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EXHIBIT 4.7
Execution Copy
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
Dated as of February 27, 1998
by and among
Zilog, Inc.
as Issuer
The Guarantors listed on Annex I hereto
as Guarantors
and
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co.
BancBoston Securities Inc.
Citicorp Securities, Inc.
as Initial Purchasers
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This Registration Rights Agreement (this "Agreement") is made and
entered into as of February 27, 1998, by and among Zilog, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), the Guarantors listed on Annex I hereto (each a
"Guarantor" and collectively, the "Guarantors"), and Xxxxxxx, Sachs & Co.,
BancBoston Securities Inc. and Citicorp Securities, Inc. (each an "Initial
Purchaser" and, collectively, the "Initial Purchasers"), each of whom has agreed
to purchase the Company's 9 1/2% Senior Secured Notes due 2005 (the
"Subordinated Notes") pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (as defined below).
This Agreement is made pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, dated
February 23, 1998, (the "Purchase Agreement"), by and among the Company, the
Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers. In order to induce the Initial Purchasers
to purchase the Subordinated Notes, the Company has agreed to provide the
registration rights set forth in this Agreement. The execution and delivery of
this Agreement is a condition to the obligations of the Initial Purchasers set
forth in Section 3 of the Purchase Agreement.
The parties hereby agree as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS
As used in this Agreement, the following capitalized terms shall have
the following meanings:
Act: The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Business Day: Any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day in the City
of New York, or in the city of the Corporate Trust Office (as defined in the
Indenture) of the Trustee, on which banks are authorized to close.
Broker-Dealer: Any broker or dealer registered under the Exchange Act.
Broker-Dealer Transfer Restricted Securities: Exchange Notes that are
acquired by a Broker-Dealer in the Exchange Offer in exchange for Subordinated
Notes that such Broker-Dealer acquired for its own account as a result of market
making activities or other trading activities (other than Subordinated Notes
acquired directly from the Company or any of its affiliates).
Closing Date: The date hereof.
Commission: The Securities and Exchange Commission.
Consummate: An Exchange Offer shall be deemed "Consummated" for purposes
of this Agreement upon the occurrence of (a) the filing and effectiveness under
the Act of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement relating to the Exchange
Notes to be issued in the Exchange Offer, (b) the maintenance of such
Registration Statement continuously effective and the keeping of the Exchange
Offer open for a period not less than the minimum period required pursuant to
Section 3(b) hereof and (c) the delivery by the Company to the Registrar under
the Indenture of Exchange Notes in the same aggregate principal amount as the
aggregate principal amount of Subordinated Notes tendered by Holders thereof
pursuant to the Exchange Offer.
Effectiveness Target Date: As defined in Section 5.
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Exchange Act: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Exchange Notes: The Company's 9 1/2% Senior Secured Notes due 2005 to
be issued pursuant to the Indenture in the Exchange Offer.
Exchange Offer: The registration by the Company under the Act of the
Exchange Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to
which the Company shall offer the Holders of all outstanding Transfer Restricted
Securities the opportunity to exchange all such outstanding Transfer Restricted
Securities for Exchange Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
aggregate principal amount of the Transfer Restricted Securities tendered in
such exchange offer by such Holders.
Exchange Offer Registration Statement: The Registration Statement
relating to the Exchange Offer, including the related Prospectus.
Exempt Resales: The transactions in which the Initial Purchasers propose
to sell the Subordinated Notes (i) to certain "qualified institutional buyers,"
as such term is defined in Rule 144A under the Act or (ii) in an offshore
transaction complying with Rule 903 or 904 of Regulation S under the Act.
Global Noteholder: As defined in the Indenture.
Holders: As defined in Section 2(b) hereof.
Indenture: The Indenture, dated the Closing Date, among the Company, the
Guarantors and State Street Bank and Trust Company, as trustee (the "Trustee"),
pursuant to which the Notes are to be issued, as such Indenture is amended or
supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
Interest Payment Date: As defined in the Indenture and the Notes.
NASD: National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notes: The Subordinated Notes and the Exchange Notes.
Person: An individual, partnership, limited liability company,
corporation, trust, unincorporated organization, or a government or agency or
political subdivision thereof.
Prospectus: The prospectus included in a Registration Statement at the
time such Registration Statement is declared effective, as amended or
supplemented by any prospectus supplement and by all other amendments thereto,
including post-effective amendments, and all material incorporated by reference
into such Prospectus.
Record Holder: For each Interest Payment Date, each Person who is a
Holder of Notes on the record date in respect of such Interest Payment Date.
Registration Default: As defined in Section 5 hereof.
Registration Default Period: As defined in Section 5 hereof.
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Registration Statement: Any registration statement of the Company or the
Company and one or more of the Guarantors relating to (a) an offering of
Exchange Notes pursuant to an Exchange Offer or (b) the registration for resale
of Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement,
in each case, (i) which is filed pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement
and (ii) including the Prospectus included therein, all amendments and
supplements thereto (including post-effective amendments) and all exhibits and
material incorporated by reference therein.
Restricted Broker-Dealer: Any Broker-Dealer which holds Broker-Dealer
Transfer Restricted Securities.
Shelf Registration Statement: As defined in Section 4 hereof.
TIA: The Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. Section 77aaa-77bbbb) as
in effect on the date of the Indenture.
Transfer Restricted Securities: Each Note, until the earliest to occur
of (a) the date on which such Note is exchanged in the Exchange Offer and
entitled to be resold to the public by the Holder thereof without complying with
the prospectus delivery requirements of the Act, (b) the date on which such Note
has been disposed of in accordance with a Shelf Registration Statement, (c) the
date on which such Note is disposed of by a Broker-Dealer pursuant to the "Plan
of Distribution" contemplated by the Exchange Offer Registration Statement
(including delivery of the Prospectus contained therein) or (d) the date on
which such Note is distributed to the public pursuant to Rule 144 under the Act.
Underwritten Registration or Underwritten Offering: A registration in
which securities of the Company are sold to an underwriter for reoffering to the
public.
2. SECURITIES SUBJECT TO THIS AGREEMENT
(a) Transfer Restricted Securities. The securities entitled to the
benefits of this Agreement are the Transfer Restricted Securities.
(b) Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities. A Person is deemed to be
a holder of Transfer Restricted Securities (each, a "Holder") whenever such
Person owns Transfer Restricted Securities.
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3. REGISTERED EXCHANGE OFFER
(a) Unless the Exchange Offer shall not be permitted by applicable
federal law (after the procedures set forth in Section 6(a)(i) below have been
complied with), the Company and the Guarantors shall (i) cause to be filed with
the Commission as soon as practicable after the Closing Date, but in no event
later than 60 days after the Closing Date, the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement, (ii) use its best efforts to cause such Exchange Offer Registration
Statement to become effective at the earliest possible time, but in no event
later than 135 days after the Closing Date, (iii) in connection with the
foregoing, (A) file all pre-effective amendments to such Exchange Offer
Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to cause such Exchange Offer
Registration Statement to become effective, (B) file, if applicable, a
post-effective amendment to such Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant
to Rule 430A under the Act and (C) cause all necessary filings, if any, in
connection with the registration and qualification of the Exchange Notes to be
made under the Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as are necessary to permit
Consummation of the Exchange Offer, and (iv) upon the effectiveness of such
Exchange Offer Registration Statement, commence and Consummate the Exchange
Offer. The Exchange Offer shall be on the appropriate form permitting
registration of the Exchange Notes to be offered in exchange for the
Subordinated Notes that are Transfer Restricted Securities and to permit sales
of Broker-Dealer Transfer Restricted Securities by Restricted Broker-Dealers as
contemplated by Section 3(c) below.
(b) The Company and the Guarantors shall use their respective best
efforts to cause the Exchange Offer Registration Statement to be effective
continuously until the Exchange Offer has been Consummated, and shall keep the
Exchange Offer open for not less than the minimum period required under
applicable federal and state securities laws to Consummate the Exchange Offer;
provided, however, that in no event shall such period be less than 20 Business
Days. The Company and the Guarantors shall cause the Exchange Offer to comply
with all applicable federal and state securities laws. No securities other than
the Notes shall be included in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement. The
Company and the Guarantors shall use their respective best efforts to cause the
Exchange Offer to be Consummated on the earliest practicable date after the
Exchange Offer Registration Statement has become effective, but in no event
later than 180 days after the Closing Date.
(c) The Company shall include a "Plan of Distribution" section in the
Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and indicate
therein that any Restricted Broker-Dealer who holds Subordinated Notes that are
Transfer Restricted Securities and that were acquired for the account of such
Broker-Dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading
activities, may exchange such Subordinated Notes (other than Transfer Restricted
Securities acquired directly from the Company or any affiliate of the Company)
pursuant to the Exchange Offer; however, such Broker-Dealer may be deemed to be
an "underwriter" within the meaning of the Act and must, therefore, deliver a
prospectus meeting the requirements of the Act in connection with its initial
sale of each Exchange Note received by such Broker-Dealer in the Exchange Offer,
which prospectus delivery requirement may be satisfied by the delivery by such
Broker-Dealer of the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement. Such "Plan of Distribution" section shall also contain all other
information with respect to such sales of Broker-Dealer Transfer Restricted
Securities by Restricted Broker-Dealers that the Commission may require in order
to permit such sales pursuant thereto, but such "Plan of Distribution" shall not
name any such Broker-Dealer or disclose the amount of Notes held by any such
Broker-Dealer, except to the extent required by the Commission as a result of a
change in policy after the date of this Agreement.
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The Company and the Guarantors shall use their respective best
efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement continuously
effective, supplemented and amended as required by the provisions of Section
6(c) below to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for sales of
Broker-Dealer Transfer Restricted Securities by Restricted Broker-Dealers, and
to ensure that such Registration Statement conforms with the requirements of
this Agreement, the Act and the policies, rules and regulations of the
Commission as announced from time to time, for a period of one year from the
date on which the Exchange Offer is Consummated.
The Company and the Guarantors shall promptly provide sufficient
copies of the latest version of such Prospectus to such Restricted
Broker-Dealers promptly upon request, and in no event later than one day after
such request, at any time during such one-year period in order to facilitate
such sales.
4. SHELF REGISTRATION
(a) Shelf Registration. If (i) the Company is not required to file an
Exchange Offer Registration Statement with respect to the Exchange Notes because
the Exchange Offer is not permitted by applicable law (after the procedures set
forth in Section 6(a)(i) below have been complied with) or (ii) if any Holder of
Transfer Restricted Securities shall notify the Company within 20 Business Days
following the Consummation of the Exchange Offer that (A) such Holder was
prohibited by law or Commission policy from participating in the Exchange Offer
or (B) such Holder may not resell the Exchange Notes acquired by it in the
Exchange Offer to the public without delivering a prospectus and the Prospectus
contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is not appropriate or
available for such resales by such Holder or (C) such Holder is a Broker-Dealer
and holds Subordinated Notes acquired directly from the Company or one of its
affiliates, then the Company and the Guarantors shall (x) cause to be filed on
or prior to 60 days after the date on which the Company determines that it is
not required to file the Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to
clause (i) above or 60 days after the date on which the Company receives the
notice specified in clause (ii) above a shelf registration statement pursuant to
Rule 415 under the Act (which may be an amendment to the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement) (in either event, the "Shelf Registration Statement"),
relating to all Transfer Restricted Securities the Holders of which shall have
provided the information required pursuant to Section 4(b) hereof, and shall (y)
use their respective best efforts to cause such Shelf Registration Statement to
become effective on or prior to 135 days after the date on which the Company
becomes obligated to file such Shelf Registration Statement. The Company and the
Guarantors shall use their respective best efforts to keep such Shelf
Registration Statement continuously effective, supplemented and amended as
required by and subject to the provisions of Sections 6(b) and (c) hereof to the
extent necessary to ensure that it is available for sales of Transfer Restricted
Securities by the Holders thereof entitled to the benefits as provided under
this Section 4(a), and to ensure that it conforms with the requirements of this
Agreement, the Act and the policies, rules and regulations of the Commission as
announced from time to time, for a period of at least two years (as extended
pursuant to Section 6(c)(i)) following the Closing Date or such shorter period
that will terminate when all Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the Shelf
Registration Statement have been sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration
Statement.
(b) Provision by Holders of Certain Information in Connection with the
Shelf Registration Statement. No Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities may
include any of its Transfer Restricted Securities in any Shelf Registration
Statement pursuant to this Agreement unless and until such Holder furnishes to
the Company in writing, within 20 days after receipt of a
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request therefor, such information specified in item 507 of Regulation S-K under
the Act for use in connection with any Shelf Registration Statement or
Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus included therein. No Holder of Transfer
Restricted Securities shall be entitled to Liquidated Damages pursuant to
Section 5 hereof unless and until such Holder shall have provided all such
information. Each Holder as to which any Shelf Registration Statement is being
effected agrees to furnish promptly to the Company all information required to
be disclosed in order to make the information previously furnished to the
Company by such Holder not materially misleading.
5. LIQUIDATED DAMAGES
If (i) any Registration Statement required by this Agreement is not
filed with the Commission on or prior to the date specified for such filing in
this Agreement, (ii) any such Registration Statement has not been declared
effective by the Commission on or prior to the date specified for such
effectiveness in this Agreement (the "Effectiveness Target Date"), (iii) the
Exchange Offer has not been Consummated within 180 days after the Closing Date
or (iv) subject to the provisions of Section 6(c)(i) below, any Registration
Statement required by this Agreement is filed and declared effective but shall
thereafter cease to be effective or fail to be usable for its intended purpose
without being succeeded immediately by a post-effective amendment to such
Registration Statement that cures such failure and that is itself declared
effective immediately (each such event referred to in clauses (i) through (iv),
a "Registration Default" and each period during which a Registration Default has
occurred and is continuing, a "Registration Default Period"), then the Company
and the Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agree to pay to each Holder of
Transfer Restricted Securities affected thereby liquidated damages in an amount
equal to $.05 per week per $1,000 in principal amount of Transfer Restricted
Securities held by such Holder for each week or portion thereof that the
Registration Default continues for the first 90-day period immediately following
the occurrence of such Registration Default. The amount of the liquidated
damages shall increase by an additional $.05 per week per $1,000 in principal
amount of Transfer Restricted Securities with respect to each subsequent 90-day
period until all Registration Defaults have been cured, up to a maximum amount
of liquidated damages of $.25 per week per $1,000 in principal amount of
Transfer Restricted Securities; provided that the Company and the Guarantors
shall in no event be required to pay liquidated damages for more than one
Registration Default at any given time. All accrued liquidated damages shall be
paid by the Company by wire transfer of immediately available funds or by
federal funds check on the next succeeding June 15 or December 15, as the case
may be, to the Holders of record on the relevant record dates for the payment of
interest as provided in the Indenture.
All obligations of the Company and the Guarantors set forth in the
preceding paragraph that are outstanding with respect to any Transfer Restricted
Security at the time such security ceases to be a Transfer Restricted Security
shall survive until such time as all such obligations set forth in the preceding
paragraph with respect to such security shall have been satisfied in full.
6. REGISTRATION PROCEDURES
(a) Exchange Offer Registration Statement. In connection with the
Exchange Offer, the Company and the Guarantors shall comply with all applicable
provisions of Section 6(c) below, shall use their respective best efforts to
effect such exchange and to permit the sale of Broker-Dealer Transfer Restricted
Securities being sold in accordance with the intended method or methods of
distribution thereof, and shall comply with all of the following provisions:
(i) If, following the date hereof there has been published a
change in
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Commission policy with respect to exchange offers such as the Exchange
Offer, such that in the reasonable opinion of counsel to the Company
there is a substantial question as to whether the Exchange Offer is
permitted by applicable federal law, the Company and the Guarantors
hereby agree to either (A) seek a no-action letter or other favorable
decision from the Commission allowing the Company and the Guarantors to
Consummate an Exchange Offer for such Subordinated Notes or (B) file the
Shelf Registration Statement and take all other actions required by
Section 4(a) hereof. In the event that the Company elects to seek a
no-action letter or other favorable decision from the Commission
allowing the Company and the Guarantors to Consummate an Exchange Offer,
the Company and the Guarantors hereby agree to pursue the issuance of
such a decision to the Commission staff level and to take all such other
actions as are requested by the Commission or otherwise required in
connection with the issuance of such decision, including without
limitation (A) participating in telephonic conferences with the
Commission, (B) delivering to the Commission staff an analysis prepared
by counsel to the Company setting forth the legal bases, if any, upon
which such counsel has concluded that such an Exchange Offer should be
permitted and (C) diligently pursuing a resolution by the Commission
staff of such submission.
(ii) As a condition to its participation in the Exchange Offer
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, each Holder of Transfer
Restricted Securities shall furnish, upon the request of the Company,
prior to the Consummation of the Exchange Offer, a written
representation to the Company and the Guarantors (which may be contained
in the letter of transmittal contemplated by the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement) to the effect that (A) it is not an affiliate of
the Company, (B) it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in,
and has no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate
in, a distribution of the Exchange Notes to be issued in the Exchange
Offer and (C) it is acquiring the Exchange Notes in its ordinary course
of business. Each Holder hereby acknowledges and agrees that any
Broker-Dealer and any such Holder using the Exchange Offer to
participate in a distribution of the securities to be acquired in the
Exchange Offer (1) could not under Commission policy as in effect on the
date of this Agreement rely on the position of the Commission enunciated
in Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx and Co., Inc. (available June 5, 1991) and Exxon
Capital Holdings Corporation (available May 13, 1988), as interpreted in
the Commission's letter to Shearman & Sterling dated July 2, 1993, and
similar no-action letters (including, if applicable, any no-action
letter obtained pursuant to clause (i) above), and (2) must comply with
the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Act in
connection with a secondary resale transaction and that such a secondary
resale transaction must be covered by an effective registration
statement (which may be the Exchange Offer Registration Statement)
containing the selling security holder information required by Item 507
or 508, as applicable, of Regulation S-K if the resales are of Exchange
Notes obtained by such Holder in exchange for Subordinated Notes
acquired by such Holder directly from the Company or an affiliate
thereof.
(iii) Prior to effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement, the Company and the Guarantors shall provide a supplemental
letter to the Commission (A) stating that the Company and the Guarantors
are registering the Exchange Offer in reliance on the position of the
Commission enunciated in Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation (available
May 13, 1988), Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx and Co., Inc. (available June 5, 1991)
and, if applicable, any no-action letter obtained pursuant to clause (i)
above, (B) including a representation that neither the Company nor any
Guarantor has entered into any arrangement or understanding with any
Person to distribute the Exchange Notes to be
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received in the Exchange Offer and that, to the best of the Company's
and each Guarantor's information and belief, each Holder participating
in the Exchange Offer is acquiring the Exchange Notes in its ordinary
course of business and has no arrangement or understanding with any
Person to participate in the distribution of the Exchange Notes received
in the Exchange Offer and (C) any other undertaking or representation
required by the Commission as set forth in any no-action letter obtained
pursuant to clause (i) above.
(b) Shelf Registration Statement. In connection with the Shelf
Registration Statement, the Company and the Guarantors shall comply with all the
provisions of Section 6(c) below and shall use their respective best efforts to
effect such registration to permit the sale of the Transfer Restricted
Securities being sold in accordance with the intended method or methods of
distribution thereof (as indicated in the information furnished to the Company
pursuant to Section 4(b) hereof), and pursuant thereto the Company and the
Guarantors will prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement
relating to the registration on any appropriate form under the Act, which form
shall be available for the sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities in
accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof within
the time periods and otherwise in accordance with the provisions hereof.
(c) General Provisions. In connection with any Registration Statement
and any related Prospectus required by this Agreement to permit the sale or
resale of Transfer Restricted Securities, the Company and the Guarantors shall:
(i) use their respective best efforts to keep such Registration
Statement continuously effective and provide all requisite financial
statements (including, if required by the Act or any regulation
thereunder, financial statements of the Guarantors) for the period
specified in Section 3 or 4 of this Agreement, as applicable. Upon the
occurrence of any event that would cause any such Registration Statement
or the Prospectus contained therein (A) to contain a material
misstatement or omission or (B) not to be effective and usable for
resale of Transfer Restricted Securities during the period required by
this Agreement, the Company and the Guarantors shall file promptly an
appropriate amendment to such Registration Statement, (1) in the case of
clause (A), correcting any such misstatement or omission, and (2) in the
case of clauses (A) and (B) use their respective best efforts to cause
such amendment to be declared effective and such Registration Statement
and the related Prospectus to become usable for their intended
purpose(s) as soon as practicable thereafter. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, the Company's and the
Guarantor's obligations to use their respective best efforts to keep the
Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective, supplemented and
amended shall be suspended in the event continued effectiveness of the
Shelf Registration Statement would, in the written opinion of counsel to
the Company, require the Company to disclose a material financing,
acquisition or other corporate transaction, and the Board of Directors
shall have determined in good faith that such disclosure is not in the
best interests of the Company, but in no event will any such suspension,
individually or in the aggregate, exceed ninety (90) days since the
Closing Date.
(ii) prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and
post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement as may be
necessary to keep the Registration Statement effective for applicable
period set forth in Section 3 or 4 hereof, or such shorter period as
will terminate on the earlier of (A) when all Transfer Restricted
Securities covered
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by such Registration Statement have been sold and (B) when, in the
written opinion of counsel to the Company, all outstanding Transfer
Restricted Securities held by persons who are not affiliates of the
Company may be resold without registration under the Act pursuant to
Rule 144(A) under the Act or any successor provision thereto; cause the
Prospectus to be supplemented by any required Prospectus supplement, and
as so supplemented to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Act, and
to comply fully with Rules 424, 430A and 462, as applicable, under the
Act in a timely manner; and comply with the provisions of the Act with
respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such
Registration Statement during the applicable period in accordance with
the method or methods of distribution by the sellers thereof as provided
above and as set forth in such Registration Statement or supplement to
the Prospectus;
(iii) advise the underwriter(s), if any, and selling Holders
promptly and, if requested by such Persons, confirming such advice in
writing, (A) when the Prospectus or any Prospectus supplement or
post-effective amendment has been filed, and, with respect to any
Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto, when the
same has become effective, (B) of any request by the Commission for
amendments to the Registration Statement or amendments or supplements to
the Prospectus or for additional information relating thereto, (C) of
the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement under the Act or of the
suspension by any state securities commission of the qualification of
the Transfer Restricted Securities or Broker-Dealer Transfer Restricted
Securities, as applicable, for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or
the initiation of any proceeding for any of the preceding purposes, (D)
of the existence of any fact or the happening of any event that makes
any statement of a material fact made in the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto or any document
incorporated by reference therein untrue, or that requires the making of
any additions to or changes in the Registration Statement in order to
make the statements therein not misleading, or that requires the making
of any additions to or changes in the Prospectus in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading, including, without limitation, under
circumstances described in Section 6(c)(i) above. If at any time the
Commission shall issue any stop order suspending the effectiveness of
the Registration Statement, or any state securities commission or other
regulatory authority shall issue an order suspending the qualification
or exemption from qualification of the Transfer Restricted Securities or
Broker-Dealer Transfer Restricted Securities, as applicable, under state
securities or Blue Sky laws, the Company and the Guarantors shall use
their respective best efforts to obtain the withdrawal or lifting of
such order at the earliest possible time;
(iv) furnish to the Initial Purchasers, each selling Holder named
in any Registration Statement or Prospectus and each of the
underwriter(s) in connection with such sale, if any, before filing with
the Commission, copies of any Registration Statement or any Prospectus
included therein or any amendments or supplements to any such
Registration Statement or Prospectus (including all documents
incorporated by reference after the initial filing of such Registration
Statement) and will provide such Holders and underwriters, if any, a
reasonable opportunity to review copies of all such documents for a
period of at least five Business Days and the Company will not file any
such Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement
to any such Registration Statement or Prospectus (including all such
documents incorporated by reference) to which the selling Holders of the
Transfer Restricted Securities or a Holder of Broker-Dealer
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Transfer Restricted Securities, as applicable, covered by such
Registration Statement or the underwriter(s) in connection with such
sale, if any, shall reasonably object within a reasonable period of
time, which shall be at least five (5) Business Days after the receipt
thereof. A selling Holder or underwriter, if any, shall be deemed to
have reasonably objected to such filing if such Registration Statement,
amendment, Prospectus or supplement, as applicable, as proposed to be
filed, contains a material misstatement or omission or fails to comply
with the applicable requirements of the Act;
(v) promptly prior to the filing of any document that is to be
incorporated by reference into a Registration Statement or Prospectus,
provide copies of such document to the selling Holders and to the
underwriter(s) in connection with such sale, if any, make the Company's
and the Guarantors' representatives available for discussion of such
document and other customary due diligence matters, and include such
information in such document prior to the filing thereof as such selling
Holders or underwriter(s), if any, reasonably may request;
(vi) make available at reasonable times for inspection by the
selling Holders, any underwriter participating in any disposition
pursuant to such Registration Statement and any attorney or accountant
retained by such selling Holders or any of such underwriter(s), all
financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and
properties of the Company and the Guarantors and cause the Company's and
the Guarantors' officers, directors and employees to supply all
information reasonably requested by any such Holder, underwriter,
attorney or accountant in connection with such Registration Statement or
any post-effective amendment thereto subsequent to the filing thereof
and prior to its effectiveness;
(vii) if requested by any selling Holders or the underwriter(s)
in connection with such sale, if any, promptly include in any
Registration Statement or Prospectus, pursuant to a supplement or
post-effective amendment if necessary, such information as such selling
Holders and underwriter(s), if any, may reasonably request to have
included therein, including, without limitation, information relating to
the "Plan of Distribution" of the Transfer Restricted Securities or
Broker-Dealer Transfer Restricted Securities, as applicable, information
with respect to the principal amount of Transfer Restricted Securities
or Broker-Dealer Transfer Restricted Securities, as applicable, being
sold to such underwriter(s), the purchase price being paid therefor and
any other terms of the offering of the Transfer Restricted Securities or
Broker-Dealer Transfer Restricted Securities, as applicable, to be sold
in such offering; and make all required filings of such Prospectus
supplement or post-effective amendment as soon as practicable after the
Company is notified of the matters to be included in such Prospectus
supplement or post-effective amendment;
(viii) furnish to each selling Holder and each of the
underwriter(s) in connection with such sale, if any, without charge, at
least one copy of the Registration Statement, as first filed with the
Commission, and of each amendment thereto, including all documents
incorporated by reference therein and all exhibits (including exhibits
incorporated therein by reference);
(ix) deliver to each selling Holder and each of the
underwriter(s), if any, without charge, as many copies of the Prospectus
(including each preliminary prospectus) and any amendment or supplement
thereto as such Persons reasonably may request; the Company and the
Guarantors hereby consent to the use of the Prospectus and any
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amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders and each
of the underwriter(s), if any, in connection with the offering and the
sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the Prospectus or
any amendment or supplement thereto;
(x) enter into such agreements (including an underwriting
agreement) and make such representations and warranties and take all
such other actions in connection therewith in order to expedite or
facilitate the disposition of the Transfer Restricted Securities
pursuant to any Registration Statement contemplated by this Agreement as
may be reasonably requested by any Holder of Transfer Restricted
Securities or underwriter in connection with any sale or resale pursuant
to any Registration Statement contemplated by this Agreement, and in
such connection, whether or not an underwriting agreement is entered
into and whether or not the registration is an Underwritten
Registration, the Company and the Guarantors shall:
(A) furnish, or in the case of paragraphs (2) and (3),
use its best efforts to furnish, to each selling Holder and each
underwriter, if any, upon the effectiveness of the Shelf
Registration Statement and to each Restricted Broker Dealer upon
Consummation of the Exchange Offer:
(1) a certificate, dated the date of Consummation
of the Exchange Offer or the date of effectiveness of the
Shelf Registration Statement, as the case may be, signed
on behalf of the Company and each Guarantor by (x) the
President or any Vice President and (y) a principal
financial or accounting officer of the Company and such
Guarantor, containing certifications substantially
similar, as of the date thereof, to the matters set forth
in paragraphs (d) and (e) of Section 7 of the Purchase
Agreement and such other additional certifications as are
customarily delivered in a public offering of debt
securities;
(2) an opinion, dated the date of Consummation of
the Exchange Offer or the date of effectiveness of the
Shelf Registration Statement, as the case may be, of
counsel for the Company and the Guarantors covering
matters similar to those set forth in paragraph (b) of
Section 7 of the Purchase Agreement and such other matter
as the Holders, underwriters and/or Restricted Broker
Dealers may reasonably request (it being agreed that the
matters subject to such opinion may be subject to
customary qualifications and exceptions), and in any event
including a statement to the effect that such counsel has
participated in conferences with officers and other
representatives of the Company and the Guarantors and
representatives of the independent public accountants for
the Company and the Guarantors and have considered the
matters required to be stated therein and the statements
contained therein, although such counsel has not
independently verified the accuracy, completeness or
fairness of such statements; and that such counsel advises
that, on the basis of the foregoing (relying as to
materiality to a certain extent upon facts provided to
such counsel by officers and other representatives of the
Company and the Guarantors and without independent check
or verification), no facts came to such counsel's
attention that caused such counsel to believe that the
applicable Registration Statement, at the time such
Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment
thereto
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became effective, and, in the case of the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement, as of the date of Consummation,
contained an untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, or that the Prospectus contained in such
Registration Statement as of its date and, in the case of
the opinion dated the date of Consummation of the Exchange
Offer, as of the date of Consummation, contained an untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading. Without limiting the foregoing,
such counsel may state further that such counsel assumes
no responsibility for, has not independently verified and
expresses no opinion with respect to, the accuracy,
completeness or fairness of the financial statements,
notes and schedules and other financial data included in
any Registration Statement contemplated by this Agreement
or the related Prospectus; and
(3) a customary comfort letter, dated as of the
date of effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement
or the date of Consummation of the Exchange Offer, as the
case may be, from the Company's and the Guarantors'
independent accountants, in the customary form and
covering matters of the type customarily covered in
comfort letters to underwriters in connection with primary
underwritten offerings, and affirming the matters set
forth in the comfort letters delivered pursuant to Section
7 of the Purchase Agreement, without exception;
(B) set forth in full or incorporate by reference in the
underwriting agreement, if any, the indemnification provisions
and procedures of Section 8 hereof with respect to all parties
to be indemnified pursuant to said Section; and
(C) deliver such other documents and certificates as may
be reasonably requested by the selling Holders, the
underwriter(s), if any, and Restricted Broker Dealers, if any,
to evidence compliance with clause (A) above and with any
customary conditions contained in the underwriting agreement or
other agreement entered into by the Company and the Guarantors
pursuant to this clause (x).
The above shall be done at each closing under such underwriting or
similar agreement, as and to the extent required thereunder, and if at any time
the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantors
contemplated in (A)(1) above cease to be true and correct, the Company and the
Guarantors shall so advise the underwriter(s), if any, the selling Holders and
each Restricted Broker-Dealer promptly and if requested by such Persons, shall
confirm such advice in writing;
(xi) prior to any public offering of Transfer Restricted
Securities, cooperate with the selling Holders, the underwriter(s), if
any, and their respective counsel in connection with the registration
and qualification of the Transfer Restricted Securities or Broker-Dealer
Transfer Restricted Securities, as applicable, under the securities or
Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the selling Holders or
underwriter(s), if any, may request and do any and all other acts or
things necessary or advisable to enable the disposition in such
jurisdictions of the Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the
applicable Registration Statement; provided, however, that neither the
Company nor any Guarantor shall be required to
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register or qualify as a foreign corporation where it is not now so
qualified or to take any action that would subject it to the service of
process in suits or to taxation, other than as to matters and
transactions relating to the Registration Statement, in any jurisdiction
where it is not now so subject;
(xii) in connection with any sale of Transfer Restricted
Securities that will result in such securities no longer being Transfer
Restricted Securities, cooperate with the selling Holders and the
underwriter(s), if any, to facilitate the timely preparation and
delivery of certificates representing Transfer Restricted Securities to
be sold and not bearing any restrictive legends; and to register such
Transfer Restricted Securities in such denominations and such names as
the Holders or the underwriter(s), if any, may request at least two
Business Days prior to such sale of Transfer Restricted Securities;
(xiii) use their respective best efforts to cause the disposition
of the Transfer Restricted Securities or Broker-Dealer Transfer
Restricted Securities, as applicable, covered by the Registration
Statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental
agencies or authorities as may be necessary to enable the seller or
sellers thereof or the underwriter(s), if any, to consummate the
disposition of such Transfer Restricted Securities or Broker-Dealer
Transfer Restricted Securities, as applicable, subject to the proviso
contained in clause (xi) above;
(xiv) subject to Section 6(c)(i), if any fact or event
contemplated by Section 6(c)(iii)(D) above shall exist or have occurred,
prepare a supplement or post-effective amendment to the Registration
Statement or related Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by
reference or file any other required document so that, as thereafter
delivered to the purchasers of Transfer Restricted Securities or
Broker-Dealer Transfer Restricted Securities, as applicable, 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 the light of the circumstances under which they were made,
not misleading;
(xv) provide a CUSIP number for all Transfer Restricted
Securities not later than the effective date of a Registration Statement
covering such Transfer Restricted Securities and provide the Trustee
under the Indenture with printed certificates for the Transfer
Restricted Securities which are in a form eligible for deposit with The
Depository Trust Company;
(xvi) cooperate and assist in any filings required to be made
with the NASD and in the performance of any due diligence investigation
by any underwriter (including any "qualified independent underwriter"),
if any, that is required to be retained in accordance with the rules and
regulations of the NASD, and use their respective best efforts to cause
such Registration Statement to become effective and approved by such
governmental agencies or authorities as may be necessary to enable the
Holders selling Transfer Restricted Securities to consummate the
disposition of such Transfer Restricted Securities;
(xvii) otherwise use their respective best efforts to comply with
all applicable rules and regulations of the Commission, and make
generally available to its security holders with regard to any
applicable Registration Statement, as soon as practicable, a
consolidated earnings statement meeting the requirements of Rule 158
(which need not be audited) covering a twelve-month period beginning
after the effective date of the Registration Statement (as such term is
defined in paragraph (c) of Rule 158 under the
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Act);
(xviii) cause the Indenture to be qualified under the TIA not
later than the effective date of the first Registration Statement
required by this Agreement and, in connection therewith, cooperate with
the Trustee and the Holders of Notes to effect such changes to the
Indenture as may be required for such Indenture to be so qualified in
accordance with the terms of the TIA; and execute and use its best
efforts to cause the Trustee to execute, all documents that may be
required to effect such changes and all other forms and documents
required to be filed with the Commission to enable such Indenture to be
so qualified in a timely manner; and
(xix) provide promptly to each Holder upon request each document
filed with the Commission pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
(d) Restrictions on Holders. Each Holder agrees by acquisition of a
Transfer Restricted Security that, upon receipt of the notice referred to in
Section 6(c)(i) or any notice from the Company of the existence of any fact of
the kind described in Section 6(c)(iii)(D) hereof, such Holder will forthwith
discontinue disposition of Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to the
applicable Registration Statement until such Holder's receipt of the copies of
the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 6(c)(xv) hereof,
or until it is advised in writing by the Company (the "Advice") that the use of
the Prospectus may be resumed, and has received copies of any additional or
supplemental filings that are incorporated by reference in the Prospectus. If so
directed by the Company, each Holder will deliver to the Company (at the
Company's expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies then in such
Holder's possession, of the Prospectus covering such Transfer Restricted
Securities that was current at the time of receipt of either such notice. In the
event the Company shall give any such notice, the time period regarding the
effectiveness of such Registration Statement set forth in Section 3 or 4 hereof,
as applicable, shall be extended by the number of days during the period from
and including the date of the giving of such notice pursuant to Section 6(c)(i)
or Section 6(c)(iii)(D) hereof to and including the date when each selling
Holder covered by such Registration Statement shall have received the copies of
the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 6(c)(xv) hereof
or shall have received the Advice.
7. REGISTRATION EXPENSES
(a) All expenses incident to the Company's and the Guarantors'
performance of or compliance with this Agreement will be borne by the Company
and the Guarantors, regardless of whether a Registration Statement becomes
effective, including without limitation: (i) all registration and filing fees
and expenses (including filings made by any Holder with the NASD (and, if
applicable, the fees and expenses of any "qualified independent underwriter" and
its counsel) that may be required by the rules and regulations of the NASD);
(ii) all fees and expenses of compliance with federal securities and state Blue
Sky or securities laws; (iii) all expenses of printing (including printing
certificates for the Exchange Notes to be issued in the Exchange Offer and
printing of Prospectuses), messenger and delivery services and telephone; (iv)
all fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, the Guarantors and,
subject to Section 7(b) below, the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities;
and (v) all fees and disbursements of independent certified public accountants
of the Company and the Guarantors (including the expenses of any special audit
and comfort letters required by or incident to such performance).
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The Company will, in any event, bear its and the Guarantors' internal
expenses (including, without limitation, all salaries and expenses of its
officers and employees performing legal or accounting duties), the expenses of
any annual audit and the fees and expenses of any Person, including special
experts, retained by the Company or the Guarantors.
(b) In connection with any Registration Statement required by this
Agreement (including, without limitation, the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement and the Shelf Registration Statement), the Company and the Guarantors
will reimburse the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities being tendered in
the Exchange Offer and/or resold pursuant to the "Plan of Distribution"
contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or registered pursuant to
the Shelf Registration Statement, as applicable, for the reasonable fees and
disbursements of not more than one counsel, who shall be Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx or
such other counsel chosen by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Transfer Restricted Securities for whose benefit such Registration Statement
is being prepared.
8. INDEMNIFICATION
(a) The Company and the Guarantors will, jointly and severally, agree to
indemnify and hold harmless each Holder against any losses, claims, damages or
liabilities, joint or several, to which it may become subject, under the Act or
otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in
respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement of material fact contained in any Registration Statement or
Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based
upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary
to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse each Holder
for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by it in connection with
investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are
incurred; provided, however, that neither the Company nor any of the Guarantors
shall be liable in any such case to any such Holder to the extent that any such
loss, claim, damage, liability or expense arises out of or is based upon an
untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission
made in any Registration Statement or Prospectus, or any such amendment or
supplement in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished
to the Company or any of the Guarantors by or on behalf of such Holder expressly
for inclusion therein.
(b) Each Holder will, severally and not jointly, indemnify and hold
harmless the Company and the Guarantors against any losses, claims, damages or
liabilities to which the Company or any of the Guarantors may become subject,
under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon an
untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in any
Registration Statement or Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or
arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein
a material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in each
case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in any
Registration Statement or Prospectus, or any such amendment or supplement in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the
Company or any of the Guarantors by such Holder expressly for use therein; and
will reimburse the Company and the Guarantors for any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred by the Company or the Guarantors in connection with
investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are
incurred.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a)
or (b) above of
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notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a
claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such
subsection, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement
thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve
it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than
under such subsection. In case any such action shall be brought against any
indemnified party and it shall notify the indemnifying party of the commencement
thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to
the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party
similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably
satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent
of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and, after
notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so
to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to
such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal expenses of other
counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such
indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable
costs of investigation. No indemnifying party shall, without the written consent
of the indemnified party (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), effect
the settlement or compromise of, or consent to the entry of any judgment with
respect to, any pending or threatened action or claim in respect of which
indemnification or contribution may be sought (whether or not the indemnified
party is an actual or potential party to such action or claim) thereunder unless
such settlement, compromise or judgment (i) includes an unconditional release of
the indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action or claim and
(ii) does not include a statement as to, or an admission of, fault, culpability
or a failure to act on behalf of any indemnified party.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 8 is unavailable
to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a) or
(b) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions
in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall
contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result
of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof)
in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received
by the Company and the Guarantors from the Company's sale of the Subordinated
Notes, on the one hand, and any Holder, on the other, from such Holder's sale of
Transfer Restricted Securities. If, however, the allocation provided by the
immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law, or if the
indemnified party failed to give the notice required under subsection (c) above,
then each indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by
such indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only
such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company and the
Guarantors, on the one hand, and of such Holder, on the other, in connection
with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages
or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant
equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the
Guarantors, on the one hand, and any Holder, on the other, shall be deemed to be
in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the sale of the
Subordinated Notes (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to
the total proceeds received by such Holder upon its sale of Subordinated Notes.
The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things,
whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the
omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information
supplied by the Company and the Guarantors on the one hand or the Holders on the
other and the parties' relative intent, knowledge, access to information and
opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company, the
Guarantors and each Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities agree that it would
not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection (d) were
determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Holders were treated as one
entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not
take account of the
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equitable considerations referred to above in this subsection (d). The amount
paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims,
damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to above in this
subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably
incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending
any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d),
no Holder shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by
which the total received by such Holder with respect to the sale of its
Subordinated Notes pursuant to a Registration Statement exceeds the sum of (a)
the amount paid by such Holder for such Subordinated Notes plus (b) the amount
of any damages which such Holder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of
such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. The
Holders' obligations in this subsection (d) to contribute are several in
proportion to the respective principal amount of Notes held by each of the
Holders hereunder and not joint.
(e) The obligations of the Company and the Guarantors under this Section
8 shall be in addition to any liability which the Company and the Guarantors may
otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each
officer and director of such Holder, if any, and to each person, if any, who
controls any Holder within the meaning of the Act. No person guilty of
fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the
Securities Act) shall be entitled to indemnification from any person who was not
guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.
9. RULE 144A
The Company and each Guarantor hereby agrees with each Holder, for so
long as any Transfer Restricted Securities remain outstanding and during any
period in which the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act, to make available to any Holder or beneficial owner of
Transfer Restricted Securities in connection with any sale thereof and any
prospective purchaser of such Transfer Restricted Securities from such Holder or
beneficial owner, the information required by Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Act in
order to permit resales of such Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to Rule
144A.
10. UNDERWRITTEN REGISTRATIONS
No Holder may participate in any Underwritten Registration hereunder
unless such Holder (a) agrees to sell such Holder's Transfer Restricted
Securities on the basis provided in customary underwriting arrangements entered
into in connection therewith and (b) completes and executes all reasonable
questionnaires, powers of attorney, and other documents required under the terms
of such underwriting arrangements.
11. SELECTION OF UNDERWRITERS
For any Underwritten Offering, the investment banker or investment
bankers and manager or managers for any such Underwritten Offering that will
administer such offering will be selected by the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Transfer Restricted Securities included in
such offering. Such investment bankers and managers are referred to herein as
the "underwriters."
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12. MISCELLANEOUS
(a) Remedies. Each Holder, in addition to being entitled to exercise all
rights provided herein, in the Indenture, the Purchase Agreement or granted by
law, including recovery of liquidated or other damages, will be entitled to
specific performance of its rights under this Agreement. The Company and the
Guarantors agree that monetary damages would not be adequate compensation for
any loss incurred by reason of a breach by them of the provisions of this
Agreement and hereby agree to waive the defense in any action for specific
performance that a remedy at law would be adequate.
(b) No Inconsistent Agreements. Neither the Company nor any Guarantor
will, on or after the date of this Agreement, enter into any agreement with
respect to its securities that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the
Holders in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof.
Neither the Company nor any Guarantor is party to any currently effective
agreement granting any registration rights with respect to its securities to any
Person. The rights granted to the Holders hereunder do not in any way conflict
with and are not inconsistent with the rights granted to the holders of the
Company's and the Guarantors' securities under any agreement in effect on the
date hereof.
(c) Adjustments Affecting the Notes. Neither the Company nor any
Guarantor will take any action, or voluntarily permit any change to occur, with
respect to the Notes that would materially and adversely affect the ability of
the Holders to Consummate any Exchange Offer.
(d) Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement may not be
amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to or departures from
the provisions hereof may not be given unless (i) in the case of Section 5
hereof and this Section 12(d)(i), the Company has obtained the written consent
of Holders of all outstanding Transfer Restricted Securities and (ii) in the
case of all other provisions hereof, the Company has obtained the written
consent of Holders of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of Transfer
Restricted Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a waiver or consent to
departure from the provisions hereof that relates exclusively to the rights of
Holders whose securities are being tendered pursuant to the Exchange Offer and
that does not affect directly or indirectly the rights of other Holders whose
securities are not being tendered pursuant to such Exchange Offer may be given
by the Holders of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of Transfer
Restricted Securities subject to such Exchange Offer.
(e) Notices. All notices and other communications provided for or
permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand-delivery, first-class mail
(registered or certified, return receipt requested), telex, telecopier, or air
courier guaranteeing overnight delivery:
(i) if to a Holder, at the address set forth on the records of
the Registrar under the Indenture, with a copy to the Registrar under
the Indenture; and
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(ii) if to the Company or the Guarantors:
Zilog, Inc.
000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000-0000
Telecopier No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
(iii) If to the Initial Purchasers:
c/o Goldman, Xxxxx & Co.
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Telecopier No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Registration Department
All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly
given at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days
after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt
acknowledged, if telecopied; and on the next business day, if timely delivered
to an air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery.
Copies of all such notices, demands or other communications shall be
concurrently delivered by the Person giving the same to the Trustee at the
address specified in the Indenture.
(f) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of
and be binding upon the successors and assigns of each of the parties, including
without limitation and without the need for an express assignment, subsequent
Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities.
(g) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which
when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken
together shall constitute one and the same agreement.
(h) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of
reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.
(i) Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE
CONFLICT OF LAW RULES THEREOF.
(j) Severability. In the event that any one or more of the provisions
contained herein, or the application thereof in any circumstance, is held
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions
contained herein shall not be affected or impaired thereby.
(k) Entire Agreement. This Agreement is intended by the parties as a
final expression of their agreement and intended to be a complete and exclusive
statement of the agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of
the subject matter contained herein. There are no
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restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth
or referred to herein with respect to the registration rights granted with
respect to the Transfer Restricted Securities. This Agreement supersedes all
prior agreements and understandings between the parties with respect to such
subject matter.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the
date first written above.
ZILOG, INC.
By: /s/ XXXXXX X. XXXXXXX
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President & Chief
Financial Officer
ZILOG EUROPE
By: /s/ XXXXXX X. XXXXXXX
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
ZILOG TOA COMPANY
By: /s/ XXXXXX X. XXXXXXX
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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The foregoing Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date first
above written:
XXXXXXX, SACHS & CO.
BANCBOSTON SECURITIES INC.
CITICORP SECURITIES, INC.
By: /s/ XXXXXXX, XXXXX & CO.
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(Xxxxxxx, Sachs & Co.)
