Stock Transfer Restrictions UTEK acknowledges that the MTKN Shares will not be registered and UTEK will not be permitted to sell or otherwise transfer the MTKN Shares in any transaction in contravention of the following legend, which will be imprinted in substantially the following form on the stock certificate representing MTKN Shares: THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE ACT), OR UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE. THESE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF UNLESS REGISTERED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISION OF THE ACT AND THE LAWS OF SUCH STATES UNDER WHOSE LAWS A TRANSFER OF SECURITIES WOULD BE SUBJECT TO A REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT, UNLESS UTEK CORPORATION HAS OBTAINED AN OPINION OF COUNSEL STATING THAT SUCH DISPOSITION IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM SUCH REGISTRATION.
Lock-up; Transfer Restrictions (a) The Sponsor and the Insiders agree that they shall not Transfer any Founder Shares (the “Founder Shares Lock-up”) until the earliest of (A) one year after the completion of an initial Business Combination and (B) the date following the completion of an initial Business Combination on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction that results in all of the Company’s shareholders having the right to exchange their Ordinary Shares for cash, securities or other property (the “Founder Shares Lock-up Period”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, subsequent to a Business Combination, the closing price of the Ordinary Shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share sub-divisions, share capitalizations, share consolidations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within a 30-trading day period commencing at least 150 days after the Company’s initial Business Combination, the Founder Shares shall be released from the Founder Shares Lock-up.
No Other Legend or Stock Transfer Restrictions No legend other than the one specified in Section 9.1 has been or shall be placed on the share certificates representing the Registrable Securities and no instructions or "stop transfer orders," "stock transfer restrictions," or other restrictions have been or shall be given to the Company's transfer agent with respect thereto other than as expressly set forth in this Article IX.
Securities Law Transfer Restrictions By taking and holding this Warrant, the Holder (i) acknowledges that neither this Warrant nor any shares of Common Stock that may be issued upon exercise of this Warrant have been registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities or blue sky law (collectively, "Securities Laws"); (ii) agrees not to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of this Warrant, and agrees not to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any such shares of Common Stock without registration unless the sale, transfer or disposition of such shares can be effected without registration and in compliance with the Securities Laws; and (iii) agrees not to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of this Warrant or any portion thereof or interest therein except as otherwise expressly permitted herein. No part of this Warrant or any portion thereof or interest therein may be transferred, whether voluntarily, involuntarily or by operation of law, except to a Permitted Transferee as hereinafter defined. “Permitted Transferee” shall mean a transferee or assignee that (a)(i) is an entity as to which the Holder is the beneficial owner of at least a majority of the equity therein and the Holder has voting control thereover, (ii) is a member of the Holder's family or a trust for the benefit of an individual Holder or (iii) a successor by inheritance or intestate succession to any interest in this Warrant or any portion thereof and (b) accepts by written instrument reasonably acceptable to the Company each of the terms and conditions that govern this Warrant. Any certificate for shares of Common Stock issued upon exercise of this Warrant shall bear an appropriate legend describing the foregoing restrictions, unless such shares of Common Stock have been effectively registered under the applicable Securities Laws.
Transfer Restrictions If, at the time of the surrender of this Warrant in connection with any transfer of this Warrant, the transfer of this Warrant shall not be either (i) registered pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and under applicable state securities or blue sky laws or (ii) eligible for resale without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or current public information requirements pursuant to Rule 144, the Company may require, as a condition of allowing such transfer, that the Holder or transferee of this Warrant, as the case may be, comply with the provisions of Section 5.7 of the Purchase Agreement.
Transfer Restriction No Unreleased Shares or any interest or right therein or part thereof shall be liable for the debts, contracts or engagements of the Participant or his successors in interest or shall be subject to disposition by transfer, alienation, anticipation, pledge, encumbrance, assignment or any other means whether such disposition be voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law by judgment, levy, attachment, garnishment or any other legal or equitable proceedings (including bankruptcy), and any attempted disposition thereof shall be null and void and of no effect.
Minimum Transfer Restriction Any Transferring Partner must Transfer not less than the lesser of (i) five hundred (500) Partnership Units or (ii) all of the remaining Partnership Units owned by such Transferring Partner, without, in each case, the Consent of the General Partner; provided, however, that, for purposes of determining compliance with the foregoing restriction, all Partnership Units owned by Affiliates of a Limited Partner shall be considered to be owned by such Limited Partner.
Certificate Transfer Restrictions The Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in the entity (each, a "Benefit Plan"). By accepting and holding a Certificate, the Holder thereof shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan.
Transfer Restrictions; Legends Such Investor hereby acknowledges that the sale of the Securities hereunder have not been reviewed by the SEC nor any state regulatory authority since the transactions contemplated hereunder are intended to be exempt from the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act, pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506(b) of Regulation D. Such Investor understands that the Securities are “restricted securities” as such term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act and have not been registered under the Securities Act or under any state securities or “blue sky” laws and agrees not to sell, pledge, assign or otherwise transfer or dispose of the Securities unless they are registered under the Securities Act and under any applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws or unless an exemption from such registration is available. Such Investor hereby consents to the placement of a legend on any certificate or other document evidencing the Securities (including, when issued, the Warrant Shares), that such securities have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities or “blue sky” laws and setting forth or referring to the restrictions on transferability and sale thereof contained in this Agreement. Such Investor is aware that each certificate representing the Securities will be endorsed with the following legend until the earlier of (1) in the case of the Shares and Warrant Shares, such date as the Shares or Warrant Shares, as the case may be, have been registered for resale by the Investor or (2) the date the Shares, the Warrants or the Warrant Shares, as the case may be, are eligible for sale under Rule 144 under the Securities Act: THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATES. THESE SECURITIES ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFERABILITY AND RESALE AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED OR RESOLD EXCEPT AS PERMITTED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND THE APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, PURSUANT TO REGISTRATION OR EXEMPTION THEREFROM. UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, THE ISSUER OF THESE SECURITIES MAY REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER TO THE EFFECT THAT ANY PROPOSED TRANSFER OR RESALE IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
General Transfer Restrictions The right of any Holder to Transfer any Shares held by it is subject to the restrictions set forth below.