Common use of Demand Registration Right Clause in Contracts

Demand Registration Right. (a) From and after the date of an IPO, at any time the Company does not qualify for the use of Form S-3 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor form to Form S-3, or any similar short-form Registration Statement), (i) each Holder or group of Holders of Registrable Securities, which collectively hold (together with their Affiliates) Registrable Securities that constitute, in the aggregate, at least fifteen percent (15%) of the outstanding Issuer Units (collectively, the “Initiating Demand Holders”), may make a written request (specifying the intended method of disposition, such as an underwritten offering or a block trade, and the amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold) that the Company effect, and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect, a registration of its Issuer Units under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) of all or any requested portion of the Registrable Securities collectively held by such Holders (subject to SECTION 2.4(a)); provided that the Company shall not be obligated to effect such registration until after the expiration of any lock-up agreements entered into by the Initiating Demand Holders in connection with the IPO or (ii) the Board of Directors may determine to commence a registration of Registrable Securities held by Holders under the Securities Act (a “Company Initiated Resale Registration”), and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect a registration of Registrable Securities for all Holders that exercise piggyback registration rights under SECTION 2.2 (subject to SECTION 2.4(a)). (b) If (x) the Board of Directors, in its good faith judgment, determines that any registration of the Registrable Securities pursuant to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration should not be made or continued because it would materially interfere with any material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction involving the Company and/or (y) the Company, based on the advice of counsel, is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice, the Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company (each of clauses (x) and (y), a “Valid Business Reason”), the Company may (i) postpone filing a Registration Statement relating to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration until such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than ninety (90) days, and (ii) in case a Registration Statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company, upon the approval of a majority of the Board of Directors, acting in good faith, (x) may cause such Registration Statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated; provided, however, that a new Registration Statement is filed within ninety (90) days thereafter, or (y) may postpone amending or supplementing such Registration Statement, but in no event for more than ninety (90) days; provided, however, that if the registration of Registrable Securities is postponed or withdrawn pursuant to this SECTION 2.1(b), the Company shall not be permitted to register under the Securities Act any Issuer Units, other than Issuer Units or other equity securities to be issued in connection with an acquisition, during any such postponement or during the period from such withdrawal to the filing of such new Registration Statement. The Company shall give written notice of its determination to postpone or withdraw a Registration Statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement or withdrawal no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company may not postpone or withdraw a filing or filings under this SECTION 2.1 (i) more than twice in any twelve (12) month period (except that the Company shall be able to use this right more than twice in any twelve (12) month period if the Company is exercising such right during the fifteen (15) day period prior to the Company’s regularly scheduled quarterly earnings announcement date and the total number of days of postponement in such twelve (12) month period does not exceed one hundred and five (105) days), or (ii) except as contemplated in the parenthetical in (i) immediately above, for more than ninety (90) days, in the aggregate for all such postponements or withdrawals, in any twelve (12) month period. For the avoidance of doubt, any postponement or withdrawal of a Registration Statement for a Demand Registration shall result in the related registration of Registrable Securities not constituting a Demand Registration for purposes of SECTION 2.3 hereof. (c) At the request of the Initiating Demand Holders, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause a Demand Registration to be in the form of a firm commitment underwritten offering; provided that the aggregate offering price of the Issuer Units to be sold by the Holders in the applicable offering (before deduction of underwriter discounts and commissions) is reasonably expected to exceed, in the aggregate, $50.0 million. The managing underwriter or underwriter selected for such offering shall be selected by the Initiating Demand Holders (the “IM Underwriter”), which must be reasonably acceptable to the Company; provided that the Initiating Demand Holders may delegate their rights under this sentence to the Board of Directors. In connection with any Demand Registration under this SECTION 2.1 involving an underwritten offering, none of the Registrable Securities held by an Initiating Demand Holder making a request for inclusion of such Registrable Securities shall be included in such underwritten offering unless such Initiating Demand Holder accepts the terms of the offering as agreed upon by the Company and the IM Underwriter, such terms to be in an underwriting agreement in customary form; provided, that the obligation of such Person to indemnify pursuant to any such underwriting arrangements shall be several, not joint and several, among such Persons selling Registrable Securities, and the liability of each such Person will be in proportion thereto, and provided, further, that such liability will be limited to the net proceeds received by such Person from the sale of his, her or its Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration. In the event that any Company Initiated Resale Registration is in the form of a firm commitment underwritten offering, the managing underwriter or underwriter selected for such offering shall be selected by the Company (such managing underwriter or underwriter, or any other managing underwriter or underwriter selected by the Company pursuant to SECTION 2.2(b), the “Company Underwriter”).

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Sixth Street Partners Management Company, L.P.), Registration Rights Agreement (HG Vora Capital Management, LLC)

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Demand Registration Right. (a) From and after Upon the date written request of an IPO, Holders of at any time least 25% of the Registrable Securities that the Company does not qualify for effect the use registration with the SEC under and in accordance with the provisions of Form S-3 promulgated under the Securities Act of all or part of such Holder's or Holders' Registrable Securities and specifying the aggregate number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be registered and the name or names of the proposed managing underwriter or underwriters (or any successor form to Form S-3, or any similar short-form Registration Statement), (i) each Holder or group of Holders of Registrable Securities, which collectively hold (together with their Affiliates) Registrable Securities that constitute, in the aggregatecase of a Designated Shelf Registration, at least fifteen percent (15%) of the outstanding Issuer Units (collectively, the “Initiating Demand Holders”), may make a written request (specifying the intended method of dispositiondistribution and the name or names of any managing underwriters or agents), the Company will use all commercially reasonable efforts to file a Registration Statement covering such as Holder's or Holders' Registrable Securities requested to be registered within 20 Business Days after receipt of such request for disposition pursuant to an underwritten offering (or, in the case of a Designated Shelf Registration, the intended method of distribution) (the terms of such underwritten offering or a block trade, and the amount of Registrable Securities proposed other distribution to be sold) that determined by the Company effect, and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect, Holders of a registration of its Issuer Units under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) of all or any requested portion majority of the Registrable Securities collectively held by such Holders (subject so requested to SECTION 2.4(a)be registered); provided PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Company shall not be obligated required to effect take any action pursuant to this Section 4: (1) if prior to the date of such registration until after request the expiration of any lock-up agreements entered into by Company shall have effected three (3) registrations pursuant to this Section 4; (2) if the Initiating Demand Holders in connection with the IPO or (ii) the Board of Directors may determine to commence Company has effected a registration (other than a Designated Shelf Registration) pursuant to this Section 4 within the 120-day period immediately preceding such request which permitted Holders of Registrable Securities held to register Registrable Securities; (3) if the Company shall at the time have effective a Shelf Registration pursuant to which the Holder or Holders that requested registration could effect the disposition of such Holder's or Holders' Registrable Securities in the manner requested; (4) if the Registrable Securities which the Company shall have been requested to register shall have a then current market value of less than $50,000,000, unless such registration request is for all remaining Registrable Securities; or (5) during the pendency of any Blackout Period; PROVIDED FURTHER, HOWEVER, that the Company shall be permitted to satisfy its obligations under this Section 4(a) by Holders amending (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any registration statement (including any Shelf Registration) previously filed by the Company under the Securities Act so that such registration statement (as amended) shall permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods of disposition specified as aforesaid) of all of the Registrable Securities for which a “Company Initiated Resale Registration”demand for registration has been made under this Section 4(a), and . If the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts so amend a previously filed registration statement, it shall be deemed to effect have effected a registration for purposes of Registrable Securities for all Holders that exercise piggyback registration rights under SECTION 2.2 (subject to SECTION 2.4(a))this Section 4. (b) If (x) the Board The holders of Directors, a majority in its good faith judgment, determines that any registration number of the Registrable Securities shall be entitled to specify in a request that one registration that is effected pursuant to this Section 4 shall be for a Demand Shelf Registration or (a Company Initiated Resale "Designated Shelf Registration"). Subject to any Blackout Period, a Designated Shelf Registration should not shall be made or continued because it would materially interfere with any material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction involving available for sales of Registrable Securities during the Company and/or (y) 15 Business Day period beginning on the third Business Day after the Company, based on the advice 's public announcement of counsel, is in possession of material nonits quarterly or year-public information, the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice, the Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company end financial results (each a "Sale Period"); PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that dispositions pursuant to this Section 4(b), together with all other sales made in accordance with the volume and manner of clauses (xsale limitations of rule 144(e) and (yf) under the Securities Act within the same three month period, shall not exceed 1% of the outstanding shares of TWX Common Stock as reported on the Company's most recent Form 10-K or 10-Q, as applicable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Blackout Period or a suspension by the Company of the use by the Holders of the Designated Shelf Registration or any related Prospectus pursuant to Section 7(e), a “Valid Business Reason”), the Company may (i) postpone filing a Registration Statement relating to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration until such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for eliminates more than ninety seven Business Days in any Sale Period, then (90) days, i)the length of the next Sale Period shall be thirty Business Days and (ii) the volume restriction specified in case a Registration Statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company, upon the approval of a majority preceding sentence shall be 2% of the Board outstanding shares of Directors, acting in good faith, (x) may cause TWX Common Stock for the three month period which includes such Registration Statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated; provided, however, that a new Registration Statement is filed within ninety (90) days thereafter, or (y) may postpone amending or supplementing such Registration Statement, but in no event for more than ninety (90) days; provided, however, that if extended Sale Period. Notwithstanding the registration provisions of Registrable Securities is postponed or withdrawn pursuant to this SECTION 2.1(bSection 7(b), the Company shall not be permitted required to register maintain the effectiveness of the Designated Shelf Registration for at least 36 calendar months (which period shall be extended if necessary to cover any and all extended Sale Periods provided for under the immediately preceding sentence), or, if earlier, until all Registrable Securities Act any Issuer Units, other than Issuer Units or other equity securities covered thereby have ceased to be issued in connection with an acquisition, during any such postponement or during the period from such withdrawal to the filing of such new Registration Statement. The Company shall give written notice of its determination to postpone or withdraw a Registration Statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement or withdrawal no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company may not postpone or withdraw a filing or filings under this SECTION 2.1 (i) more than twice in any twelve (12) month period (except that the Company shall be able to use this right more than twice in any twelve (12) month period if the Company is exercising such right during the fifteen (15) day period prior to the Company’s regularly scheduled quarterly earnings announcement date and the total number of days of postponement in such twelve (12) month period does not exceed one hundred and five (105) days), or (ii) except as contemplated in the parenthetical in (i) immediately above, for more than ninety (90) days, in the aggregate for all such postponements or withdrawals, in any twelve (12) month period. For the avoidance of doubt, any postponement or withdrawal of a Registration Statement for a Demand Registration shall result in the related registration of Registrable Securities not constituting a Demand Registration for purposes of SECTION 2.3 hereofSecurities. (c) At the request of the Initiating Demand Holders, the Company A registration requested pursuant to this Section 4 shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause a Demand Registration not be deemed to be effected for purposes of this Section 4 if it has not been declared effective by the SEC or become effective in accordance with the form Securities Act and the rules and regulations thereunder. (d) Holders of a firm commitment underwritten offering; provided that the aggregate offering price of the Issuer Units to be sold by the Holders majority in the applicable offering (before deduction of underwriter discounts and commissions) is reasonably expected to exceed, in the aggregate, $50.0 million. The managing underwriter or underwriter selected for such offering shall be selected by the Initiating Demand Holders (the “IM Underwriter”), which must be reasonably acceptable to the Company; provided that the Initiating Demand Holders may delegate their rights under this sentence to the Board of Directors. In connection with any Demand Registration under this SECTION 2.1 involving an underwritten offering, none number of the Registrable Securities held by an Initiating Demand Holder making a request for inclusion of such Registrable Securities shall to be included in such underwritten offering unless such Initiating Demand Holder accepts a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 4 may, at any time prior to the terms effective date of the offering as agreed upon by the Company and the IM Underwriter, such terms to be in an underwriting agreement in customary form; provided, that the obligation of such Person to indemnify pursuant to any such underwriting arrangements shall be several, not joint and several, among such Persons selling Registrable Securities, and the liability of each such Person will be in proportion thereto, and provided, further, that such liability will be limited to the net proceeds received by such Person from the sale of his, her or its Registrable Securities pursuant Registration Statement relating to such registration, revoke such request by providing a written notice to the Company revoking such request. In The Holders of Registrable Securities who revoke such request shall reimburse the event that any Company Initiated Resale Registration is for all its out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the form preparation, filing and processing of the Registration Statement; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, if such revocation was based on (x) the Company's failure to comply in all material respects with its obligations hereunder or (y) the occurrence of a firm commitment underwritten offeringBlackout Period, such reimbursement shall not be required and the managing underwriter or underwriter selected remaining provisions of this Section 4(d) shall not apply. If such reimbursement is made within 10 Business Days following a request therefor, such registration shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 4. If such offering reimbursement is not so received within such time (i) such registration shall be selected by deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 4 and (ii) the Company (shall have no further obligations to such managing underwriter or underwriter, or any other managing underwriter or underwriter selected by the Company Holders with respect to piggyback registrations pursuant to SECTION 2.2(b), Section 3 or demand registrations pursuant to this Section 4 until such reimbursement is made. (e) The Company will not include any securities which are not Registrable Securities in any Registration Statement filed pursuant to a demand made under this Section 4 without the “Company Underwriter”)prior written consent of the Holders of a majority in number of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Time Warner Inc), Restructuring Agreement (Time Warner Inc)

Demand Registration Right. (a) From and after the date of an IPO, at any time the Company does not qualify for the use of Form S-3 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor form to Form S-3S- 3, or any similar short-form Registration Statement), (i) each Holder or group of Holders of Registrable Securities, which collectively hold (together with their Affiliates) Registrable Securities that constitute, in the aggregate, at least fifteen ten percent (1510%) of the outstanding Issuer Units Common Stock (collectively, the “Initiating Demand Holders”), may make a written request (specifying the intended method of disposition, such as an underwritten offering or a block trade, and the amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold) that the Company effect, and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect, a registration of its Issuer Units Common Stock under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) of all or any requested portion of the Registrable Securities collectively held by such Holders (subject to SECTION 2.4(a)); , provided that the Company shall not be obligated to effect such registration until after the expiration of any lock-up agreements entered into by the Initiating Demand Holders in connection with the IPO or (ii) the Board of Directors may determine to commence a registration of Registrable Securities held by Holders under the Securities Act (a “Company Initiated Resale Registration”), and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect a registration of Registrable Securities for all Holders that exercise piggyback registration rights under SECTION 2.2 (subject to SECTION 2.4(a)). (b) If (x) the Board of Directors, in its good faith judgment, determines that any registration of the Registrable Securities pursuant to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration should not be made or continued because it would materially interfere with any material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction involving the Company and/or (y) the Company, based on the advice of counsel, is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice, the Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company (each of clauses (x) and (y), a “Valid Business Reason”), the Company may (i) postpone filing a Registration Statement relating to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration until such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than ninety (90) days, and (ii) in case a Registration Statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company, upon the approval of a majority of the Board of Directors, acting in good faith, (x) may cause such Registration Statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated; , provided, however, that a new Registration Statement is filed within ninety (90) days thereafter, or (y) may postpone amending or supplementing such Registration Statement, but in no event for more than ninety (90) days; provided, however, that if the registration of Registrable Securities is postponed or withdrawn pursuant to this SECTION 2.1(b), the Company shall not be permitted to register under the Securities Act any Issuer UnitsCommon Stock, other than Issuer Units Common Stock or other equity securities to be issued in connection with an acquisition, during any such postponement or during the period from such withdrawal to the filing of such new Registration Statement. The Company shall give written notice of its determination to postpone or withdraw a Registration Statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement or withdrawal no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company may not postpone or withdraw a filing or filings under this SECTION 2.1 (i) more than twice in any twelve (12) month period (except that the Company shall be able to use this right more than twice in any twelve (12) month period if the Company is exercising such right during the fifteen (15) day period prior to the Company’s regularly scheduled quarterly earnings announcement date and the total number of days of postponement in such twelve (12) month period does not exceed one hundred and five (105) days), or (ii) except as contemplated in the parenthetical in (i) immediately above, for more than ninety (90) days, in the aggregate for all such postponements or withdrawals, in any twelve (12) month period. For the avoidance of doubt, any postponement or withdrawal of a Registration Statement for a Demand Registration shall result in the related registration of Registrable Securities not constituting a Demand Registration for purposes of SECTION 2.3 hereof. (c) At the request of the Initiating Demand Holders, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause a Demand Registration to be in the form of a firm commitment underwritten offering; provided that the aggregate offering price of the Issuer Units to be sold by the Holders in the applicable offering (before deduction of underwriter discounts and commissions) is reasonably expected to exceed, in the aggregate, $50.0 million. The managing underwriter or underwriter selected for such offering shall be selected by the Initiating Demand Holders (the “IM Underwriter”), which must be reasonably acceptable to the Company; provided that the Initiating Demand Holders may delegate their rights under this sentence to the Board of Directors. In connection with any Demand Registration under this SECTION 2.1 involving an underwritten offering, none of the Registrable Securities held by an Initiating Demand Holder making a request for inclusion of such Registrable Securities shall be included in such underwritten offering unless such Initiating Demand Holder accepts the terms of the offering as agreed upon by the Company and the IM Underwriter, such terms to be in an underwriting agreement in customary form; provided, that the obligation of such Person to indemnify pursuant to any such underwriting arrangements shall be several, not joint and several, among such Persons selling Registrable Securities, and the liability of each such Person will be in proportion thereto, and provided, further, that such liability will be limited to the net proceeds received by such Person from the sale of his, her or its Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration. In the event that any Company Initiated Resale Registration is in the form of a firm commitment underwritten offering, the managing underwriter or underwriter selected for such offering shall be selected by the Company (such managing underwriter or underwriter, or any other managing underwriter or underwriter selected by the Company pursuant to SECTION 2.2(b), the “Company Underwriter”).twelve

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement

Demand Registration Right. (a) From and after the date of an IPO, at any time the Company does not qualify for the use of Form S-3 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor form to Form S-3, or any similar short-form Registration Statement), (i) each Holder or group of Holders of Registrable Securities, which collectively hold (together with their Affiliates) Registrable Securities that constitute, in the aggregate, at least fifteen percent (15%) of the outstanding Issuer Units (collectively, the “Initiating Demand Holders”), may make a written request (specifying the intended method of disposition, such as an underwritten offering or a block trade, and the amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold) that the Company effect, and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect, a registration of its Issuer Units under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) of all or any requested portion of the Registrable Securities collectively held by such Holders (subject to SECTION 2.4(a)); provided that the Company shall not be obligated to effect such registration until after the expiration of any lock-up agreements entered into by the Initiating Demand Holders in connection with the IPO or (ii) the Board of Directors may determine to commence a registration of Registrable Securities held by Holders under the Securities Act (a “Company Initiated Resale Registration”), and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect a registration of Registrable Securities for all Holders that exercise piggyback registration rights under SECTION 2.2 (subject to SECTION 2.4(a)). (b) If (x) after the Board of Directors, in its good faith judgment, determines that any registration of eighteen month ------------------------- period starting on the Registrable Securities pursuant to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration should not be made or continued because it would materially interfere with any material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction involving Closing Date the Company and/or has not yet registered any of its securities under the Securities Act or (y) the Company, based on the advice of counsel, is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice, the Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company (each of clauses (x) and (y), a “Valid Business Reason”), the Company may (i) postpone filing a Registration Statement relating to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration until such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than ninety (90) days, and (ii) in case a Registration Statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company, upon the approval of a majority of the Board of Directors, acting in good faith, (x) may cause such Registration Statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated; provided, however, that a new Registration Statement is filed within ninety (90) days thereafter, or (y) may postpone amending or supplementing such Registration Statement, but in no event for more than ninety (90) days; provided, however, that if the registration of Registrable Securities is postponed or withdrawn pursuant to this SECTION 2.1(b), the Company shall not be permitted to register registered securities under the Securities Act any Issuer Units, on two separate occasions (other than Issuer Units or other equity securities to be issued in connection with an acquisitiona merger or pursuant to Form X-0, during X-0 or comparable registration statement) and, on either occasion, Holders of Shares notified the Company of their desire to include such Shares in such proposed registration pursuant to Section 2 hereof but were unable to do so because, in accordance with Section --------- ------- 2(c) hereof, the representative of the underwriters advised the Company that the ---- number of Shares and other securities requested to be included exceeded the number that could be sold in such prior registered Underwritten Offerings, then on any such postponement one occasion, if the Holders of greater than 50% of the Registrable Shares request in writing that the Company register all or during part of the period from such withdrawal to Registrable Shares, representing more than 50% of the filing of such new Registration Statement. The Registrable Shares then outstanding, the Company shall will: (1) promptly give written notice of the proposed registration to all other Holders; (2) prepare and use its determination best efforts to postpone or withdraw file with the Commission within 60 days of receipt of the demand therefor a Registration Statement and such other documents including a Prospectus and shall use its best effort to effect such registration (including, without limitation, filing any appropriate pre- effective or post-effective amendments, appropriate qualifications under applicable blue sky or other sate securities laws as may be necessary in the opinion of both counsel for the Company and counsel for the Holders, in order to comply with the Securities Act) at the earliest possible time so as to permit or facilitate the sale and distribution of all or such portion of the fact that Registrable Shares as are specified in such request, together with all or such portion of the Valid Business Reason for Registrable Shares of any Holder or Holders joining in such postponement or withdrawal no longer exists, request as are specified in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, a written request received by the Company may not postpone or withdraw a filing or filings under this SECTION 2.1 (i) more than twice in any twelve (12) month period (except that the Company shall be able to use this right more than twice in any twelve (12) month period if within 20 days after written notice from the Company is exercising such right during effective. Any request for registration under this Section 3 shall specify the fifteen (15) day period prior to the Company’s regularly scheduled quarterly earnings announcement date and the total number of days of postponement in such twelve (12) month period does not exceed one hundred and five (105) days), or (ii) except as contemplated in the parenthetical in (i) immediately above, for more than ninety (90) days, in the aggregate for all such postponements or withdrawals, in any twelve (12) month period. For the avoidance of doubt, any postponement or withdrawal of a Registration Statement for a Demand Registration shall result in the related registration amount --------- of Registrable Securities not constituting a Demand Registration for purposes of SECTION 2.3 hereof. (c) At the request of the Initiating Demand Holders, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause a Demand Registration Shares proposed to be in the form of a firm commitment underwritten offering; provided that the aggregate offering price of the Issuer Units to be sold by the Holders in the applicable offering (before deduction of underwriter discounts and commissions) is reasonably expected to exceed, in the aggregate, $50.0 million. The managing underwriter or underwriter selected for such offering shall be selected by the Initiating Demand Holders (the “IM Underwriter”), which must be reasonably acceptable to the Company; provided that the Initiating Demand Holders may delegate their rights under this sentence to the Board of Directors. In connection with any Demand Registration under this SECTION 2.1 involving an underwritten offering, none of the Registrable Securities held by an Initiating Demand Holder making a request for inclusion of such Registrable Securities shall be included in such underwritten offering unless such Initiating Demand Holder accepts the terms of the offering as agreed upon by the Company and the IM Underwriter, such terms to be in an underwriting agreement in customary form; provided, that the obligation of such Person to indemnify pursuant to any such underwriting arrangements shall be several, not joint and several, among such Persons selling Registrable Securities, and the liability of each such Person will be in proportion thereto, and provided, further, that such liability will be limited to the net proceeds received by such Person from the sale of his, her or its Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration. In the event that any Company Initiated Resale Registration is in the form of a firm commitment underwritten offering, the managing underwriter or underwriter selected for such offering shall be selected by the Company (such managing underwriter or underwriter, or any other managing underwriter or underwriter selected by the Company pursuant to SECTION 2.2(b), the “Company Underwriter”)registered.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Annaly Mortgage Management Inc)

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Demand Registration Right. (a) From and after the date of an IPO, at any time the Company does not qualify for the use of Form S-3 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor form to Form S-3S--3, or any similar short-form Registration Statement), (i) each Holder or group of Holders of Registrable Securities, which collectively hold (together with their Affiliates) Registrable Securities that constitute, in the aggregate, at least fifteen percent (15%) of the outstanding Issuer Units (collectively, the “Initiating Demand Holders”), may make a written request (specifying the intended method of disposition, such as an underwritten offering or a block trade, and the amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold) that the Company effect, and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect, a registration of its Issuer Units under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) of all or any requested portion of the Registrable Securities collectively held by such Holders (subject to SECTION 2.4(a)); provided that the Company shall not be obligated to effect such registration until after the expiration of any lock-up agreements entered into by the Initiating Demand Holders in connection with the IPO or (ii) the Board of Directors may determine to commence a registration of Registrable Securities held by Holders under the Securities Act (a “Company Initiated Resale Registration”), and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect a registration of Registrable Securities for all Holders that exercise piggyback registration rights under SECTION 2.2 (subject to SECTION 2.4(a)). (b) If (x) the Board of Directors, in its good faith judgment, determines that any registration of the Registrable Securities pursuant to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration should not be made or continued because it would materially interfere with any material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction involving the Company and/or (y) the Company, based on the advice of counsel, is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice, the Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company (each of clauses (x) and (y), a “Valid Business Reason”), the Company may (i) postpone filing a Registration Statement relating to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration until such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than ninety (90) days, and (ii) in case a Registration Statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration or a Company Initiated Resale Registration, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company, upon the approval of a majority of the Board of Directors, acting in good faith, (x) may cause such Registration Statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated; provided, however, that a new Registration Statement is filed within ninety (90) days thereafter, or (y) may postpone amending or supplementing such Registration Statement, but in no event for more than ninety (90) days; provided, however, that if the registration of Registrable Securities is postponed or withdrawn pursuant to this SECTION 2.1(b), the Company shall not be permitted to register under the Securities Act any Issuer Units, other than Issuer Units or other equity securities to be issued in connection with an acquisition, during any such postponement or during the period from such withdrawal to the filing of such new Registration Statement. The Company shall give written notice of its determination to postpone or withdraw a Registration Statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement or withdrawal no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company may not postpone or withdraw a filing or filings under this SECTION 2.1 (i) more than twice in any twelve (12) month period (except that the Company shall be able to use this right more than twice in any twelve (12) month period if the Company is exercising such right during the fifteen (15) day period prior to the Company’s regularly scheduled quarterly earnings announcement date and the total number of days of postponement in such twelve (12) month period does not exceed one hundred and five (105) days), or (ii) except as contemplated in the parenthetical in (i) immediately above, for more than ninety (90) days, in the aggregate for all such postponements or withdrawals, in any twelve (12) month period. For the avoidance of doubt, any postponement or withdrawal of a Registration Statement for a Demand Registration shall result in the related registration of Registrable Securities not constituting a Demand Registration for purposes of SECTION 2.3 hereof. (c) At the request of the Initiating Demand Holders, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause a Demand Registration to be in the form of a firm commitment underwritten offering; provided that the aggregate offering price of the Issuer Units to be sold by the Holders in the applicable offering (before deduction of underwriter discounts and commissions) is reasonably expected to exceed, in the aggregate, $50.0 million. The managing underwriter or underwriter selected for such offering shall be selected by the Initiating Demand Holders (the “IM Underwriter”), which must be reasonably acceptable to the Company; provided that the Initiating Demand Holders may delegate their rights under this sentence to the Board of Directors. In connection with any Demand Registration under this SECTION 2.1 involving an underwritten offering, none of the Registrable Securities held by an Initiating Demand Holder making a request for inclusion of such Registrable Securities shall be included in such underwritten offering unless such Initiating Demand Holder accepts the terms of the offering as agreed upon by the Company and the IM Underwriter, such terms to be in an underwriting agreement in customary form; provided, that the obligation of such Person to indemnify pursuant to any such underwriting arrangements shall be several, not joint and several, among such Persons selling Registrable Securities, and the liability of each such Person will be in proportion thereto, and provided, further, that such liability will be limited to the net proceeds received by such Person from the sale of his, her or its Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration. In the event that any Company Initiated Resale Registration is in the form of a firm commitment underwritten offering, the managing underwriter or underwriter selected for such offering shall be selected by the Company (such managing underwriter or underwriter, or any other managing underwriter or underwriter selected by the Company pursuant to SECTION 2.2(b), the “Company Underwriter”).

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Hudson Bay Capital Management LP)

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