not be liable to pay liquidated damages to such Holder that otherwise would result on account of such Event or continuation of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Micromed Cardiovascular Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to Not later than the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a draft Registration Statement covering (on Form S-1 or Form S-3 or other appropriate form) relating to the resale by the Holders of all (or such other number as the Commission will permit) of the Registrable Securities for an offering (or such other number as may be agreed to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. ). Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-3 or Form S-1 or such other appropriate form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to the payment of liquidated damages; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included by any Person other than a Holder; and
b. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Registrable Securities held by such Holders. In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Holder’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(d) If: (i) a the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) herein, the Company shall not be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five (5) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the effective date when such of a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionStatement, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days ten (10) calendar days after the receipt of comments (or twenty (20) calendar days in the case of accounting comments) by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the Effectiveness DateDate of the Initial Registration Statement, or (v) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days but no or more than an aggregate of 15 fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or and (iv) ), the date on which such Event occurs, or and for purposes purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day ten (10) (or twenty (20) as applicable) calendar day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (v) the date on which such 10 ten (10) or 15 fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to the product of 1.0% of multiplied by the aggregate purchase price Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (ComSovereign Holding Corp.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The initial Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder S-1 and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by at least 85% in interest of the HoldersHolders or otherwise required pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Commission pursuant to written comments received from the Commission upon a review of such Registration Statement) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. A; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such Holder’s express prior written consent. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of the date when that all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on a Trading Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile or by e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424. Failure to so notify the Holder within one (1) Trading Day of such notification of effectiveness or failure to file a final Prospectus as foresaid shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(d).
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e); with respect to filing on Form S-1 or other appropriate form, and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to the payment of liquidated damages; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Conversion Shares (applied, in the case that some Shares and/or Conversion Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Conversion Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Holder’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(d) If: (i) a the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i))Date, or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the effective date when such of a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionStatement, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days ten (10) calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the Effectiveness DateDate of the Initial Registration Statement, or (v) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable SecuritiesSecurities (other than due to the fault of a Holder), for in any such case 10 more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days but no or more than an aggregate of 15 fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or and (iv) ), the date on which such Event occurs, or and for purposes purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day ten (10) calendar day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (v) the date on which such 10 ten (10) or 15 fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to the product of 1.5% of multiplied by the aggregate purchase price Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to a Holder under this Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held shall be 12.0% of the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such HolderHolder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1516.0% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in no event shall the Company be permitted to name any Holder or affiliate of a Holder as any Underwriter without the prior written consent of such Holder.
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Registration. The Company shall:
(ai) On or prior to Following the Filing Date, original issuance of the Warrants represented by this Warrant Certificate at such time as the Company first prepares and files with the Commission a registration statement on an appropriate form that would permit inclusion of the Registerable Securities in such registration statement or a pre-effective amendment to such a registration statement, include the Registrable Securities among the securities being registered pursuant to such registration statement. The Company shall prepare diligently prosecute such registration statement to effectiveness. Such 16 registration statement shall cover the resale of such Warrant Shares by the Holder. The Company will promptly notify the Holder regarding (i) the filing of such registration statement and all amendments thereto, (ii) the effectiveness of such registration statement and any post-effective amendments thereto, (iii) the occurrence of any event or condition that causes the prospectus that is part of such registration statement no longer to comply with the requirements of the Act, and (iv) any request by the Commission for any amendment or supplement to such registration statement or any prospectus relating thereto;
(ii) Prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and supplements to such registration statement and the Registration Statement covering prospectus used in connection therewith as may be necessary to keep such registration statement effective and current and to comply with the provisions of the Act with respect to the resale of all the Registerable Securities, including such amendments and supplements as may be necessary to reflect the intended method of disposition by the Holder, but for no longer than one hundred eighty (180) days subsequent to the Expiration Date or the Redemption Date;
(iii) Furnish to each Holder such number of copies of a prospectus, including a preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the Registrable Act, and such other documents as such Holder may reasonably request in order to facilitate the public sale or other disposition of the Registerable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 by such Holder;
(except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holdersiv) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use Use its best efforts to cause comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the Registration Statement Commission, including without limitation the rules and regulations relating to be declared effective the periodic reporting requirements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).amended; and
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective Make available for inspection by the CommissionHolder or by any underwriter, it ceases attorney, accountant or other agent acting for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or such Holder in connection with the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such disposition of Registrable Securities, for in any such each case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure upon receipt of an Eventappropriate confidentiality agreement, all corporate records, documents and properties as may be reasonably requested.
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Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder Form S-1) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by required pursuant to written comments received from the HoldersCommission upon a review of such Registration Statement) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” in the form attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly soon as possible after the filing thereofbut, but in any event not event, no later than the its Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when which is the earlier of (i) such time as all of the Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise publicly sold by the Holders, or (ii) such time as all of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement may be sold without volume restrictions restriction (including without limitation the restriction contained in Rule 144(c)) by the Holders pursuant to Rule 144(k144(b)(1)(i) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent agent, and the affected Holders Company has given written instructions to its transfer agent to remove all restrictive legends from certificates evidencing such Registrable Securities pursuant to the above-referenced legal opinion upon submission of such certificates to the transfer agent by any Holder and all stop orders or similar instructions to the Company’s transfer agent restricting the sale thereof have been lifted (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) IfIn the event of a Cut-Back Determination with respect to a Registration Statement, (i) there shall be excluded from such Registration Statement the minimum number of Registrable Securities as shall be necessary to eliminate the requirement or circumstance to which such Cut-Back Determination relates and (ii) the number of Registrable Securities that may be included in such Registration Statement shall be allocated on a pro rata basis among all the Holders whose Registrable Securities are to be included therein based on the respective number of Registrable Securities owned by such Holders that would have been included therein in the absence of such Cut-Back Determination; provided, that if the Holders of a majority of the outstanding Registrable Securities waive in writing the requirements of this Section 2(b) with respect to any Cut-Back Determination (other than a Cut-Back Determination described in clause (a)(i) of the definition of such term in Section 1), then the requirements of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to the Registration Statement to which such Cut-Back Determination relates.
(c) In the event of a Cut-Back Determination with respect to the Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a), or if for any other reason any outstanding Registrable Securities are not then covered by an effective Registration Statement, the Company shall prepare and file by the Filing Date for such Registration Statement, an additional Registration Statement covering the resale of all Registrable Securities not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415, on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case such registration shall be on Form S-1). If the Commission does not permit all such Registrable Securities not covered by an effective Registration Statement to be registered on a single additional Registration Statement, the Company shall file with the Commission one or more additional Registration Statements registering the maximum possible number of such Registrable Securities until all Registrable Securities have been registered for resale. Each such Registration Statement shall contain (except if otherwise required pursuant to written comments received from the Commission upon a review of such Registration Statement) the “Plan of Distribution” in the form attached hereto as Annex A. The Company shall cause each such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as possible but, in any event, by its Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act during the entire Effectiveness Period.
(d) Assuming full compliance by all Holders with their obligations under this Agreement, if: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity fails to review and comment on the same as required by comply with Section 3(a)) hereof, the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the prior to its required Effectiveness Date, or (viii) after a its Effective Date, other than for reasons beyond the Company’s reasonable control, such Registration Statement is first declared ceases to be effective by and available to the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective Holders as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or cover at any time prior to the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, expiration of its Effectiveness Period for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days 30 Trading Days during any 12 12-month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any consecutive) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or (ivii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (iiiii) the date on which such five 30 Trading Day Day-period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cashamount, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to Per Share Purchase Price of the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities Shares then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each Holder per 30-day period from such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such datepro-rated for any period less than 30 days) until the applicable Event is cured, ; provided that the Company shall pay maximum amount of liquidated damages payable to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and shall not as a penalty, 2.0exceed 5.0% of the aggregate purchase price amount determined by multiplying the Per Share Purchase Price paid by such Holder pursuant to by the Purchase Agreement for any number of shares of Common Stock constituting Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If The amounts payable as partial damages pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable, at the option of the Company, in lawful money of the United States or through the issuance of its shares of Common Stock, and such shares of Common Stock shall for this purpose be deemed to have a value per share equal to the Per Share Purchase Price paid by Investors for Shares purchased pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.
(e) Each Holder agrees to furnish to the Company fails a completed Questionnaire in the form attached to this Agreement as Annex B (a “Selling Holder Questionnaire”). The Company shall not be required to include the Registrable Securities of a Holder in a Registration Statement and shall not be required to pay any liquidated or other damages pursuant under Section 2(d) to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, any Holder who fails to furnish to the Company will pay interest thereon a fully completed Selling Holder Questionnaire at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month least five Trading Days prior to the cure Filing Date (subject to the requirements set forth in Section 3(a)).
(f) The parties understand and acknowledge that the Company is an “ineligible issuer” and was during the past three years a “shell company,” as such terms are defined in Rule 405, and therefore does not meet the requirements of Rule 164(e)(2) and, accordingly, that neither the Company nor any other participant in a public offering conducted pursuant to a Registration Statement is eligible to use any “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405) in connection with such an Eventoffering pursuant to Rule 164 or Rule 433.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Gulfslope Energy, Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
. (b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five seven Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) writing by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 20 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 calendar consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five seven Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period 20 calendar days is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such applicable Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.01.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1512% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Focus Enhancements Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed agreed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the The Company -------------------- ------- shall use its best efforts to cause the each Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the prior to its Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two years after the date that such Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by the a Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders Purchasers (the “"Effectiveness Period”").. --------------------
(b) If: (ia) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a such Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (ia)), or (iib) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days Day of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iiic) prior the Company fails to respond to any comments made by the date when Commission within fifteen Trading Days after the receipt of such comments, or (d) a Registration Statement filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date, or (e) after a Registration Statement is first filed with and declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement ceases to be effective as to all Registrable Securities to which it is required to relate at any time prior to the expiration of the Effectiveness Period without being succeeded within 15 fifteen Trading Days after by an amendment to such Registration Statement or by a subsequent Registration Statement filed with and declared effective by the receipt of comments Commission, (f) an amendment to a Registration Statement is not filed by or notice from the Company with the Commission within fifteen Trading Days of the Commission's notifying the Company that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (ia) or (ivd) the date ----- on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (iib) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause clauses (iiic), (e) or (f) the date which such 15 fifteen Trading Day Day-period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable lawthen: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each ---------- Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.02% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date thereof (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1512% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Level 8 Systems Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the applicable Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415, on Form S-1 (or on such other form appropriate for such purpose). The Such Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by required pursuant to written comments received from the HoldersCommission upon a review of such Registration Statement) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject A with such changes as may be made in response to the terms of this Agreement, the SEC comments. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the its Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the each such Registration Statement continuously effective during the entire Effectiveness Period. By 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the Business Day immediately following the Effective Date of such Registration Statement, the Company shall file with the Commission in accordance with Rule 424 under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the final prospectus to be used in connection with sales pursuant to such Registration Statement have been sold (whether or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to not such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”filing is technically required under such Rule).
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2, if the Company receives Commission Comments, and following discussions with and responses to the Commission in which the Company uses its reasonable best efforts and time to cause as many Registrable Securities as possible to be included in the Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a) without characterizing any Holder as an underwriter unless such characterization is consistent with written information provided by the Holder in the Selling Holder Questionnaire (as defined below) (the day that such discussions and responses are concluded shall be referred to as the “Tolling Date”), the Company is unable to cause the inclusion of all Registrable Securities, then the Company may, following not less than three (3) Trading Days prior written notice to the Holders (i) remove from the Registration Statement such Registrable Securities (the “Cut Back Shares”) and/or (ii) agree to such restrictions and limitations on the registration and resale of the Registrable Securities, in each case as the Commission may require in order for the Commission to allow such Registration Statement to become effective; provided, that in no event may the Company characterize any Holder as an underwriter unless such characterization is consistent with written information provided by the Holder in the Selling Holder Questionnaire or such Holder agrees to such characterization (collectively, the “SEC Restrictions”). Unless the SEC Restrictions otherwise require, any cut-back imposed pursuant to this Section 2(b) shall be allocated among the Shares of the Holders on a pro rata basis. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall be permitted to exclude all Registrable Securities of a Holder if the Commission has advised the Company that such Holder must be characterized as an underwriter and the Holder does not agree to such characterization. The required Effectiveness Date for any Registration Statement intended to register Cut Back Shares will be tolled until such time as the Company is able to effect the registration of the Cut Back Shares in accordance with any SEC Restrictions if such Registrable Securities cannot at such time be resold by the Holders thereof pursuant to Rule 144 (such date, the “Restriction Termination Date”). From and after the Restriction Termination Date, all provisions of this Section 2 shall again be applicable to the Cut Back Shares (which, for avoidance of doubt, retain their character as “Registrable Securities”) if such Registrable Securities cannot at such time be resold by the Holders thereof pursuant to Rule 144 so that the Company will be required to use its reasonable best efforts to file with and cause to be declared effective by the Commission such additional Registration Statements to ultimately cause to be covered by effective Registration Statements all Registrable Securities.
(c) The Company shall promptly notify the Holders via facsimile or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on or prior to the Trading Day following the date that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of a Registration Statement.
(d) If: (i) a Registration Statement required to be filed pursuant to Section 2(a) is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i))Date, or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to registering for resale all of the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the Effectiveness DateDate of the Registration Statement, or (viii) after the Effectiveness Date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 more than 30 consecutive calendar days but no or more than an aggregate of 15 60 calendar days during any 12 12-month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any calendar days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause (i) or (ivii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (iiiii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, 30 or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 60 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded exceeded, being referred to as “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 0.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any unregistered Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If ; provided, however, that the maximum aggregate amount of liquidated damages payable under this Section 2(d) shall be 6%.
(e) Each Holder agrees to furnish to the Company a completed Questionnaire in the form attached to this Agreement as Annex B (a “Selling Holder Questionnaire”). The Company shall not be required to include the Registrable Securities of (or pay liquidated damages to) a Holder in a Registration Statement who fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant furnish to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon a fully completed Selling Holder Questionnaire at a rate of 15% per annum least three (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law3) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month Trading Days prior to the cure of an EventFiling Date (subject to the requirements set forth in Section 3(a)).
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (American Standard Energy Corp.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing DateDeadline, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement a registration statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on 415 or, if Rule 415 is not available for offers and sales of the Registrable Securities, by such other means of distribution of Registrable Securities as the Holders may reasonably specify, in respect of which the Company may use a Form S-3 registration statement (except or any successor short form registration statement available for such resale that permits incorporation by reference at least to the same extent as such form) (“Form S-3”) or, if the Company Form S-3 is not then eligible available to register the Company, on such form of registration statement as is then available to effect a registration for resale of the Registrable Securities on (together with the Form S-3, in which case the “Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewithStatement”). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by required pursuant to written comments received from the HoldersCommission upon a review of such Registration Statement) substantially the a “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto Section that will include all such transactions as Annex A. Subject the Holders may reasonably request in writing prior to the terms filing of this Agreementthe Registration Statement and that can be included in the Registration Statement under the rules and regulations of the Commission; provided, however, that no Holder shall be named as an “underwriter” in the Registration Statement without such Holder’s prior written consent.
(b) The Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under by the Securities Act Commission as promptly soon as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not practicable and no later than the Effectiveness DateDeadline (including filing with the Commission a request for acceleration of effectiveness in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act), and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when earlier of (i) such time as all of the Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold by the Holders or may (ii) the date that all Registrable Securities then owned by such Holder and its Affiliates could be sold without volume restrictions in any ninety (90)-day period pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 without restriction as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent volume or manner of sale and the affected Holders restrictive legends and stop orders have been removed from such Holder’s Registrable Securities (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall promptly notify the Holders of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and shall promptly, and in no event later than the second Trading Day after the Company receives notice of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission, as required by Rule 424(b).
(bc) If: (i) a Each Holder agrees to promptly complete, execute, acknowledge and deliver such customary selling stockholder questionnaires and other documents, certificates, instruments, representations and warranties and indemnities as may be reasonably requested by the Company in connection with the filing of the Registration Statement and the inclusion of such Holder as a selling stockholder in the Registration Statement. Each Holder further agrees that it shall not be entitled to be named as a selling securityholder in the Registration Statement or use the Prospectus for offers and resales of Registrable Securities at any time, unless such Holder has furnished to the Company such documents and information as described in the previous sentence. Each Holder acknowledges and agrees that the information furnished in writing by the Holder as described in this Section 2(c) will be used by the Company in the preparation of the Registration Statement and hereby consents to the inclusion of such information in the Registration Statement.
(d) In the event that Form S-3 is not filed on or prior to available for the Filing Date (if registration of the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or ) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form reasonably acceptable to the Holders and (ii) undertake to register the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Registrable Securities Acton Form S-3 promptly after such form is available, within five Trading Days of the date provided, that the Company is notified (orally or shall maintain the effectiveness of the registration statement then in writing, whichever is earlier) by effect until such time as a registration statement on Form S-3 covering the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Registration. (a) On or prior to 60 days following the Filing Datedate of this Agreement, the Company subject to Section 2.01(d), CS&L shall prepare and file with the Commission the SEC a Shelf Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible “Registration Statement”) relating to, in addition to register for resale any other securities registered thereby, the offer and sale of all Registrable Securities on Form S-3, by the Holders from time to time in which case accordance with the methods of distribution elected by the Holders and set forth in the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except Statement, and, if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreementapplicable, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared become effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and Act.
(b) CS&L shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Registration Statement (or a replacement Registration Statement) continuously effective under the Securities Act in order to permit the Prospectus forming a part thereof to be usable by the Holders until the termination date when as set forth in Section 3.01, subject to Section 2.01(d).
(c) Prior to the termination of this Agreement as set forth in Section 3.01, any Holders acting together which collectively hold 40% or more of the Registrable Securities held by Holders then party hereto (collectively, the “Initiating Holders”) shall have the right to request that CS&L effect an offering of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities held by such Initiating Holders, by delivering a written request thereof to CS&L specifying the number of Registrable Securities such Initiating Holder wishes to register (a “Demand”); provided, that so long as Searchlight or any of its Permitted Transferees that acquired such Registrable Securities pursuant to foreclosure (a “Pledgee Transferee”) holds an amount of Registrable Securities representing at least 50% of the Registrable Securities acquired by Searchlight pursuant to its Subscription Agreement, the Initiating Holders must include Searchlight or such Pledgee Transferee; provided further, that (i) Holders may not make more than two Demands during the term of this Agreement and not more than one Demand during any 365-day period (unless, with respect to any such Demand, such Demand is withdrawn prior to the launch of the offering relating to such Demand or the Demand effected pursuant thereto becomes subject to a Blackout Period, in each case pursuant to Section 2.01(d) and is not completed), and (ii) a Holder may not make any Demand for a period of 90 days following consummation of a Piggyback Registration effected pursuant to Section 2.02 in which such Holder participated or elected not to participate. CS&L shall (i) within three days of the receipt of a Demand, give written notice of such Demand to all Holders of Registrable Securities whose Registrable Securities are included in the Registration Statement (other than the Initiating Holders) and (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to prepare and file the prospectus supplement promptly and to effectuate the offering. CS&L shall include in such Demand all Registrable Securities with respect to which CS&L receives, within the 5 days immediately following the receipt by the Holder(s) of such notice from CS&L, a request for inclusion in the Demand from the Holder(s) thereof. Each such request from a Holder of Registrable Securities for inclusion in the Demand shall also specify the aggregate amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be offered.
(d) With respect to the Registration Statement, whether filed or to be filed pursuant to this Agreement, if CS&L shall reasonably determine, upon the good faith advice of legal counsel, that maintaining the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or filing an amendment or supplement thereto (or, if the Registration Statement has yet been filed, filing the Registration Statement) or permitting its use would require the public disclosure of material nonpublic information concerning any transaction or negotiations involving CS&L or any of its consolidated Subsidiaries that would require the public disclosure of material non-public information concerning any transaction or negotiations involving CS&L or any of its consolidated subsidiaries that would materially interfere with such transaction or negotiations (a “Disadvantageous Condition”), CS&L may, for the shortest period reasonably practicable, and in any event for not more than 30 consecutive calendar days (a “Disadvantageous Condition Blackout Period”), notify the Holders whose offers and Sales of Registrable Securities are covered (or to be covered) by the Registration Statement (a “Disadvantageous Condition Blackout Notice”) that the Registration Statement is unavailable for use (or will not be filed as requested). In addition, CS&L may notify the Holders whose offers and Sales of Registrable Securities are covered (or to be covered) by the Registration Statement (a “Trading Blackout Notice” and together with a Disadvantageous Condition Blackout Notice, a “Blackout Notice”) that it will suspend the use of the Registration Statement during the regular quarterly period during which directors and officers of CS&L are not permitted to trade under the i▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ policy of CS&L then in effect until the expiration of such quarterly period (a “Trading Blackout Period,” and each of a Trading Blackout Period or Disadvantageous Condition Blackout Period referred to as a “Blackout Period”). Upon the receipt of any Blackout Notice, the Holders shall forthwith discontinue use of the Prospectus contained in the Registration Statement; provided, that, if at the time of receipt of such Disadvantageous Condition Blackout Notice any Holder shall have Sold its Registrable Securities (or have signed a firm commitment underwriting agreement with respect to the purchase of such shares) and the Disadvantageous Condition is not of a nature that would require a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement, then CS&L shall use its reasonable best efforts to take such action as to eliminate any restriction imposed by federal securities laws on the timely delivery of such Registrable Securities to the extent permitted under such applicable laws prior to disclosure of material information relating to such Disadvantageous Condition. When any Disadvantageous Condition as to which a Disadvantageous Condition Blackout Notice has been sold previously delivered shall cease to exist or any Trading Blackout Period as to which a Trading Blackout Notice has been previously delivered shall have ended, as applicable, CS&L shall as promptly as reasonably practicable notify the Holders and take such actions in respect of the Registration Statement as are otherwise required by this Agreement. CS&L shall not impose, in any 365-day period, more than two Disadvantageous Condition Blackout Periods; such Disadvantageous Condition Blackout Periods shall not be permitted to run consecutively; and such Disadvantageous Condition Blackout Periods may not be sold prompted by the same Disadvantageous Condition. In addition, CS&L may not exercise Blackout Periods to suspend the use of the Registration Statement for more than 120 days collectively during any 365-day period. If CS&L declares a Blackout Period with respect to a Demand for the Registration Statement which has not yet been declared effective, (i) the Holders may by notice to CS&L withdraw the related Demand request without volume restrictions such Demand request counting against the number of Demand requests permitted to be made under Section 2.01(c) and (ii) the Holders shall not be responsible for any of CS&L’s related Registration Expenses.
(e) If the Initiating Holder so indicates at the time of its request pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by Section 2.01(a), such offering of Registrable Securities shall be in the counsel form of an Underwritten Offering, and CS&L shall include such information in the written notice to the Company pursuant Holders required under Section 2.01(a). In the event that the Initiating Holder intends to sell the Registrable Securities by means of an Underwritten Offering, the right of any Holder to include Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such Underwritten Offering and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in the Underwritten Offering to the extent provided herein. The Holders of a written opinion letter to majority of the outstanding Registrable Securities being included in any Underwritten Offering shall select the underwriter(s), provided that such effect, addressed and underwriter(s) are reasonably acceptable to CS&L (it being understood and agreed that UBS Securities LLC is reasonably acceptable to CS&L). For the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”avoidance of doubt, no Holder is entitled to sell Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering except in a Demand made in accordance with Section 2.01(a).
(bf) If: If the managing underwriter or underwriters of a proposed Underwritten Offering of Registrable Securities included in a Registration pursuant to this Section 2.01 inform(s) in writing the Holders participating in such Registration that, in its or their opinion, the number of securities requested to be included in such Registration exceeds the number that can be Sold in such offering without being reasonably likely to have a significant adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the securities offered or the market for the securities offered, the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such Registration shall be (i) reduced to the maximum number recommended by the managing underwriter or underwriters, and (ii) allocated first to the Initiating Holders and then to the other Holders, in each case on a pro rata basis in proportion to the number of Registrable Securities each Holder has requested to be included in such Registration; provided that the Initiating Holder may notify CS&L in writing that the Registration Statement is not filed on shall be abandoned or withdrawn, in which event CS&L shall abandon or withdraw such Registration Statement. In the event the Initiating Holder notifies CS&L that such Registration Statement shall be abandoned or withdrawn prior to the Filing Date (if filing of the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Statement, such Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (irequested a Demand pursuant to Section 2.01(a)), or (ii) . If the Company fails amount of Registrable Securities to file with the Commission a request for acceleration be underwritten has not been limited in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the first sentence of this Section 2.01(e), CS&L and the holders of Common Stock or, if the Registrable Securities Actinclude securities other than Common Stock, within five Trading Days the holders of securities of the date that same class of those securities included in the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more each case, other than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period the Holders (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event DateOther Holders”), then may include such securities for their own account or for the account of Other Holders in addition such Registration if the underwriter(s) so agree and to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each extent that, in the opinion of such Event Date underwriter(s), the Company shall pay to each Holder an inclusion of such additional amount in cash, as liquidated damages and will not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% adversely affect the offering of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by included in such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an EventRegistration.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Communications Sales & Leasing, Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, but in no event prior to the effective date of the Reverse Split (as defined in the Purchase Agreement), the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415basis. The Each Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 S-1 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another or any other appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by at least an 85% majority in interest of the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. In the event that the Commission does not permit the Company to register in any Registration Statement all of the Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415 (or other applicable Commission Guidance or rule adopted by the Commission), the Company shall amend such Registration Statement to register such maximum portion as permitted by SEC Guidance that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold sold, or may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and, without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall submit a request for acceleration of effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. New York City time on or before the fifth Trading Day following the Commission’s notice to the Company that the Commission will not be reviewing the Registration Statement. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders by e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. New York City time on or before the second Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(b)(iii), if any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement, unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced in the following order; (1) by the total number of shares underlying the Newbridge Warrants (2) by the total number of the Escrow Shares (3) pro-rata among all other Holders, and unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will first be reduced by Registrable Securities represented by the Warrant Shares (applied, in the case that some Warrant Shares may already be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Warrant Shares held by such Holders), and second by Registrable Securities represented by the Conversion Shares (applied, in the case that some Conversion Shares may already be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Shares held by such Holders). In addition, if the Commission requires any Holder seeking to sell Registrable Securities under a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Agreement to be specifically identified as an “underwriter” in order to permit such Registration Statement to become effective, and such Investor does not consent in writing to being so named in such Registration Statement, then, in each such case, the Company shall reduce the total amount of Registrable Securities to be registered on behalf of such Holder, to such amount as the Commission will permit without requiring such identification.
(b) If: (i) a the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i))Date, or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by registering for resale all of the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the Effectiveness DateDate of the Initial Registration Statement, or (viv) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable SecuritiesSecurities (subject to the periods set forth in Section 3(k)), for in any such case 10 more than 15 consecutive calendar days but no or more than an aggregate of 15 20 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any calendar days) during any 12-month period, (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or ), and (iv) iii), the date on which such Event occurs, or and for purposes purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five fifth Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (viv) the date on which such 10 15 or 15 20 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder; provided that such Holder (or any successor or assign) is still a beneficial owner of the Preferred Shares, Conversion Shares, Warrants, or Warrant Shares, an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any unregistered Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If Liquidated damages payable by the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after 2 shall be payable on an Event Date and the date payablefirst (1st) Trading Day of each thirty (30) day period following an Event Date, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount provided, however, that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are shall not exceed 18% of the aggregate purchase price paid in fullby the Holders. The parties agree that the Company shall not be liable for liquidated damages under this Agreement with respect to any Registrable Securities that the Company was not permitted to include on such Registration Statement due solely to the Commission’s application of Rule 415. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Timberjack Sporting Supplies, Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” "PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION" attached hereto as Annex ANNEX A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”"EFFECTIVENESS PERIOD").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event"EVENT,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”"EVENT DATE"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Alternate Energy Corp)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts within fifteen (15) days after the Closing (as defined in the MPA), but in no event later than thirty (30) days after the Closing, to prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all 100% of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 S-1 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3S-1, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. A and substantially the “Selling Securityholder” section attached hereto as Annex B; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such Holder’s express prior written consent. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when that all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders by e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424.
(b) If: (i) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 3(a2(e); with respect to filing on Form S-1 or other appropriate form; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall not be deemed obligated to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails use diligent efforts to file advocate with the Commission a request for acceleration the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities ActSEC Guidance, within five Trading Days including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) If Form S-1 is not available for the registration of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect resale of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is curedhereunder, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% register the resale of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Eventanother appropriate form.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Digital Brands Group, Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a "shelf" Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities (but in no event less than 4,967,600 shares of Common Stock) for an a secondary or resale offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be or on another form appropriate form for such registration in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall (i) not permit any securities other than the Registrable Securities to be included in the Registration Statement, other than up to an additional 10,538 shares, and (ii) use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the (including filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of effectiveness in accordance with Rule 461 12dl-2 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act, within ) by the earlier of (i) five Trading (5) Business Days of after the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not be subject to further review, review or (iiiii) the 90th day after the Closing Date, but in any event prior to the date when Effectiveness Date, and to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until such date as is first declared effective the earlier of (x) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold or (y) as to any particular Holder, the Commissiondate on which all such Holder's Registrable Securities may be sold without any restriction pursuant to Rule 144(k), provided that if any such Holder requests, the Company fails shall deliver unlegended certificates evidencing the Registrable Securities to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by such Holder (the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after "Effectiveness Period"); provided, that if notwithstanding the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for Company best efforts, a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is has not declared become effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) the Company shall continue to use its best efforts after the Effectiveness Date to cause a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be become effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc)
Registration. As soon as possible following the Closing Date (a) On or prior to but not later than the Filing Date), the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a "shelf" Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an a secondary or resale offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except or if such form is not available to the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another form appropriate form for such registration in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than sixty (60) days after the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Closing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file including filing with the Commission a request for acceleration of effectiveness in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, Act within five Trading (5) Business Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not be subject to further review, or ) and to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until such date as is the earlier of (iiix) prior to the date when all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, have been sold or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (ivy) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (iiall Registrable Securities may be sold without any restriction pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred counsel to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter, addressed to the Company's transfer agent to such effect (the "Effectiveness Period"). Upon the initial filing thereof, the Registration Statement shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0cover at least 100% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; Shares and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0110% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant shares of Common Stock for issuance upon the exercise of the Warrants. Such Registration Statement also shall cover, to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable extent allowable under the Securities then held by Act and the Rules promulgated thereunder (including Securities Act Rule 416), such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payableindeterminate number of additional shares of Common Stock resulting from stock splits, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (stock dividends or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) similar transactions with respect to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an EventRegistrable Securities.
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Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on S-1 or another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder herewith and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by at least a majority in interest of the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such Holder’s express prior written consent. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 2(c) and Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when that all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144 (assuming the Holder is not then an Affiliate of the Company), as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424. Failure to so notify the Holder within one (1) Trading Day of such notification of effectiveness or failure to file a final Prospectus as foresaid shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(d).
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering (and with respect to filing on Form S-1 or other appropriate form, subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to the payment of liquidated damages); provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Securities Act Rules Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included other than Registrable Securities; and
b. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Shares (applied, in the case that some Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least three (3) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by the Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended, and to use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Commission to declare such registration statement covering the Shares that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended, effective as soon as practicable after the date.
(d) If: (i) a the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) herein or the Company subsequently withdraws the filing of the Registration Statement, for reasons other than at the request of the Holders of a majority-in-interest of the Registrable Securities to withdraw the Registration Statement, the Company shall not be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)) as of the filing date), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five three (3) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the effective date when such of a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionStatement, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days ten (10) calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the Effectiveness DateDate of the Initial Registration Statement, or (v) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any more than twenty (20) consecutive calendar days (provided that if the Company is required to file a post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement to incorporate the Company’s annual reports or audited financial statements on Form 10-K, such case 10 period may be extended for no more than fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days but no (the “Grace Period”)) or more than an aggregate of 15 forty-five (45) calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or and (iv) ), the date on which such Event occurs, or and for purposes purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five three (3) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day ten (10) calendar day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (v) the date on which such 10 twenty (20) or 15 forty-five (45) calendar day periodperiod plus any Grace Period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to the product of 2.0% of multiplied by the aggregate purchase price Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to a Holder under this Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held shall be 10.0% of the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such HolderHolder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven five (5) days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1515.0% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(e) Because Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder as of the date hereof, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on Form S-1 and (ii) register such Registrable Securities for resale on Form S-3 promptly after the use of such form becomes available and use its reasonable best efforts to have such registration statement declared effective by the Commission.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in no event shall the Company be permitted to name any Holder or affiliate of a Holder as any underwriter without the prior written consent of such Holder.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Applied Digital Corp.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective effective, subject to Sections 3(c), 3(i) and 6(d) below, under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by complying with Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further reviewreview (unless the Company provides notice to the Holders of a circumstance contemplated by Section 3(c)(vi) that would make it appropriate to suspend the filing of the Registration Statement and the related Prospectus for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 10 Trading Days), or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 15 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 30 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period (or, if there is a delay in filing as a result of a circumstance contemplated by Section 3(c)(vi), 10 Trading Day period) is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 15 or 15 30 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; provided, however, that under no circumstances shall the Company be required to pay hereunder to any Holder during any one month period in excess of an aggregate of 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section 2(b) in full within seven days 10 Trading Days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (First Virtual Communications Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing 45th day from the Closing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the SEC a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Each Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the each Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Effective Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the each Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the that Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If for any reason the SEC does not permit all of the Registrable Securities to be included in any Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a), then the Company shall prepare and file as soon as possible after the date on which the SEC shall indicate as being the first date or time that such filing may be made, but in any event by no later than the 60th day following the date on which the SEC shall indicate as being the first date or time that such Registrable Securities may then be included in a Registration Statement, one or more additional Registration Statements covering the resale of all Registrable Securities not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. Each such Registration Statement shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) the "Plan of Distribution" attached hereto as Annex A. The Company shall use its best efforts to cause each such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as possible but, in any event, no later than its Effective Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act during its entire Effectiveness Period.
(c) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) hereof, the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionSEC, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission SEC in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 30 calendar days (the “Response Date”) after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission SEC that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iviii) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission SEC on or before the Effectiveness its Effective Date, or (viv) after during the Effectiveness Period, a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any and all such case 10 consecutive days but no cases for more than an aggregate of 15 days 20 Trading Days (the “Grace Period”) during any 12 12-month period during the Effectiveness Period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iviii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period 30 calendar days is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (viv) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, 20 Trading Days is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01.5% of the aggregate purchase price Investment Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price Investment Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If Agreement; provided, however, that in no event shall the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages payments made pursuant to this Section 2(c), if any, exceed in full within seven days after the date payable, aggregate twelve percent (12%) of the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be aggregate Investment Amount paid by applicable law) such Holder pursuant to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in fullPurchase Agreement. . The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event, except in the case of the first Event Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any day on which a Force Majeure has occurred or is continuing shall not count toward the calculation of the number of days for the Filing Date, the Effective Date, the Response Date and a Grace Period.
(d) Each Holder agrees to furnish to the Company a completed Questionnaire in the form attached to this Agreement as Annex B (a “Selling Holder Questionnaire”). The Company shall not be required to include the Registrable Securities of a Holder in a Registration Statement and shall not be required to pay any liquidated or other damages under Section 2(c) to such Holder who fails to furnish to the Company a fully completed Selling Holder Questionnaire at least one Trading Day prior to the Filing Date (subject to the requirements set forth in Section 3(a)).
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Smart Video Technologies Inc)
Registration. Seller hereby agrees to file, no later than April 30, 1997, a registration statement (athe "Registration Statement") On or prior to under the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities Act on Form S-3, covering all the Shares and Bonus Shares, provided Seller shall have no obligation to register any shares in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith)excess of 2,477,506 shares. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company Seller shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared become effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible within 60 days after the date of filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep of the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Statement. The Registration Statement have been sold or may shall be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to a "shelf" registration statement for purposes of Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated 415 under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days and Seller shall maintain its effectiveness until the earlier of (x) three (3) years from the date the Registration Statement has been declared effective and (y) the date all the Debenture Shares have been sold and all of the date that Warrants and any Bonus Warrants have been exercised. In furtherance of the Company is notified foregoing, Seller shall, as expeditiously as possible:
(orally i) before filing a registration statement or in writingprospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto (x) furnish to one counsel selected by Buyer copies of all such documents proposed to be filed, whichever is earlierand (y) notify Buyer and such counsel of any stop order issued or threatened by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not and take all reasonable actions required to prevent the entry of such stop order or to remove it if entered;
(ii) prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and supplements to any registration statement and the prospectus included therein as may be “reviewed,” or is not subject necessary to further review, or keep such registration statement effective until the earlier of (iiii) prior to the date when such the distribution described in the Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment completed and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which all Shares and Bonus Shares shall otherwise have been sold (but not before the expiration of the period referred to in Section 4(3) of the Securities Act and Rule 174 thereunder, if applicable), and comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such five Trading Day Registration Statement during such period is exceeded, or for purposes in accordance with the intended methods of clause disposition by the sellers thereof set forth in such Registration Statement;
(iii) furnish to Buyer and any underwriter of the date Shares and the Bonus Shares to be included in the Registration Statement, copies of such Registration Statement as filed and each amendment and supplement thereto (in each case including all exhibits thereto), the prospectus included in such Registration Statement (including each preliminary prospectus) and such other documents as Buyer may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Shares and the Bonus Shares owned by Buyer;
(iv) use its reasonable best efforts to register or qualify the Shares and the Bonus Shares under such other securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as Buyer or any underwriter of the Shares or the Bonus Shares reasonably requests, and do any and all other acts which may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable Buyer to consummate the disposition in such 15 Trading Day period is exceededjurisdictions of the Shares or the Bonus Shares; provided that Seller will not be required to (x) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this Section 4(iv), (y) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction, or for purposes (z) consent to general service of clause process in any such jurisdiction;
(v) use its reasonable best efforts to cause the date on Shares and the Bonus Shares covered by such Registration Statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental agencies or other authorities as may be necessary by virtue of the business and operations of Seller to enable Buyer to consummate the disposition of the Shares and the Bonus Shares;
(vi) notify Buyer and any underwriter of the Shares or the Bonus Shares, at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the Securities Act (even if such time is after the period referred to in Section 4(ii)), of the happening of any event as a result of which the prospectus included in such 10 Registration Statement contains an untrue statement of a material fact or 15 day periodomits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein in light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading, and prepare a supplement or amendment to such prospectus so that, as applicablethereafter delivered to the purchasers of the Shares or the Bonus Shares, is exceeded being referred such prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to as “Event Date”state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein in light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading;
(vii) make available for inspection by Buyer, any underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to such Registration Statement, and any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by Buyer or any such underwriter (collectively, the "Inspectors"), then all financial and other pertinent records and pertinent corporate documents of Seller (collectively, the "Records"), and cause Seller's officers, directors and employees to supply all information reasonably requested by any such Inspector, as shall be reasonably necessary to enable them to exercise their due diligence responsibility, in addition connection with such Registration Statement. Records or other information which Seller determines, in good faith, to any other rights be confidential and which it notifies the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: Inspectors are confidential shall not be disclosed by the Inspectors unless (x) on each the disclosure of such Event Date Records or other information is necessary to avoid or correct a misstatement or omission in the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cashRegistration Statement, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and or (y) on each monthly anniversary the release of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by Records or other information is ordered pursuant to a subpoena or other order from a court of competent jurisdiction. Buyer shall, upon learning that disclosure of such date) until the applicable Event Records or other information is curedsought in a court of competent jurisdiction, the Company shall pay give notice to each Holder an amount in cashSeller and allow Seller, as liquidated damages and not as a penaltyat Seller's expense, 2.0% to undertake appropriate action to prevent disclosure of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (Records or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.other information deemed confidential;
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Convertible Debentures and Warrants Subscription Agreement (Sterling Vision Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject The Company shall cause the Registration Statement to the terms of this Agreement, the become effective and remain effective as provided herein. The Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two (2) years after the Closing Date or such later date when all Shares and Warrant Shares cease to be "Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders Securities" (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)); provided, however, that if a Holder fails to provide the Company with any information that is required to be provided in the Registration Statement with respect to such Holder pursuant to Section 3(k), then the Filing Date shall be extended until two (2) Trading Days following the date of receipt by the Company of such required information, or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five (5) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 fifteen (15) Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period cases twenty (20) Trading Days (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any days) in the aggregate during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause clauses (iii) the date which such 15 fifteen (15) Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, twenty (20) Trading Day period is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.02% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderHolder (pro-rated for partial periods on a per diem basis); and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderHolder (pro-rated for partial periods on a per diem basis). If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven (7) days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due payable until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to .
(c) If during the terms hereof Effectiveness Period, the number of Registrable Securities at any time exceeds 100% of the number of shares of Common Stock then registered in a Registration Statement, then the Company shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for file as soon as reasonably practicable but in any portion of a month case prior to the cure 30th day following the date such number is exceeded, an additional Registration Statement covering the resale of an Eventby the Holders of not less than all of such Registrable Securities and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective as soon as reasonably practible thereafter.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Avant Immunotherapeutics Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 10 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the 30th day after the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 calendar consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period 10 calendar days is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; provided that partial liquidated damages under this Section 2(a) shall cease to accrue as to any Registrable Securities when the Effectiveness Period ends as to any such Registrable Securities. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Industries International Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the offering and resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415, or if Rule 415 is not available for offers or sales of the Registrable Securities, for such other means of distribution of Registrable Securities as the Holders may specify (or, at the Holder’s option to delay such registration). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 or Form F-3, as applicable (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3S-3 or Form F-3, in which case the Registration shall be on Form S-1 or F-1 or another appropriate form in accordance herewithas shall be selected by the Company upon advice of its counsel). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than 90 days following the filing thereof (the “Effectiveness Date”), and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act (including the filing of any necessary amendments, post-effective amendments and supplements) until the date which is two years after the Initial Closing Date or such later date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement (i) have been sold pursuant to the Registration Statement or an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act or (ii) may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and reasonably acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a . If Rule 415 is not available and the Holder shall specify that the Registration Statement is not filed on or prior relate to the Filing Date (if an underwritten offering, then the Company files shall, at the underwriter’s request, direct its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer to participate in one or more “road show” presentations, at mutually acceptable times and places and in a Registration Statement without affording manner so as not to disrupt the Holder Company’s business, which presentations shall be conducted at the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an EventCompany’s expense.
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Registration. Holders shall be able to exercise their Warrants only if a registration statement relating to the Warrant Shares is then if effect, or the exercise of such Warrants is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, and such securities are qualified for sale or exempt from qualification under the applicable securities laws of the states in which the various holders of the Warrants or other persons to whom it is proposed that the Warrant Shares be issued on exercise of the Warrants reside.
(a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the The Company shall prepare and file cause to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis "Commission") pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be 415 under the Securities Act a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (except if the appropriate form relating to the offer and sale by the Company is not then eligible of the Warrant Shares to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case holders of Warrants upon exercise of the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed Warrants and resales of the Warrant Shares by the Holdersholders thereof (the "Registration Statement").
(b) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the such Registration Statement to be declared effective under by the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not Commission no later than the Effectiveness Date____________, and 1997.
(c) The Company shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act in order to permit the prospectus included therein to be lawfully delivered by the Company to the holders exercising the Warrants until the date Expiration Date or such shorter period that will terminate when all Registrable Securities covered by the Warrants have been exercised; provided that, except as provided below with respect to any Black Out Period (as defined), the Company shall be deemed not to have used its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant effective during the requisite period if it voluntarily takes any action that would result in it not being able to Rule 144(k) as determined by offer and sell the counsel to Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to Warrants during that period, unless such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement action is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)applicable law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be deemed required to have satisfied amend or supplement the Registration Statement, any related prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference, for a period (a "Black Out Period") not to exceed, for so long as this clause Agreement is in effect, an aggregate of 90 days in any calendar year, in the event that (i) an event occurs and is continuing as a result of which the Registration Statement, any related prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference as then amended or supplemented would, in the Company's good faith judgment, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (ii)(A) the Company determines in its good faith judgment that the disclosure of such event at such time would have a material adverse effect on the business, operations or prospects of the Company or (B) the disclosure otherwise relates to a material business transaction which has not yet been publicly disclosed; provided that no Black Out Period may be in effect during the six months prior to the Expiration Date.
(d) The Company shall cause the Registration Statement and the related prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, as of the effective date of the Registration Statement, amendment or supplement, (i) to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission and (ii) not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(e) The Company shall give prompt written notice to the holders of the Warrants and the Warrant Agent of (i) the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto,(ii) the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for that purpose,(iii) the receipt by the Company or its legal counsel of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Warrant Shares for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose,(iv) the happening of any event that requires the Company to make changes in the Registration Statement or the prospectus in order to make the statements therein not misleading and (v) the commencement and termination of any Black Out Period.
(f) The Company shall use its best efforts to prevent the issuance or obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement at the earliest possible time.
(g) Upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by Section 17(e)(iv) or (v) hereof (subject to the last sentence of Section 17(c) hereof) the Company shall promptly prepare a post- effective amendment to the Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to holders of the Warrants, the prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and will contain the current information required by the Securities Act.
(h) Not later than the effective date of the Registration Statement, the Company will provide a CUSIP number for the Warrant Shares and provide the Warrant Agent with printed certificates for the Warrant Shares in a form eligible for deposit with the Depository Trust Company.
(i) The Company will comply with all rules and regulations of the Commission to the extent and so long as they are applicable to the Registration Statement and will make generally available to its securities holders (or otherwise provide in accordance with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act) an earnings statement satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act, no later than 45 days (plus any extension permitted by Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act) after the end of a 12-month period (or 90 days, if such period is a fiscal year (plus any extension permitted by Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act))) beginning with the first month of the Company's first fiscal quarter commencing after the effective date of the Registration Statement, which statement shall cover shall 12-month period.
(j) The Company shall register or qualify or cooperate with the holders in connection with the registration or qualification of the Warrant Shares for offer and sale by the Company upon exercise of the Warrants under the securities or blue sky laws of such states of the United States as any holder reasonably requests and do any and all other acts or things necessary or advisable to enable such offer and sale in such jurisdictions; provided that the Company shall not be required to (i) qualify to do business in any jurisdiction in which it is not then so qualified or (ii) the Company fails take any action which would subject it to file with the Commission a request for acceleration general service of process or to taxation in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or any jurisdiction in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to not then so subject.
(k) The Company shall bear all expenses incurred by it in connection with the performance of its obligations under this Section 17.
(l) The Company acknowledges and agrees that any remedy at law for breach of any provision of this Section 17 will be effectiveinadequate and that, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights remedies that the Holders holder may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date have, the holders shall be entitled to the remedy of specific performance to ensure the Company performs its obligations under this Section 17. The election of any one or more remedies by the holders hereunder shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as constitute a penalty, equal to 2.0% waiver of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant right to pursue other available remedies.
(m) No person is entitled to include any securities of the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then Company held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each person in, or to have such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is curedsecurities registered under, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an EventRegistration Statement.
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Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all 200% of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The A Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Each Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject The Company shall cause such Registration Statement to the terms of this Agreement, the become effective and remain effective as provided herein. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the each Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two years after the date that such Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior . Notwithstanding anything herein to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity contrary, as to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)each Holder, the Company maximum amount of liquidated damages payable shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0200% of the aggregate purchase price Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such excluding interest accrued on any unpaid amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Securities Purchase Agreement (Valde Connections Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to No later than the Filing Datesix (6) month anniversary of the date of this Agreement, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of: (i) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or sold, and (ii) when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k144(b)(i) as determined by promulgated under the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders Securities Act (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) IfIn the event that the Company is subject to limitations on the number or aggregate market value of securities that the Company can sell in any period, including, without limitation, under Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3, and any sales or other transfers of Common Stock by the Holder under a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Agreement would be included in such limit due to the Holder’s status as an “affiliate” (as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act) of the Company or otherwise (“Sale Limits”), (i) the Holder shall not sell or otherwise transfer any shares of Common Stock under the Registration Statement without the prior written consent of the Company, which consent shall be in the sole discretion of the Company; and (ii) the Company shall have the right to suspend the Holder’s use of the Registration Statement or withdraw the Registration Statement; provided, however, that if the Company withdraws the Registration Statement and the Sale Limits become no longer applicable, the Holder shall have the demand registration rights described in Section 2(e) below.
(c) If for any reason the Commission does not permit all of the Shares to be included in the Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a) or for any other reason any Registrable Securities are not then included in a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement, then the Company shall prepare and file as soon as possible after the date on which such filing may be made an additional Registration Statement covering the resale of all Registrable Securities not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Company shall use its best efforts to cause each such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as possible and shall use its best efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act during its entire Effectiveness Period.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, in the event the staff of the Commission (the “Staff”) or the Commission requires the Holder seeking to sell securities under a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Agreement to be specifically identified as an “underwriter” in order to permit such Registration Statement to become effective, and the Holder does not consent to being so named as an underwriter in such Registration Statement, then in such case, the Company shall reduce the total number of Registrable Securities to be registered on behalf of the Holder, until such time as the Staff or the Commission does not require such identification or until the Holder accepts such identification and the manner thereof.
(e) In the event of any reduction pursuant to Section 2(b) or Section 2(d), the Holder shall not have any claim against the Company as a result of such reduction. In the event of any reduction in Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2(b) or Section 2(d) (and, in the case of Section 2(b), only if the Company withdrew a Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(b) and the Sale Limits no longer apply), the Holder shall have the right to require, upon delivery of a written request to the Company signed by the Holder, that the Company to file a registration statement within 60 days of such request (subject to any restrictions imposed by Rule 415 or required by the Staff or the Commission) for re-sale by the Holder in a manner acceptable to the Holder, and the Company shall following such request cause to be and keep effective such registration statement in the same manner as otherwise contemplated in this Agreement for registration statements hereunder, in each case until the earlier of such time as: (i) a all Registrable Securities held by the Holder have been registered pursuant to an effective Registration Statement is not filed on or prior in a manner acceptable to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails Registrable Securities may be resold by the Holder without restriction (including volume limitations) pursuant to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under 144(b)(i) of the Securities Act, within five Trading Days Act (taking account of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlierany Staff position with respect to “affiliate” status) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to one year from the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by of issuance of the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, applicable Registrable Securities or (iv) a the Holder agrees to be named as an underwriter in any such Registration Statement filed or required in a manner acceptable to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective Holder as to all Registrable Securities for which held by the Holder and that have not theretofore been included in a Registration Statement under this Agreement (it is required being understood that the special demand right under this sentence may be exercised by the Holder multiple times and with respect to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate limited amounts of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held in order to permit the re-sale thereof by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Eventcontemplated above).
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Registration. (a) On or prior to Not later than the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a draft Registration Statement covering on Form S-1 or Form S-3 relating to the resale of by the Holders all (or such other number as the Commission will permit) of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415Securities. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-1 or Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 3(a2(d); with respect to filing on Form S-1 or Form S-3 or other appropriate form; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall not be deemed obligated to have satisfied use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this clause Agreement, if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (i)and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), or (ii) unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the Company fails shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included by any Person other than a Holder;
b. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Conversion Shares (applied, in the case that some Conversion Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Conversion Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Holder’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission a request or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-1 or Form S-3 or such other form available to register for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Securities ActInitial Registration Statement, within five Trading Days as amended.
(d) If Form S-1 or Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the date resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-1 or Form S-3 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company is notified (orally or shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that effect until such time as a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” on Form S-1 or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to Form S-3 covering the date when such Registration Statement is first Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Registration. (a▇) On or prior to the O▇ ▇▇ pr▇▇▇ ▇o each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the SEC a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the previously unregistered Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the each Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any no event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the each Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two years after the date that such Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a any Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a such Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) hereof, the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission SEC a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Business Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission SEC that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to any comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement SEC within 15 Trading ten Business Days after the receipt of such comments (or 15 Business Days with respect to comments regarding solely to accounting matters), or (iv) after its Effective Date, such Registration Statement ceases to be effective and available to the Holders thereunder as to all Registrable Securities to which it is required to relate (whether upon the delivery of an Advice pursuant to Section 6(d) or otherwise) at any time prior to the expiration of its Effectiveness Period without being succeeded within fifteen Business Days by an amendment to such Registration Statement or notice from by a subsequent Registration Statement filed with and declared effective by the Commission SEC, or (v) an amendment to a Registration Statement is not filed by the Company with the SEC within fifteen Business Days of the SEC's notifying the Company that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (ivvi) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder the Common Stock is not declared effective by the Commission on listed or before the Effectiveness Datequoted, or (v) after is suspended from trading on the Nasdaq National Market or another Trading Market for a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate period of 15 days during any 12 month period three Business Days (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Business Days), or (vii) the exercise rights of the Holders pursuant to the Warrants are suspended for any reason, or (viii) any Registration Statement shall not be declared effective by the SEC on or prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i), (vii) or (ivviii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Business Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day ten day-period is exceeded, of for purposes of clauses (iv) or (v) the date which such fifteen Business Day-period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (vvi) the date on which such 10 or 15 day periodthree Business Day period is exceeded, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then then, in addition to any other rights available to the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable lawHolders: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement; and (y) on each the first monthly anniversary of each such Event Date thereof (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held and (z) on each monthly anniversary thereafter of each such Event Date thereof (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such Holderdate) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company shall prepare and file a supplement to the appropriate Registration Statement (if permitted for such purpose under the Securities Act) within 5 Business Days following the issuance of a new Warrant upon transfer of all or part of such Warrant in accordance with the terms of such Warrant, or (if such supplement is not permitted for such purposes under the Securities Act), a new Registration Statement within 15 Business Days following the issuance of such a new Warrant.
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Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, Date the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Company shall cause the Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith)become effective and remain effective as provided herein. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and . The Company shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is the earlier of when (i) all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or (ii) all Registrable Securities may be sold immediately without registration under the Securities Act and without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) ), as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) Within three business days after the Effective Date of a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)Statement, the Company shall not cause its counsel to issue a blanket opinion in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B, to its transfer agent stating that the Registrable Securities are subject to an effective registration statement and can be deemed to reissued free of restrictive legend upon notice of a sale by the Purchasers and confirmation by the Purchasers that they have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file complied with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Actprospectus delivery requirements, within five Trading Days of the date provided that the Company is notified (has not advised the transfer agent orally or in writing, whichever is earlierwriting that the opinion has been withdrawn. Copies of the blanket opinion required by this Section 2(b) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not shall be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior delivered to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by Purchasers within the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month time period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Eventset forth above.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Conversion Services International Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to Not later than the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a draft Registration Statement covering on Form S-3 relating to the resale of by the Holders all (or such other number as the Commission will permit) of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415Securities. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, with respect to filing on Form S-3 or other appropriate form, and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to the payment of liquidated damages; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included by any Person other than a Holder; and
b. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Registrable Securities held by such Holders. In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Holder’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(d) If: (i) a the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) herein, the Company shall not be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five (5) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the effective date when such of a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionStatement, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days ten (10) calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the Effectiveness DateDate of the Initial Registration Statement, or (v) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days but no or more than an aggregate of 15 fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or and (iv) ), the date on which such Event occurs, or and for purposes purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day ten (10) calendar day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (v) the date on which such 10 ten (10) or 15 fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to the product of 1.0% of multiplied by the aggregate purchase price Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed agreed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two years after the date that a Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”"EFFECTIVENESS PERIOD").
(b) If: (ia) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a the Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (ia)), or (iib) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a the Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iiic) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to any comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 ten Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effectivecomments, or (ivd) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the 30th day following its Effectiveness Date, or (ve) after a the Effective Date, the Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously be effective as to all Registrable Securities for to which it is required to be effectiverelate, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein thereunder to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during 20 Trading Days for all such events, or (f) an amendment to the Registration Statement is not filed by the Company with the Commission within ten Trading Days of the Commission's notifying the Company that such amendment is required in order for the Registration Statement to be declared effective (any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” "EVENT", and for purposes of clause clauses (ia) or and (iv) d), the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (iib) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause clauses (iiic) and (f) the date which such 15 ten Trading Day period is exceeded, or or, for purposes of clause (ve) the date on which such 10 or 15 day periodtwenty Trading Day period is exceeded, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”"EVENT DATE"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable lawthen: (x) on each such Event Date and on the first monthly anniversary of each such Event Date, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01% of the aggregate purchase price amounts paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement; and (y) on each subsequent monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price amounts paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1512% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date until such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, if the Commission refuses to permit the inclusion of the Underlying Shares issuable upon conversion of the Debentures and exercise of the Second Warrants and the Third Warrants (collectively, the "EXCLUDED SHARES") in the initial Registration Statement filed by the Company in accordance with this Agreement, then the parties agree that the Company may remove the Excluded Shares from such initial Registration Statement and for purposes of calculating the liquidated damages specified in Section 2(b), a Purchaser's investment amount will not include the amount paid for the Debentures. In such event, the Company shall have no further obligation to file a Registration Statement relating to the Excluded Shares. The parties further agree that any liquidated damages incurred on other Registrable Securities will be unaffected thereby.
(d) The initial Registration Statement to be filed pursuant to the terms hereunder shall included a number of Registrable Securities which is not less than 8,924,039.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Millennium Cell Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”"). The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on the same day that the Company receives notification of the effectiveness from the Commission. Failure to so notify the Holder within 1 Trading Day of such notification shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(b).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording First Montauk on behalf of the Holder Holders not participating in the 1,250,000 Share Offering, and each of the individual Holders participating in the 1,250,000 Share Offering, the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 21 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iviii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day 10 calendar day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (viv) the date on which such 10 20 or 15 30 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , then, on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder, up to a maximum aggregate penalty amount of $150,000 for all Holders. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Shumate Industries Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two years after the Closing Date or such later date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (provided, however, that if a Holder fails to provide the Company with any information that is required to be provided in the Registration Statement with respect to such Holder, then the Filing Date shall be extended until three (3) Trading Days following the date of receipt by the Company of such required information; and provided, further, that if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 10 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive calendar days but no more than an aggregate of 15 calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any Days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day 10 calendar day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , then, on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Apogee Technology Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on S-1 or another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder herewith and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by at least a majority in interest of the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when that all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold by such Holder(s) without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders Holder(s) (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day. The Company shall promptly notify the Holders via e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on the first Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424. Failure to so notify the Holder within one (1) Trading Day of such notification of effectiveness or failure to file a final Prospectus as foresaid shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(d). The Company shall not include any securities other than Registrable Securities on any Registration Statement unless the Purchasers shall consent to such inclusion in writing.
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering; with respect to filing on Form S-1 or other appropriate form, and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to the payment of liquidated damages; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included other than Registrable Securities;
b. Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Conversion Shares (applied, in the case that some Conversion Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Conversion Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least three (3) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by the Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-1 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(d) If: (i) a the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Holder Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) herein, the Company shall not be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five (5) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the effective date when such of a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the CommissionStatement, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days ten (10) calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission on or before by the Effectiveness DateDate of the Initial Registration Statement, or (v) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveincluded in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, on two or more occasions or for more than forty-five (45) consecutive calendar days (provided that if the Company is required to file a post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement to incorporate the Company’s quarterly or annual reports or audited financial statements on Forms 10-Q and 10-K, such period may be extended for no more than 5 consecutive calendar days in any such the case 10 of a Form 10-Q and 15 consecutive calendar days but no in the case of a Form 10-K (the “Grace Period”)) or more than an aggregate of 15 ninety (90) calendar days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” ”, and for purposes of clause clauses (i) or and (iv) ), the date on which such Event occurs, or and for purposes purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day ten (10) calendar day period is exceeded, or and for purposes purpose of clause (v) the date on which such 10 forty-five (45) or 15 ninety (90) calendar day periodperiod plus any Grace Period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) , on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to the product of 1.0% of multiplied by the aggregate purchase price Investment Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to a Holder under this Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held shall be 6.0% of the aggregate Investment Amount paid by such HolderHolder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven (7) days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1512% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(e) If Form S-3 becomes available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Applied Digital Corp.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to Upon its receipt of a written notice from the Filing Date------------ Holder at any time following the thirtieth day preceding each of the Vesting Dates, the Company shall prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on "SEC") a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be registration statement on Form S-3 (except if or such successor or other form as the Company is SEC may stipulate or require) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") covering the Shares that vest on the upcoming Vesting Date in question or shall have vested any time previously (other than Shares that have vested as a result of an Acceleration Notice and which would not then eligible otherwise have been scheduled to register for resale vest on the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewithupcoming Vesting Date or previously). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement such registration statement to be declared become effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible practicable after receipt of the filing thereof, but written notice. The Company shall also file such post-effective amendments to such registration statement in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts order for it to keep the Registration Statement continuously remain effective under the Securities Act without lapse until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: earlier of (i) a Registration Statement 90 days following the date the registration statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), declared effective or (ii) all the Shares so registered have been sold, subject to the two immediately following sentences. Upon request of the Holder and subject to the consent of the Company fails (which consent is not to file with be unreasonably withheld), the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days effectiveness of the date registration statement will be extended for up to an additional 30 days. If, during the effectiveness of the registration statement, the Holder determines that it no longer desires to sell any (or further) Shares at that time, the Holder will so advise the Company so that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by can withdraw the Commission that a Registration Statement will not registration statement. The Holder shall be “reviewed,” or is not subject entitled to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or make three registration requests under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company this Section 2. The --------- Holder shall pay to the expenses described in Section 4 for each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages registration --------- pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full2. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.---------
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Customtracks Corp /Tx/)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed agreed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the each Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the prior to its Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two years after the date that such Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by the a Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders Purchasers (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a such Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior the Company fails to respond to any comments made by the date when Commission within twenty Trading Days after the receipt of such comments, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first filed with and declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement ceases to be effective as to all Registrable Securities to which it is required to relate at any time prior to the expiration of the Effectiveness Period without being succeeded within 15 twenty Trading Days after by an amendment to such Registration Statement or by a subsequent Registration Statement filed with and declared effective by the receipt of comments Commission, (vi) an amendment to a Registration Statement is not filed by or notice from the Company with the Commission within fifteen Trading Days of the Commission's notifying the Company that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (ivvii) a the Company suspends the use of the Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases Holders for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during twenty Trading Days (any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day Day-period is exceeded, or for purposes of clauses (iii), (v) or (vi) the date which such fifteen Trading Day-period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iiivii) the date which such 15 twenty Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”)") , then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable lawthen: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date thereof (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 158% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant .
(c) If the Purchasers under the Purchase Agreement exercise the investment option contemplated in Section 2.4 of the Purchase Agreement, then the Company shall file an additional Registration Statement to register the resale of the Option Shares to be issued to the terms hereof shall apply Purchasers on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month the Option Closing Date. If the Option Closing Date occurs prior to the cure of an Eventdate that the initial Registration Statement contemplated by this Agreement is filed with the Commission, then the Company shall include the Option Shares in such initial Registration Statement and file and cause such initial Registration Statement to be declared effective as required by this Agreement.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Wilsons the Leather Experts Inc)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form permitting registration of the Registrable Securities for resale by such Holders in accordance herewithherewith and the methods of distribution elected by the Holders herein). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions registration under the Securities Act pursuant to the final sentence of Rule 144(k144(b)(1)(i) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days . None of the date that Company’s security holders (other than the Company is notified (orally or Holders of Registrable Securities) shall have the right to include any of the Company’s securities in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event2.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Escalon Medical Corp)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed agreed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two years after the date that a Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”"EFFECTIVENESS PERIOD").
(b) If: (ia) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the its Filing Date (if the Company files a the Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (ia)), or (iib) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a the Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iiic) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to any comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 fifteen Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effectivecomments, or (ivd) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the by its Effectiveness Date, or (ve) after a the Registration Statement is filed with and first declared effective by the Commission, it the Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously be effective as to all Registrable Securities for to which it is required to be effectiverelate, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein thereunder to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate in all such events of 15 days 20 Trading Days during the Effectiveness Period, (f) an amendment to the Registration Statement is not filed by the Company with the Commission within fifteen Trading Days of the Commission's notifying the Company that such amendment is required in order for the Registration Statement to be declared effective, (any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event"EVENT,” " and for purposes of clause (ia) or (ivd) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (iib) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause clauses (iiic) or (f) the date which such 15 fifteen Trading Day Day-period is exceeded, or for the purposes of clause (ve) the date on which such 10 or 15 day periodtwenty Trading Days is exceeding, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”"EVENT DATE"), then in addition then, subject to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable lawfollowing paragraph with respect to the Preferred Shares: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (but which shall not include any amounts paid for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holderthe Warrants); and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (but which shall not include any amounts paid for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holderthe Warrants). If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1512% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, if the Commission refuses to permit the inclusion of the Preferred Shares in the initial Registration Statement filed by the Company in accordance with this Agreement, then the parties agree that the Company may remove the Preferred Shares from such initial Registration Statement and for purposes of calculating the liquidated damages pursuant specified in Section 2(b), a Purchaser's investment amount will not include the amount paid for the Preferred Stock. The parties further agree that any liquidated damages incurred on other Registrable Securities will be unaffected thereby. In such event, if a Party has not required the redemption of the Preferred Stock in accordance with the terms thereof following the exclusion of such Preferred Shares from the initial Registration Statement, the Company will prepare and file with the Commission a new Registration Statement to cover the resale of the Preferred Shares by the Holders promptly, but in any event within fifteen Trading Days from the date that the Commission indicates that it may do so and such Registration Statement shall be subject to the terms hereof shall apply on requirements set forth herein for a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior Registration Statement, including as to the cure of an Eventits Effectiveness Date and other requirements under this Section 2(b).
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Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder S-1 and shall contain (except if unless otherwise directed by at least 85% in interest of the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such Holder’s express prior written consent. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause the a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to keep the such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when that all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement (i) have been sold sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on a Trading Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile or by e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, subject to extension pursuant to Section 3(a), file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424.
(b) If: (i) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering, unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
a. First, the Company shall not reduce or eliminate any securities to be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i))included other than Registrable Securities; and
b. Second, or (ii) the Company fails shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Shares (applied, in the case that some Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Holder’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that or SEC Guidance provided to the Company is notified or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(orally or in writing, whichever is earlierd) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior Notwithstanding anything to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commissioncontrary contained herein, in no event shall the Company fails be permitted to file name any Holder or affiliate of a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by Holder as any Underwriter without the Commission in respect prior written consent of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Gaming Technologies, Inc.)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 SB-2 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3SB-2, in which case the Registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of ------- Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this ------------ -------- Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").. ---------------------
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days 10 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 Trading Day period 10 calendar days is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration Statement shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Major Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject The Company shall cause the Registration Statement to the terms of this Agreement, the become effective and remain effective as provided herein. The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act and available for use until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement (a) have been sold pursuant to the Registration Statement or an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act or (b) may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”").
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording the each Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a), the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)); provided, however, that if a Holder fails to provide the Company with any information that is required to be provided in the Registration Statement with respect to such Holder pursuant to Section 3(k), then the Filing Date shall be extended until two (2) Business Days following the date of receipt by the Company of such required information, or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading two (2) Business Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective and available for use as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effectiveeffective (excluding any period resulting solely from the requirement to file a post-effective amendment to reflect a required amendment or modification of the disclosures required with respect to selling stockholders or plan of distribution pursuant to item 507 or 508 of Regulation S-K), or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period cases fifty (50)Trading Days (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any days) in the aggregate during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “"Event,” " and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five two (2) Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iiiiv) the date on which such 15 fifty (50) Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 10 or 15 day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “"Event Date”"), then in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder, provided that the total of all such payments shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) of the aggregate purchase price paid for Registrable Securities purchased pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Cardiogenesis Corp /Ca)
Registration. (a) On or prior to the each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission the a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Each Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case the Registration such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Registration Statement required hereunder ) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Holders) substantially the “"Plan of Distribution” " attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the each Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than on or before the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its best efforts to keep the each Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two years after the date that such Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”"EFFECTIVENESS PERIOD").
(b) If: (i) a any Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date (if the Company files a such Registration Statement without affording the Holder the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a)) hereof, the Company shall not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “"reviewed,” " or is not subject to further review, or (iii) the Company fails to respond to any comments made by the Commission within ten days after the receipt of such comments, or (iv) after its Effective Date, such Registration Statement ceases to be effective and available to the Holders thereunder as to all Registrable Securities to which it is required to relate (whether upon the delivery of an Advice pursuant to Section 6(d) or otherwise) at any time prior to the date when expiration of its Effectiveness Period without being succeeded within fifteen Trading Days by an amendment to such Registration Statement is first or by a subsequent Registration Statement filed with and declared effective by the Commission, or (v) an amendment to a Registration Statement is not filed by the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by with the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 fifteen Trading Days after of the receipt of comments by or notice from Commission's notifying the Commission Company that such amendment is required in order for a such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (ivvi) the Common Stock is not listed or quoted, or is suspended from trading on the Nasdaq National Market or another Trading Market for a period of three Trading Days (which need not be consecutive Trading Days), or (vii) the exercise rights of the Holders pursuant to the Warrants are suspended for any reason, or (viii) any Registration Statement filed or required to shall not be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date, or Date (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities for which it is required to be effective, or the Holders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 10 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 15 days during any 12 month period (which need not be consecutive Trading Days)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event"EVENT,” " and for purposes of clause (i), (vii) or (ivviii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such five Trading Day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 ten day-period is exceeded, of for purposes of clauses (iv) or (v) the date which such fifteen Trading Day Day-period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (vg) the date on which such 10 or 15 day periodthree Trading Day period is exceeded, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”"EVENT DATE"), then then, in addition to any other rights available to the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable lawHolders: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.01% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date thereof (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, 2.0equal to 2% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such HolderAgreement. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 1518% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) If the number of Registrable Securities at any time exceeds 85% of the number of shares of Common Stock then registered in a Registration Statement as a result of the triggering of the anti dilution provisions of the Warrants, then the Company shall file an additional Registration Statement covering the resale of such additional shares or Registrable Securities (as applicable) in accordance with this Agreement.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company shall prepare and file a supplement to the appropriate Registration Statement (if permitted for such purpose under the Securities Act) within 5 Trading Days following the issuance of a New Warrant, or (if such supplement is not permitted for such purposes under the Securities Act), a new Registration Statement within 15 Trading Days following the issuance of a New Warrant.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Insignia Systems Inc/Mn)