Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicable. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares. (b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Hochman David P), Registration Rights Agreement (Hochman David P), Registration Rights Agreement (Hochman Carole S)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or S3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 (or any successor forms theretoS3, in which case the Registration Statement shall be on another appropriate form), as applicable. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic .
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by is not filed on or prior to the Commission. In Filing Date, or (ii) the event that there is a limitation by Company fails to file with the Commission on a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basisAct, within 30 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such securities become eligible Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and cause otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Automatic Registration Statement within 15 trading days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as soon a result of the failure of Company to meets its obligations with respect to such filing as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in provided for herein, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the number of Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities shall for which it is required to be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, or the Company mayHolders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of for in any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not case 15 consecutive trading days but no more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) 25 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period (which need not be consecutive trading days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 15- or 25-day period. In , as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the case Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on the first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the suspension aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each anniversary of such Event Date (if the applicable Event, or any effective Automatic Registration Statementsubsequent Event, shall not have been cured by such date) until all Event(s) are cured, the InvestorCompany shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, immediately upon receipt as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of notice thereof the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the Companydate such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a year prior to the use cure of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumedan Event.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Agfeed Industries, Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Agfeed Industries, Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Agfeed Industries, Inc)
Automatic Registration. (a) On If the Company shall complete a Qualified Merger with a Merger Successor, and the Merger Successor either (x) becomes a publicly reporting company under the Exchange Act (for avoidance of doubt, a Pink Sheet listed company does not qualify as a publicly reporting company under the Exchange Act) and successfully lists its shares for trading on a national securities exchange (the “Listing Date”), or (y) completes an IPO prior to the Filing first anniversary of the Final Closing Date (the “IPO Date”), the Company then Merger Successor shall use commercially reasonable efforts to prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (under the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale Securities Act of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 within 60 days following the closing of Listing Date or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)the IPO Date, as applicable. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission SEC within 210 days after the closing of the Listing Date or the IPO Date, as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in applicable, and Merger Successor will be required to maintain the number effectiveness of the registration statement until the earlier of (a) the date that all of the Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
registered have been sold, or (b) At the date the Registrable Securities may be freely traded without registration under the Securities Act, under Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act or otherwise; provided, however, that the Merger Successor shall not be obligated to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a):
(i) in any time after particular jurisdiction in which the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, Merger Successor would be required to execute a general consent to service of process unless it is already subject to service in such jurisdiction and except as required by the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of Securities Act;
(ii) if the Merger Successor furnishes to such action to Holders a certificate signed by the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, Merger Successor’s Chief Executive Officer stating that in the good faith judgment of the CompanyMerger Successor’s Board of Directors, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities it would be seriously detrimental to the Company Merger Successor and its shareholders for such registration statement to be filed on or its stockholders at such time before the date filing would be required and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in therefore essential to defer the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use filing of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company registration statement, in which case the Merger Successor shall have the right to suspend defer such Automatic Registration Statement filing for a period of not more than thirty one hundred eighty (30180) consecutive days from after the date the Company notifies the Investor furnishing of such suspensiona certificate of deferral; provided, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five however, that this right may be exercised only once in any twelve (7512) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case .
(b) The right of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales holders of Registrable Securities to have their securities registered pursuant to this Section 2 shall terminate at the earlier of: (i) three (3) years following the consummation of the offering detailed in the Purchase Agreement; provided, however, that if the Merger Successor exercises its right to delay registration hereunder, the termination date of this registration right referenced above shall be extended by an additional 120 days; or (ii) as to any Investor, such Registration Statement until advised earlier time at which all Registrable Securities held by such Investor (together with any affiliate of the Investor with whom such Investor must aggregate its sales under Rule 144) can be sold in writing by any three (3)-month period without registration in compliance with Rule 144 of the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumedSecurities Act.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pacific Asia Petroleum Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Pacific Asia Petroleum Inc)
Automatic Registration. The Company shall, for the benefit of the Holders, at the Company's cost:
(a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicable. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use Use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause file, as soon as practicable following the Closing Date (but no later than the later of (x) forty-five (45) days after the Closing Date and (y) thirty (30) days after the Company has filed its annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007 (the "Automatic Filing Deadline")) with the SEC an Automatic Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of Registrable Securities by the Holders; provided, however, that if the SEC shall comment or inquire about the Company's use of the Automatic Registration Statement to register all of the Registrable Securities, the Company may exclude such Registrable Securities in accordance with Section 2.7 as it deems necessary or appropriate to respond to the SEC's comment or inquiry in order to permit the SEC to declare the Automatic Registration Statement effective for a lesser number of Registrable Securities. If the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities is not filed with the SEC on or prior to the Automatic Filing Deadline, the Company will make pro rata payments to each of the Purchasers, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, in an amount equal to 1.00% of the aggregate amount invested by such Purchaser for each 30-day period or pro rata for any portion thereof following the date by which such Registration Statement should have been filed for which no Registration Statement is filed with respect to the Registrable Securities; provided, however, that the amount of liquidated damages payable under this Section 2(a) payable to each Purchaser shall not exceed the aggregate amount paid by such Purchaser for such Registrable Securities less any other amount the Company otherwise actually pays to such Purchaser plus an amount equal to Purchaser's reasonable attorney fees and costs of collection in respect of such liquidated damages as a remedy for such event. Such payments shall be declared effective under in partial compensation to the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness DatePurchasers, and shall use not constitute the Purchasers' exclusive remedy for such event. Such payments shall be made to each Purchaser in cash.
(b) Use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under effective, other than during Black-out Periods, in order to permit the Securities Act until Prospectus forming part thereof to be usable by Holders for a period of 365 days from the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion SharesSEC.
(bc) At Notwithstanding any time after other provisions hereof, use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that (i) the Automatic Registration Statement has become effectiveand any amendment thereto and any Prospectus forming part thereof and any supplement thereto complies in all material respects with the 1933 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, (ii) the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement ifand any amendment thereto does not, in when it becomes effective, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the good faith judgment of the Company, the use statements therein not misleading and (iii) any Prospectus forming part of the Automatic Registration Statement covering Statement, and any supplement to such Prospectus (as amended or supplemented from time to time), does not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludesstatements, as a result, that it is in the best interests light of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of circumstances under which they were made, not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumedmisleading.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Gilman & Ciocia Inc), Investor Purchase Agreement (Gilman & Ciocia Inc)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (i) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement may be sold by non-affiliates of the Company without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144(c), as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed addressed, delivered and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor Investors and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after Notwithstanding anything to the Automatic Registration Statement has become effectivecontrary set forth herein, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic delay the filing of the Registration Statement for a period not in excess of not 60 consecutive days and no more than thirty (30) 90 days in any consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. period (a “Delay Period”), if the Company is pursuing a public offering of securities and the underwriter recommends a Delay Period.
(c) In the case of an event that causes the suspension Company to suspend the use of any effective Automatic a Registration StatementStatement (a “Suspension Event”), the Investor, immediately upon receipt Company shall give written notice (a “Suspension Notice”) to the Investors to suspend sales of the Registrable Securities included in the Registration Statement and such notice thereof from shall continue only for so long as the Company, will discontinue Suspension Event or its effect is continuing. No Investor shall effect any sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing (or such filings) at any time after it has received a Suspension Notice from the Company and prior to receipt of an End of Suspension Notice (as defined below) with respect to such Registration Statement. The Investors may recommence effecting sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement (or such filings) following further notice to such effect (an “End of Suspension Notice”) from the Company, which End of Suspension Notice shall be given by the Company that to the use Investors in the manner described above promptly following the conclusion of such any Suspension Event and its effect.
(d) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be resumedincluded in a registration statement with respect to the Holders), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i) and (iv), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (iii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 15% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed (i) to any affiliate of the Company, (ii) with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144(c), or (iii) in circumstances described in Section 3(c).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pershing Gold Corp.), Registration Rights Agreement (Pershing Gold Corp.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement (i) have been sold thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) may be sold without volume or other manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not to exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
(c) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be included in a registration statement with respect to the Holders), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i) and (iv), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (iii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 6% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Boston Therapeutics, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Boston Therapeutics, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicableS-1. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act without regard to volume limitations regarding an affiliate’s sale as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor Investors (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic .
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by is not filed on or prior to the Commission. In Filing Date, or (ii) the event that there is a limitation by Company fails to file with the Commission on a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basisAct, within 30 5 trading days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as soon a result of the failure of the Company to meet its obligations with respect to such filing as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
provided for herein, or (biv) At any time after the Automatic a Registration Statement has become effectiveis first declared effective by the Commission, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action it ceases for any reason to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities would be detrimental held by the Investors, or the Investors is not permitted to utilize the Company or its stockholders at Prospectus therein to resell such time and the Company concludesRegistrable Securities, as a result, that it is for in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not case 10 consecutive trading days but no more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period (which need not be consecutive trading days) during which the Investors is not permitted to sell such Registrable Securities under Rule 144 (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date on which such 10- or 20-day period. In , as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (x) on the case first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Investors an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the suspension of aggregate purchase price paid by such Investors pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement for any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities then held by such Investors for which such Investors has not received liquidated damages pursuant to such Registration Statement Section 2(c) below (“1.0% Liquidated Damage Fee”) on each Event Date and a 0.5% Liquidated Damage Fee for each 30 calendar day period thereafter until advised in writing all Event(s) are cured. The aggregate of all 1.0% Liquidated Damage Fees to be paid by the Company shall be capped at 8%. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 8% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investors, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a 30 day period prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2, if the Commission determines that the use number of such Automatic securities that the Company may register on the Registration Statement may pursuant to Rule 415 is limited such that the shares so registered thereunder shall exclude any Registrable Securities held by the Investors, then the Company shall (i) reduce the aggregate number of securities registered on behalf of each of the Investors on a pro rata basis, such that the total number of securities so registered does not exceed the maximum number of shares that are registrable under Rule 415, (ii) promptly so advise the Investors, and (iii) use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities not so included on the Registration Statement as a result thereof as soon as is legally possible to do so. In such event, the Company shall pay to such Investors liquidated damages as set forth in Section 2(b) hereof with respect to any Registrable Securities then held by the Investors that were not registered by the Effectiveness Date.
(d) The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the maximum amount of damages that the Company shall be resumedobligated to pay the Investors for any and all breaches of this Section 2 is the amount of liquidated damages set forth in Section 2(b) or 2(c), and (ii) such liquidated damages shall be the sole remedy available to Investors for any breach of this Agreement, provided that nothing in this Section 2(d) shall preclude Investors from seeking injunctive relief, including specific performance of its rights under this Section 2.
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Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act Regulation S as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration registered at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, securities within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause to make such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Sharespracticably possible.
(b) At any time after the Automatic If: (i) a Registration Statement has become effectiveis not filed on or prior to the Filing Date, or (ii) the Company mayfails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, upon giving prompt written notice within 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as a result of the failure of the Company to meet its obligations with respect to such action filing as provided for herein, or (iv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities held by the Investor, suspend or the use of Investor is not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not case 20 consecutive trading days but no more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) 30 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period (which need not be consecutive trading days) during which the Investor is not permitted to sell such Registrable Securities under Regulation S (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date on which such 20- or 30-day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (A) on the first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, at the election of the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below; and (B) on each anniversary of such Event Date (if the applicable Event, or any subsequent Event, shall not have been cured by such date) until all Event(s) are cured, the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, as determined by the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below. In determining the case number of the suspension shares of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, Common Stock payable to the Investor, immediately upon receipt the 20-day average closing price of notice thereof the Common Stock ending on the Event Date shall be used. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section 2(b) in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 10% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be (in cash or Common Stock, at the option of the Investor) paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the Companydate such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, will discontinue plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any sales portion of a year prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2, if the Commission determines that the number of securities that the Company may register on the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 is limited such that the shares so registered thereunder shall exclude any Registrable Securities pursuant held by the Investor, then the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities not so included on the Registration Statement as a result thereof as soon as is legally possible to do so. In such event, the Company shall pay to such Registration Statement until advised Investor liquidated damages as set forth in writing Section 2(b) hereof with respect to any Registrable Securities then held by the Company Investor that were not registered by the Effectiveness Date.
(d) The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the maximum amount of damages that the use Company shall be obligated to pay the Investor for any and all breaches of this Section 2 is the amount of liquidated damages set forth in Section 2(b) or 2(c), and (ii) such Automatic Registration Statement may liquidated damages shall be resumedthe sole remedy available to Investor for any breach of this Agreement, provided that nothing in this Section 2(d) shall preclude Investor from seeking injunctive relief, including specific performance of its rights under this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (CleanTech Innovations, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (i) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under or (ii) the date when all Registrable Securities Act as determined covered by counsel to the Registration Statement may be sold by non-affiliates of the Company without current public information pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor Rule 144(c) (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after Notwithstanding anything to the Automatic Registration Statement has become effectivecontrary set forth herein, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend delay the filing of any such Automatic Registration Statement for a period not in excess of not 60 consecutive days and no more than thirty (30) 90 days in any consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. period (a “Delay Period”), if the Company is pursuing a public offering of securities and the underwriter recommends a Delay Period.
(c) In the case of an event that causes the suspension Company to suspend the use of any effective Automatic a Registration StatementStatement (a “Suspension Event”), the Investor, immediately upon receipt Company shall give written notice (a “Suspension Notice”) to the Investor to suspend sales of the Registrable Securities included in the Registration Statement and such notice thereof from shall continue only for so long as the Company, will discontinue Suspension Event or its effect is continuing. The Investor shall not effect any sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing (or such filings) at any time after it has received a Suspension Notice from the Company and prior to receipt of an End of Suspension Notice (as defined below) with respect to such Registration Statement. The Investor may recommence effecting sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement (or such filings) following further notice to such effect (an “End of Suspension Notice”) from the Company, which End of Suspension Notice shall be given by the Company that to the use Investors in the manner described above promptly following the conclusion of such any Suspension Event and its effect.
(d) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission within one hundred and thirty-five (135) days following the Filing Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be resumedincluded in a registration statement with respect to the Holders), (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and the Filing Date or the one hundred thirty-fifth day following the Filing Date with respect to which such failure or breach occurred being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor $50,000.00, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be $300,000.00. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed (i) to any affiliate of the Company, (ii) with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, or (iii) in circumstances described in Sections 3(c).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pershing Gold Corp.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (i) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement may be sold by non-affiliates of the Company without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144(c), as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed addressed, delivered and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor Investors and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in The Company shall immediately notify the number Holders and the Agent of Registrable Securities the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be deducted from the Conversion Sharesdate requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission under Rule 424. Notwithstanding anything else contained herein, so long as the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of either Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act and is timely filing reports with the Commission on its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system (“EXXXX”), it is not required to provide notice to the Holders of effectiveness of a Registration Statement to the extent a notice of effectiveness is public available through EXXXX.
(b) At any time after Notwithstanding anything to the Automatic Registration Statement has become effectivecontrary set forth herein, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic delay the filing of the Registration Statement for a period not in excess of not 60 consecutive days and no more than thirty (30) 90 days in any consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. period (a “Delay Period”), if the Company is pursuing a public offering of securities and the underwriter recommends a Delay Period.
(c) In the case of an event that causes the suspension Company to suspend the use of any effective Automatic a Registration StatementStatement (a “Suspension Event”), the Investor, immediately upon receipt Company shall give written notice (a “Suspension Notice”) to the Investors to suspend sales of the Registrable Securities included in the Registration Statement and such notice thereof from shall continue only for so long as the Company, will discontinue Suspension Event or its effect is continuing. No Investor shall effect any sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing (or such filings) at any time after it has received a Suspension Notice from the Company and prior to receipt of an End of Suspension Notice (as defined below) with respect to such Registration Statement. The Investors may recommence effecting sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement (or such filings) following further notice to such effect (an “End of Suspension Notice”) from the Company, which End of Suspension Notice shall be given by the Company that to the use Investors in the manner described above promptly following the conclusion of such any Suspension Event and its effect.
(d) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the effective date of a Registration Statement, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment or otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within thirty (30) calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for such Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be resumedincluded in a registration statement with respect to the Holders), or (v) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clauses (i) and (iv), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, and for purpose of clause (iii) the date which such thirty (30) calendar day period is exceeded, and for purpose of clause (v) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 6% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed (i) to any affiliate of the Company, (ii) with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144(c), or (iii) in circumstances described in Section 3(c).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pershing Gold Corp.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicableS-1. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration registered at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause to make such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Sharespracticably possible.
(b) At any time after the Automatic If: (i) a Registration Statement has become effectiveis not filed on or prior to the Filing Date, or (ii) the Company mayfails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, upon giving prompt written notice within 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as a result of the failure of the Company to meet its obligations with respect to such action filing as provided for herein, or (iv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities held by the Investor, suspend or the use of Investor is not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not case 20 consecutive trading days but no more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) 30 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period (which need not be consecutive trading days) during which the Investor is not permitted to sell such Registrable Securities under Rule 144 (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date on which such 20- or 30-day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (A) on the first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, at the election of the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below; and (B) on each anniversary of such Event Date (if the applicable Event, or any subsequent Event, shall not have been cured by such date) until all Event(s) are cured, the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, as determined by the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below. In determining the case number of the suspension shares of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, Common Stock payable to the Investor, immediately upon receipt the 20-day average closing price of notice thereof the Common Stock ending on the Event Date shall be used. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 10% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the Companydate such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, will discontinue plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any sales portion of a year prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2, if the Commission determines that the number of securities that the Company may register on the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 is limited such that the shares so registered thereunder shall exclude any Registrable Securities pursuant held by the Investor, then the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities not so included on the Registration Statement as a result thereof as soon as is legally possible to do so. In such event, the Company shall pay to such Registration Statement until advised Investor liquidated damages as set forth in writing Section 2(b) hereof with respect to any Registrable Securities then held by the Company Investor that were not registered by the Effectiveness Date.
(d) The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the maximum amount of damages that the use Company shall be obligated to pay the Investor for any and all breaches of this Section 2 is the amount of liquidated damages set forth in Section 2(b) or 2(c), and (ii) such Automatic Registration Statement may liquidated damages shall be resumedthe sole remedy available to Investor for any breach of this Agreement, provided that nothing in this Section 2(d) shall preclude Investor from seeking injunctive relief, including specific performance of its rights under this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (CleanTech Innovations, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. It is expressly understood and agreed by each Investor that the Automatic Registration Statement referred to in this Section 3 and the “Piggyback Registration” referred to in Section 4 below may at the sole option of the Company include, and the Registrable Securities may be offered for resale in, the Subsequent Offering Registration Statement referred to in Section 3(d) below. Except as contemplated in the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company agrees that it will not file any other registration statement that does not include all of the Registrable Securities prior to the Filing Deadline. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) may be sold without volume or other manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 or as may otherwise be required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration on the Automatic Registration Statements at one time, the removal of the securities shall be applied, first to the shares included in (d) and (e) of the definition of Registerable Securities then ,to the Common Stock on a pro rata basis then, to the Warrant Shares on a pro rata basis (the “Order of Cutback”). In the event, any Registrable Securities shall be removed from the Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly so advise the any Investor holding such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible for registration, which date shall be determined by the Commission, and shall use its best efforts to cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in In addition, if following the initial filing of the Automatic Registration Statement, the Placement Agent reasonably determines for any reason, after consultation with the Company, that the offering which is subject to the Automatic Registration Statement needs to be cut back then the Placement Agent may cut back the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from subject to the Conversion SharesAutomatic Registration Statement in accordance with the Order of Cutback.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not to exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
(c) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Investor Representative the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be included in a registration statement with respect to the Investors), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 6% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144.
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Automatic Registration. The Company shall, for the benefit of the Holder, at the Company’s cost:
(a) On or prior Use its best efforts to (i) file, as soon as practicable following the Closing Date, with the SEC an Automatic Registration Statement relating to the Filing Dateoffer and sale (including, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission without limitation, through a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”Registered Hedge) covering the resale of all 8,000,000 Registrable Securities by or on behalf of the Registrable Securities for an offering Holder from time to be made time or, in the case of a Registered Hedge, on a continuous basis and (ii) file amendments thereto or supplements to the Prospectus included therein as reasonably requested by the Holder as soon as reasonably practicable following such request in order to reflect the plan of distribution of such Registrable Securities set forth in the Automatic Registration Statement; provided, however, that the Holder shall have the right to initiate, on only one occasion, an underwritten offering of securities (a “Take-Down”) pursuant to Rule 415. The the Automatic Registration (but may sell the Registrable Securities registered in the Automatic Registration in connection with the Registered Hedge but not sold in a Registered Hedge pursuant to such Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 in a non-underwritten offering).
(or any successor forms thereto), as applicable. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use b) Use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under effective, other than during Black-out Periods, in order to permit the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement Prospectus forming part thereof to be declared effective usable by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement Holder for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive 365 days from the date the Company notifies Automatic Registration Statement is declared effective by the Investor SEC.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that (i) the Automatic Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and any Prospectus forming part thereof and any supplement thereto complies in all material respects with the 1933 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, (ii) the Automatic Registration Statement and any amendment thereto does not, when it becomes effective, contain an untrue statement of such suspension, with such suspension a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five misleading and (75iii) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case Prospectus forming part of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue and any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant supplement to such Registration Statement until advised Prospectus (as amended or supplemented from time to time), does not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in writing by order to make the Company that statements, in light of the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumedcircumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
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Automatic Registration. The Company hereby agrees with the Subscribers or their permitted transferees (other than a transferee who acquires shares pursuant to the Rule or an effective registration statement) (collectively, the "Holders") that no later than 45 days following the earlier of (a) On the date of the Final Closing or prior to (b) two weeks following the Filing Datedate of the Initial Closing, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (under the “Automatic Registration Statement”) 1933 Act with the SEC covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)Shares, as applicable. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, and the Company shall will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement such registration to be declared become effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible within 75 days after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until earlier of (a) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by of the Registration Statement have been sold Final Closing or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under (b) two weeks following the Securities Act as determined by counsel to date of the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the CommissionInitial Closing. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on Company's registration statement covering the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days resale of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be Shares has not been declared effective by the Commission SEC within 75 day period set forth above, the Per Share Purchase Price shall be reduced by 5% for each month (or on a pro rata basis for any portion thereof) thereafter until such time as soon as reasonably practicable. Any the registration statement is effective; provided, however, that the maximum reduction in the number of Registrable Securities Per Share Purchase Price shall be deducted 25%; and provided, further, that any day during which the SEC is closed due to war, terrorism or national emergency shall be excluded from the Conversion calculation of the delay period. The reduction in the Per Share Purchase Price shall be evidenced by the issuance of additional Shares (the "Adjustment Shares.
") to the Holders within five days following the effective date of the registration statement. The Adjustment Shares shall be covered by the registration statement. The Company's obligation to keep the registration statement effective shall continue until the earlier of (a) the date that all of the Shares and Adjustment Shares have been sold pursuant to the Rule under the 1933 Act or an effective registration statement, or (b) At any such time after as the Automatic Registration Statement has become effectiveShares and Adjustment Shares are eligible for immediate resale pursuant to Rule 144(k) under the 1933 Act. For purposes of this Article IV, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action term Shares shall be deemed to include the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumedAdjustment Shares.
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Samples: Subscription Agreement (Proxymed Inc /Ft Lauderdale/)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicableS-1. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration registered at one time, time the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause to make such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Sharespracticably possible.
(b) At any time after the Automatic If: (i) a Registration Statement has become effectiveis not filed on or prior to the Filing Date, or (ii) the Company mayfails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, upon giving prompt written notice within 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as a result of the failure of the Company to meet its obligations with respect to such action filing as provided for herein, or (iv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities held by the Investor, suspend or the use of Investor is not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not case 20 consecutive trading days but no more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) 30 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period (which need not be consecutive trading days) during which the Investor is not permitted to sell such Registrable Securities under Rule 144 (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date on which such 20- or 30-day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (x) on the first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, at the election of the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below; and (y) on each anniversary of such Event Date (if the applicable Event, or any subsequent Event, shall not have been cured by such date) until all Event(s) are cured, the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, as determined by the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below. In determining the case number of the suspension shares of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, Common Stock payable to the Investor, immediately upon receipt the 20 day average closing price of notice thereof the Common Stock ending on the Event Date shall be used. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 10% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the Companydate such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, will discontinue plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any sales portion of a year prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2, if the Commission determines that the number of securities that the Company may register on the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 is limited such that the shares so registered thereunder shall exclude any Registrable Securities pursuant held by the Investor, then the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities not so included on the Registration Statement as a result thereof as soon as is legally possible to do so. In such event, the Company shall pay to such Registration Statement until advised Investor liquidated damages as set forth in writing Section 2(b) hereof with respect to any Registrable Securities then held by the Company Investor that were not registered by the Effectiveness Date.
(d) The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the maximum amount of damages that the use Company shall be obligated to pay the Investor for any and all breaches of this Section 2 is the amount of liquidated damages set forth in Section 2(b) or 2(c), and (ii) such Automatic Registration Statement may liquidated damages shall be resumedthe sole remedy available to Investor for any breach of this Agreement, provided that nothing in this Section 2(d) shall preclude Investor from seeking injunctive relief, including specific performance of its rights under this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Deer Consumer Products, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities and (2) the Existing Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. Except as contemplated in the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company agrees that it will not file any other registration statement that does not include all of the Registrable Securities prior to the Filing Deadline. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) may be sold without volume or other manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities or Existing Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 or as may otherwise be required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities or Existing Registrable Securities that may be included for registration on the Automatic Registration Statements at one time, the removal of the securities shall be applied first, to the Existing Registrable Securities on a pro rata basis then, to the shares of Common Stock included in the Units on a pro rata basis then, to the Warrant Shares underlying the Class A Warrants on a pro rata basis and finally to the Warrant Shares underlying the Class B Warrants on a pro rata basis (the “Order of Cutback”). In the event, any Registrable Securities shall be removed from the Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly so advise the any Investor holding such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible for registration, which date shall be determined by the Commission, and shall use its best efforts to cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in In addition, if following the initial filing of the Automatic Registration Statement, the Company reasonably determines for any reason, after consultation with the Placement Agent, that the offering which is subject to the Automatic Registration Statement needs to be cut back then the Company may cut back the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from or Existing Registrable Securities subject to the Conversion SharesAutomatic Registration Statement in accordance with the Order of Cutback.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not to exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
(c) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Investor Representative the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be included in a registration statement with respect to the Investors), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 6% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Protea Biosciences Group, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities (and no other securities) for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (i) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement may be sold by non-affiliates of the Company without volume or other manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after Notwithstanding anything to the Automatic Registration Statement has become effectivecontrary set forth herein, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic delay the filing of the Registration Statement for a period not in excess of not 60 consecutive days and no more than thirty (30) 90 days in any consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. period (a “Delay Period”), if the Company is pursuing a public offering of securities and the underwriter recommends a Delay Period.
(c) In the case of an event that causes the suspension Company to suspend the use of any effective Automatic a Registration StatementStatement (a “Suspension Event”), the Investor, immediately upon receipt Company shall give written notice (a “Suspension Notice”) to the Investors to suspend sales of the Registrable Securities included in the Registration Statement and such notice thereof from shall continue only for so long as the Company, will discontinue Suspension Event or its effect is continuing. No Investor shall effect any sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing (or such filings) at any time after it has received a Suspension Notice from the Company and prior to receipt of an End of Suspension Notice (as defined below) with respect to such Registration Statement. The Investors may recommence effecting sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement (or such filings) following further notice to such effect (an “End of Suspension Notice”) from the Company, which End of Suspension Notice shall be given by the Company that to the use Investors in the manner described above promptly following the conclusion of such any Suspension Event and its effect.
(d) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be resumed.included in a registration statement with respect to the Holders), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i) and (iv), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (iii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 15% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed (i) to any affiliate of the Company, (ii) with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, or (iii) in circumstances described in Sections 3(c)
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pershing Gold Corp.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities (and no other securities other than (i) the 26,578,854 shares of common stock and 10,631,522 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants as reported in the Current Report on 8-K which was filed by the Company with the Commission on July 9, 2014 and (ii) the 2,461,760 shares of common stock and 984,700 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants as reported in the Current Report on 8-K which was filed by the Company with the Commission on July 18, 2014) for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (i) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement may be sold by non-affiliates of the Company without volume or other manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after Notwithstanding anything to the Automatic Registration Statement has become effectivecontrary set forth herein, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic delay the filing of the Registration Statement for a period not in excess of not 60 consecutive days and no more than thirty (30) 90 days in any consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. period (a “Delay Period”), if the Company is pursuing a public offering of securities and the underwriter recommends a Delay Period.
(c) In the case of an event that causes the suspension Company to suspend the use of any effective Automatic a Registration StatementStatement (a “Suspension Event”), the Investor, immediately upon receipt Company shall give written notice (a “Suspension Notice”) to the Investors to suspend sales of the Registrable Securities included in the Registration Statement and such notice thereof from shall continue only for so long as the Company, will discontinue Suspension Event or its effect is continuing. No Investor shall effect any sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing (or such filings) at any time after it has received a Suspension Notice from the Company and prior to receipt of an End of Suspension Notice (as defined below) with respect to such Registration Statement. The Investors may recommence effecting sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement (or such filings) following further notice to such effect (an “End of Suspension Notice”) from the Company, which End of Suspension Notice shall be given by the Company that to the use Investors in the manner described above promptly following the conclusion of such any Suspension Event and its effect.
(d) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be resumed.included in a registration statement with respect to the Holders), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i) and (iv), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (iii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 15% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed (i) to any affiliate of the Company, (ii) with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, or (iii) in circumstances described in Sections 3(c)
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pershing Gold Corp.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic a Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, Securities within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause to make such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Sharespracticably possible.
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date; (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review; (iii) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as a result of the failure of the Company to meet its obligations with respect to such filing as provided for herein; or (iv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities held by the Investor, or the Investor is not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 30 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 60 days (which need not be consecutive days) during any 12-month period, (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date on which such 30-day or 60-day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (A) on the first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, at the election of the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below; and (B) on each anniversary of such Event Date (if the applicable Event, or any subsequent Event, shall not have been cured by such date) until all Event(s) are cured, the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, as determined by the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below. In determining the number of shares of Common Stock payable to the Investor, the 20-day average closing price of the Common Stock ending on the Event Date shall be used. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within 7 days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 10% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a year prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2, if the Commission determines that the number of securities that the Company may register on the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 is limited such that the shares so registered thereunder shall exclude any Registrable Securities held by the Investor, then the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities not so included on the Registration Statement, on a pro-rata basis, as a result thereof as soon as is legally possible to do so. In such event, the Company shall pay to such Investor liquidated damages as set forth in Section 2(b) hereof with respect to any Registrable Securities then held by the Investor that were not registered by the Effectiveness Date.
(d) The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the maximum amount of damages that the Company shall be obligated to pay the Investor for any and all breaches of this Section 2 is the amount of liquidated damages set forth in Section 2(b) or 2(c), and (ii) such liquidated damages shall be the sole remedy available to Investor for any breach of this Agreement, provided that nothing in this Section 2(d) shall preclude Investor from seeking injunctive relief, including specific performance of its rights under this Section 2.
(e) At any time after the Automatic a Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic a Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Nova Lifestyle, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic a Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, Securities within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause to make such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Sharespracticably possible.
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date; (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review; (iii) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as a result of the failure of the Company to meet its obligations with respect to such filing as provided for herein; or (iv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities held by the Investor, or the Investor is not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 30 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 60 days (which need not be consecutive days) during any 12-month period during which the Investor is not permitted to sell such Registrable Securities under Regulation S (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date on which such 30-day or 60-day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (A) on the first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, at the election of the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below; and (B) on each anniversary of such Event Date (if the applicable Event, or any subsequent Event, shall not have been cured by such date) until all Event(s) are cured, the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, as determined by the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below. In determining the number of shares of Common Stock payable to the Investor, the 20-day average closing price of the Common Stock ending on the Event Date shall be used. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within 7 days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 10% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a year prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2, if the Commission determines that the number of securities that the Company may register on the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 is limited such that the shares so registered thereunder shall exclude any Registrable Securities held by the Investor, then the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities not so included on the Registration Statement, on a pro-rata basis, as a result thereof as soon as is legally possible to do so. In such event, the Company shall pay to such Investor liquidated damages as set forth in Section 2(b) hereof with respect to any Registrable Securities then held by the Investor that were not registered by the Effectiveness Date.
(d) The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the maximum amount of damages that the Company shall be obligated to pay the Investor for any and all breaches of this Section 2 is the amount of liquidated damages set forth in Section 2(b) or 2(c), and (ii) such liquidated damages shall be the sole remedy available to Investor for any breach of this Agreement, provided that nothing in this Section 2(d) shall preclude Investor from seeking injunctive relief, including specific performance of its rights under this Section 2.
(e) At any time after the Automatic a Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic a Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Nova Lifestyle, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicableS-1. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic a Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, Securities within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause to make such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Sharespracticably possible.
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date; (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review; (iii) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as a result of the failure of the Company to meet its obligations with respect to such filing as provided for herein; or (iv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities held by the Investor, or the Investor is not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 30 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 60 days (which need not be consecutive days) during any 12-month period, (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date on which such 30-day or 60-day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (A) on the first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, at the election of the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below; and (B) on each anniversary of such Event Date (if the applicable Event, or any subsequent Event, shall not have been cured by such date) until all Event(s) are cured, the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, as determined by the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below. In determining the number of shares of Common Stock payable to the Investor, the 20-day average closing price of the Common Stock ending on the Event Date shall be used. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within 7 days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 10% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a year prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2, if the Commission determines that the number of securities that the Company may register on the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 is limited such that the shares so registered thereunder shall exclude any Registrable Securities held by the Investor, then the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities, not so included on the Registration Statement, on a pro-rata basis, as a result thereof as soon as is legally possible to do so. In such event, the Company shall pay to such Investor liquidated damages as set forth in Section 2(b) hereof with respect to any Registrable Securities then held by the Investor that were not registered by the Effectiveness Date.
(d) The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the maximum amount of damages that the Company shall be obligated to pay the Investor for any and all breaches of this Section 2 is the amount of liquidated damages set forth in Section 2(b) or 2(c), and (ii) such liquidated damages shall be the sole remedy available to Investor for any breach of this Agreement, provided that nothing in this Section 2(d) shall preclude Investor from seeking injunctive relief, including specific performance of its rights under this Section 2.
(e) At any time after the Automatic a Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic a Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Nova Lifestyle, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of (1) all of the Registrable Securities and (2) the Existing Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. In addition, the Company agrees that it will not file any other registration statement that does not include all of the Registrable Securities prior to the Filing Deadline. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities or Existing Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 or as may otherwise be required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities or Existing Registrable Securities that may be included for registration on the Automatic Registration Statements at one time, the removal of the securities shall be applied, first to, the Existing Registrable Securities on a pro rata basis then, to any Registrable Securities on a pro rata basis (the “Order of Cutback”). In the event, any Registrable Securities shall be removed from the Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly so advise the any Investor holding such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible for registration, which date shall be determined by the Commission, and shall use its best efforts to cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in In addition, if following the initial filing of the Automatic Registration Statement, the Placement Agent reasonably determines for any reason, after consultation with the Company, that the offering which is subject to the Automatic Registration Statement needs to be cut back then the Placement Agent may cut back the number of Registrable Securities shall or Existing Registrable Securities subject to the Automatic Registration Statement in accordance with the Order of Cutback. As of the date of the Closing, the Placement Agent does not intend to reduce the number of Existing Registrable Securities anticipated to be deducted from included in the Conversion SharesAutomatic Registration Statement.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not to exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
(c) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Investor Representative the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be included in a registration statement with respect to the Investors), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, and during the Effectiveness Period, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (iii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each thirty (30) day anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement in connection with any Event or combination of Events, shall be 6% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a thirty (30) day period prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions; provided that the Company is in compliance with any current public information requirements applicable to it under Rule 144.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Protea Biosciences Group, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (i) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement may be sold by non-affiliates of the Company without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144(c), as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed addressed, delivered and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after Notwithstanding anything to the Automatic Registration Statement has become effectivecontrary set forth herein, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic delay the filing of the Registration Statement for a period not in excess of not 60 consecutive days and no more than thirty (30) 90 days in any consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. period (a “Delay Period”), if the Company is pursuing a public offering of securities and the underwriter recommends a Delay Period.
(c) In the case of an event that causes the suspension Company to suspend the use of any effective Automatic a Registration StatementStatement (a “Suspension Event”), the Investor, immediately upon receipt Company shall give written notice (a “Suspension Notice”) to the Investor to suspend sales of the Registrable Securities included in the Registration Statement and such notice thereof from shall continue only for so long as the Company, will discontinue Suspension Event or its effect is continuing. No Investor shall effect any sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing (or such filings) at any time after it has received a Suspension Notice from the Company and prior to receipt of an End of Suspension Notice (as defined below) with respect to such Registration Statement. The Investor may recommence effecting sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement (or such filings) following further notice to such effect (an “End of Suspension Notice”) from the Company, which End of Suspension Notice shall be given by the Company that to the use Investor in the manner described above promptly following the conclusion of such any Suspension Event and its effect.
(d) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the holders of Registrable Securities the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)); or (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be resumedincluded in a registration statement with respect to the holders); or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investor is otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clauses (i) and (ii), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (iii) the date which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investor may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 6% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed (i) to any affiliate of the Company, (ii) with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144(c), or (iii) in circumstances described in Section 3(c).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pershing Gold Corp.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior a. Prior to the Filing first anniversary of the Closing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission SEC a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415415 under the 1933 Act. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 an appropriate form in accordance with the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Investor or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicable. Subject requested by the SEC) a plan of distribution in a form reasonably acceptable to the terms of this Agreement, the Investor.
b. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under by the Securities Act SEC as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than prior to the Required Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities 1933 Act until the earlier of the date when that all Registrable Securities shares of Common Stock covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may can be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to publicly under Rule 144 under the Securities 1933 Act as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effectwithout restriction (including, addressed without limitation, volume and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor manner-of-sale restrictions) (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities ; provided that, upon notification by the SEC that may be included in the Automatic a Registration Statement at any one time shall will not be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there reviewed or is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one timeno longer subject to further review and comments, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic request acceleration of such Registration Statement covering within five (5) Trading Days after receipt of such ineligible Registrable Securities, notice and request that it become effective on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of 4:00 p.m. New York City time on the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic that the Registration Statement to be is first declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction SEC (the “Effective Date”) and file a prospectus supplement for any Registration Statement, whether or not required under Rule 424 under the 1933 Act (or otherwise), by 9:00 a.m. New York City time the day after the Effective Date.
c. The Company shall notify the Investor in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted writing promptly (and in any event within two Trading Days) after receiving notification from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after SEC that the Automatic Registration Statement has become been declared effective, .
d. If the Company mayis engaged in, upon giving prompt written notice of such action or has definitive plans to the Investorengage in, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement ifmaterial transaction that, in the reasonable and good faith judgment determination of the Board of Directors of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental reasonably likely to be materially and adversely affected by disclosure that would be required in connection with a registration, then the Company or its stockholders at may delay such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement registration for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive up to 60 days from the date for so long as the Company notifies is still actively pursuing the Investor of transaction that allowed such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumeddelay.
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Samples: Financing Agreement (Midwest Energy Emissions Corp.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415; provided, however, that the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to include all Registrable Securities purchased pursuant to the Offering on the Registration Statement to be filed on or before June 28, 2007 in connection with the February Offering. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicableSB-2. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic .
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement at any one time shall is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date, or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be limited by Rule 415 as required “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission. In , the event Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Registration Statement within 15 trading days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that there such amendment is required in order for a limitation Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as a result of the failure of the Company to meet its obligations with respect to such filing as provided for herein, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities held by the Investor, or the Investor is not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 15 consecutive trading days but no more than an aggregate of 25 trading days during any 12-month period (which need not be consecutive trading days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 15- or 25-day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (x) on the first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below; and (y) on each anniversary of such Event Date (if the applicable Event, or any subsequent Event, shall not have been cured by such date) until all Event(s) are cured, the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a year prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2, if the Commission determines that the number of securities that the Company may register on the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 is limited such that the shares so registered thereunder shall exclude any Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one timeheld by the Investor, then the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic effect the registration of any Registrable Securities not so included on the Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on as a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission result thereof as soon as reasonably practicableis legally possible to do so. Any reduction In such event, the Company shall pay to such Investor liquidated damages as set forth in the number of Section 2(b) hereof with respect to any Registrable Securities shall be deducted from then held by the Conversion SharesInvestor that were not registered by the Effectiveness Date.
(bd) At any time after The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, maximum amount of damages that the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action shall be obligated to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies pay the Investor for any and all breaches of this Section 2 is the amount of liquidated damages set forth in Section 2(b) or 2(c), and (ii) such suspensionliquidated damages shall be the sole remedy available to Investor for any breach of this Agreement, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate provided that nothing in this Section 2(d) shall preclude Investor from seeking injunctive relief, including specific performance of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumedits rights under this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Agfeed Industries, Inc)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicableS-3. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act Regulation S as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration registered at one time, time the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause to make such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Sharespracticably possible.
(b) At any time after the Automatic If: (i) a Registration Statement has become effectiveis not filed on or prior to the Filing Date, or (ii) the Company mayfails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, upon giving prompt written notice within 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as a result of the failure of the Company to meet its obligations with respect to such action filing as provided for herein, or (iv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities held by the Investor, suspend or the use of Investor is not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not case 20 consecutive trading days but no more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) 30 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period (which need not be consecutive trading days) during which the Investor is not permitted to sell such Registrable Securities under Regulation S (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date on which such 20- or 30-day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (x) on the first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, at the election of the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below; and (y) on each anniversary of such Event Date (if the applicable Event, or any subsequent Event, shall not have been cured by such date) until all Event(s) are cured, the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, as determined by the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below. In determining the case number of the suspension shares of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, Common Stock payable to the Investor, immediately upon receipt the 20 day average closing price of notice thereof the Common Stock ending on the Event Date shall be used. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 10% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the Companydate such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, will discontinue plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any sales portion of a year prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2, if the Commission determines that the number of securities that the Company may register on the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 is limited such that the shares so registered thereunder shall exclude any Registrable Securities pursuant held by the Investor, then the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities not so included on the Registration Statement as a result thereof as soon as is legally possible to do so. In such event, the Company shall pay to such Registration Statement until advised Investor liquidated damages as set forth in writing Section 2(b) hereof with respect to any Registrable Securities then held by the Company Investor that were not registered by the Effectiveness Date.
(d) The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the maximum amount of damages that the use Company shall be obligated to pay the Investor for any and all breaches of this Section 2 is the amount of liquidated damages set forth in Section 2(b) or 2(c), and (ii) such Automatic Registration Statement may liquidated damages shall be resumedthe sole remedy available to Investor for any breach of this Agreement, provided that nothing in this Section 2(d) shall preclude Investor from seeking injunctive relief, including specific performance of its rights under this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Deer Consumer Products, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (a) one year from the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold is declared effective by the Commission or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to (b) until Rule 144 under of the Securities Act as determined by counsel is available to Investors with respect to all of the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor Registrable Securities (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum In the event the amount of Registrable Securities that which may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time is limited due to SEC Guidance (provided that, the Company shall be limited use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission Staff for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, the SEC’s interpretive responses regarding Delayed or Continuous Offering and Sale of Securities No. 612.09) the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to register such maximum portion of the Registrable Securities as permitted by Rule 415 as required by the CommissionSEC Guidance. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable.
(b) The Company shall immediately notify the Investors via facsimile or by e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the second trading day after the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. Any reduction in The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. New York City time on the second trading day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission as required by Rule 424. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to this Agreement, if any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Investor as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will first be reduced by Registrable Securities represented by the shares of Common Stock purchased by the Subscribers pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and second by Registrable Securities represented by Warrant Shares (applied, in the case that some Warrant Shares may be registered, to the Investors on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Warrant Shares held by such Investors). In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall be deducted from give the Conversion SharesInvestor at least 5 trading days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Investor’s allotment.
(bc) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not to exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
(d) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Investors the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i), (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be included in a registration statement with respect to the Investors), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i) and (iv), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (iii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 6% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within twenty days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities and (2) the Existing Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. It is expressly understood and agreed by each Investor that the Automatic Registration Statement referred to in this Section 3 and the “Piggyback Registration” referred to in Section 4 below may at the sole option of the Company include, and the Registrable Securities may be offered for resale in, the Subsequent Offering Registration Statement referred to in Section 3(d) below. Except as contemplated in the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company agrees that it will not file any other registration statement that does not include all of the Registrable Securities prior to the Filing Deadline. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) may be sold without volume or other manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities or Existing Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 or as may otherwise be required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities or Existing Registrable Securities that may be included for registration on the Automatic Registration Statements at one time, the removal of the securities shall be applied, first to, the Existing Registrable Securities on a pro rata basis then, to the Common Stock on a pro rata basis then, to the Warrant Shares on a pro rata basis (the “Order of Cutback”). In the event, any Registrable Securities shall be removed from the Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly so advise the any Investor holding such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible for registration, which date shall be determined by the Commission, and shall use its best efforts to cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in In addition, if following the initial filing of the Automatic Registration Statement, the Placement Agent reasonably determines for any reason, after consultation with the Company, that the offering which is subject to the Automatic Registration Statement needs to be cut back then the Placement Agent may cut back the number of Registrable Securities shall or Existing Registrable Securities subject to the Automatic Registration Statement in accordance with the Order of Cutback. As of the date of the Closing, the Placement Agent does not intend to reduce the number of Existing Registrable Securities anticipated to be deducted from included in the Conversion SharesAutomatic Registration Statement.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not to exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
(c) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Investor Representative the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be included in a registration statement with respect to the Investors), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 6% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, express or implied, contained in this Section 3 or elsewhere in this Agreement, the Company shall not be required to file an Automatic Registration Statement or a “Piggyback Registration” (as defined in Section 4 below) with respect to any Registrable Securities, and the provisions of this Agreement shall not be applicable to any registration statement filed with the Commission by the Company in order to either (i) offer securities of the Company for sale in the Subsequent Offering or (ii) to register for resale securities of the Company previously sold in the Subsequent Offering (the “ Subsequent Offering Registration Statement”).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Protea Biosciences Group, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicable. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Unit Shares.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Greenwood Hall, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act Regulation S as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic a Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, Securities within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause to make such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Sharespracticably possible.
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date; or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review; (iii) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as a result of the failure of the Company to meet its obligations with respect to such filing as provided for herein; or (iv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities held by the Investor, or the Investor is not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 30 consecutive days but no more than an aggregate of 60 days (which need not be consecutive days) during any 12-month period during which the Investor is not permitted to sell such Registrable Securities under Regulation S (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date on which such 30-day or 60-day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (x) on the first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, at the election of the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below; and (y) on each anniversary of such Event Date (if the applicable Event, or any subsequent Event, shall not have been cured by such date) until all Event(s) are cured, the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount, as determined by the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below. In determining the number of shares of Common Stock payable to the Investor, the 20-day average closing price of the Common Stock ending on the Event Date shall be used. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within 7 days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 10% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a year prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2, if the Commission determines that the number of securities that the Company may register on the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 is limited such that the shares so registered thereunder shall exclude any Registrable Securities held by the Investor, then the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities not so included on the Registration Statement as a result thereof as soon as is legally possible to do so. In such event, the Company shall pay to such Investor liquidated damages as set forth in Section 2(b) hereof with respect to any Registrable Securities then held by the Investor that were not registered by the Effectiveness Date.
(d) The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the maximum amount of damages that the Company shall be obligated to pay the Investor for any and all breaches of this Section 2 is the amount of liquidated damages set forth in Section 2(b) or 2(c), and (ii) such liquidated damages shall be the sole remedy available to Investor for any breach of this Agreement, provided that nothing in this Section 2(d) shall preclude Investor from seeking injunctive relief, including specific performance of its rights under this Section 2.
(e) At any time after the Automatic a Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic a Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Nova Lifestyle, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) may be sold without volume or other manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor Purchaser (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 or as may otherwise be required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration on the Automatic Registration Statements at one time, the removal of the securities shall be applied, first to the Warrant Shares on a pro rata basis then, to the Conversion Shares on a pro rata basis (the “Order of Cutback”). In the event, any Registrable Securities shall be removed from the Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor any Purchaser holding such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible for registration, which date shall be determined by the Commission, and shall use its best efforts to cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the InvestorPurchasers, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor Purchasers of such suspension, with such suspension not to exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the InvestorPurchasers, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
(c) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Purchaser Representative the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be included in a registration statement with respect to the Purchasers), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Purchasers are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Purchasers may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Purchaser an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Purchaser pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to a Purchaser under this Agreement shall be 10% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Purchaser pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Marathon Patent Group, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to Concurrently with the Filing Datefiling of a registration statement registering shares of Common Stock offered by the Company in its initial public offering, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicableS-1. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor Holder (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic a Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, Securities within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause to make such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Sharespracticably possible.
(b) At any time after the Automatic If: (i) a Registration Statement has become effectiveis not filed on or prior to the Filing Date, or (ii) the Company mayfails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, upon giving prompt written notice within 5 trading days of such action to the Investordate that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, suspend whichever is earlier) by the use of any such Automatic Commission that a Registration Statement ifwill not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, in or (iii) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the good faith judgment Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as a result of the Company, the use failure of the Automatic Company to meet its obligations with respect to such filing as provided for herein, or (iv) after a Registration Statement covering is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities would be detrimental held by the Holder, or the Holder is not permitted to utilize the Company or its stockholders at Prospectus therein to resell such time and the Company concludesRegistrable Securities, as a result, that it is for in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not case 30 consecutive days but no more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) 60 days (whether or which need not consecutivebe consecutive days) during any 12-month period during which the Holder is not permitted to sell such Registrable Securities under Rule 144 (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date on which such 30-day or 60-day period. In , as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (x) on the case first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Holder an amount, at the election of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any sales of Registrable Securities then held by such Holder for which such Holder has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2.4 below; and (y) on each anniversary of such Registration Statement Event Date (if the applicable Event, or any subsequent Event, shall not have been cured by such date) until advised in writing all Event(s) are cured, the Company shall pay to such Holder an amount, as determined by the Company, in cash or in Common Stock, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder for which such Holder has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2.4 below. In determining the number of shares of Common Stock payable to the Holder, the 20-day average closing price of the Common Stock ending on the Event Date shall be used. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 10% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the use Holder, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumeda year prior to the cure of an Event.
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Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities and (2) the Existing Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. Except as contemplated in the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company agrees that it will not file any other registration statement that does not include all of the Registrable Securities prior to the Filing Deadline. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) may be sold without volume or other manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities or Existing Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 or as may otherwise be required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities or Existing Registrable Securities that may be included for registration on the Automatic Registration Statements at one time, the removal of the securities shall be applied, first to, the Existing Registrable Securities on a pro rata basis then, to the Conversion Shares on a pro rata basis then, to the Warrant Shares underlying the Class A Warrants on a pro rata basis and finally to the Warrant Shares underlying the Class B Warrants on a pro rata basis (the “Order of Cutback”). In the event, any Registrable Securities shall be removed from the Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly so advise the any Investor holding such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible for registration, which date shall be determined by the Commission, and shall use its best efforts to cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in In addition, if following the initial filing of the Automatic Registration Statement, the Company reasonably determines for any reason, after consultation with the Placement Agent, that the offering which is subject to the Automatic Registration Statement needs to be cut back then the Company may cut back the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from or Existing Registrable Securities subject to the Conversion SharesAutomatic Registration Statement in accordance with the Order of Cutback.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not to exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
(c) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Investor Representative the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be included in a registration statement with respect to the Investors), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 6% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Protea Biosciences Group, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. It is expressly understood and agreed by each Investor that the Automatic Registration Statement referred to in this Section 3 and the “Piggyback Registration” referred to in Section 4 below may at the sole option of the Company include, and the Registrable Securities may be offered for resale in, the Subsequent Offering Registration Statement referred to in Section 6(e) below. Except as contemplated in the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company agrees that it will not file any other registration statement that does not include all of the Registrable Securities prior to the Filing Deadline. Nothing shall prohibit the Company from including any other securities in the Automatic Registration Statement. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) may be sold without volume or other manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 or as may otherwise be required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration on the Automatic Registration Statements at one time, the removal of the securities shall be applied, first to the Warrant Shares on a pro rata basis, and then to the shares of Common Stock on a pro rata basis then (the “Order of Cutback”). In the event, any Registrable Securities shall be removed from the Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly so advise the any Investor holding such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible for registration, which date shall be determined by the Commission, and shall use its best efforts to cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not to exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
(c) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Investor Representative the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be included in a registration statement with respect to the Investors), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 6% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144.
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Automatic Registration. (a) a. On or prior to before thirty (30) days after the Filing Closing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission SEC a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Initial Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415415 under the 1933 Act. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 an appropriate form in accordance with the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Stockholder or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicable. Subject requested by the SEC) a plan of distribution in a form reasonably acceptable to the terms of this AgreementStockholder.
b. On or before nine (9) months after the Closing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the SEC a Registration Statement covering the resale of the Additional Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the 1933 Act. The Registration Statement shall be on an appropriate form in accordance with the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Stockholder or requested by the SEC) a plan of distribution in a form reasonably acceptable to the Stockholder.
c. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic each Registration Statement to be declared effective under by the Securities Act SEC as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities 1933 Act until the earlier of the date when that all Registrable Securities shares of Common Stock covered by the such Registration Statement have been sold or may can be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to publicly under Rule 144 under the Securities 1933 Act as determined without restriction (including, without limitation, volume and manner-of-sale restrictions); provided that, upon notification by counsel to the Company pursuant to SEC that a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall will not be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there reviewed or is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one timeno longer subject to further review and comments, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic request acceleration of such Registration Statement covering within five (5) Trading Days after receipt of such ineligible Registrable Securities, notice and request that it become effective on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of 4:00 p.m. New York City time on the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic that the Registration Statement to be is first declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction SEC (the “Effective Date”) and file a prospectus supplement for any Registration Statement, whether or not required under Rule 424 under the 1933 Act (or otherwise), by 9:00 a.m. New York City time the day after the Effective Date.
d. The Company shall notify the Stockholder in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted writing promptly (and in any event within two Trading Days) after receiving notification from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after SEC that the Automatic applicable Registration Statement has become been declared effective, .
e. If the Company mayis engaged in, upon giving prompt written notice of such action or has definitive plans to the Investorengage in, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement ifmaterial transaction that, in the reasonable and good faith judgment determination of the Board of Directors of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental reasonably likely to be materially and adversely affected by disclosure that would be required in connection with a registration, then the Company or its stockholders at may delay such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement applicable registration for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive up to 60 days from the date for so long as the Company notifies is still actively pursuing the Investor of transaction that allowed such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumeddelay.
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Samples: Debt Repayment and Exchange Agreement (Midwest Energy Emissions Corp.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicableS-1. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act without regard to volume limitations regarding an affiliate’s sale as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic .
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date, or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 415 as required 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission. In the event Commission that there a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) a limitation Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as a result of the failure of the Company to meet its obligations with respect to such filing as provided for herein, or (iv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities held by the Investor, or the Investor is not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 15 consecutive trading days but no more than an aggregate of 25 trading days during any 12-month period (which need not be consecutive trading days) during which the Investor is not permitted to sell such Registrable Securities under Rule 144 (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date on which such 15- or 25-day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (x) on the first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.5% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below (“1.5% Liquidated Damage Fee”) on each Event Date and a 1.5% Liquidate Damage Fee for each 30 calendar day period thereafter until all Event(s) are cured. The aggregate of all 1.5% Liquidated Damage Fees to be paid by the Company shall be capped at 10%. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 10% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a 30 day period prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2, if the Commission determines that the number of securities that the Company may register on the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 is limited such that the shares so registered thereunder shall exclude any Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one timeheld by the Investor, then the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic effect the registration of any Registrable Securities not so included on the Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on as a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission result thereof as soon as reasonably practicableis legally possible to do so. Any reduction In such event, the Company shall pay to such Investor liquidated damages as set forth in the number of Section 2(b) hereof with respect to any Registrable Securities shall be deducted from then held by the Conversion SharesInvestor that were not registered by the Effectiveness Date.
(bd) At any time after The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, maximum amount of damages that the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action shall be obligated to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies pay the Investor for any and all breaches of this Section 2 is the amount of liquidated damages set forth in Section 2(b) or 2(c), and (ii) such suspensionliquidated damages shall be the sole remedy available to Investor for any breach of this Agreement, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate provided that nothing in this Section 2(d) shall preclude Investor from seeking injunctive relief, including specific performance of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumedits rights under this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Shiner International, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. Within 30 days of receipt of the Required Shareholder Approval (aas such term is defined in the Transaction Agreement) On or prior to the Filing Date150 days from date hereof, whichever date is later, the Company shall prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder 415 under the Securities Act (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Warrant Shares on Form S-3, the registration shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)another appropriate form) and such other documents, as applicablemay be necessary, in the opinion of counsel for the Company, so as to permit a public offering and sale by the Holder of all of the Warrant Shares under the Securities Act, unless the Warrant Shares may be sold free of volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act. Subject With respect to the terms of any registration statement filed pursuant to this AgreementSection 7.1 or Section 7.2 below, the Company shall (a) use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement registration statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall (b) use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement registration statement continuously effective under the Securities Act (including the filing of any necessary amendments, post-effective amendments and supplements) until the date when earlier of (i) such time as all Registrable Securities covered by Warrant Shares to be sold pursuant to the Registration Statement registration statement have been sold or and (ii) the date on which all Warrant Shares may be sold without registration and without being subject to the volume or other restrictions pursuant to limitations of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, (c) take all reasonable efforts to cause the Warrant Shares at all times during such period to be freely tradable under the registration statement, except as may be required under the federal securities laws, (d) not less than two business days prior to the filing of any registration statement or related prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, furnish to the Holder the sections of such documents that relate to the Holder, as proposed to be filed, which documents shall be subject to the review of the Holder, (e) promptly notify the Holder via facsimile of the effectiveness of such registration statement and the filing of any prospectus supplement or amendment to such registration statement, and (f) no later than one business day following the effectiveness of such registration statement, file with the Commission a final prospectus in accordance with Rule 424 under the Securities Act as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter with respect to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Sharesstatement.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
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Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicableSB-2. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic .
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date, or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 415 as required 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission. In the event Commission that there a Registration Statement will not be “reviewed,” or is not subject to further review, or (iii) a limitation Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date as a result of the failure of the Company to meet its obligations with respect to such filing as provided for herein, or (iv) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to the Registrable Securities held by the Investor, or the Investor is not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for in any such case 15 consecutive trading days but no more than an aggregate of 25 trading days during any 12-month period (which need not be consecutive trading days) during which the Investor is not permitted to sell such Registrable Securities under Rule 144 (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (iii) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date on which such 15- or 25-day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then: (x) on the first Event Date to occur the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below; and (y) on each anniversary of such Event Date (if the applicable Event, or any subsequent Event, shall not have been cured by such date) until all Event(s) are cured, the Company shall pay to such Investor an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Investor for which such Investor has not received liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(c) below. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 15% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a year prior to the cure of an Event.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2, if the Commission determines that the number of securities that the Company may register on the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 is limited such that the shares so registered thereunder shall exclude any Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one timeheld by the Investor, then the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic effect the registration of any Registrable Securities not so included on the Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on as a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission result thereof as soon as reasonably practicableis legally possible to do so. Any reduction In such event, the Company shall pay to such Investor liquidated damages as set forth in the number of Section 2(b) hereof with respect to any Registrable Securities shall be deducted from then held by the Conversion SharesInvestor that were not registered by the Effectiveness Date.
(bd) At any time after The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, maximum amount of damages that the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action shall be obligated to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies pay the Investor for any and all breaches of this Section 2 is the amount of liquidated damages set forth in Section 2(b) or 2(c), and (ii) such suspensionliquidated damages shall be the sole remedy available to Investor for any breach of this Agreement, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate provided that nothing in this Section 2(d) shall preclude Investor from seeking injunctive relief, including specific performance of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumedits rights under this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Shiner International, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. It is expressly understood and agreed by each Investor that the Automatic Registration Statement referred to in this Section 3 and the “Piggyback Registration” referred to in Section 4 below may at the sole option of the Company include, and the Registrable Securities may be offered for resale in, the Subsequent Offering Registration Statement referred to in Section 3(d) below. Except as contemplated in the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company agrees that it will not file any other registration statement that does not include all of the Registrable Securities prior to the Filing Deadline. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) may be sold without volume or other manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 or as may otherwise be required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration on the Automatic Registration Statements at one time, the removal of the securities shall be applied, first to the shares included in (d) and (e) of the definition of Registerable Securities then ,to the Common Stock on a pro rata basis then, to the Warrant Shares on a pro rata basis (the “Order of Cutback”). In the event, any Registrable Securities shall be removed from the Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly so advise the any Investor holding such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible for registration, which date shall be determined by the Commission, and shall use its best efforts to cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in In addition, if following the initial filing of the Automatic Registration Statement, the Placement Agent reasonably determines for any reason, after consultation with the Company, that the offering which is subject to the Automatic Registration Statement needs to be cut back then the Placement Agent may cut back the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from subject to the Conversion SharesAutomatic Registration Statement in accordance with the Order of Cutback.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not to exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
(c) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the Investor Representative the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be included in a registration statement with respect to the Investors), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and Unit Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 6% of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Unit Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investor, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144.
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Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, if such Form S- 3 is available for use by the Company, and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as applicable. Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement (i) have been sold thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) may be sold without volume or other manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and effect acceptable to counsel to the Company and the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 or as may otherwise be required by the CommissionSEC Guidance. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration on the Automatic Registration Statements at one time, the removal of the securities shall be applied on a pro rata basis, in accordance with the number of Registrable Securities sought to be registered by each Investor in the Offering. In the event any Registrable Securities shall be removed from the Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly so advise the any Investor holding such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 sixty (60) days of the date such securities become eligible for registration or pursuant to SEC Guidance, which date shall be determined by the Commission, and shall use its best efforts to cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Sharespracticable thereafter.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days each (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
(c) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date or (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be included in a registration statement with respect to the Investors), or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, and during the Effectiveness Period, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities (other than as permitted by subsection 3(b) hereof)(any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clause (i), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (iii) the date on which such period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then as the exclusive remedy of Investors therefore, , on each thirty (30) day anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to one (1.0%) percent of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement for such failure to file or register such number of securities as shall not have been filed or included in an effective registration statement on the applicable dates. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement in connection with any Event or combination of Events, shall be fifteen (15%) percent of the aggregate Purchase Price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a thirty (30) day period prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of- sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144.
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Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior At any time, and from time to time, upon written notification by the Filing DateInvestor of its desire to have its Registrable Securities registered under the Securities Act, the Company shall promptly prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415415 of the Securities Act. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 SB-2 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto), as applicableon another appropriate form. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act 144(k) as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s 's transfer agent and the Investor affected Holders (the “"Effectiveness Period”"). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic .
(b) If: (i) a Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by is not filed on or prior to the Commission. In Filing Date, or (ii) the event that there is a limitation by Company fails to file with the Commission on a request for acceleration in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basisAct, within 30 5 trading days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that a Registration Statement will not be "reviewed," or is not subject to further review, or (iii) prior to the date when such securities become eligible and cause Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment or otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the Commission in respect of such Automatic Registration Statement within 15 trading days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the Commission that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective, or (iv) a Registration Statement filed or required to be filed hereunder is not declared effective by the Commission on or before the Effectiveness Date, or (v) after a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Commission, subject to any customary blackout periods, it ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective during the Effectiveness Period as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of to all Registrable Securities shall for which it is required to be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after the Automatic Registration Statement has become effective, or the Company mayHolders are not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of for in any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not case 15 consecutive trading days but no more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) 30 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period (which need not be consecutive trading days) (any such failure or breach being referred to as an "Event," and for purposes of clause (i) or (iv) the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (ii) the date on which such 5 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iii) the date which such 15 trading day period is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (v) the date on which such 15- or 30-day period. In , as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as "Event Date"), then in addition to any other rights the case Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law: (x) on each such Event Date the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of the suspension aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder; and (y) on each monthly anniversary of any effective Automatic Registration Statementeach such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the InvestorCompany shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, immediately upon receipt as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2.0% of notice thereof the aggregate purchase price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement for any Registrable Securities then held by such Holder. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the Companydate such liquidated damages are due until such amounts, will discontinue plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any sales portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. The foregoing penalty obligation shall not apply to any time periods in which the Registrable Securities become eligible for sale pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by Rule 144(k) under the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumedSecurities Act.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Continental Beverage & Nutrition, Inc.)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic a Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after the Automatic a Registration Statement has become effective, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic a Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic Registration Statement for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five sixty (7560) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. In the case of the suspension of any effective Automatic Registration Statement, the Investor, immediately upon receipt of notice thereof from the Company, will discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing by the Company that the use of such Automatic Registration Statement may be resumed.
(c) Company shall use its best efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as reasonably practicable. The Company shall notify the Purchasers by facsimile or e-mail as promptly as practicable, and in any event, within twenty-four (24) hours, after any Registration Statement is declared effective and shall simultaneously provide the Investors with copies of any related Prospectus to be used in connection with the sale or other disposition of the securities covered thereby, unless a final prospectus is filed with SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act within twenty-four (24) hours, after any Registration Statement is declared effective. If (A) a Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities is not filed by the Filing Date, (B) a Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission prior to the earlier of (i) five (5) Business Days after the Commission shall have informed the Company that no review of the Registration Statement will be made or that the Commission has no further comments on the Registration Statement or (ii) the Effectiveness Date or (C) after a Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission, sales cannot be made pursuant to such Registration Statement for any reason (including, without limitation, by reason of a stop order, or the Company’s failure to update the Registration Statement) or the inability of any Investor to sell the Registrable Securities covered thereby due to market conditions, then the Company will make pro rata payments to each Investor, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, in an amount equal to 1.0% of the aggregate amount invested by such Investor for each 30-day period or pro rata for any portion thereof following the date by which such Registration Statement should have been filed or effective; provided, that the maximum payments to the Investors pursuant to this Section 2(c) shall not exceed 6% of the aggregate amount invested by such Investor. Such payments shall constitute the Investors’ exclusive monetary remedy for such events, but shall not affect the right of the Investors to seek injunctive relief.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Fusion Telecommunications International Inc)
Automatic Registration. (a) On or prior to the Filing Date, the The Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement (the “Automatic Registration Statement”) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Company shall use its best efforts to file the Automatic Registration Statement on or prior to the Filing Date. The Automatic Registration Statement required hereunder shall be on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (or any successor forms thereto)S-3, as applicable. , and shall contain substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event not later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep the Automatic Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (i) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold thereunder or may be sold without volume or other restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 or (ii) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement may be sold by non-affiliates of the Company without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under the Securities Act Rule 144(c), as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed addressed, delivered and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Investor (the “Effectiveness Period”). The maximum amount of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Automatic Registration Statement at any one time shall be limited by Rule 415 as required by the Commission. In the event that there is a limitation by the Commission on the number of Registrable Securities that may be included for registration at one time, the Company shall promptly so advise the Investor Investors and use its reasonable best efforts to file an additional Automatic Registration Statement covering such ineligible Registrable Securities, on a pro-rata basis, within 30 days of the date such securities become eligible and cause such Automatic Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable. Any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities shall be deducted from the Conversion Shares.
(b) At any time after Notwithstanding anything to the Automatic Registration Statement has become effectivecontrary set forth herein, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Investor, suspend the use of any such Automatic Registration Statement if, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the use of the Automatic Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities would be detrimental to the Company or its stockholders at such time and the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders to suspend the use of such Automatic Registration Statement at such time. The Company shall have the right to suspend such Automatic delay the filing of the Registration Statement for a period not in excess of not 60 consecutive days and no more than thirty (30) 90 days in any consecutive days from the date the Company notifies the Investor of such suspension, with such suspension not exceed an aggregate of seventy-five (75) days (whether or not consecutive) during any 12-month period. period (a “Delay Period”), if the Company is pursuing a public offering of securities and the underwriter recommends a Delay Period.
(c) In the case of an event that causes the suspension Company to suspend the use of any effective Automatic a Registration StatementStatement (a “Suspension Event”), the Investor, immediately upon receipt Company shall give written notice (a “Suspension Notice”) to the Investors to suspend sales of the Registrable Securities included in the Registration Statement and such notice thereof from shall continue only for so long as the Company, will discontinue Suspension Event or its effect is continuing. No Investor shall effect any sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement until advised in writing (or such filings) at any time after it has received a Suspension Notice from the Company and prior to receipt of an End of Suspension Notice (as defined below) with respect to such Registration Statement. The Investors may recommence effecting sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement (or such filings) following further notice to such effect (an “End of Suspension Notice”) from the Company, which End of Suspension Notice shall be given by the Company that to the use Investors in the manner described above promptly following the conclusion of such any Suspension Event and its effect.
(d) If: (i) the Automatic Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Automatic Registration Statement without affording the holders of Registrable Securities the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 5(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)); or (ii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date (unless the reason for such non-registration of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities is as a result of SEC Guidance under Rule 415 or similar rule which limits the number of Registrable Securities which may be resumedincluded in a registration statement with respect to the holders); or (iii) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Investors are otherwise not permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clauses (i) and (ii), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (iii) the date which such ten (10) or fifteen (15) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as an “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Investors may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Investor an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to an Investor under this Agreement shall be 6% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Investor pursuant to the Subscription Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Investors, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payments shall be owed (i) to any affiliate of the Company, (ii) with respect to any period during which all of the holder’s Registrable Shares may be sold by such holder under Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144(c), or (iii) in circumstances described in Section 3(c).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pershing Gold Corp.)