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INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT
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1. REGISTRATION RIGHTS.................................... 1
1.1 Definitions...................................... 1
1.2 Request for Registration......................... 2
1.3 Company Registration............................. 3
1.4 Obligations of the Company....................... 3
1.5 Furnish Information.............................. 5
1.6 Expenses of Demand Registration.................. 5
1.7 Expenses of Company Registration................. 5
1.8 Underwriting Requirements........................ 6
1.9 Delay of Registration............................ 6
1.10 Indemnification.................................. 6
1.11 Reports Under Securities Exchange Act of 1934.... 8
1.12 Form S-3 Registration............................ 9
1.13 Assignment of Registration Rights................ 9
1.14 Limitations on Subsequent Registration Rights.... 10
1.15 "Market Stand-Off" Agreement..................... 10
1.16 Termination of Registration Rights............... 11
2. RIGHT OF FIRST OFFER.................................... 11
3. MISCELLANEOUS........................................... 12
3.1 Successors and Assigns........................... 12
3.2 Governing Law.................................... 12
3.3 Counterparts..................................... 13
3.4 Titles and Subtitles............................. 13
3.5 Notices.......................................... 13
3.6 Expenses......................................... 13
3.7 Amendments and Waivers........................... 13
3.8 Severability..................................... 13
3.9 Aggregation of Stock............................. 13
3.10 Entire Agreement; Amendment; Waiver.............. 13
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INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT
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THIS INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT is made as of the _________ day of
___________, 1999, by and between Amerigon Incorporated, a California
corporation (the "Company"), and the investors listed on the signature page
hereof, each of which is herein referred to as an "Investor."
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WHEREAS, the Company and the Investors are parties to the Securities
Purchase Agreement dated March __, 1999 (the "Securities Purchase Agreement")
pursuant to which the Investors are acquiring Series A Preferred Stock of the
Company and warrants to purchase Class A Common Stock of the Company (the
"Warrants");
WHEREAS, in order to induce the Company to enter into the Securities
Purchase Agreement and to induce the Investors to invest funds in the Company
pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Investors and the Company
hereby agree that this Agreement shall govern the rights of the Investors to
cause the Company to register shares of Common Stock issuable to the Investors
and certain other matters as set forth herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE PARTIES HEREBY AGREE AS FOLLOWS:
1. Registration Rights. The Company covenants and agrees as follows:
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1.1 Definitions. For purposes of this Section 1:
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(a) The term "Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(b) The term "Common Stock" means the Class A Common Stock, no
par value, of the Company.
(c) The term "Form S-3" means such form under the Act as in
effect on the date hereof or any registration form under the Act subsequently
adopted by the SEC which permits inclusion or incorporation of substantial
information by reference to other documents filed by the Company with the SEC.
(d) The term "Holder" means any person owning or having th right
to acquire Registrable Securities or any assignee thereof in accordance with
Section 1.13 hereof.
(e) The term "1934 Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended.
(f) The term "register", "registered," and "registration" refer
to a registration effected by preparing and filing a registration statement or
similar document in compliance with the Act, and the declaration or ordering of
effectiveness of such registration statement or document.
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(g) The term "Registrable Securities" means (i) the Common Stock
issuable or issued upon conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock, (ii) the
Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants, (iii) any
Common Stock of the Company issued as (or issuable upon the conversion or
exercise of any warrant, right or other security which is issued as) a dividend
or other distribution with respect to, or in exchange for or in replacement of
the shares referenced in (i) and (ii) above, excluding in all cases, however,
any Registrable Securities sold by a person in a transaction in which his rights
under this Section 1 are not assigned.
(h) The number of shares of "Registrable Securities then
outstanding" shall be determined by the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding which are, and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable
pursuant to then exercisable or convertible securities which are, Registrable
Securities.
(i) The term "SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
1.2 Request for Registration.
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(a) If the Company shall receive at any time after the date of
this Agreement, a written request from the Holders of a majority of the
Registrable Securities then outstanding that the Company file a registration
statement under the Act covering the registration of at least ten percent (10%)
of the Registrable Securities then outstanding, then the Company shall:
(i) within ten (10) days of the receipt thereof, give
written notice of such request to all Holders; and
(ii) as soon as practicable, and in any event within 45 days
of the receipt of such request, file a registration statement under the Act
covering all Registrable Securities which the Holders request to be registered,
subject to the limitations of subsection 1.2(b), within twenty (20) days of the
mailing of such notice by the Company in accordance with Section 3.5.
(b) If the Holders initiating the registration request hereunder
("Initiating Holders") intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered
by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Company
as a part of their request made pursuant to subsection 1.2(a) and the Company
shall include such information in the written notice referred to in subsection
1.2(a). The underwriter will be selected by the Company and shall be reasonably
acceptable to a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders. In such event,
the right of any Holder to include his Registrable Securities in such
registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder's participation in such
underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder's Registrable Securities in the
underwriting (unless otherwise mutually agreed by a majority in interest of the
Initiating Holders and such Holder) to the extent provided herein. All Holders
proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting shall
(together with the Company as provided in subsection 1.4(e)) enter into an
underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters
selected for such underwriting. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Section 1.2, if the underwriter advises the Initiating Holders in writing
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that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of shares to be
underwritten, then the Initiating Holders shall so advise all Holders of
Registrable Securities which would otherwise be underwritten pursuant hereto,
and the number of shares of Registrable Securities that may be included in the
underwriting shall be allocated among all Holders thereof, including the
Initiating Holders, in proportion (as nearly as practicable) to the amount of
Registrable Securities of the Company owned by each Holder; provided, however,
that the number of shares of Registrable Securities to be included in such
underwriting shall not be reduced unless all other securities are first entirely
excluded from the underwriting.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company shall furnish
to Holders requesting a registration statement pursuant to this Section 1.2, a
certificate signed by the 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 such registration
statement to be filed and it is therefore essential to defer the filing of such
registration statement, the Company shall have the right to defer taking action
with respect to such filing for a period of not more than 90 days after receipt
of the request of the Initiating Holders; provided, however, that the Company
may not utilize this right more than once in any twelve-month period.
(d) The Company shall be obligated to effect only two such
registrations pursuant to this Section 1.2. Registrations effected on Form S-3
pursuant to Section 1.12, however, shall not be counted as demands pursuant to
this Section 2.
1.3 Company Registration. At any time within five years after the
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date of this Agreement, if (but without any obligation to do so) the Company
proposes to register (including for this purpose a registration effected by the
Company for shareholders other than the Holders) any of its stock or other
securities under the Act in connection with the public offering of such
securities solely for cash (other than a registration relating solely to the
sale of securities to participants in a Company stock plan, a registration on
any form which does not include substantially the same information as would be
required to be included in a registration statement covering the sale of the
Registrable Securities or a registration in which the only Common Stock being
registered is Common Stock issuable upon conversion of debt securities which are
also being registered), the Company shall, at such time, promptly give each
Holder written notice of such registration. Upon the written request of each
Holder given within twenty (20) days after mailing of such notice by the Company
in accordance with Section 3.5, the Company shall, subject to the provisions of
Section 1.8, cause to be registered under the Act all of the Registrable
Securities that each such Holder has requested to be registered.
1.4 Obligations of the Company. Whenever required under this Section
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1 to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities, the Company shall,
as expeditiously as reasonably possible:
(a) Prepare and file with the SEC a registration statement with
respect to such Registrable Securities and use its best efforts to cause such
registration statement to become effective, and, upon the request of the Holders
of a majority of the Registrable Securities registered thereunder, keep such
registration statement effective for a period of up to one hundred twenty (120)
days or until the distribution contemplated in the Registration Statement
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has been completed; provided, however, that (i) such 120-day period shall be
extended for a period of time equal to the period the Holder refrains from
selling any securities included in such registration at the request of an
underwriter of Common Stock (or other securities) of the Company; and (ii) in
the case of any registration of Registrable Securities on Form S-3 which are
intended to be offered on a continuous or delayed basis, such 120-day period
shall be extended, if necessary, to keep the registration statement effective
until all such Registrable Securities are sold, provided that Rule 415, or any
successor rule under the Act, permits an offering on a continuous or delayed
basis, and provided further that applicable rules under the Act governing the
obligation to file a post-effective amendment permit, in lieu of filing a post-
effective amendment which (I) includes any prospectus required by Section
10(a)(3) of the Act or (II) reflects facts or events representing a material or
fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement,
the incorporation by reference of information required to be included in (I) and
(II) above to be contained in periodic reports filed pursuant to Section 13 or
15(d) of the 1934 Act in the registration statement.
(b) Prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and
supplements to such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection
with such registration statement as may be necessary to comply with the
provisions of the Act with respect to the disposition of all securities covered
by such registration statement.
(c) Furnish to the Holders such numbers of copies of a
prospectus, including a preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the
requirements of the Act, and such other documents as they may reasonably request
in order to facilitate the disposition of Registrable Securities owned by them.
(d) Use its best efforts to register and qualify the securities
covered by such registration statement under such other securities or Blue Sky
laws of such jurisdictions as shall be reasonably requested by the Holders;
provided that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a
condition thereto to qualify to do business or to file a general consent to
service of process in any such states or jurisdictions, unless the Company is
already subject to service in such jurisdiction and except as may be required by
the Act.
(e) In the event of any underwritten public offering, enter into
and perform its obligations under an underwriting agreement, in usual and
customary form, with the managing underwriter of such offering. Each Holder
participating in such underwriting shall also enter into and perform its
obligations under such an agreement.
(f) Notify each Holder of Registrable Securities covered by such
registration statement at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is
required to be delivered under the Act of the happening of any event as a result
of which the prospectus included in such registration statement, as then in
effect, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances then existing.
(g) Cause all such Registrable Securities registered pursuant
hereunder to be listed on each securities exchange on which similar securities
issued by the Company are then listed.
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(h) Use its best efforts to furnish, at the request of any
Holder requesting registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to this
Section 1, on the date that such Registrable Securities are delivered to the
underwriters for sale in connection with a registration pursuant to this Section
1, if such securities are being sold through underwriters, or, if such
securities are not being sold through underwriters, on the date that the
registration statement with respect to such securities becomes effective, (i) an
opinion, dated such date, of the counsel representing the Company for the
purposes of such registration, in form and substance as is customarily given to
underwriters in an underwritten public offering, addressed to the underwriters,
if any, and to the Holders requesting registration of Registrable Securities and
(ii) a letter dated such date, from the independent certified public accountants
of the Company, in form and substance as is customarily given by independent
certified public accountants to underwriters in an underwritten public offering,
addressed to the underwriters, if any, and to the Holders requesting
registration of Registrable Securities.
1.5 Furnish Information. It shall be a condition precedent to the
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obligations of the Company to take any action pursuant to this Section 1 with
respect to the Registrable Securities of any selling Holder that such Holder
shall furnish to the Company such information regarding itself, the Registrable
Securities held by it, and the intended method of disposition of such securities
as shall be required to effect the registration of such Holder's Registrable
Securities.
1.6 Expenses of Demand Registration. All expenses other than
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underwriting discounts and commissions incurred in connection with
registrations, filings or qualifications pursuant to Section 1.2, including
(without limitation) all registration, filing and qualification fees, printers'
and accounting fees, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, and the
reasonable fees and disbursements (not to exceed $15,000) of one counsel for the
selling Holders (as selected by the Holders of a majority of the Registrable
Securities to be registered) shall be borne by the Company; provided, however,
that the Company shall not be required to pay for any expenses of any
registration proceeding begun pursuant to Section 1.2 if the registration
request is subsequently withdrawn at the request of the Holders of a majority of
the Registrable Securities to be registered (in which case all participating
Holders shall bear such expenses), unless the Holders of a majority of the
Registrable Securities agree to forfeit their right to one demand registration
pursuant to Section 1.2; provided further, however, that if at the time of such
withdrawal, the Holders have learned of a material adverse change in the
condition, business, or prospects of the Company from that known to the Holders
at the time of their request and have withdrawn the request with reasonable
promptness following disclosure by the Company of such material adverse change,
then the Holders shall not be required to pay any of such expenses and shall
retain their rights pursuant to Section 1.2.
1.7 Expenses of Company Registration. The Company shall bear and pay
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all expenses incurred in connection with any registration, filing or
qualification of Registrable Securities with respect to the registrations
pursuant to Section 1.3 for each Holder (which right may be assigned as provided
in Section 1.13), including (without limitation) all registration, filing, and
qualification fees, printers and accounting fees relating or apportionable
thereto and the fees and disbursements (not to exceed $15,000) of one counsel
for the selling Holders (as selected by the Holders of a majority of the
Registrable Securities to be registered), but excluding underwriting discounts
and commissions relating to Registrable Securities.
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1.8 Underwriting Requirements. In connection with any offering
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involving an underwriting of shares of the Company's capital stock, the Company
shall not be required under Section 1.3 to include any of the Holders'
securities in such underwriting unless they accept the terms of the underwriting
as agreed upon between the Company and the underwriters selected by it (or by
other persons entitled to select the underwriters), and then only in such
quantity as the underwriters determine in their sole discretion will not
jeopardize the success of the offering by the Company. If the total amount of
securities, including Registrable Securities, requested by shareholders to be
included in such offering exceeds the amount of securities sold other than by
the Company that the underwriters determine in their sole discretion is
compatible with the success of the offering, then the Company shall be required
to include in the offering only that number of such securities, including
Registrable Securities, which the underwriters determine in their sole
discretion will not jeopardize the success of the offering (the securities so
included to be apportioned pro rata among the selling shareholders according to
the total amount of securities entitled to be included therein owned by each
selling shareholder or in such other proportions as shall mutually be agreed to
by such selling shareholders) but in no event shall (i) the amount of securities
of the selling Holders included in the offering be reduced below twenty percent
(20%) of the total amount of securities included in such offering, or (ii)
notwithstanding (i) above, any shares being sold by a shareholder exercising a
demand registration right similar to that granted in Section 1.2 be excluded
from such offering. For purposes of the preceding parenthetical concerning
apportionment, for any selling shareholder which is a holder of Registrable
Securities and which is a partnership or corporation, the partners, retired
partners and shareholders of such holder, or the estates and family members of
any such partners and retired partners and any trusts for the benefit of any of
the foregoing persons shall be deemed to be a single "selling shareholder", and
any pro-rata reduction with respect to such "selling shareholder" shall be based
upon the aggregate amount of shares carrying registration rights owned by all
entities and individuals included in such "selling shareholder", as defined in
this sentence.
1.9 Delay of Registration. No Holder shall have any right to
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obtain or seek an injunction restraining or otherwise delaying any such
registration as the result of any controversy that might arise with respect to
the interpretation or implementation of this Section 1.
1.10 Indemnification. In the event any Registrable Securities
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are included in a registration statement under this Section 1:
(a) To the extent permitted by law, the Company will indemnify
and hold harmless each Holder, any underwriter (as defined in the Act) for such
Holder and each person, if any, who controls such Holder or underwriter within
the meaning of the Act or the 1934 Act, against any losses, claims, damages, or
liabilities (joint or several) to which they may become subject under the Act,
the 1934 Act or other federal or state securities law, insofar as such losses,
claims, damages, or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or
are based upon any of the following statements, omissions or violations
(collectively a "Violation"): (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in such registration statement, including
any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus contained therein or any
amendments or supplements thereto, (ii) the omission or alleged omission to
state therein a material fact required to be stated therein, or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading, or (iii) any violation or alleged
violation by the Company of the Act, the 1934 Act,
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any rule or regulation promulgated under the Act or the 1934 Act, or any other
federal or state securities law; and the Company will pay to each such Holder,
underwriter or controlling person any legal or other expenses reasonably
incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss,
claim, damage, liability, or action; provided, however, that the indemnity
agreement contained in this subsection 1.10(a) shall not apply to amounts paid
in settlement of any such loss, claim, damage, liability, or action if such
settlement is effected without the consent of the Company (which consent shall
not be unreasonably withheld), nor shall the Company be liable in any such case
for any such loss, claim, damage, liability, or action to the extent that it
arises out of or is based upon a Violation which occurs in reliance upon and in
conformity with written information furnished expressly for use in connection
with such registration by any such Holder, underwriter or controlling person.
(b) To the extent permitted by law, each selling Holder will
indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors, each of its
officers who has signed the registration statement, each person, if any, who
controls the Company within the meaning of the Act, any underwriter, any other
Holder selling securities in such registration statement and any controlling
person of any such underwriter or other Holder, against any losses, claims,
damages, or liabilities (joint or several) to which any of the foregoing persons
may become subject, under the Act, the 1934 Act or other federal or state
securities law, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (or
actions in respect thereto) arise out of or are based upon any Violation, in
each case to the extent (and only to the extent) that such Violation occurs in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished by such
Holder expressly for use in connection with such registration; and each such
Holder will pay any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by any person
intended to be indemnified pursuant to this subsection 1.10(b), in connection
with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability, or
action; provided, however, that the indemnity agreement contained in this
subsection 1.10(b) shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such
loss, claim, damage, liability or action if such settlement is effected without
the consent of the Holder, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld;
provided, that, in no event shall any indemnity under this subsection 1.10(b)
exceed the gross proceeds from the offering received by such Holder.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this
Section 1.10 of notice of the commencement of any action (including any
governmental action), such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof
is to be made against any indemnifying party under this Section 1.10, deliver to
the indemnifying party a written notice of the commencement thereof and the
indemnifying party shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent
the indemnifying party so desires, jointly with any other indemnifying party
similarly noticed, to assume the defense thereof with counsel mutually
satisfactory to the parties; provided, however, that an indemnified party
(together with all other indemnified parties which may be represented without
conflict by one counsel) shall have the right to retain one separate counsel,
with the fees and expenses to be paid by the indemnifying party, if
representation of such indemnified party by the counsel retained by the
indemnifying party would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing
interests between such indemnified party and any other party represented by such
counsel in such proceeding. The failure to deliver written notice to the
indemnifying party within a reasonable time of the commencement of any such
action, if prejudicial to its ability to defend such action, shall relieve such
indemnifying party of any liability to the indemnified party under this Section
1.10, but the omission so to deliver written notice to the indemnifying party
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will not relieve it of any liability that it may have to any indemnified party
otherwise than under this Section 1.10.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 1.10 is
held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unavailable to an indemnified
party with respect to any loss, liability, claim, damage, or expense referred to
therein, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified
party hereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such
indemnified party as a result of such loss, liability, claim, damage, or expense
in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the
indemnifying party on the one hand and of the indemnified party on the other in
connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such loss,
liability, claim, damage, or expense as well as any other relevant equitable
considerations. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and of the
indemnified party shall be determined by reference to, among other things,
whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the
omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the
indemnifying party or by the indemnified party and the parties' relative intent,
knowledge, access to information, and opportunity to correct or prevent such
statement or omission.
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that the
provisions on indemnification and contribution contained in the underwriting
agreement entered into in connection with the underwritten public offering are
in conflict with the foregoing provisions, the provisions in the underwriting
agreement shall control.
(f) The obligations of the Company and Holders under this
Section 1.10 shall survive the completion of any offering of Registrable
Securities in a registration statement under this Section 1, and otherwise.
1.11 Reports Under Securities Exchange Act of 1934. With a view to
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making available to the Holders the benefits of Rule 144 promulgated under the
Act and any other rule or regulation of the SEC that may at any time permit a
Holder to sell securities of the Company to the public without registration or
pursuant to a registration on Form S-3, the Company agrees to:
(a) make and keep public information available, as those terms
are understood and defined in SEC Rule 144, at all times;
(b) file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other
documents required of the Company under the Act and the 1934 Act; and
(c) furnish to any Holder, so long as the Holder owns any
Registrable Securities, forthwith upon request (i) a written statement by the
Company that it has complied with the reporting requirements of SEC Rule 144 (at
any time after ninety (90) days after the effective date of the first
registration statement filed by the Company), the Act and the 1934 Act (at any
time after it has become subject to such reporting requirements), or that it
qualifies as a registrant whose securities may be resold pursuant to Form S-3
(at any time after it so qualifies), (ii) a copy of the most recent annual or
quarterly report of the Company and such other reports and documents so filed by
the Company, and (iii) such other information as may be reasonably requested in
availing any Holder of any rule or regulation of the SEC which permits the
selling of any such securities without registration or pursuant to such form.
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1.12 Form S-3 Registration. In case the Company shall receive from any
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Holder or Holders a written request or requests that the Company effect a
registration on Form S-3 for the resale of shares from time to time in broker
transactions (and not in connection with an underwritten offering), and any
related qualification or compliance with respect to all or a part of the
Registrable Securities owned by such Holder or Holders, the Company will:
(a) promptly give written notice of the proposed registration,
and any related qualification or compliance, to all other Holders; and
(b) as soon as practicable, effect such registration and all
such qualifications and compliances as may be so requested and as would permit
or facilitate the sale and distribution of all or such portion of such Holder's
or Holders' Registrable Securities as are specified in such request, together
with all or such portion of the Registrable Securities of any other Holder or
Holders joining in such request as are specified in a written request given
within 15 days after receipt of such written notice from the Company; provided,
however, that the Company shall not be obligated to effect any such
registration, qualification or compliance, pursuant to this section 1.12: (1) if
Form S-3 is not available for such offering by the Holders; (2) if the Holders,
together with the holders of any other securities of the Company entitled to
inclusion in such registration, propose to sell Registrable Securities and such
other securities (if any) at an aggregate price to the public (net of any
underwriters' discounts or commissions) of less than $300,000; (3) if the
Company shall furnish to the Holders a certificate signed by the President of
the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of
the Company, it would be seriously detrimental to the Company and its
shareholders for such Form S-3 Registration to be effected at such time, in
which event the Company shall have the right to defer the filing of the Form S-3
registration statement for a period of not more than 90 days after receipt of
the request of the Holder or Holders under this Section 1.12; provided, however,
that the Company shall not utilize this right more than once in any twelve month
period; (4) if the Company has, within the twelve (12) month period preceding
the date of such request, already effected two registrations on Form S-3 for the
Holders pursuant to this Section 1.12; (5) the Company has previously effected
four registrations on Form S-3 for the Holders pursuant to this Section 1.12, or
(6) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to
qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in
effecting such registration, qualification or compliance.
(c) Subject to the foregoing, the Company shall file a
registration statement covering the Registrable Securities and other securities
so requested to be registered as soon as practicable after receipt of the
request or requests of the Holders. All expenses incurred in connection with a
registration requested pursuant to Section 1.12, including (without limitation)
all registration, filing, qualification, printer's and accounting fees, and the
fees and disbursements (not to exceed $15,000) of one counsel for the selling
Holder (as selected by the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities
to be registered) and counsel for the Company, shall be borne by the Company.
Registrations effected pursuant to this Section 1.12 shall not be counted as
demands for registration or registrations effected pursuant to Sections 1.2 or
1.3, respectively.
1.13 Assignment of Registration Rights. The rights to cause the
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Company to register Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 1 may be
assigned (but only with all
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related obligations) by a Holder to a transferee or assignee of such securities,
provided: (a) the Company is, within a reasonable time after such transfer,
furnished with written notice of the name and address of such transferee or
assignee and the securities with respect to which such registration rights are
being assigned; (b) such transferee or assignee agrees in writing to be bound by
and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including without
limitation the provisions of Section 1.15 below; and (c) such assignment shall
be effective only if immediately following such transfer the further disposition
of such securities by the transferee or assignee is restricted under the Act.
1.14 Limitations on Subsequent Registration Rights. From and
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after the date of this Agreement, the Company shall not, without the prior
written consent of the Holders of a majority of the outstanding Registrable
Securities, enter into any agreement with any holder or prospective holder of
any securities of the Company which would allow such holder or prospective
holder (a) to include such securities in any registration filed under Section
1.2 hereof, unless under the terms of such agreement, such holder or prospective
holder may include such securities in any such registration only to the extent
that the inclusion of his securities will not reduce the amount of the
Registrable Securities of the Holders which is included or (b) to make a demand
registration which could result in such registration statement being declared
effective prior to the earlier of either of the dates set forth in subsection
1.2(a) or within one hundred twenty (120) days of the effective date of any
registration effected pursuant to Section 1.2.
1.15 "Market Stand-Off" Agreement. Each Holder hereby agrees
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that, during the period of duration specified by the Company and an underwriter
of common stock or other securities of the Company, following the effective date
of a registration statement of the Company filed under the Act in connection
with an underwritten offering, it shall not, to the extent requested by the
Company and such underwriter, directly or indirectly sell, offer to sell,
contract to sell (including, without limitation, any short sale), grant any
option to purchase or otherwise transfer or dispose of (other than to donees who
agree to be similarly bound) any securities of the Company held by it at any
time during such period except common stock included in such registration;
provided, however, that:
(a) all officers and directors of the Company and all
other persons with registration rights (whether or not pursuant to this
Agreement) enter into similar agreements; and
(b) such market stand-off time period shall not exceed 90
days.
In order to enforce the foregoing covenant, the Company may
impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to the Registrable Securities of
each Investor (and the shares or securities of every other person subject to the
foregoing restriction) until the end of such period.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations described in this
Section 1.15 shall not apply to a registration relating solely to employee
benefit plans on Form S-l or Form S-8 or similar forms which may be promulgated
in the future, or a registration relating solely to a
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Commission Rule 145 transaction on Form S-14 or Form S-15 or similar forms which
may be promulgated in the future.
1.16 Termination of Registration Rights. The right of any Holder
to request registration or inclusion in any registration pursuant to this
Agreement shall terminate if all shares of Registrable Securities held or
entitled to be held upon conversion by such Holder may immediately be sold under
Rule 144 during any 90-day period.
2. Right of First Offer.
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Subject to the terms and conditions specified in this Section
2, the Company hereby grants to each Major Investor (as hereinafter defined) a
right of first offer with respect to future sales by the Company of its Shares
(as hereinafter defined). For purposes of this Section 2, a Major Investor shall
mean (i) any Investor who holds at least 30% of the original investment such
Investor makes in the Company pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement and
(ii) any person who acquires at least 15% of the Series A Preferred Stock (or
the common stock issued upon conversion thereof) issued pursuant to the
Securities Purchase Agreement. For purposes of this Section 2, Investor includes
any general partners and affiliates of an Investor. An Investor shall be
entitled to apportion the right of first offer hereby granted it among itself
and its partners and affiliates in such proportions as it deems appropriate.
Each time the Company proposes to offer any shares of, or
securities convertible into or exercisable for any shares of, any class of its
capital stock ("Shares"), the Company shall first make an offering of such
Shares to each Major Investor in accordance with the following provisions:
(a) The Company shall deliver a notice by certified mail
("Notice") to the Major Investors stating (i) its bona fide intention to offer
such Shares, (ii) the number of such Shares to be offered, and (iii) the price
and terms, if any, upon which it proposes to offer such Shares.
(b) By written notification received by the Company,
within 20 calendar days after giving of the Notice, the Major Investor may elect
to purchase or obtain, at the price and on the terms specified in the Notice, up
to that portion of such Shares which equals the proportion that the number of
shares of common stock issued and held, or issuable upon conversion of the
Series A Preferred Stock then held, by such Major Investor bears to the total
number of shares of common stock of the Company then outstanding (assuming full
conversion and exercise of all convertible or exercisable securities). The
Company shall promptly, in writing, inform each Major Investor which purchases
all the shares available to it ("Fully-Exercising Investor") of any other Major
Investor's failure to do likewise. During the ten-day period commencing after
such information is given, each Fully-Exercising Investor shall be entitled to
obtain that portion of the Shares for which Major Investors were entitled to
subscribe but which were not subscribed for by the Major Investors which is
equal to the proportion that the number of shares of common stock issued and
held, or issuable upon conversion of Series A Preferred Stock then held, by such
Fully-Exercising Investor bears to the total number of shares of common stock
issued and held, or issuable upon conversion of the
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Series A Preferred Stock then held, by all Fully-Exercising Investors who wish
to purchase some of the unsubscribed shares.
(c) If all Shares which Investors are entitled to obtain
pursuant to (b) are not elected to be obtained as provided in (b) hereof, the
Company may, during the 30-day period following the expiration of the period
provided in (b) hereof, offer the remaining unsubscribed portion of such Shares
to any person or persons at a price not less than, and upon terms no more
favorable to the offeree than those specified in the Notice. If the Company does
not enter into an agreement for the sale of the Shares within such period, or if
such agreement is not consummated within 30 days of the execution thereof, the
right provided hereunder shall be deemed to be revived and such Shares shall not
be offered unless first reoffered to the Major Investors in accordance herewith.
(d) The right of first offer in this Section 2 shall not be
applicable (i) to the issuance or sale of shares of common stock (or options
therefor) to employees for the primary purpose of soliciting or retaining their
employment pursuant to a stock option or stock purchase plan, (ii) the issuance
of securities pursuant to the conversion or exercise of convertible or
exercisable securities, (iii) the issuance of securities in connection with a
bona fide business acquisition of or by the Company, whether by merger,
consolidation, sale of assets, sale or exchange of stock or otherwise or (iv)
the issuance of stock, warrants or other securities or rights to persons or
entities with which the Company has business relationships provided such
issuances are for other than primarily equity financing purposes and provided
that at the time of any such issuance, the aggregate of such issuance and
similar issuances in the preceding twelve month period do not exceed 2% of the
then outstanding Common Stock of the Company (assuming full conversion and
exercise of all convertible and exercisable securities).
(e) The right of first refusal set forth in this Section 2 may
not be assigned or transferred, except that (i) such right is assignable by each
Holder to any wholly owned subsidiary or parent of, or to any corporation or
entity that is, within the meaning of the Act, controlling, controlled by or
under common control with, any such Holder, and (ii) such right is assignable
between and among any of the Holders.
3. Miscellaneous.
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3.1 Successors and Assigns. Except as otherwise provided herein, the
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terms and conditions of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be
binding upon the respective successors and assigns of the parties (including
transferees of any shares of Registrable Securities). Nothing in this Agreement,
express or implied, is intended to confer upon any party other than the parties
hereto or their respective successors and assigns any rights, remedies,
obligations, or liabilities under or by reason of this Agreement, except as
expressly provided in this Agreement.
3.2 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed
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under the laws of the State of California as applied to agreements among
California residents entered into and to be performed entirely within
California.
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3.3 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more
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counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which
together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
3.4 Titles and Subtitles. The titles and subtitles used in this
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Agreement are used for convenience only and are not to be considered in
construing or interpreting this Agreement.
3.5 Notices. Unless otherwise provided, any notice required or
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permitted under this Agreement shall be given in writing and shall be deemed
effectively given upon personal delivery to the party to be notified or upon
deposit with the United States Post Office, by registered or certified mail,
postage prepaid and addressed to the party to be notified at the address
indicated for such party on the signature page hereof, or at such other address
as such party may designate by ten (10) days' advance written notice to the
other parties.
3.6 Expenses. If any action at law or in equity is necessary to
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enforce or interpret the terms of this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be
entitled to reasonable attorneys' fees, costs and necessary disbursements in
addition to any other relief to which such party may be entitled.
3.7 Amendments and Waivers. Any term of this Agreement may be
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amended and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived (either
generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or
prospectively), only with the written consent of the Company and the holders of
a majority of the Registrable Securities then outstanding. Any amendment or
waiver effected in accordance with this paragraph shall be binding upon each
holder of any Registrable Securities then outstanding, each future holder of all
such Registrable Securities, and the Company.
3.8 Severability. If one or more provisions of this Agreement
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are held to be unenforceable under applicable law, such provision shall be
excluded from this Agreement and the balance of the Agreement shall be
interpreted as if such provision were so excluded and shall be enforceable in
accordance with its terms.
3.9 Aggregation of Stock. All shares of Registrable Securities
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held or acquired by affiliated entities or persons shall be aggregated together
for the purpose of determining the availability of any rights under this
Agreement.
3.10 Entire Agreement; Amendment; Waiver. This Agreement
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(including the exhibits hereto, if any) constitutes the full and entire
understanding and agreement between the parties with regard to the subjects
hereof and thereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Investors' Rights
Agreement as of the date first above written.
AMERIGON INCORPORATED,
a California corporation
By:
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, President
Address:
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INVESTORS:
WESTAR CAPITAL II LLC
By:
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Address:
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BIG BEAVER INVESTMENTS LLC
By:
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Address:
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