Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time. (b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. (c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c). (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Aegis Communications Group Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Questor Partners Fund Ii L P), Registration Rights Agreement (Aegis Communications Group Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of At any time during the period beginning one hundred eighty (180) days following the IPO and prior to the Distribution or, should the Separation and Distribution Agreement be terminated prior to the Distribution, at any time thereafter, CCI may submit a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Registration Request for Demand Registration") under the Securities Act Registration covering all or part of the Registrable Securities Registerable Shares, which specifies request must request registration of at least the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and Minimum Amount. The Registration Request shall state the number of shares Registerable Shares to be registeredregistered and the intended plan of distribution thereof. uBid shall be obligated to register Registerable Shares pursuant to this Section 2 on a total of only two (2) occasions. A request withdrawn pursuant to Subsection 2(c) hereof or deemed to be a Piggyback Registration pursuant to Subsection 2(d) hereof shall be ignored for this purpose. uBid shall be deemed to have satisfied its obligation under this Section 2 with respect to a Registration Request if a registration statement filed pursuant to a Registration Request becomes effective under the Act and remains effective for the period required hereby, or if the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt failure of such request a registration statement to become or remain effective results primarily from any action or inaction of CCI. Subject to the conditions and each such Holder, in lieu limitations of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and uBid will use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective file a registration statement under the Act registering the Registerable Shares covered by a Registration Request within forty-five (a "Demand 45) days after it receives such Registration Statement"Request unless such Registration Request is withdrawn as permitted by Subsection 2(c) relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timehereof.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a The right to Demand Registration relating is subject to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth procedures in Section 14 below 4 hereof and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company following additional conditions and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.limitations:
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by CCI may withdraw the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, Registerable Shares from a Registration Request at any time prior to the filing time the registration statement becomes effective, provided that uBid may ignore a notice of withdrawal made within 24 hours of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that time the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).becomes
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Ubid Inc), Separation and Distribution Agreement (Ubid Inc), Separation and Distribution Agreement (Ubid Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Subject to the provisions of Section 5.2(d) and Section 5.2(e), if at any time after the earlier of four years after the Initial Closing (as defined in the Series E Stock Purchase Agreement) or 180 days after the date the Company first consummates a Public Offering on Form S-1 or Form SB-2, or any successor forms, the Company shall receive a written request therefor from one the record holder or holders of an aggregate of more New Holders requesting that than 33% of the Registrable Securities (the “Initiating Holders”), the Company effect shall prepare and file a registration (a "Demand Registration") statement under the Securities Act covering all or part such number of the Registrable Securities which specifies as are the intended method or methods subject of disposition thereof such request, provided that such Registrable Securities have an anticipated net aggregate offering price in excess of five million dollars ($5,000,000), and shall use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective. Upon the number receipt of shares to be registereda registration request meeting the requirements of this Section 5.2(a), the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by give written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number other record holders of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects registration is to be effected. The Company shall include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, registration statement such additional Registrable Securities as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than such other record holders request within thirty (30) days after the date of the Company’s written notice to them. If (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 belowi) after receipt the holders of a written request majority of the Registrable Securities for which registration has been requested pursuant to this Section 5.2(a) and the holders of a Demand Registration, file with majority of the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that held by the Company Initiating Holders determine for any reason not to proceed with the registration at any time before the related registration statement has been so requested to register declared effective by the Commission, (ii) such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for saleregistration statement, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance if theretofore filed with the intended method or methods thereofCommission, as aforesaidis withdrawn and (iii) the holders of the Registrable Securities so registeredsubject to such registration statement agree to bear their own Registration Expenses incurred in connection therewith and to reimburse the Company for the Registration Expenses incurred by it in such connection or if such registration statement, if theretofore filed with the Commission, is withdrawn at the initiative of the Company, then the holders of the Registrable Securities shall not be deemed to have exercised one of their two demand registration rights pursuant to this Section 5.2(a); provided, however, that the aggregate value holders of Registrable Securities requesting registration shall not be required to reimburse the Company for the Registration Expenses incurred by it in connection with a registration withdrawn at the request of such holders, and the Company shall not be deemed to have prepared, filed or caused to be effective the registration within the meaning of Section 5.2(c), if the holders requesting withdrawal of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on registration do so in good faith because of material adverse information regarding the closing trading price Company of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timethey became aware after requesting registration.
(b) If At the majority-in-interest request of the Participating Demand Holders holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be registered, the method of disposition of all Registrable Securities included in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering registration under Section 5.2(a) shall be an underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such offering. The managing underwriter of any such Demand Registration advises offering shall be selected by the Company holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities for which registration has been requested and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company. If in writing thatthe good faith judgment of the managing underwriter of the Public Offering, in its opinionthe inclusion of all of the Registrable Securities the registration of which has been requested would interfere with their successful marketing, the number of securities Registrable Securities to be included in such the offering is greater than shall be reduced, pro rata, among the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability requesting holders thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested proportion to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration their respective requests for registration. Neither the Company nor any holder of securities (other than Registrable Securities) of the Company shall be allocated first, among all have the New Holders participating right to include any securities in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested registration statement to be included in filed as part of a demand registration pursuant to this Section 5.2(a) or Section 5.4 unless (i) such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to securities are of the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of same class as the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration registration (or another class of securities to be sold by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If Company for its own account), (ii) the amount holders of such a majority of the Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesto be registered consent to such inclusion in writing, (iii) if such registration is an underwritten offering, the Company may include and such other holders agree in such Demand Registration any other writing to sell their securities of on the Company same terms and other securities held by other security holders of the Company conditions as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated apply to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included being sold pursuant to the request for registration and (iv) the inclusion of such securities will not, in such Demand Registrationthe judgment of any managing underwriter of the Offering, shall not exceed interfere with the Maximum Number successful marketing of the Registrable Securities.
(c) New Holders The Company shall be entitled obligated to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant prepare, file and cause to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement be effective only two registration statements pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c5.2(a).
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may delay initiating the preparation and filing of any registration statement requested pursuant to Section 5.2(a) for a period not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) days if (i) in the good faith judgment of the Company’s Board of Directors effecting the registration would substantially interfere with any material transaction being considered at the time of receipt of the request from the Initiating Holders or (ii) a request for registration is received during the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of the filing of, and ending on a date one hundred eighty (180) days following the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration as to which holders of Registrable Securities may include Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 5.3 below, provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective and provided further that such right under subsection (i) to delay a request shall be exercised by the Company not more than once in any 12-month period.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, and without limitation as to the rights of the Company to include in a demand registration securities for sale for its own account as provided in Section 5.2(a), at any time within thirty (30) days after receiving a demand for registration, the Company may elect to effect an underwritten primary registration in lieu of the requested registration. If the Company so elects, the Company shall not be required give prompt written notice to prepare all holders of Registrable Securities of its intention to effect such a registration and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements shall afford such holders the rights contained in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or Section 5.3 with respect to “piggyback” registrations. In such event, the sale demand for registration shall be deemed to have been withdrawn without reducing the number of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statementdemand registrations remaining available under Section 5.2(c).
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Samples: Investors’ Rights Agreement (Salient Surgical Technologies, Inc.), Investors’ Rights Agreement (Salient Surgical Technologies, Inc.), Investors’ Rights Agreement (Salient Surgical Technologies, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Subject to the conditions of this Section 2.1, if the Company shall receive a written request from one or more New the Required Holders requesting (for purposes of this Section 2.1, the “Initiating Holders”) that the Company effect file a registration (a "Demand Registration") statement under the Securities Act covering all or part the registration of at least twenty percent (20%) of shares of the Common Stock issuable or issued upon conversion of the Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Stock Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredSecurities”), then the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of shall, within fifteen (15) days after the receipt thereof, give written notice of such request to all Holders, and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent subject to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date limitations of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 32.1, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but possible and in any event no later than thirty within sixty (3060) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written the request for a Demand Registrationfrom the Initiating Holders, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to under the Securities Act of all shares of Registrable Securities that the Initiating Holders requested to be registered and any additional Registrable Securities that all other Holders request to be registered, as specified by notice given by each such other Holder to the Company within twenty (20) days after the date that the written notice by the Company referred to above is given.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing obligations, if the Company furnishes to the Initiating Holders a certificate signed by the Company’s chief executive officer stating that in the good faith judgment of the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) it would be materially detrimental to the Company and its stockholders for such registration statement to either become effective or remain effective for as long as such registration statement otherwise would be required to remain effective, because such action would (i) materially interfere with a significant acquisition, corporate reorganization, or other similar transaction involving the Company; (ii) require premature disclosure of material information that the Company has been so requested a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential or (iii) render the Company unable to register by comply with requirements under the Securities Act or Exchange Act, then the Company shall have the right to defer taking action with respect to such Holders filing, and any time periods with respect to filing or effectiveness thereof shall be tolled correspondingly, for a period of not more than ninety ("Participating Demand Holders"90) for sale, to days after the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) request of the Registrable Securities so registeredInitiating Holders is given; provided, however, that the aggregate value Company may not invoke this right more than once in any twelve (12) month period; and provided, further, that the Company shall not register any securities for its own account or that of the Registrable Securities requested any other stockholder during such ninety (90) day period other than pursuant to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand a Special Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timeStatement.
(bc) If the majority-in-Initiating Holders intend to distribute the Preferred Stock Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Company as a part of their request made pursuant to this Section 2.1 or any request pursuant to Section 2.3 and the Company shall include such information in the written notice referred to in Section 2.1(a) or Section 2.3(a), as applicable. In such event, the right of any Holder to include its Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in the underwriting to the extent provided herein. All Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting shall, together with the Company as provided in Section 2.5(e), enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by a majority in interest of the Participating Demand Initiating Holders in a Demand Registration relating (which underwriter or underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a Company). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.1 or Section 2.3, if the managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof underwritten (the "Maximum Number of including Preferred Stock Registrable Securities"), ) then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities that would otherwise be underwritten pursuant hereto, and the Participating Demand Holders have requested to number of shares that may be registered thereunder only included in the underwriting shall be allocated to the extent the number Holders of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in held by all such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to Holders (including the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing HolderInitiating Holders); provided, however, that in no event may the number of shares of Preferred Stock Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders to be included in such Demand Registration underwriting and registration shall not be reduced unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company are first entirely excluded from the underwriting and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the registration. Any Registrable Securities included in excluded or withdrawn from such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders underwriting shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to withdrawn from the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)registration.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the The Company shall not be required to prepare and file effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2.1:
(i) more than prior to the earlier of (A) the third anniversary of the date hereof or (B) one hundred eighty (180) days following the effective date of the registration statement pertaining to the Initial Offering;
(ii) after the Company has effected two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month periodregistrations pursuant to this Section 2.1, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement and such registrations have been declared or ordered effective;
(iii) any Demand Registration Statement if within 90 fifteen (15) days following of receipt of a written request from the date Initiating Holders pursuant to Section 2.1(a), the Company gives notice to each of effectiveness the Initiating Holders of any other the Company’s intention to file a registration statement filed for its Initial Offering within ninety (90) days after receipt of such written request from the Initiating Holders, provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective during such period;
(iv) if the Initiating Holders propose to dispose of shares of Preferred Stock Registrable Securities that may be immediately registered on Form S-3 pursuant to a request made pursuant to Section 2.3 below; or
(v) in any other registration rights agreement to particular jurisdiction in which the Company is would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a party general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by compliance unless the Company (is already qualified to do business or subject to service of process, as applicable, in such longer period of time jurisdiction and except as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)required by the Securities Act.
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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement (Mirna Therapeutics, Inc.), Investor Rights Agreement (Mirna Therapeutics, Inc.), Investor Rights Agreement (Mirna Therapeutics, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt If at any time following completion of a written request from the Initial Public Offering, subject to the terms of any “lock-up” agreement entered into with one or more New Holders underwriters (unless waived by such underwriter(s)), the Company shall receive a request (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) from a Shareholder or group of Shareholders (the requesting Shareholder(s) shall be referred to herein as the “Requesting Shareholder”), holding at least thirty percent (30%) of the Registrable Securities then outstanding, that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering (i) for the first Public Offering of the Company after the completion of the Initial Public Offering (the “Follow-On Offering”), at least twenty percent (20%) of the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities then outstanding (or any lesser percentage if the anticipated aggregate offering price, net of underwriting discounts and commissions, would exceed $10,000,000), or (ii) after the completion of the Follow-On Offering, all or part any portion of the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities which specifies and, in each case, specifying the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredthereof, then the Company shall as promptly notify all Holders in writing as practicable following the date of receipt by the Company of such request give notice of such Demand Registration at least fifteen (10) days after receipt of such request Demand Registration to the other Shareholders, if any, and each such Holderthereupon shall (i) as soon as practicable, and in any event within forty five (45) days after the date the Demand Registration is given by the Requesting Shareholder, file a registration statement under the Securities Act, and (ii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, and in any event within one hundred twenty (120) days after the date the Demand Registration is given by the Requesting Shareholder, the effectiveness of the registration statement, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect each case covering:
(by written notice sent i) subject to the Company within ten restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e), all Registrable Securities for which the Requesting Shareholder has requested registration under this Section 2.01, and
(10ii) Business Days from subject to the date of such Holder's receipt restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e), all other Registrable Securities of the aforementioned notice from same class as those requested to be registered by the Company) Requesting Shareholder that any other Shareholders (all such Shareholders, together with the Requesting Shareholder, the “Registering Shareholders”), if any, have requested the Company to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof register pursuant to this Section 32.01, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, by request received by the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) within seven Business Days after receipt such Shareholders receive the Company’s notice of a written request for a the Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) registered, provided that, the Company shall not be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand obligated to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in effect a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that unless the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities aggregate proceeds expected to be included in such offering is greater than received from the total number sale of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holderequals or exceeds $10,000,000. In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than two (2) Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.01.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the seven-Business Day period referred to in Section 2.01(a)(ii), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the identities of the other Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in therein. At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration registration, the Requesting Shareholder may revoke such request, without liability, by each Existing Holder); providedproviding a notice to the Company revoking such request. Notwithstanding clause (d) below, howevera request, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders so revoked, shall be included in such considered to be a Demand Registration unless all (i) such revocation arose out of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities fault of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of (in which case the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or shall be obligated to allow, pay all Registration Expenses in an amount, which together connection with such revoked request) or (ii) the Registrable Securities included in Requesting Shareholder reimburses the Company for all Registration Expenses (other than the expenses set forth under clause (v) of the definition of the term Registration Expenses) of such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesrevoked request.
(c) New Holders The Company shall be entitled liable for and shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected, unless the Requesting Shareholder elects to an aggregate pay such Registration Expenses as described in the last sentence of four Section 2.01(b).
(4d) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "A Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) occurred unless the registration statement relating thereto (i) it has been declared become effective by under the SEC, Securities Act and (ii) it has remained effective for the a period set forth of at least 180 days (or such shorter period in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of which all Registrable Securities of the Registering Shareholders included in such registration have notactually been sold thereunder), prior to the filing of the relevant provided that a Demand Registration Statementshall not be deemed to have occurred if, withdrawn sufficient shares from after such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3statement becomes effective, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement is not subject to interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order governmental agency or requirement court.
(e) If the Requesting Shareholder intends to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the SEC prompted by act or omission Company as part of Holders of Registrable Securities); providedtheir request pursuant to section 2.01, however, that if and the New Holders participating Company shall include such information in such their notice to the other Shareholders. If a Demand Registration are not able to register involves an underwritten Public Offering and sell at least two-thirds the managing underwriter advises the Company and the Requesting Shareholder that, in its view, the number of the New shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registrationsuch registration (including any securities that the Company proposes to be included that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the largest number of shares that can be sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, then including the price at which such Demand Registration shares can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size”), the Company shall include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by all Registering Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not be counted as one to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Shareholders on the basis of the five Demands relative number of Registrable Securities held by each such Shareholder, or in such other proportion as shall mutually be agreed to by all such Registering Shareholders); and
(ii) second, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company (including for Registration provided for the benefit of any other Persons not party to this Agreement).
(f) The Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 3(c2.01 on two occasions during any period of twelve consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days in the aggregate in any period of twelve consecutive months (which period may not be extended or renewed).
(d) Notwithstanding anything , if the Company furnishes to the contrary contained hereinRequesting Shareholder a certificate signed by the Company’s chief executive officer stating that (i) effecting the registration would materially and adversely interfere with a significant acquisition, corporate reorganization, or other similar transaction involving the Company or (ii) effecting the registration would require the premature disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose to preserve as confidential. In addition, the Company shall not be required obligated to prepare and file effect, or to take any action to effect, any registration pursuant to Section 2.01 during the period that is thirty (i30) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following before the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of effectiveness of filing of, and ending on a date that is ninety (90) days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration on Form S-8 or any other Registration Statement successor or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which similar forms), provided that the Company is a party or with respect actively employing in good faith commercially reasonable efforts to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to cause such registration statement)statement to become effective.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (Sol-Gel Technologies Ltd.), Registration Rights Agreement (Sol-Gel Technologies Ltd.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt the earlier of (i) five (5) years after the date of the Prior Agreement or (ii) six (6) months after the effective date of a Qualifying IPO, if the Company receives a written request from one or more New the Holders requesting of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities then- outstanding that the Company effect file a registration (a "Demand Registration") statement under the Securities Act covering (provided that the anticipated aggregate offering price would exceed $5,000,000), then the Company shall:
(i) within thirty (30) days of the receipt thereof, give written notice of such request to all or part Holders; and
(ii) use its best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable after receipt of such request, the registration under the Securities Act of that number of Registrable Securities which the Holders requested to be registered, subject to the limitations of Section 1.2(b), within thirty (30) days of the mailing of such notice by the Company.
(b) If the Holders initiating the registration request hereunder (the “Initiating Holders”) intend to distribute the Registrable Securities which specifies covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Company as a part of their request made pursuant to Section 1.2(a) and the Company shall include such information in the written notice referred to in Section 1.2(a). In such event, the right of any Holder to include its Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in the underwriting (unless otherwise mutually agreed by a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders and such Holder) to the extent provided herein. All Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting shall (together with the Company as provided in Section 1.5(f)) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting; provided, however, that no Holder (or any of their assignees) shall be required to make any representations, warranties or indemnities except as they relate to such Holder’s ownership of shares and authority to enter into the underwriting agreement and to such Holder’s intended method or methods of disposition thereof distribution, and the liability of such Holder shall be limited to an amount equal to the net proceeds from the offering received by such Holder. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 1.2, if the underwriter advises the Initiating Holders in writing that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of shares to be registeredunderwritten, then the Company Initiating Holders shall promptly notify so advise all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof which would otherwise be underwritten pursuant to this Section 3hereto, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that may be included in the underwriting shall be allocated among all Holders thereof, including the Initiating Holders, in proportion (as nearly as practicable) to the amount of Registrable Securities of the Company has been so requested to register owned by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredeach Holder; provided, however, that the aggregate value number of the shares of Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can underwriting shall not be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration reduced unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of are first entirely excluded from the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesunderwriting.
(c) New Holders The Company shall not be entitled obligated to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities effect, or to take any action to effect, any registration pursuant to this Section 3 1.2:
(each, a "Demand for Registration"i) in addition to After the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section Company has effected two (2; provided that a registration requested ) registrations pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to 1.2 and such registrations have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, or ordered effective; or
(ii) it has remained effective for If the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior Company delivers notice to the filing Initiating Holders within thirty (30) days of such Initiating Holders’ registration request that the Company intends to file the first registration statement for a public offering of securities of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Company (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect relating either to the sale of Common Stock by securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or a transaction pursuant to Rule 145 of the Securities Act (or “SEC Rule 145”)) within sixty (60) days from the date of such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)notice.
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Samples: Investors’ Rights Agreement (Aratana Therapeutics, Inc.), Investors’ Rights Agreement (Aratana Therapeutics, Inc.), Investors’ Rights Agreement (Aratana Therapeutics, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written At any time following the Closing, the Initiating Holders may request from one or more New Holders requesting in writing that the Company effect shall file a Registration Statement with respect to the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering and resale of all or part of the Registrable Shares held by them, including without limitation on Form S-1/F-1 (a “Demand Registration”). As soon as practicable and in any event within ten (10) days after receipt of any such request, the Company shall give written notice of such request to the other Holders and shall include in such registration all Registrable Shares held by all such Holders who wish to participate in such Demand Registration and provide the Company with written requests for inclusion therein within seven (7) days after the receipt of the Company’s notice. Thereupon, the Company shall use its best efforts to effect the registration of all Registrable Shares as to which it has received requests for registration for as promptly as reasonably practicable; provided, however, that: (i) the Company shall not be required to effect any registration under this Section 2.3 (A) during the period that is thirty (30) days before the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of filing of a Company-initiated registration, provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective and (B) within a period of ninety (90) days following the effective date of a previous registration filed by the Company covering a firm commitment underwritten public offering in which the holders of Registrable Shares shall have been entitled to join pursuant to Section 2.2 and in which there shall have been effectively registered all Registrable Shares as to which registration shall have been requested; and (ii) the registration shall cover the public sale of Registrable Shares with an aggregate public offering price reasonably expected to be at least the lesser of (a) US$35,000,000 and (b) all remaining Registrable Securities (other than the Sale Limited Securities) owned by the requesting Holder. The Initiating Holders may elect to withdraw from any offering pursuant to this Section 2.3 by giving written notice to the Company and the underwriter(s) of their request to withdraw prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed by the SEC with respect to such Demand Registration. If the Initiating Holders withdraw from a proposed offering relating to a Demand Registration and the Company did not elect to delay or postpone such offering pursuant to Section 2.6, then either the Initiating Holders shall reimburse the Company for the costs associated with the withdrawn Demand Registration (in which specifies case such registration shall not count as a Demand Registration provided for in this Section 2.3) or such withdrawn registration shall count as a Demand Registration provided for in this Section 2.3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.3, if the intended method managing underwriter advises the Holders in writing that marketing factors require a limitation on the dollar amount or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredunderwritten, then the number of shares to be included in such underwritten public offering shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter; provided, that the shares to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) shares held by shareholders other than the Holders, (ii) shares which the Company shall promptly notify all may wish to register for its own account, and thereafter, to the extent necessary, (iii) shares held by the Holders (other than Catalyst or the EDNCU Holder if Catalyst or the EDNCU Holder was the Initiating Holder) pro rata to the respective number of Registrable Shares requested by such Holders to be included in writing of the receipt of such request registration and each such thereafter, to the extent necessary, (iv) if Catalyst or the EDNCU Holder was the Initiating Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (shares held by written notice sent Catalyst and the EDNCU Holder pro rata to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date respective number of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) Registrable Shares requested to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities be included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register or Shelf Takedown by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include in any event all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to Shares must be included in such offering is greater registration prior to any other shares of the Company, and (ii) if Holders other than Catalyst and the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on EDNCU Holder were the distribution of such securities Initiating Holders, Catalyst or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities")EDNCU Holder, then by written notice to the Company during the seven-day notice period set forth above, shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested be entitled to be registered thereunder only treated as the Initiating Holder instead, subject to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based limitations on the number of Registrable Securities requested their respective demand registrations set forth below. The Company may not cause any other registration of securities for sale for its own account (other than a registration effected solely to implement an employee benefit plan) to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that initiated after a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 2.3 and to become effective less than ninety (90) days after the effective date of any registration requested pursuant to Section 2.3. The Company shall not be deemed required to have been effected for purposes of effect more than two (2) registrations under this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective 2.3 for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Initiating Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable SecuritiesEDNCU Holder and Catalyst); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) effect more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, registrations under this Section 2.3 for which the EDNCU Holder is the Initiating Holder and the Company shall not be required to effect more than two (ii2) any Demand registrations under this Section 2.3 for which Catalyst is the Initiating Holder. A registration will not count as a requested registration under this Section unless and until the Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)has been declared effective by the Commission.
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Samples: Shareholders' Agreement (Leibovitch Yoav), Registration Rights Agreement (Endurance Acquisition Corp.), Shareholders' Agreement (Endurance Acquisition Corp.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt If at any time after the earlier of (i) three (3) years after the date of this Agreement or (ii) one hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date of the registration statement for the IPO, the Company receives a written request from one or more New the Required Holders requesting that the Company effect file a Form S-1 registration statement with respect to at least 60% of the Registrable Securities then outstanding (or a "lesser percent if the anticipated aggregate offering price, net of Selling Expenses, would exceed $15,000,000), then the Company shall (i) within ten (10) days after the date such request is given, give notice thereof (the “Demand Registration"Notice”) to all Holders other than the Initiating Holders; and (ii) as soon as practicable, and in any event within sixty (60) days after the date such request is given by the Initiating Holders, file a Form S-1 registration statement under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Initiating Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of any additional Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration registration by any other Holders, as specified by notice given by each New Holder), and, second, such Holder to the Existing Company within twenty (20) days after the date the Demand Notice is given, and in each case, subject to the limitations of Section 2.1(b).
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing obligations, if the Company furnishes to Holders on requesting a pro rata basis registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 a certificate signed by the Company’s chief executive officer stating that in the good faith judgment of the Company’s Board of Directors (based on the number “Board of Registrable Directors”) it would be materially detrimental to the Company and its stockholders for such registration statement to either become effective or remain effective for as long as such registration statement otherwise would be required to remain effective, because such action would (i) materially interfere with a significant acquisition, corporate reorganization, or other similar transaction involving the Company; (ii) require premature disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; or (iii) render the Company unable to comply with requirements under the Securities requested Act or Exchange Act, then the Company shall have the right to defer taking action with respect to such filing, and any time periods with respect to filing or effectiveness thereof shall be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder)tolled correspondingly, for a period of not more than sixty (60) days after the request of the Initiating Holders is given; provided, however, that the Company may not invoke this right more than once in no event may Registrable Securities held by any twelve (12) month period; and provided further that the Existing Holders be included in Company shall not register any securities for its own account or that of any other stockholder during such Demand Registration unless all sixty (60) day period other than pursuant to a registration relating to the sale of securities to employees of the Registrable Securities requested Company or a subsidiary pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase, or similar plan; a registration on any form that does not include substantially the same information as would be required to be included in a registration statement covering the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities sale of the Company and other Registrable Securities; or a registration in which the only Common Stock being registered is Common Stock issuable upon conversion of debt securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesthat are also being registered.
(c) New Holders The Company shall not be entitled obligated to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities effect, or to take any action to effect, any registration pursuant to this Section 3 2.1 (eachi) during the period that is sixty (60) days before the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date that is one hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date of, a "Demand for Registration"Company-initiated registration, provided, that the Company is actively employing in good faith commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; (ii) in addition to after the Shelf Registration Statement Company has effected one (1) registration pursuant to Section 22.1; provided or (iii) if the Initiating Holders propose to dispose of shares of Registrable Securities that a registration requested may be immediately registered on Form S-3 pursuant to this a request made pursuant to Section 3 2.3. A registration shall not be deemed to have been effected counted as “effected” for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it 2.1 until such time as the applicable registration statement has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective unless the Initiating Holders withdraw their request for such registration, do not pay the period set forth in Section 7(a)registration expenses therefor and, (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such as a result, forfeit their right to one demand registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities statement pursuant to Section 2.7, in which case such withdrawn registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration statement shall not be counted as one “effected” for purposes of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)2.1.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Investors’ Rights Agreement, Investors’ Rights Agreement (Allena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Investors’ Rights Agreement (Allena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a Upon written request notice to the Company from one or more New Holders the Investor at any time during the Effective Period (the "Demand Request") requesting that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities 1933 Act covering of any or all or part of the Registrable Securities held by the Investor or any other Holder, which specifies notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredsuch Registrable Securities, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shallprepare and, as expeditiously promptly as is practicable, but and in any event no later than thirty (30) within 60 days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registrationsuch request, file with the SEC Commission a registration statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares under the 1933 Act for purposes of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (dispositions in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of disposition stated in such request. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered contrary:
(i) be at least $2,500,000, based the Investor may exercise its rights to request registration in respect of Registrable Securities held by the Investor or any other Holder under this Section 2.02(a) on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand not more than four occasions (each such registration being referred to file such herein as a "Demand Registration Statement is made, Registration"); and
(ii) the Company shall not be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timerequired to effect more than one Demand Registration in any calendar year.
(b) If Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in contrary, a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities Investor pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 2.02 shall not be deemed to have been effected effected, and, therefore, not requested and the rights of the Investor shall be deemed not to have been exercised for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless 2.02(a), (i) it if the Investor has been declared effective not received notice (confirmed by the SEC, Commission) that such Demand Registration has become effective under the 1933 Act or (ii) if such Demand Registration, after it has remained became effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions 1933 Act, was not maintained effective under the 1933 Act (other than as a result of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, Commission or other order or requirement Governmental Entity solely on the account of the SEC prompted by act a material misrepresentation or omission of Holders the Investor) for at least 120 days (or such shorter period ending when all the Registrable Securities covered thereby have been disposed of pursuant thereto (but in no event before the expiration of the 90-day period referred to in Section 4(3) of the 1933 Act and Rule 174 promulgated thereunder, if applicable)). The time periods referred to in the preceding sentence shall be extended, with respect to any Demand Registration, by the number of days in any Section 2.04 Period and/or Section 2.06(e) Period applicable to such Demand Registration. If a Demand Request is made by the Investor during the Effective Period but the related Demand Registration shall be deemed not to have been exercised under the circumstances set forth in this Section 2.02(b), then the Investor shall be deemed not to have used one of its rights to request a Demand Registration under this Section 2.02 and shall continue to have such right.
(c) The Company shall have the same rights to piggy-back any shares of Class A Common Stock on a Demand Registration initiated pursuant to this Section 2.02 as a Holder of Registrable Securities)Securities would have in a Piggy-back Registration, and other stockholders of the Company may exercise any piggy-back registration rights granted to them by the Company with respect to such Demand Registration; provided, provided however, that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if the New Holders participating lead or managing underwriter referred to in Section 2.03 determines that marketing factors require a limitation on the number of shares of Class A Common Stock to be offered and sold pursuant to such Demand Registration, there shall be included in the offering only that number of shares of Class A Common Stock that such lead or managing underwriter reasonably and in good faith believes will not jeopardize the success of the offering (including a material reduction in the price per share of the Registrable Securities to be sold). In such event, the shares of Class A Common Stock to be included in such Demand Registration are not able shall be apportioned (i) first, to register and any Registrable Securities that the Holders propose to sell at least two-thirds in such Demand Registration, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the New relative number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then therein by each such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month periodHolder, (ii) second, to any Class A Common Stock that the Company proposes to sell in such Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or and (iii) third, among any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date shares of effectiveness Class A Common Stock that other stockholders of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect propose to sell in such Demand Registration, pro rata among such stockholders on the sale basis of Common Stock the relative number of shares requested to be included therein by the Company (or each such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)stockholder.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Echostar Communications Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Echostar Communications Corp), Investment Agreement (Echostar Communications Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After Following the first anniversary of the date hereof and upon the receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting any MCM Party that the Company effect GEC file a registration (a "Demand Registration") Registration Statement under the Securities Act covering the registration for the offer and sale of all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shalla “Demand Registration”), as expeditiously soon as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, GEC shall file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective effective, a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that MCM Party has requested be registered to be registered under the Company has been so requested Securities Act, subject to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (and in accordance with the intended method or methods thereofterms, as aforesaidconditions, procedures and limitations contained in this Agreement. The MCM Parties are collectively entitled to effect two (2) of the Registrable Securities so registeredsuch Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 1.2(a); provided, howeverthat, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 1.2(a) shall not be deemed to have been effected unless a Registration Statement with respect thereto has become effective (other than due to the aggregate value fault of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (ia MCM Party) be and at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 2575% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, (and not withdrawn) shall have been disposed of in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth therein. The MCM Party may terminate a Demand Registration prior to the Existing Holders on filing of a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested Registration Statement relating thereto, or require GEC to be included in such Demand withdraw promptly any Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, Statement which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities has been filed pursuant to this Section 3 (each1 but which has not become effective under the Securities Act, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a and such registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless be a Demand Registration if either (i) it has been declared effective by agrees to pay the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period costs and expenses of such registration as set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction1.6 hereof, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following such withdrawal is accompanied by notice from the date MCM Party that, in the good faith exercise of effectiveness its reasonable judgment, (A) such withdrawal is warranted based on a change in the business or prospects of any other Registration Statement GEC or a change in the condition of the United States financial markets, or (iiiB) there has occurred a misstatement or omission in any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following prospectus which makes it inadvisable to proceed with the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)registration.
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Samples: Separation Agreement, Share Registration Agreement (Mast Capital Management, LLC), Share Registration Agreement (Great Elm Capital Group, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of If at any time the Company is eligible to use a written Form S-3 registration statement, the Company receives a request in writing from one or more New Holders requesting Restricted Stockholders (“Requesting Restricted Stockholders”) that the Company effect file a Form S-3 registration statement with respect to outstanding Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Restricted Stockholders having an anticipated aggregate offering price, net of Selling Expenses, of at least five million dollars ($5,000,000.00) (a "“Demand Registration"Registration Request”), then the Company shall as soon as practicable, and in any event within ninety (90) days after the date the Demand Registration Request is received by the Company, file a Form S-3 registration statement under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Restricted Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares requested to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant by the Requesting Restricted Stockholders, subject to this the limitations of Section 34.1(b), 4.1(c), and such Holder Section 4.3. The Company shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Form S-3 registration statement to be declared effective by the SEC as soon as practicable after filing. Any registration requested by any Restricted Stockholder pursuant to this Section 4.1 is referred to in this Agreement as a “Demand Registration.”
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing obligations, if the Company furnishes to the applicable Requesting Restricted Stockholders a certificate signed by the Company’s chief executive officer stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board it would be materially detrimental to the Company and its stockholders for such registration statement to either become effective or remain effective for as long as such registration statement otherwise would be required to remain effective, because such action would: (i) materially interfere with a "Demand Registration Statement"significant acquisition, corporate reorganization, or other similar transaction involving the Company; (ii) relating to all shares require premature disclosure of Registrable Securities material information that the Company has been so requested a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; or (iii) render the Company unable to register by comply with requirements under the Securities Act or Exchange Act, then the Company shall have the right to defer taking action with respect to such Holders filing, and any time periods with respect to filing or effectiveness thereof shall be tolled correspondingly, for a period of not more than ninety ("Participating 90) days after the Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredRegistration Request; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested Company may not invoke this right more than once with respect to be registered any given Requesting Restricted Stockholders in any twelve (i12) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests month period; and provided further that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities not register any securities for its own account or that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and stockholder during such ninety (90) day period other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in than an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Excluded Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders The Company shall not be entitled obligated to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant effect, or to this Section 3 (eachtake any action to effect, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement any registration pursuant to Section 24.1(a) (i) during the period that is ninety (90) days before the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date that is ninety (90) days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration, provided, that the Company is actively employing in good faith commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; provided that or (ii) if the Company has effected a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 4.1(a) within the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding the date of such request. A registration shall not be deemed to have been effected counted as “effected” for purposes of this Section 3(c4.1(c) unless (i) it until such time as the applicable registration statement has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective unless the Requesting Restricted Stockholders withdraw their request for such registration, elects not to pay the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3expenses therefor, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant forfeits its right to such one demand registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for statement pursuant to this Section 3(c4.1 as provided in Section 4.6, in which case such withdrawn registration statement shall be counted as “effected” for purposes of this Section 4.1(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything The Restricted Stockholders as a group shall only be entitled to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, Registrations under this Section 4.1.
(iie) Promptly after receipt of any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which Request, the Company shall give written notice of such request to all other Restricted Stockholders. Upon the request in writing of a Restricted Stockholder given within twenty (20) days after such notice is a party or with respect given by the Company, the Company shall use, subject to the sale provisions of Common Stock by Section 4.3, its commercially reasonable efforts to register, in accordance with the Company (or provisions of this Agreement, all the Registrable Securities that have been properly requested to be registered in such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Demand Registration.
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Samples: Stockholder Agreement (Autobytel Inc), Stockholder Agreement (Autobytel Inc), Stockholder Agreement (Autobytel Inc)
Demand Registration. In the event the Registration Statement is not declared effective by the six (a6) After receipt month anniversary of the Closing Date ("Registration Deadline") or does not include all Shares purchased hereunder ("Registrable Securities"), a written request from one or more New Holders requesting holder of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require by notice in writing that the Company effect a registration register all or any part of the Registrable Securities held by such holder (a "Demand Registration") under and the Company shall thereupon effect such registration in accordance herewith (which may include adding such shares to an existing shelf registration). The parties agree that if the holder of Registrable Securities Act covering demands registration of less than all or part of the Registrable Securities, the Company, at its option, may nevertheless file a registration statement covering all of the Registrable Securities. If such registration statement is declared effective with respect to all Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredCompany is in compliance with its obligations under this Agreement, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its demand registration rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof granted pursuant to this Section 3, and shall cease. If such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of registration statement is not declared effective with respect to all Registrable Securities that or if the Company is not in compliance with such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereuponobligations, the demand registration rights described herein shall remain in effect. The Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered described above: (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price if all of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders holder of Registrable Securities which are demanded to be covered by the Demand Registration are, at the time of such demand, included in such Demand Registration unless an effective registration statement and the Company is in compliance with its obligations under this Agreement; (ii) if all of the Registrable Securities requested to may be included in sold under Rule 144(k) of the Demand Registration by Act and the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, Company's transfer agent has accepted an instruction from the Company may include in to such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine effect; or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to at any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than time after two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following years from the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Closing Date.
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Samples: Stock Purchase Agreement (Languageware Net Co LTD), Stock Purchase Agreement (Languageware Net Co LTD), Stock Purchase Agreement (Languageware Net Co LTD)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of At any time prior to such time as the rights under this Section 2 terminate with respect to a Holder as provided in Section 2(e) hereof, upon written request notice from one or more New Holders such Holder in the manner set forth in Section 12(h) hereof requesting that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering of any or all or part of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder, which specifies notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredsuch Registrable Securities, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a effect, in the manner set forth in Section 5, the registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares under the Securities Act of such Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereofof disposition stated in such request (including in an offering on a delayed or continuous basis under Rule 415 (or any successor rule of similar effect) promulgated under the Securities Act), as aforesaidprovided that:
(i) if, within 5 business days of receipt of a registration request pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Holder or Holders making such request are advised in writing that the Company has in good faith commenced the preparation of a registration statement for an underwritten public offering prior to receipt of the Registrable Securities so registered; notice requesting registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) and the managing underwriter of the proposed offering has determined that in such firm's good faith opinion, a registration at the time and on the terms requested would materially and adversely affect the offering that is contemplated by the Company, the Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) (a "Transactional Deferral") until the earliest of (A) the abandonment of such offering by the Company, (B) 60 days after receipt by the Holder or Holders requesting registration of the managing underwriter's written opinion referred to above in this clause (i), unless the registration statement for such offering has become effective and such offering has commenced on or prior to such 60th day, and (C) if the registration statement for such offering has become effective and such offering has commenced on or prior to such 60th day, the day on which the restrictions on the Holders contained in Section 10 hereof lapse, provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities Company shall not be permitted to delay a requested to be registered registration in reliance on this clause (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, more than once in any 12-month period;
(ii) be at least 25% of if, while a registration request is pending pursuant to this Section 2(a), the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests Company determines, following consultation with and receiving advice from its legal counsel, that the offering be underwritten with filing of a managing underwriter selected in registration statement would require the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter disclosure of such Demand Registration advises material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential and the disclosure of which the Company determines reasonably and in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having good faith would have a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities")Company, then the Company shall include in not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earlier of (A) the date upon which such Demand Registration material information is otherwise disclosed to the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested public or ceases to be registered thereunder only material and (B) 90 days after the Company makes such determination;
(iii) the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2: (A) prior to 180 days following the extent closing of the number Public Offering, (B) within a period of 90 calendar days after the effective date of any other registration statement of the Company demanded pursuant to this Section 2(a), or (C) if such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the registration request is for a number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on having a pro rata basis (based Fair Market Value on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to business day immediately preceding the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount date of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number registration request of Securities, less than $100,000,000; and
(iv) the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or shall not be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled file a registration statement relating to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities a registration request pursuant to this Section 3 2: (each, a "Demand for Registration"A) in addition the case of a registration request by REI or any Permitted Transferee that has acquired, in the transaction in which it became a Permitted Transferee, at least a majority of the then issued and outstanding Voting Stock, on more than three occasions after such time as REI or such Permitted Transferee, as the case may be, owns less than a majority of the voting power of the outstanding capital stock of the Company (it being acknowledged that so long as REI or such Permitted Transferee owns a majority of the voting power of the outstanding capital stock of the Company, there shall be no limit to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant number of occasions on which REI or such Permitted Transferee may exercise such rights), or (B) in the case of a Holder other than REI or a Permitted Transferee described in clause (A) above, on more than the number of occasions permitted such Holder in accordance with Section 11 hereof.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to Section 2; provided that the contrary:
(i) a registration requested by a Holder pursuant to this Section 3 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected (and, therefore, not requested for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a2(a)), (iiiA) Holders of Registrable Securities included unless the registration statement filed in connection therewith has become effective, (B) if after such registration have notstatement has become effective, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not it becomes subject to any stop order, or there is issued an injunction or other order or requirement decree of the SEC (or other governmental agency or court for any reason other than any a misrepresentation or an omission by such stop orderHolder, which injunction, or other order or requirement decree prohibits or otherwise materially and adversely affects the offer and sale of the SEC prompted Registrable Securities so registered prior to the completion of the distribution thereof in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the registration statement or (C) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied by act reason of some act, misrepresentation or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities)by the Company and are not waived by the purchasers or underwriters; providedand
(ii) nothing herein shall modify a Holder's obligation to pay Registration Expenses, howeverin accordance with Section 4 hereof, that if are incurred in connection with any withdrawn registration requested by such Holder.
(c) In the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for event that any registration pursuant to this Section 3(c)2 shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, Holders owning at least 50.1% of the Fair Market Value of the Registrable Securities to be registered in connection with such offering shall have the right to designate an underwriter reasonably satisfactory to the Company as the lead managing underwriter of such underwritten offering, and the Company shall have the right to designate one underwriter reasonably satisfactory to such Holders as a co-manager of such underwritten offering.
(d) Notwithstanding anything The Company shall have the right to cause the registration of additional securities for sale for the account of any person (including the Company) in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by any Holder pursuant to Section 2(a) only to the contrary contained hereinextent the managing underwriter or other independent marketing agent for such offering (if any) determines that, in its opinion, the additional securities proposed to be sold will not materially and adversely affect the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities to be registered in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition then contemplated by such Holder. The rights of a Holder to cause the registration of additional Registrable Securities held by such Holder in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by another Holder pursuant to Section 2(a) shall be governed by the agreement of the Holders with respect thereto as provided in Section 11(a).
(e) The Company shall not be required obligated to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other a registration statement filed relating to a registration request by a Holder pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or this Section 2 from and after such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Holder first owns Registrable Securities representing (assuming for this purpose the conversion, exchange or exercise of all Registrable Securities then owned by such Holder that are convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Voting Stock of the Company) less than 10% of the then issued and outstanding Voting Stock of the Company.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Reliant Energy Resources Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Reliant Resources Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt The Holders of not less than 25% of the Registrable Shares shall have, as a group, the right, exercisable at any time following the date that is 15 months following the date of this Agreement and from time to time thereafter, by written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration notice (a "“Demand Registration"Notice”) given to the REIT, to request the REIT forthwith to register, and the REIT shall register, under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the terms of this Agreement, the sale of such number of shares Registrable Shares as may be specified in the Demand Notice. The Holders, as a group, shall be entitled to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof two Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice 2 (including Section 2(c)). Notwithstanding the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereuponforegoing, the Company shall, REIT shall not be required to file a Registration Statement covering Registrable Shares with anticipated gross proceeds of less than $25,000,000 unless it covers all of the remaining Registrable Shares.
(b) As promptly as expeditiously as is practicable, but reasonably practicable and in any event no later than thirty (30) within 45 days (excluding any days after the date on which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for the REIT receives a Demand RegistrationNotice given by the Holders in accordance with Section 2(a), if permitted under the Securities Act, the REIT shall file with the SEC a Registration Statement which is automatically effective upon filing. If such automatically effective filing is not so permitted, the REIT shall file a Registration Statement with the SEC as promptly as reasonably practical and in any event within 45 days after the date on which the REIT receives a Demand Notice given by the Holders in accordance with Section 2(a) and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause any such Registration Statement to become and remain effective as promptly as reasonably practicable. Each such Registration Statement shall be declared effective a on the appropriate form for the registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for and sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereofof distribution, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held Shares specified by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of SecuritiesNotice, the Company which may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of a “shelf” registration (a “Shelf Registration”) pursuant to Rule 415 under the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of SecuritiesAct.
(c) New Holders The REIT shall be entitled use commercially reasonable efforts to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities keep effective each Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3 2, and a registration shall not count as a Demand Registration to which the Holders are entitled under Section 2(a) until it has become continuously effective and usable for the resale of the Registrable Shares covered thereby (each, a "Demand for Registration"i) in addition to the case of a Registration that is not a Shelf Registration, for a period of 180 days from the date on which the Registration Statement becomes effective under the Securities Act and (ii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, for a period of one year from the date on which the Registration Statement becomes effective, in either case (x) until such earlier time by which all the Registrable Shares covered by such Registration Statement have been sold pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested such Registration Statement, and (y) as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 3 2. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a registration shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this count as a Demand Registration under Section 3(c2(a) unless if (iA) it after such Demand Registration has been declared effective by become effective, such registration or the SECrelated offer, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders sale or distribution of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration Shares thereunder is not subject to interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order governmental agency or requirement of court for any reason not attributable to the SEC prompted by act Holders initiating such Demand Registration and such interference is not thereafter eliminated or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided(B) the conditions specified in the underwriting agreement, howeverif any, that if the New Holders participating entered into in connection with such Demand Registration are not able satisfied or waived, other than by reason of a failure by the Holders initiating such Demand Registration, and as a result of any such circumstances described in (A) or (B), no Registrable Shares are sold pursuant to register and sell at least two-thirds such registration; provided, that if (1) the offer, sale or distribution covered by the Registration Statement filed pursuant to the Demand Registration is a continuous offering of Registrable Securities, (2) such continuous offering, after being commenced as described in the Registration Statement, has not been postponed or interrupted (other than by reason of the New circumstances described in (A) or (B)) and (3) at the time of such registration, the Common Shares are not listed on a national securities exchange or included on the Nasdaq Stock Market, then following such interference such registration shall not count as a Demand Registration unless all Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for are sold pursuant to this Section 3(c)such Registration Statement.
(d) The REIT shall be entitled to postpone the filing of any Registration Statement otherwise required to be prepared and filed by the REIT pursuant to this Section 2, or to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 2, for a reasonable period of time, but not in excess of 45 days (a “Delay Period”), if:
(i) the Board of Directors of the REIT (the “Board of Directors”), acting through those directors who have no direct or indirect beneficial or pecuniary interest in any Registrable Shares, determines in good faith that the registration and distribution of the Registrable Shares covered or to be covered by the Registration Statement would materially adversely affect the REIT and its subsidiaries taken as a whole because it would materially interfere with any pending material financing, acquisition or corporate reorganization or other material corporate development involving the REIT or any of its subsidiaries and the REIT promptly gives the Holders written notice of such determination, containing a reasonably detailed statement of the reasons for such postponement or suspension and an approximation of the period of the anticipated delay; or
(ii) prior to the Registration Statement being declared effective by the SEC, the REIT proposes to file a registration statement on Form S-11 under the Securities Act providing for the first public offering of Common Shares concurrent with the listing or, approval for listing, of the Common Shares on a national securities exchange or inclusion or, approval for inclusion, of the Common Shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market (such registration statement, including pre- and post-effective amendments, all exhibits thereto and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference, if any, in such registration statement, the “IPO Registration Statement”), and the REIT promptly gives the Holders written notice (including notifying each Holder of the identity of the managing underwriters of such initial public offering), within five Business Days after such filing; Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company aggregate number of days included in all Delay Periods during any consecutive 12 months shall not exceed a total of 90 days. If the REIT shall so postpone or suspend the filing of a Registration Statement, the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Shares to be registered shall have the right to withdraw the request for registration by giving written notice to the REIT within 45 days after receipt of the notice of postponement or suspension (and, in the event of such withdrawal, such request shall not be counted as a Demand Registration to which the Holders are entitled pursuant to this Section 2). The time period for which the REIT is required to prepare maintain the effectiveness of any Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2 shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all Delay Periods, all Hold Back Periods and file all Interruption Periods occurring during such Registration. The REIT shall not be entitled to initiate a Delay Period unless it shall concurrently (A) prohibit sales by other security holders under registration statements (other than Special Registration Statements, as defined below) filed by the REIT covering securities held by such other security holders and (B) in accordance with the REIT’s policies from time to time in effect, forbid purchases and sales in the open market by senior executives of the REIT, subject to permitted exceptions stated in a formal policy adopted by the Board of Directors. The REIT may not postpone or suspend a filing pursuant to this Section 2 more than three times in any 12 month period and a period of at least 45 days shall elapse between the termination of any Delay Period, Hold Back Period or Interruption Period and the commencement of the immediately succeeding Delay Period.
(e) Each of the Holders (other than the Holders initiating the relevant Demand Registration under Section 2(a)) may offer such Holder’s Registrable Shares under any such Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2(e). The REIT shall (i) more as promptly as practicable but in no event later than two five days after the receipt of a Demand Notice, give written notice thereof to all of the Holders (2) other than the Holders initiating such Demand Registration Statements Registration), which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Shares subject to the Demand Notice, the names and notice information of the Holders initiating such Demand Registration, the intended method of disposition of such Registrable Shares and any other information that at the time would be appropriate to include in any twelve-month period, such notice and (ii) any Demand subject to Section 2(f), include in the Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to such Demand Registration all of the Registrable Shares requested by such Holders for inclusion in such Registration Statement from whom the REIT has received a written request for inclusion therein within ten days of the receipt by such Holders of such written notice referred to in clause (i) above. Each such request by such Holders shall specify the number of Registrable Shares proposed to be registered and such Holder shall send a copy of such request to the Holders initiating such Demand Registration. The failure of any other registration Holder to respond within such ten (10) day period referred to in clause (ii) above shall be deemed to be a waiver of such Holder’s rights agreement to which the Company is a party or under this Section 2(e) with respect to such Demand Registration. Any Holder may waive its rights under this Section 2(e) prior to the sale expiration of such ten day period by giving written notice to the REIT, with a copy to the Holders initiating such Demand Registration. If a Holder sends the REIT a written request for inclusion of part or all of such Holder’s Registrable Shares in a registration, such Holder shall not be entitled to withdraw or revoke such request without the prior written consent of the REIT in its sole discretion unless, as a result of facts or circumstances arising after the date on which such request was made relating to the REIT or to market conditions, such Holder reasonably determines that participation in such registration would have a material adverse effect on such Holder.
(f) Unless otherwise contractually required to do so, the REIT shall not include any securities that are not Registrable Shares in any Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 2 without the prior written consent of the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Shares outstanding, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. If the offering is a firm commitment underwritten offering and the managing underwriter or underwriters participating in such offering advise the REIT that the total amount of securities requested to be included in such offering exceeds the amount which can be sold in such offering (the “Holder Target Amount”) without materially delaying or jeopardizing the success of the offering (including the price per share of the securities to be sold), then the number of Registrable Shares to be included in the offering described in this Section 2(f) may be reduced to the extent required to ensure the aggregate size of the offering does not exceed the Holder Target Amount, based on the following priorities: the REIT shall include in such registration first, the Registrable Shares of the Holders requested to be included therein (whether pursuant to Section 2(a) or 2(e)), and second (to the extent the amount of such securities to be sold by such other Persons is less than the Holder Target Amount), the Common Shares requested to be included in such registration by one or more such Persons, pro rata among such Persons on the basis of the number of Common Stock Shares owned by each such Person. Notwithstanding the Company above, the REIT (i) shall not grant, or permit any Person to exercise, registration rights in respect of a Demand Registration initiated by one or more Holders if such longer period Holder or Holders advise the REIT when they request the Demand Registration that (x) the distribution that is the subject of time the Demand Registration will be a continuous offering and (y) the distribution will be effected through one or more broker-dealers that is an Affiliate of the Advisor Parent and (ii) represents and warrants that no Person has any such right of the type described in clause (i) as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)of the date hereof.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (DCT Industrial Trust Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Dividend Capital Trust Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Dynamic shall, within ninety (90) days after the consummation of the Merger, cause (a) registration statement in prescribed form under the 1933 Securities Act with respect to a written request from number of Shares equal to twenty- five percent (25%) of the total Merger Consideration, rounded up to the next higher round lot, to be prepared and filed with the SEC and any applicable state authority, to become and remain effective as provided herein to permit the valid pubic sale of the Shares by those Holders listed in Schedule 2 attached hereto in compliance with all such applicable securities laws pursuant to a public offering, which offering shall be managed by one or more New Holders requesting that underwriters of recognized national standing in the Company effect United States on a registration firm underwriting basis mutually acceptable to Dynamic and a majority of participating Holders.
(a "Demand Registration"b) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares Subject to be registeredSection 2(f), the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company Dynamic shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than within thirty (30) days after the first anniversary of the consummation of the Merger, cause another registration statement in prescribed form under the 1933 Securities Act and the 1934 Exchange Act, with respect to a number of Shares equal to twenty-five percent (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below25%) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registrationthe total Merger Consideration, file rounded up to the next higher round lot, to be prepared and filed with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for saleany applicable state authority, to the extent required become and remain effective as provided herein to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) valid pubic sale of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include Shares by any and all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating compliance with all such applicable securities laws pursuant to a public offering, which offering requests that the offering shall be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected managed by one or more underwriters of recognized national standing in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration United States on a pro rata firm underwriting basis (based on the number mutually acceptable to Dynamic and a majority of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesparticipating Holders.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant Subject to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a2(f), (iii) Holders Dynamic will give written notice of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statementregistration statement referenced in clause (b) (which notice will include a list of jurisdictions in which Dynamic intends to attempt to qualify the offer and sale of Shares under applicable state securities laws) to each Holder at least forty-five (45) days before the anticipated filing date of the registration statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from and such notice will offer Holders the opportunity to include in such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions number of Section 3Shares as held by each Holder as each Holder may request, and allow any Holder to participate in such offer and sale of Shares so long as such Holder notifies Dynamic of its intentions within thirty (iv30) days after receipt of such written notice. If the offering total number of Registrable Securities pursuant Shares which Holders elect to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement make available for sale exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the SEC total Merger Consideration, each participating Holder will instead be permitted to offer for sale a reduced number of Shares determined on a proportionate basis based upon the aggregate number of Shares which the participating Holders desire to sell, which aggregate number will not exceed twenty-five percent (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement 25%) of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)total Merger Consideration.
(d) Notwithstanding anything Dynamic may delay the filing of the registration statement referenced in clause (b) for up to 120 days, if in the good faith judgment of Dynamic's board of directors, the financing would be detrimental to a material transaction which has been approved by Dynamic's board of directors prior to filing of the applicable registration statement, or for up to ninety (90) days if the underwriters determine that it is not possible to sell the Shares subject to the contrary contained hereinproposed registration at a price equal to or greater than ninety percent (90%) of the average market price of such Shares during the last twenty (20) trading days prior to such determination. If Dynamic delays filing of such registration statement, it must provide each Holder an opportunity to consider participating in the Company shall delayed offering by delivering new written notices pursuant to the first sentence of clause (c).
(e) A registration will not be considered to be one of the demand registrations required to prepare and file under this Agreement unless it has been kept continuously effective for a period of at least six (i6) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days months following the date on which such registration was declared effective, or such shorter period that will terminate when all of effectiveness the Shares covered by the registration have been sold pursuant to the terms of any other Registration Statement such registration. In the event that either the registration anticipated under clauses (a) or (iiib) any Demand Registration Statement above does not satisfy this criteria, Dynamic shall begin the registration process again in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement within 90 ninety (90) days following thereof; provided, that the date number of effectiveness Shares to be then registered will be reduced by the number of any other shares sold, if any, in the previously effective registration statement statements filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which this Agreement.
(f) In the Company is event either a party or with respect portion of the Merger Consideration held in escrow pursuant to the sale Escrow Agreement executed at Closing of the Merger is returned to Dynamic or, in the alternative, if additional shares of Dynamic Common Stock by other than those held in escrow are distributed to the Company Holders as contemplated under Section 2(c)(ii) of the Escrow Agreement, then the number of shares subject to registration pursuant to Section 2(b) of this 4 Registration Rights Agreement will be adjusted so that the total number of shares of Dynamic Common Stock registered pursuant to Section 2(a) and 2(b) hereof will equal a total of fifty percent (or such longer period 50%) of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating the total Merger Consideration actually delivered to such registration statement)all Holders following completion of distributions from escrow.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Dynamic Associates Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Dynamic Associates Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Buyer, on its own behalf and on behalf of a the other Holders, may make up to two written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a requests for registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering of all or any part of the Registrable Securities which specifies held by the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and Holders (each, a DEMAND REGISTRATION). Such request will specify the aggregate number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested proposed to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with be sold and will also specify the intended method or methods of disposition thereof, . A registration will not count as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating until it has become effective. Should a Demand Registration not become effective due to the failure of a public offering requests that Holder to perform its obligations under this Exhibit B or the offering be underwritten inability of the requesting Holders to reach agreement with a managing underwriter selected the Underwriters for the proposed sale on price or other customary terms for such transaction, or in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such event the requesting Holders withdraw or do not pursue the request for the Demand Registration advises (in each of the Company foregoing cases, provided that at such time the Corporation is in writing that, compliance in all material respects with its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"obligations under this Exhibit B), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis deemed to have been effected (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, provided that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in if the Demand Registration does not become effective because of a material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), business, assets or results of operations of the Corporation and its subsidiaries taken as a whole that occurs subsequent to the date of the written request made by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If requesting Holders, then the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected effected).
(b) In the event that the requesting Holders withdraw or do not pursue a request for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant a Demand Registration Statementand, withdrawn sufficient shares from pursuant to Section 2.01(a) hereof, such registration Demand Registration is deemed to have been effected, the Holders may reacquire such Demand Registration (such that the remaining withdrawal or failure to pursue a request will not count as a Demand Registration hereunder) if the Holders requesting registration would not have been able reimburse the Corporation for any and all Registration Expenses incurred by the Corporation in connection with such request for a Demand Registration; provided that the right to request registration under reacquire a Demand Registration may be exercised a maximum of two times.
(c) If the provisions of Section 3Selling Holders so elect, and (iv) the offering of such Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall be in the form of an underwritten offering. A majority in interest of the Selling Holders shall have the right to select the managing Underwriters and any additional investment bankers and managers to be used in connection with such offering, subject to the Corporation's approval, which approval shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)unreasonably withheld.
(d) Notwithstanding anything The Selling Holders will inform the Corporation of the time and manner of any disposition of Registrable Securities, and agree to reasonably cooperate with the contrary contained herein, Corporation in effecting the Company shall disposition of the Registrable Securities in a manner that does not be required unreasonably disrupt the public trading market for the Common Stock.
(e) The Corporation will have the right to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) preempt any Demand Registration Statement with a primary registration by delivering written notice (within 90 five business days following after the date Corporation has received a request for such Demand Registration) of effectiveness such intention to the Selling Holders indicating that the Corporation has identified a specific business need and use for the proceeds of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock such securities and the Corporation shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect a primary registration within 60 days of such notice. In the ensuing primary registration, the Holders will have such piggyback registration rights as are set forth in Section 2.02 hereof. Upon the Corporation's preemption of a requested Demand Registration, such requested registration will not count as a Demand Registration; provided that a Demand Registration will not be deemed preempted if the Holders are permitted to sell all requested securities in connection with the ensuing primary offering by the Company (or such longer period of time exercising their piggyback registration rights as may be specified set forth in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).Section 2.02
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Samples: Stock Purchase Agreement (Signature Eyewear Inc), Stock Purchase Agreement (Signature Eyewear Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt If on the date that is five years and nine months after the closing of a written the Merger (the "Demand Registration Rights Effective Date"), the Registrable Securities owned by the Beneficial Owners constitute at least 5% of the Trust's then outstanding shares (after giving effect to the redemption of any PREIT Class B Units held by the Beneficial Owners and the issuance of the Trust's shares therefor), then, subject to Section 3(e) below, at any time beginning on the Demand Registration Rights Effective Date the Beneficial Owners owning Registrable Securities then outstanding may unanimously request from one or more New Holders requesting in writing that the Company Trust effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities then outstanding pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 (or any similar short-form registration statement that is a successor to Form S-3), or in the Trust's sole discretion, any other appropriate form. The Trust shall use commercially reasonable efforts to prepare and file a registration statement under the Securities Act within sixty (60) days of the receipt by the Trust of such request from the Beneficial Owners. The Trust shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective by the Commission as promptly as shall be reasonably practicable after it has been filed, and the Trust shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep such registration statement effective until the earlier of (i) such time as all Registrable Securities included in such registration statement have been disposed of pursuant to the distribution thereunder or (ii) the 30th day following the effectiveness of such registration statement. The Trust shall be obligated to effect only one such Demand Registration for the Beneficial Owners.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 3(a) above, the Trust may defer the filing of or effectiveness of the registration statement required by this Section 3 for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 180 days after a request by the Beneficial Owners to effect such registration if (i) the Trust is, at such time, in the process of pursuing an underwritten public offering of equity securities and is advised by the managing underwriter(s) that such offering would in its or their opinion be adversely affected by such filing or (ii) the Trust in good faith determines that any such filing or the offering of any Registrable Securities would materially impede, delay or interfere with any proposed financing, offer or sale of securities, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other significant transaction involving the Trust which specifies began prior to the intended method date on which a request for registration was made by the Beneficial Owners hereunder.
(c) If the Beneficial Owners intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Trust as part of their request made pursuant to Section 3(a) above. In such event, the right of any Beneficial Owner to include its Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Beneficial Owner's participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Beneficial Owner's Registrable Securities in the underwriting to the extent provided herein. All Beneficial Owners proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or methods underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Trust. Notwithstanding any other provision of disposition thereof this Section 3 to the contrary, if, in the case of a registration requested pursuant to Section 3(a) above, the managing underwriter for the offering advises the Beneficial Owners and the Trust that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of shares to be registeredunderwritten, then the Company Trust shall promptly notify so advise all Holders in writing Beneficial Owners of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof that would otherwise be underwritten pursuant to this Section 3hereto, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to may be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration underwriting shall be allocated first, pro rata among all the New Holders participating Beneficial Owners thereof desiring to participate in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis underwriting (based on according to the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration sold by each New HolderBeneficial Owner), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of . No Registrable Securities requested by a Beneficial Owner to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may a registration pursuant to Section 3(a) shall be excluded from the underwriting unless all securities other than Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesfirst excluded.
(cd) New Holders The Trust shall be entitled to an aggregate of four bear all Registration Expenses (4as defined in Section 7 below) registrations of Registrable Securities in connection with any demand registration pursuant to this Section 3 (each3, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall whether or not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities)statement becomes effective; provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register Beneficial Owners request a demand registration and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registrationsubsequently withdraw their request, then such Demand Beneficial Owners shall either pay all Registration shall not be counted as one Expenses incurred in connection with such demand registration or forfeit the right to request another demand registration unless the withdrawal of such request is the result of facts or circumstances relating to the Trust that arise after the date on which such request was made and would have a material adverse effect on the offering of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)Registrable Securities.
(de) Notwithstanding anything any other provision contained herein to the contrary contained hereincontrary, the Company Trust shall not be required to prepare effect any demand registration pursuant to this Section 3 unless prior to the expiration of the thirty (30) day period commencing on the Demand Registration Rights Effective Date the Beneficial Owners (which Beneficial Owners, as required by Section 3(a) above, on the Demand Registration Rights Effective Date owned Registrable Securities which constituted at least 5% of the Trust's then outstanding shares after giving effect to the redemption of any PREIT Class B Units held by the Beneficial Owners and file the issuance of the Trust's shares therefor) unanimously either (i) more than two (2request in writing that the Trust immediately effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities then outstanding in accordance with Section 3(a) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, above or (ii) notify the Trust in writing of their election to preserve the future right of the Beneficial Owners to request a registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 above; it being understood and agreed that, in the event the Beneficial Owners elect to preserve the future right to request a demand registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Shares pursuant to this Section 3 during such thirty (30) day period, the Trust's obligation to effect any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of shelf registration or to keep any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other shelf registration statement filed effective pursuant to any other Section 2 of this Agreement shall terminate immediately regardless of whether or not the Beneficial Owners thereafter exercise their right to request a demand registration rights agreement pursuant to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)this Section 3.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust), Registration Rights Agreement (Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including Sections 2(c), 2(d) and 2(g), if at any time the Company receives a written request from one or more New Holders requesting any Investor that the Company effect register under the Securities Act Registrable Securities, then the Company shall file, as promptly as reasonably practicable but no later than the applicable Filing Deadline, a registration (a "Demand Registration") statement under the Securities Act covering all or part Registrable Securities that such Investor requests to be registered. For the avoidance of doubt, CoyCo 1 and CoyCo 2 may make such a request for registration jointly, in which case each of CoyCo 1 and CoyCo 2, acting together, will be treated as the Investor requesting registration. The registration statement shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which specifies case such registration shall be on another appropriate form for such purpose) and, if the intended method or methods Company is a WKSI as of disposition thereof and the number of shares Filing Deadline, shall be an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the registration statement to be registereddeclared effective or otherwise to become effective under the Securities Act as soon as reasonably practicable but, in any event, no later than the Effectiveness Deadline, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the registration statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (1) the date on which such Investor notifies the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of that the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice statement have been sold or the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, offering therefor has been terminated or (2) three years if the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request registered for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of resale the Registrable Securities so registered; providedon Form S-3 in satisfaction of such demand or (z) fifty (50) Business Days following the date on which such registration statement was declared effective by the SEC, however, that if the aggregate value of Company is neither a WKSI nor then eligible to use Form S-3 and registered for resale the Registrable Securities requested on Form S-1 or other applicable form in satisfaction of such demand; provided that each period specified in clause (2) of this sentence shall be extended automatically by one (1) Business Day for each Business Day that the use of such registration statement or prospectus is suspended by the Company pursuant to be registered any Suspension Period, pursuant to (ie) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand or pursuant to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timeSection 5(i).
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating any Investor intends to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration distribute the Registrable Securities that covered by such Investor’s request by means of an underwriting, (i) such Investor shall so advise the Participating Demand Holders Company as a part of its request made pursuant to Section 2(a) and (ii) such Investor shall have requested the right to appoint the book-running, managing and other underwriter(s) in consultation with the Company.
(c) IHC shall have the right to effect only one demand registration pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 only pursuant to this Section 2. The Company shall not be registered thereunder only required to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on effect a pro rata basis demand registration at TCP-ASC’s request pursuant to this Section 2 (based on A) unless the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holderregistered hereunder represents the lesser of 7% of the then-outstanding Common Stock, or, if the Investor reasonably determines that it is an “affiliate” pursuant to Rule 144 of the Securities Act (or is otherwise subject to volume or manner of sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 of the Securities Act), and, second, the number of Registrable Securities owned by the Investor and (B) (i) after the Company has effected five registrations at TCP-ASC’s request pursuant to this Section 2 after the Existing Holders date hereof (of which no more than three may be on a pro rata basis form other than Form S-3), and each of such registrations has been declared or ordered effective and kept effective by the Company as required by Section 5(a); or (based on ii) more than three times at TCP-ASC’s request during any twelve month period.
(d) The Company shall not be required to effect a demand registration at CoyCo 1’s or CoyCo 2’s request pursuant to this Section 2 (A) unless the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holderregistered hereunder represents the lesser of 7% of the then-outstanding Common Stock, or, if the Investor reasonably determines that it is an “affiliate” pursuant to Rule 144 of the Securities Act (or is otherwise subject to volume or manner of sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 of the Securities Act); provided, however, that in no event may the number of Registrable Securities held owned by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, Investor and (B) (i) after the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to has effected an aggregate of four (4) registrations at the request of Registrable Securities CoyCo 1 or CoyCo 2 pursuant to this Section 3 2 (eachof which no more than one may be on a form other than Form S-3), and each of such registrations has been declared or ordered effective and kept effective by the Company as required by Section 2(a); or (ii) more than three times at CoyCo 1 and CoyCo 2’s request during any twelve month period; provided, that, notwithstanding the limitation in clause (i), CoyCo 1 and CoyCo 2 shall, acting together, have the right to require the Company to effect an additional demand registration if CoyCo 1 and CoyCo 2 are, in the aggregate, unable to sell at least 85% of the Common Stock they desire to sell in any particular offering as a "Demand for Registration") in addition to result of an Underwriter Cutback. For the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a avoidance of doubt, any registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 jointly by CoyCo 1 and CoyCo 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected count as a single registration for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c2(d).
(de) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinin this Agreement, (1) upon notice to the demanding Investor and any Investor that has provided a Sales Notice pursuant to Section 6(a), the Company may delay the Filing Deadline and/or the Effectiveness Deadline with respect to, or suspend the effectiveness or availability of, any registration statement for up to ninety (90) days in the aggregate in any twelve-month period (a “Suspension Period”) if the Company would have to make an Adverse Disclosure in connection with the registration statement; provided that any suspension of a registration statement pursuant to Section 6(b) shall be treated as a Suspension Period for purposes of calculating the maximum number of days of any Suspension Period under this (e); and (2) upon notice to the demanding Investor, the Company may delay the Filing Deadline and/or the Effectiveness Deadline with respect to any registration statement for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days prior to the Company’s good faith estimate of the launch date of, and ninety (90) days after the closing date of, a Company initiated registered offering of equity securities (including equity securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock and any offering of equity securities that triggers rights under Section 5 of the TCP-ASC Investor Rights Agreement or the CoyCo Investor Rights Agreement); provided that (i) the Company is actively employing in good faith all commercially reasonable efforts to launch such registered offering throughout such period, (ii) such demanding Investor is afforded the opportunity to include Registrable Securities in such registered offering in accordance with Section 3) and (iii) the right to delay or suspend the effectiveness or availability of such registration statement pursuant to this clause (2) shall not be required to prepare and file (i) exercised by the Company more than two twice in any twelve-month period and not more than ninety (290) Demand Registration Statements days in the aggregate in any twelve-month period, (ii) . If the Company shall delay any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed Filing Deadline pursuant to this clause (e), such demanding Investor may withdraw the demand therefor at any other registration rights agreement time so long as such delay is then continuing by providing written notice to which the Company is to such effect, and any demand so withdrawn shall not count as a party or with respect demand for registration for any purpose under this Section 2, including Section 2(c) and 2(d).
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified contrary in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)this Agreement, LifePoint shall not have any rights under this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (R1 RCM Inc. /DE), Registration Rights Agreement (R1 RCM Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Buyer, on its own behalf and on behalf of a the other Holders, may make up to three written request from one requests for registration under the Securities Act of all or more New any part of the Registrable Securities held by the Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (each, a "Demand Registration"); provided that (i) under no Demand Registration may be requested within 180 days after the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written preceding request for a Demand Registration, file and (ii) each Demand Registration must be (x) in respect of Registrable Securities with a fair market value of at least $10,000,000 or (y) in respect of all remaining Registrable Securities and have a fair market value of at least $5,000,000 and, provided further, at the SEC request of the Corporation, Buyer and use its reasonable best efforts Holders shall accept in lieu of one of the Demand Registrations, an agreement by the Corporation to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (permit sales of Registrable Securities under a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shelf registration" under Rule 415 if such registration remains continuously effective for a period of not less than 180 days. Such request will specify the aggregate number of shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested proposed to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with be sold and will also specify the intended method or methods of disposition thereof, . A registration will not count as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to until it has become effective; provided should a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises not become effective due to the Company in writing that, in failure of a Holder to perform its opinion, obligations under this Exhibit B or the number inability of securities the requesting Holders to be included in such offering is greater than reach agreement with the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on underwriters for the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof proposed sale (the "Maximum Number Underwriters") on price or other customary terms for such transaction, or in the event the requesting Holders withdraw or do not pursue the request for the Demand Registration (in each of Securities"the foregoing cases, provided that at such time the Corporation is in compliance in all material respects with its obligations under this Exhibit B), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis deemed to have been effected (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, provided that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in if the Demand Registration does not become effective because of a Material Adverse Effect that occurs subsequent to the date of the written request made by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If requesting Holders, then the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected effected).
(b) In the event that Buyer withdraws or does not pursue a request for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant a Demand Registration Statementand, withdrawn sufficient shares from pursuant to Section 2.01(a) hereof, such registration Demand Registration is deemed to have been effected, the Holders may reacquire such Demand Registration (such that the remaining withdrawal or failure to pursue a request will not count as a Demand Registration hereunder) if the Selling Holders requesting registration would not have been able reimburse the Corporation for any and all Registration Expenses incurred by the Corporation in connection with such request for a Demand Registration; provided that the right to request registration under reacquire a Demand Registration may be exercised only once.
(c) If the provisions of Section 3Selling Holders so elect, and (iv) the offering of such Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall be in the form of an underwritten offering. A majority in interest of the Selling Holders shall have the right to select the managing Underwriters and any additional investment bankers and managers to be used in connection with any offering under this Section 2.01, subject to the Corporation's approval, which approval shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)unreasonably withheld.
(d) Notwithstanding anything The Selling Holders will inform the Corporation of the time and manner of any disposition of Registrable Common Stock, and agree to reasonably cooperate with the contrary contained herein, Corporation in effecting the Company shall disposition of the Registrable Common Stock in a manner that does not be required unreasonably disrupt the public trading market for the Common Stock.
(e) The Corporation will have the right to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) preempt any Demand Registration Statement with a primary registration by delivering written notice (within 90 five business days following after the date Corporation has received a request for such Demand Registration) of effectiveness such intention to Buyer indicating that the Corporation has identified a specific business need and use for the proceeds of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock such securities and the Corporation shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect a primary registration within 60 days of such notice. In the ensuing primary registration, the Holders will have such piggyback registration rights as are set forth in Section 2.02 hereof. Upon the Corporation's preemption of a requested Demand Registration, such requested registration will not count as the Holders' Demand Registration; provided that a Demand Registration will not be deemed preempted if the Holders are permitted to sell all requested securities in connection with the ensuing primary offering by exercising their piggyback registration rights. The Corporation may exercise the Company (or such longer right to preempt only twice in any 360-day period; provided, that during any 360 day period there shall be a period of time as at least 120 consecutive days during which the Selling Holders may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)effect a Demand Registration.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Independence Holding Co), Registration Rights Agreement (Madison Investors Corp)
Demand Registration. At any time and from time to time on or after the Effective Date, (a) After receipt BALAH, BAII or BANZHI may request on behalf of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part any member of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method Verizon Shareholder Group or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing any Affiliate of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Verizon Shareholder Group beneficially owning Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance Corporation on two separate occasions file a Registration Statement with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaidSEC and/or any other Governmental Entity for a bona-fide underwritten public offering and on one occasion a "shelf" registration for sale in a bona-fide public offering for a period not to exceed 180 days and (b) Vodafone may request on behalf of any member of the Vodafone Shareholder Group or any Affiliate of the Vodafone Shareholder Group beneficially owning Registrable Securities so registeredthat the Corporation on two separate occasions file a Registration Statement with the SEC and/or any other Governmental Entity for a bona-fide underwritten public offering and on one occasion a "shelf" registration for sale in a bona-fide public offering for a period not to exceed 180 days; provided, however, that an "occasion" shall be deemed to have occurred for purposes of this sentence only if such offering went effective and closed or failed to close after going effective because of the aggregate value failure by the Registration Rightsholder that requested the subject registration to satisfy a closing condition that was in its sole control. In case the Corporation shall receive from either BALAH, BAII, BANZHI or Vodafone, at any time on or after the Effective Date, a written request that the Corporation file a Registration Statement with the SEC and/or any other Governmental Entity and effect any registration, qualification or compliance with applicable federal, state or other securities laws, with respect to all or a part of the Registrable Securities, the Corporation will:
(i) promptly give written notice of the proposed registration, qualification or compliance to all Registration Rightsholders; and
(ii) use its diligent good faith efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, all such registrations, qualifications and compliances (including, without limitation, the execution of an undertaking to file post-effective amendments, appropriate qualification under the applicable state or other securities laws and appropriate compliance with exemptive regulations issued under any law (including, without limitation, the Securities Act) and any other governmental requirements or regulations) as may be so requested and as would permit or facilitate the sale and distribution of all or such portion of such Registrable Securities as is specified in such request, together with all or such portion of the Registrable Securities of any other Registration Rightsholder or Registration Rightsholders joining in such request as is specified in a written request received by the Corporation within 30 days after such written notice by the Corporation is delivered. Subject to the foregoing, the Corporation shall prepare and file a Registration Statement with the SEC and/or any other Governmental Entity covering the Registrable Securities so requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing thatas soon as practicable and, in its opinionany event, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company after such request is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)received.
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Samples: Shareholders Agreement (Grupo Iusacell Celular Sa De Cv), Shareholders Agreement (Grupo Iusacell Sa De Cv)
Demand Registration. i) At the later to occur of (aI) After receipt one year following the closing of any initial public offering of the Company=s securities, and (ii) that date upon which the Company is eligible to register the Warrant Shares for resale on a Form S-3, the Holder may deliver a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that (the Company effect a registration (a "Demand RegistrationNotice") under executed by the Securities Act covering all or part Holder and requesting registration of the Registrable Securities which specifies resale by Holder of all of the intended method or methods Purchased Shares. As soon as practicable after receipt of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredNotice, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request at its sole cost and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, expense file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares with the Commission on Form S-3 or any successor form, under the Securities Act, covering the issuance of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, Warrant Shares issuable to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) Holder upon exercise of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that Warrant or the aggregate value resale of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at Warrant by the Holder. The Company will use its best efforts to have such time.
(b) If registration statement declared effective as soon as possible thereafter, and shall keep such registration statement current and effective until such time as the majority-in-interest Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can Warrant may be sold therein by the Holder at any time without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities restriction or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only pursuant to the extent provisions of Rule 144(k) of the number of Commission or until such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless earlier date as all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities Purchased Shares registered pursuant to such registration is not subject statement shall have been sold or otherwise transferred by the Holder to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement a third party. The Company shall also prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and supplements to such registration statement (and the prospectus used in connection therewith) as may be necessary to update and keep such registration statement (and the prospectus used in connection therewith) current and effective for such three-year period and to comply with the provisions of the SEC (other than any Securities Act with respect to the sale of all securities covered by such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)registration statement.
(dii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the The Company shall not be required to prepare effect a registration pursuant to this Section 11(a): (I) after the Company has effected one (1) registration pursuant to this Section 11(a), and file such registration has either (iA) more than two been declared or ordered effective or (2B) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, the request for such registration has been subsequently withdrawn by the Holder (and such withdrawal is not based on materially adverse information concerning the Company of which the Holder was not reasonably aware at the time of such request); or (ii) if the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrant may be sold by the Holder at any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following time without restriction or pursuant to the date provisions of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement Rule 144(k); or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days if Form S-3 (or a successor or similar form) is not available for such offering by the Holder; or (iv) if the Company shall furnish to the Holder following receipt of his written request for registration, a certificate signed on behalf of the date Board of effectiveness Directors by the Chairman of any other the Board stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, it would be seriously detrimental to the Company and its shareholders for such registration statement to be filed pursuant and it is therefore essential to any other registration rights agreement to which defer the Company is a party or with respect to the sale filing of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement), in which event the Company shall have the right to defer such filing for a period of not more than one hundred eighty (180) days after receipt of the Holder's request for registration.
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Samples: Warrant Agreement (Cumetrix Data Systems Corp), Warrant Agreement (Cumetrix Data Systems Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of If the Company fails to complete the Subsequent Offering (as defined in the Note) by October 31, 2006, then upon written notice (a written request “Demand”) from one a Holder or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering of any or all or part of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder or Holders, which specifies notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredsuch Registrable Securities, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holdershall, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from days after receiving the date Holder’s or Holders’ Demand, give written notice (the “Request Notice”) of such Holder's receipt of registration request to all other Holders. The Request Notice shall offer to each such Holder the aforementioned notice from the Company) opportunity to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included include in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and statement such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that as each such Holder elects may request within ten (10) days after the date of the Request Notice, subject to include in the limitations of this Section 2 and the other provisions of this Agreement. As promptly as possible after such registration. Thereuponten (10) day period, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and shall use its reasonable best efforts Best Efforts to cause to be declared effective a effect, in the manner set forth in Section 4 hereof, the registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to under the Securities Act of all shares of such Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereofof disposition stated in the Holder’s or Holders’ request, as aforesaidprovided that:
(i) while a registration request is pending pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Company, with the prior approval of a majority of the Registrable Securities so registered; providedCompany’s Board of Directors, howevermay delay commencing to effect such registration until 60 days after receipt of notice of such request if the Board of Directors determines, in good faith, that the aggregate value filing of a registration statement at the time of such request would be materially detrimental to the Company such that such filing would have a material adverse effect upon the ability of the Registrable Securities Company to consummate a material acquisition or other comparable extraordinary transaction, provided that the Company shall not be permitted to delay a requested to be registered registration in reliance on this clause (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, more than once in any twelve (12) month period; and
(ii) the Company shall not be at least 25% obligated to file a registration statement relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2(a) within a period of two (2) months after the effective date of any other registration statement of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timeCompany demanded pursuant to this Section 2(a).
(b) If In the majority-in-interest of event that any registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating Holder initiating the demand pursuant to a public offering requests that Section 2(a) shall have the offering be underwritten with a managing right to designate an underwriter selected in as the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such sole lead managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing thatunderwritten offering, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only subject to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, Company’s consent which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)unreasonably withheld.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Synova Healthcare Group Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Synova Healthcare Group Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Subject to the conditions of this Section 2.1, if at any time after March 14, 2012 the Company shall receive a written request from one a Holder or more New group of Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") register under the Securities Act covering all or part Shares with an aggregate value (based on the SC Trading Average) of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods at least $1.0 million as of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such request (a “Demanding Holder's receipt ”) then the Company shall, subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, effect, as promptly as reasonably practicable, the aforementioned notice from registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities that the Holder requests to be registered. Any such requested registration shall hereinafter be referred to as a “Demand Registration” and any such registration statement filed with the SEC shall be referred to as a “Demand Registration Statement.”
(b) If a demanding Holder so elects, an offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Demand Registration shall be in the form of an underwritten offering. Such demanding Holder shall have the right to select the managing underwriter or underwriters to administer the offering; provided such managing underwriter or underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(c) The Company shall not be required to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such effect a registration thereof pursuant to this Section 32.1: (i) after the Company has effected five (5) registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1, and each of such Holder shall specify in such notice registrations has been declared or ordered effective and kept effective by the number Company as required by Section 2.4(a) of this Agreement; (ii) with respect to a registration of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, during the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than period starting with the date thirty (30) days prior to the Company’s good faith estimate of the launch date of, and ending on a date ninety (excluding 90) days after the closing date of, a Company-initiated registered offering of equity securities or securities convertible into or exchangeable for equity securities; provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all commercially reasonable efforts to launch such registered offering; (iii) during any Scheduled Black-out Period; (iv) if the Company has notified the Holder that in the good faith judgment of the Company, it would be materially detrimental to the Company or its securityholders for such registration to be effected at such time or (v) if the filing or initial effectiveness of a Demand Registration Statement at any time would require the Company to make disclosure of any event that the Board of Directors of the Company determines would not be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders due to a pending transaction, investigation or other event, including any public disclosure of material non-public information, where such disclosure would, at that time, materially adversely affect the Company and its shareholders, in which events described above in clauses (ii), (iv) and (v), the Company shall have the right to defer such filing for a period of not more than ninety (90) days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of the request of the Holder; provided that such right to delay a written request shall be exercised by the Company for not more than two periods in any twelve (12) month period and not more than ninety (90) days in the aggregate in any twelve (12) month period.
(d) Promptly upon receipt of any request for a Demand RegistrationRegistration pursuant to Section 2.1(a) (but in no event more than five Business Days thereafter), file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective Company shall deliver a registration statement written notice (a "“Demand Notice”) of any such registration request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities, and the Company shall include in such Demand Registration Statement"all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within ten Business Days after the date that the Demand Notice has been delivered. All requests made pursuant to this Section 2.1(d) relating to all shares shall specify the aggregate amount of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with be registered and the intended method of distribution of such securities.
(e) If the managing underwriter or methods thereof, as aforesaid) underwriters of a proposed underwritten offering of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders included in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that advise the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter Board of such Demand Registration advises Directors of the Company in writing that, in its or their opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, exceeds the number that can be sold in such offering without being likely to the Existing Holders on have a pro rata basis (based significant adverse effect on the number price, timing or distribution of Registrable Securities requested the securities offered or the market for the securities offered, the securities to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); providedshall be:
(i) first, however, that in no event may up to 100% of the Registrable Securities held by that the Existing demanding Holder proposes (or Holders propose) to include in the Demand Registration;
(ii) second, and only if all the securities referred to in clause (i) have been included, the number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of such managing underwriter or underwriters can be included sold without having such adverse effect, with such number to be allocated pro rata among the Holders that have requested to participate in such Demand Registration unless based on the relative number of Registrable Securities then held by each such Holder (provided that any securities thereby allocated to a Holder that exceed such Holder’s request shall be reallocated among the remaining requesting Holders in like manner); and
(iii) third, and only if all the securities referred to in clause (ii) have been included, the number of securities that the Company proposes to include in such registration that, in the opinion of the managing underwriter or underwriters can be sold without having such adverse effect.
(g) Any registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 may be required by the demanding Holders to be effected by means of a shelf registration statement filed with the SEC if the Company qualifies to file using either (i) Form F-3 or S-3 or (ii) any successor form or other appropriate form under the Securities Act (a “Shelf Registration Statement”) relating to any or all of the Registrable Securities requested in accordance with the methods and distribution set forth in the Shelf Registration Statement and Rule 415 under the Securities Act. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause any Shelf Registration Statement to remain effective, including by filing extensions of the Shelf Registration Statement, until the termination of the period contemplated in Section 2.6. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act in order to permit the prospectus forming a part thereof to be included in usable by Holders until the Demand Registration by earlier of (i) the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount date as of such which all Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities have been sold pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant or another registration statement filed under the Securities Act (but in no event prior to the applicable period referred to in Section 24(3) of the Securities Act and Rule 174 thereunder) and (ii) until the termination of the period contemplated in Section 2.6.
(h) If the continued use of such Shelf Registration Statement at any time would require the Company to make disclosure of any event that the Board of Directors of the Company determines would not be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders due to a pending transaction, investigation or other event, including any public disclosure of material non-public information, where such disclosure would, at that time, materially adversely affect the Company and its shareholders, the Company may, upon giving at least ten days’ prior written notice of such action to the Holders, suspend all Holders’ ability to use the Shelf Registration Statement (a “Shelf Suspension”); provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required permitted to prepare and file (i) exercise a Shelf Suspension for more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements periods in any twelve-twelve (12) month period and not more than ninety (90) days in the aggregate in any twelve (12) month period. In the case of a Shelf Suspension, (ii) the Holders agree to suspend use of the applicable prospectus in connection with any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following sale or purchase of, or offer to sell or purchase, Registrable Securities, upon receipt of the date of effectiveness notice referred to above. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders upon the termination of any other Registration Statement Shelf Suspension, amend or (iii) supplement the prospectus, if necessary, so it does not contain any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration material untrue statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect omission and furnish to the sale Holders such numbers of Common Stock by copies of the Company (prospectus as so amended or such longer period of time supplemented as the Holders may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)reasonably request.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (Seaspan CORP)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Subject to the conditions of this Section 4.1, if the Corporation shall receive at any time after one hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date of an initial public offering of the Common Stock, a written request from one or more New Holders requesting Investor Parties holding a majority of the Common Stock on a Fully Diluted Basis held by all Investor Parties that the Company effect Corporation file a registration (a "Demand Registration") statement under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects held by the Investor Parties with an anticipated aggregate offering price (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) of at least US$10,000,000, then the Corporation shall, subject to include in such registration. Thereuponthe limitations of this Section 4.1, use all commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period registration under Section 6 below) after receipt the Securities Act of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested Investor Parties request to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timein a written request.
(b) If Notwithstanding the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinionforegoing, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, Corporation shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled required to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities effect a registration pursuant to this Section 3 4.1:
(each, a "Demand for Registration"i) in addition any particular jurisdiction in which the Corporation would be required to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, unless the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant Corporation is already subject to Section 2service in such jurisdiction and except as may be required under the Securities Act; provided that a registration requested or
(ii) after the Corporation has effected three (3) registrations pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to 4.1, and such registrations have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), or ordered effective; or
(iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, during the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the Corporation’s good faith estimate of the date of the filing of and ending on a date one hundred eighty (180) days following the relevant Demand Registration Statementeffective date of a Corporation-initiated registration subject to Section 4.2 below, withdrawn sufficient shares from provided that the Corporation is actively employing in good faith all commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able statement to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and become effective; or
(iv) if the offering Corporation shall furnish to Investor Parties a certificate signed by the Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer or Chairman of Registrable Securities pursuant the Board stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, it would be materially detrimental to the Corporation and its stockholders for such registration is statement to be effected at such time, in which event the Corporation shall have the right to defer such filing for a period of not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement more than sixty (60) days after receipt of the SEC request of the Investor Parties, provided that such right shall be exercised by the Corporation not more than once in any twelve (12)-month period and provided further that the Corporation shall not register any securities for the account of itself or any other stockholder during such sixty (60) day period (other than any such stop ordera registration relating solely to the sale of securities of participants in a Corporation stock plan, injunction, a registration relating to a corporate reorganization or other order or requirement transaction under Rule 145 of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); providedSecurities Act, however, a registration on any form that if does not include substantially the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested same information as would be required to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to covering the sale of the Registrable Securities, or a registration in which the only Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period being registered is Common Stock issuable upon conversion of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statementdebt securities that are also being registered).
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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Ivanhoe Electric Inc.), Stockholders Agreement (Ivanhoe Electric Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written If at any time the Purchaser shall request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration in writing (each, a "Demand RegistrationDemand") ), to register under the Securities Act covering all or part a specified number of Registrable Securities (including Registrable Securities to be used to settle a Derivative Security), the Company shall use its best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required as soon as reasonably practicable so as to permit the disposition sale thereof, and in connection therewith shall prepare and file a Registration Statement with the SEC under the Securities Act to effect such registration; provided, that each such request shall (i) specify the number of shares of Registrable Securities intended to be offered and sold, (ii) describe the nature or method of the proposed offer and sale thereof, and (iii) contain the undertaking of the Purchaser to provide all such information and materials and take all such action as may be required in order to permit the Company to comply with all applicable requirements of the SEC and to obtain any desired acceleration of the effective date of such Registration Statement. Except as provided in the following sentence, the Company agrees not to grant to any other person registration rights pursuant to which such person would have the right to register shares of Common Stock on a Registration Statement filed by the Company pursuant to the exercise of the Purchaser's rights under this Agreement. The Purchaser agrees that the Company may grant to the "Holders" (as that term is defined in each of the Registration Rights Agreement between the Company and Bell Xxxantic Corporation, dated February 2, 2000 (xxx "Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxeement") and the Registration Rights Agreement between the Company and Cable and Wireless plc, dated February 2, 2000 (the "C&W Agreement")) the right to register shares of Common Stock on a Registration Statement filed by the Company pursuant to the exercise of the Purchaser's rights under this Section 2.01 of this Agreement, provided, that, so long as this Agreement or any successor agreement remains in full force and effect (a) such registrations are effected in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaidterms of Section 2.2(b) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value Bell Xxxantic Agreement or Section 2.2(b) of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000C&W Agreement, based on as the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is madecase may be, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
and (b) If the majority-in-interest neither Section 2.2(b) of the Participating Demand Holders Bell Xxxantic Agreement nor Section 2.2(b) of the C&W Agreement is modified or amended in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests manner that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent Purchaser without the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all prior written consent of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of SecuritiesPurchaser.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (NTL Delaware Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (NTL Inc/De/)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time after the initial public offering of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a ADSs representing interests in the Company’s Ordinary Shares pursuant to an effective registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part Act, the holders of the Registrable Securities which specifies may notify the intended method Company that they intend to offer or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares cause to be registeredoffered for public sale all or any portion of their Registrable Securities in the manner specified in such request. Upon receipt of such request, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt deliver notice of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within all Investors holding Registrable Securities who shall then have ten (10) Business Days from days to notify the date Company in writing of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) their desire to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities be included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. ThereuponIf the request for registration contemplates an underwritten public offering, the Company shall, as shall state such in the written notice and in such event the right of any Person to participate in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Person’s participation in such underwritten public offering and the inclusion of such Person’s Registrable Securities in the underwritten public offering to the extent provided herein. The Company will use its best efforts to expeditiously as is practicable, effect (but in any event no later than thirty sixty (3060) days after such request) the registration of all Registrable Securities whose holders request participation in such registration under the Securities Act, but only to the extent provided for in this Agreement; provided however, that the Company shall not be required to effect registration pursuant to a request under this Section 2 more than (excluding a) five (5) times over the course of any twelve (12) month period for the holders of the Registrable Securities as a group or (b) such other greater number of times as agreed upon by the Investors then holding Registrable Securities and the Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no request may be made under this Section 2 within ninety (90) days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt the effective date of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (filed by the Company covering a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares firm commitment underwritten public offering in which the holders of Registrable Securities shall have been entitled to join pursuant to Section 4 and in which there shall have been effectively registered all Registrable Securities as to which registration shall have been requested. A registration will not count as a requested registration under this Section 2(a) unless and until the registration statement relating to such registration has been declared effective by the Commission; provided however, that the participating Investors holding a majority of the Registrable Securities being registered by all participating Investors (a “Participating Majority”) may request, in writing, that the Company withdraw a registration statement which has been so requested filed under this Section 2(a) but has not yet been declared effective, and a Participating Majority may thereafter request the Company to register by reinstate such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for saleregistration statement, to if permitted under the extent required to permit Securities Act, or the disposition (holders of Registrable Securities may request that the Company file another registration statement, in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) procedures set forth herein and without reduction in the number of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timeregistrations permitted under this Section 2(a).
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a requested registration involves an underwritten public offering requests that and the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises offering determines in good faith that the Company in writing thatnumber of securities sought to be offered should be limited due to market conditions, in its opinion, then the number of securities to be included in such underwritten public offering is greater shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter; provided, that the shares to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) persons not having any contractual or other right to include such securities in the registration statement, (ii) securities held by any other Persons (other than the total number holders of securities which can be sold therein without Registrable Securities) having a material adverse effect on the distribution of contractual, incidental “piggy back” right to include such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on in the marketability thereof registration statement, (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested iii) securities to be registered thereunder only by the Company pursuant to such registration statement, (iv) pro rata based on the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall to be allocated first, among all sold by the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number holders of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled With respect to a request for registration pursuant to Section 2(a) which is for an aggregate underwritten public offering, all of four (4) registrations of the Investors selling Registrable Securities in such underwritten public offering will have the collective right to choose the managing underwriter for such underwritten public offering. The Company may not cause any other registration of securities for sale for its own account (other than a registration effected solely to implement an employee benefit plan or a transaction to which Rule 145 of the Securities Act is applicable) to become effective within one hundred twenty (120) days following the effective date of any registration required pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (HeadHunter Group PLC), Registration Rights Agreement (HeadHunter Group PLC)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of 2.1 Subject to Sections 2.4 and 2.5, if at any time after one year has elapsed from the date the Company first consummates a Public Offering pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 or Form SB-2, the Company shall receive a written request therefor from one the record holder or more New Holders requesting that holders of an aggregate of at least 51% of the Registrable Securities, the Company effect shall prepare and file a registration (a "Demand Registration") statement under the Securities Act covering such number of Registrable Securities as are the subject of such request and shall use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective. Upon the receipt of a registration request meeting the requirements of this Section 2.1, the Company shall promptly give written notice to all or part other record holders of Registrable Securities that such registration is to be effected. The Company shall include in such registration statement such additional Registrable Securities as such other record holders request in writing within thirty (30) days after the date of the Company's written notice to them. If (a) the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities for which specifies registration has been requested pursuant to this Section 2.1 determine for any reason not to proceed with the intended method registration at any time before the related registration statement has been declared effective by the Commission, (b) such registration statement, if theretofore filed with the Commission, is withdrawn and (c) the holders of the Registrable Securities subject to such registration statement agree to bear their own Registration Expenses incurred in connection therewith and to reimburse the Company for the Registration Expenses incurred by it in such connection or methods if such registration statement, if theretofore filed with the Commission, is withdrawn at the initiative of disposition thereof and the number Company, then the holders of shares the Registrable Securities shall not be deemed to have exercised their demand registration right pursuant to this Section 2.1.
2.2 At the request of the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify method of disposition of all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3shall be an underwritten Public Offering. The managing underwriter of any such Public Offering shall be selected by the Company. If in the good faith judgment of the managing underwriter of such Public Offering, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the inclusion of all of the Registrable Securities the registration of which has been requested would interfere with their successful marketing, the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can Public Offering shall be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on reduced, pro rata, among the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability requesting holders thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested proportion to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of their respective requests for registration. Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares so excluded from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).underwritten
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Stockpoint Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Stockpoint Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After the earlier of the first anniversary ------------------- of the Initial Public Offering Date and May 15, 1997, upon receipt of a the written request from of one or more New Registration Rights Holders requesting (as defined in section 12.2) (the "Initiating Holders") that the Company effect the registration under the 1933 Act of all or part of such Initiating Holders' Shares having a current per share market price of not less than $50,000,000 (a "Demand Request"), the Company shall promptly give written notice of such Registration Request to all other Registration Rights Holders, if any, and thereafter shall use all reasonable efforts to file a registration statement on a form to be selected by the Company and to effect the registration under the 1933 Act of the Shares designated in the Demand Request (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering and all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, other Shares the Company shall promptly notify all has been requested to register by any other Registration Rights Holders in writing of entitled to request registration pursuant to section 10.2 (the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect ("Other Holders") by written notice sent request given to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from 15 calendar days after the date giving of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned written notice from by the Company) . The Company shall be obligated to have all or part effect three Demand Registrations; however, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this agreement, if, for any reason (other than the fault of such any Registration Rights Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon), the Company shallregistration fails to become effective and provide for the distribution of all the Shares specified in the Demand Request, as expeditiously as or the effectiveness is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) not maintained for at least 60 days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with section 10.4(e) or the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, howeverCompany fails to perform all its obligations under this section 10.1 with respect to that registration, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one reduce the number of Demand Registrations the Company was required to effect under this section 10.1 prior to that Demand Registration. The Company's obligations under this section 10.1 shall terminate on the earlier of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to tenth anniversary of this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to agreement and the contrary contained hereinfirst date on which the Fraction is less than one-tenth, and the Company shall not be required obligated to prepare and file (i) effect more than two (2) one Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)365 days.
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Samples: Shareholder Agreements (Schein Pharmaceutical Inc), Shareholder Agreements (Schein Pharmaceutical Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time after the six month anniversary of the Registration Date: (i) Shareholders owning a majority of the then outstanding Registrable Shares may on two occasions give the Company written request from one notice (a “Demand Notice”) requiring the Company to file a Registration Statement covering the sale or more New Holders requesting distribution of, at such Shareholders’ option, either (x) ADSs representing the Registrable Shares owned by such Shareholders, or (y) in the event that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") shall have previously registered under the Securities Act covering all or part the sale to the public of preferred shares, the Registrable Securities which specifies Shares owned by such Shareholders, in either case, that are identified in the intended Demand Notice in accordance with any reasonable and lawful method or methods of disposition thereof distribution selected by them; and the number of shares to be registered, (ii) the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the within 10 days after receipt of such Demand Notice give written notice to the other Shareholders of their right to include in such Registration Statement any Registrable Shares owned by them (or ADSs representing any Registrable Shares owned by them, as applicable) that such Shareholders shall request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (the Company to include therein by written notice sent given to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date no more than 20 days after receipt of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) . The Company shall thereafter use its commercially reasonable efforts to have all or part effect the registration of such Holder's the Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Shares (and/or ADSs representing any Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shallShares owned by them, as expeditiously applicable) identified by the Shareholders in the preceding clauses (i) and (ii) as is soon as practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) within 90 days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after from receipt of a written request for a the Demand RegistrationNotice. If the method of distributing the offering is an underwritten public offering, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by may designate the managing underwriter for such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for saleoffering, subject to the extent required to permit approval of the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) Shareholders holding a majority of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that Shares included referred to in the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested Demand Notice (such approval not to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timeunreasonably withheld).
(b) If The Company shall not be obligated to use its commercially reasonable efforts to file and cause to become effective: (i) more than two Registration Statements initiated pursuant to Section 2(a); or (ii) any Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) during any period in which any other registration statement (other than on Form S-4 or Form S-8 promulgated under the majority-in-interest of Securities Act or any successor forms thereto) pursuant to which New Preferred Shares or ADSs representing New Preferred Shares are to be or were sold under the Participating Demand Holders Securities Act (A) has been filed and not withdrawn or has been declared effective within the prior 180 days and (B) in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests connection with any such registration statement that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises has not been declared effective, the Company is in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities good faith using commercially reasonable efforts to be included in cause such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof registration statement to become effective.
(the "Maximum Number of Securities"c) With respect to any registration pursuant to Section 2(a), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine Primary Shares or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
Other Shares (c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to or any stop order, injunction ADSs representing Primary Shares or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable SecuritiesOther Shares); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating managing underwriter advises the Company that the inclusion of all Registrable Shares, Primary Shares and Other Shares (and/or ADSs representing all Registrable Shares, Primary Shares and Other Shares) proposed to be included in such Demand Registration registration would interfere with the successful marketing (including pricing) of all such securities, then the number of Registrable Shares, Primary Shares and Other Shares (and/or ADSs representing Registrable Shares, Primary Shares and Other Shares) proposed to be included in such registration shall be included in the following order:
(i) first, the Registrable Shares (and/or ADSs representing Registrable Shares, as applicable) held by the Shareholders requesting that their Registrable Shares (or ADSs representing Registrable Shares, as applicable) be included in such registration pursuant to Section 2(a), pro rata based upon the number of Registrable Shares (or ADSs representing Registrable Shares, as applicable) owned by each such Shareholder at the time of such registration; provided, however, that the number of Registrable Shares (or ADSs representing Registrable Shares) held by the Shareholders to be included in such underwriting shall not be reduced unless all Primary Shares and Other Shares (and/or ADSs representing Primary Shares and Other Shares, as applicable) are first entirely excluded from the underwriting;
(ii) second, the Primary Shares; and
(iii) third, the Other Shares; provided, however, that, a registration shall not able be counted as “effected” for the purposes of this Section 2 and shall not count as a registration initiated pursuant to register and sell at least two-thirds this Section 2 for purposes of Section 2(b)(i) above, if, as a result of an exercise of the New underwriter’s cutback provisions in this clause (c), fewer than one-half of the total number of Registrable Securities Shares or ADSs representing Registrable Shares, as applicable, that the Shareholders have requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)registration statement are actually included.
(d) Notwithstanding anything A requested registration under this Section 2 may be rescinded prior to such registration being declared effective by the SEC by written notice to the contrary contained hereinCompany from those Shareholders who initiated the request; provided, however, that such rescinded registration shall not count as a registration initiated pursuant to this Section 2 for purposes of Section 2(b)(i) above if the Company shall have been reimbursed (pro rata by the Shareholders requesting registration or in such other proportion as they may agree) for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Company in connection with such rescinded registration; provided, further, however, that if, at the time of such rescission, the Company Shareholders who initiated the request shall have learned of an event that is, or is reasonably likely to result in, a material adverse change in the Company’s business, financial condition or results of operations from that known to such Shareholders at the time of their request and have withdrawn the request with reasonable promptness after learning of such information then the Shareholders shall not be required to prepare reimburse the Company for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Company in connection with such rescinded registration and file such rescinded registration shall not count as a registration initiated pursuant to this Section 2 for purposes of clause (i) more than two of subsection (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statementb).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Azul Sa), Registration Rights Agreement (Azul Sa)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that If the Company shall be requested in writing by Holder to effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of any of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredRegistration Stock, the Company Company, subject to the limitations set forth in subsection 3(b), shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of effect as soon as practicable after the receipt of such request, the registration under the Act of all Registration Stock which Holder so requests to be registered.
(i) If Holder intends to distribute the Registration Stock covered by its request and each such Holderby means of an underwriting, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to it shall so advise the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or as a part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof its request made pursuant to this Section 3subsection 3(a). The managing underwriter will be selected by Holder and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company. In such event, and such Holder shall specify (together with the Company as provided in subsection 4(e)) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such notice underwriting.
(ii) Notwithstanding the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereuponforegoing, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but may include in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement"requested under this subsection 3(a) relating to all any additional authorized shares of Registrable Securities that the Common Stock, whether or not issued, for sale by the Company has been so requested to register or for sale by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredothers; provided, however, that such shares shall not be included to the aggregate value of extent that the Registrable Securities requested to be registered managing underwriter chosen in accordance with subsection (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on above concludes in good faith that the closing trading price inclusion of such shares will interfere with the successful marketing of the Common shares of Registration Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or included therein.
(iii) include all Registrable Securities Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company shall furnish to Holder a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, it would be detrimental for such registration statement to be filed or would require the Company to make public disclosure of information the premature disclosure of which remain outstanding at would have an adverse effect on the Company, and it is therefore beneficial to the Company to defer the filing of such timeregistration statement (or the intended sale of Registration Stock pursuant to a then effective registration statement), the Company shall have the right to defer taking action with respect to such filing, or require Holder to refrain from selling Registration Stock, as the case may be, for a period of not more than one hundred twenty (120) days.
(b) If The Company shall not be obligated to effect, or to take any action to effect, any registration pursuant to this Section 3:
(i) After the majority-in-interest Company has effected one registration pursuant to this Section 3 in the previous twelve (12) months and such registration has been declared or ordered effective; or
(ii) During the period beginning on a date thirty (30) days prior to the Company's good faith estimate of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below date of filing of, and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration ending on a pro rata basis date one hundred eighty (based on 180) days after the number effective date of, a registration of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any Common Stock or other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the Act in connection with a public offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC securities (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect relating solely to the sale of Common Stock by securities to participants in a stock option or other employee benefits plan of the Company); provided that the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified is actively employing in an underwriting agreement relating good faith reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement)statement to become effective.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Securicor Telesciences Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Axiom Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time following the third anniversary of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Closing (or, if earlier, the termination of the restrictions set forth in Section 6.01(a)(i)) and prior to the later of (x) the tenth anniversary of the Closing and (y) the date on which the Aggregate Ownership Percentage of the Investor Group ceases to be at least 10%, the Company shall effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering of all or part any portion of the Registrable Securities of the Investor Group in connection with which specifies the Company has received a request (a registration pursuant to any such request, a “Demand Registration”) from the Investor. Any such request shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition thereof thereof, and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify use commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, the registration under the Securities Act of all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such for which the Investor has requested registration thereof pursuant to under this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (305.01(a) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered; provided that the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any twelve-month period (other than (i) Demand Registrations to be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any successor form), which shall not exceed two Demand Registrations within any twelve-month period, or (ii) Demand Registrations pursuant to the Shelf Registration, for which an unlimited number of Demand Registrations shall be permitted); and provided, howeverfurther, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested Company shall not be obligated to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in effect a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that unless the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities aggregate proceeds expected to be included in such offering is greater than received from the total number sale of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to equals or exceeds $5,000,000. “Registering Investor” means the Existing Holders Investor or any Investor Group Member on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of whose behalf such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or are to be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement registered pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this 5.01 or Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)5.02 hereof.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement, Investor Rights Agreement (Foundation Medicine, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt If at any time when the Company is eligible to use a Form S-3 registration statement, the Company receives, prior to the first anniversary of this Agreement, a written request from one or more New Holders requesting of at least thirty percent (30%) of the Registrable Securities that the Company effect file a Form S-3 registration statement with respect to outstanding Registrable Securities of such Holders having an anticipated aggregate offering price, net of Selling Expenses, of at least $250,000, then the Company shall (i) within ten (10) days after the date such request is given, give notice thereof (the “Demand Notice”) to all Holders other than the Initiating Holders; and (ii) as soon as practicable, and in any event within thirty (30) days after the date such request is given by the Initiating Holders, file a "Demand Registration") Form S-3 registration statement under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration registration by any other Holders, as specified by notice given by each New Holder), and, second, such Holder to the Existing Company within twenty (20) days of the date the Demand Notice is given, and in each case, subject to the limitations of Subsection 2.1(b) and Subsection 2.2.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing obligations, if the Company furnishes to Holders on requesting a pro rata basis (based on registration pursuant to this Subsection 2.1 a certificate signed by the number Company’s chief executive officer stating that in the good faith judgment of Registrable Securities requested the Company’s Board of Directors it would be materially detrimental to the Company and its stockholders for such registration statement to be included in filed and it is therefore necessary to defer the filing of such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder)registration statement, then the Company shall have the right to defer taking action with respect to such filing, and any time periods with respect to filing or effectiveness thereof shall be tolled correspondingly, for a period of not more than sixty (60) days after the request of the Initiating Holders is given; provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesinvoke this right more than twice.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 The Company shall not be deemed obligated to have been effect, or to take any action to effect, any registration pursuant to Subsection 2.1(a) (i) during the period that is thirty (30) days before the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date that is thirty (30) days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration for a firm commitment underwriting, provided, that the Company is actively employing in good faith commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; or (ii) if the Company has effected a registration pursuant to Subsection 2.1(a) within the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding {B1711012; 2}
CONFIDENTIAL 1 the date of such request. A registration shall not be counted as “effected” for purposes of this Section 3(cSubsection 2.1(c) unless (i) it until such time as the applicable registration statement has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective unless the Initiating Holders withdraw their request for such registration, elect not to pay the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3expenses therefor, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities forfeit their right to one demand registration statement pursuant to Subsection 2.5, in which case such withdrawn registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration statement shall not be counted as one “effected” for purposes of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(cSubsection 2.1(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Eurosite Power Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Eurosite Power Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time after the Closing hereof, upon written notice of the Holders of a written request from one or more New Holders majority of the then outstanding Registrable Securities (on a common stock equivalent basis) requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies and specifying the intended method or methods of disposition distribution thereof and the number of shares to be registered(which may include a continuous or delayed offering), the Company shall promptly notify all Holders prepare and file a Registration Statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act, or other appropriate Form in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holderevent Form S-3 is not available, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to covering the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in then outstanding and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration thereof pursuant Registration Statement to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, become effective as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty possible and to remain effective until the earlier to occur of (30i) days (excluding any days the date on which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that covered by such Registration Statement have been sold and the Company distribution contemplated thereby has been so requested to register completed or (ii) the date by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of which all the Registrable Securities so registeredcovered thereby may be sold under Rule 144(k) (the "Effectiveness Period"); provided, however, that the aggregate value Purchaser shall not, pursuant to this Section 6.1, be entitled to sell, during any calendar quarter, more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the aggregate number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated firstoutstanding immediately following at the Closing, among all or if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on Company's fiscal year is not the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder)calendar year, and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all during any fiscal quarter of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand RegistrationCompany. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a A demand registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall 6.1(a) will not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared become effective by under the SEC, (ii) it has remained Securities Act and remains effective for the period set forth in described above.
(b) A Holder (including the Purchaser) or Holders requesting a registration pursuant to this Section 7(a)6.1(a) may, (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, at any time prior to the filing effective date of the relevant Demand Registration StatementStatement relating to such registration, withdrawn sufficient shares from revoke such request by providing a written notice to the Company revoking such request.
(c) The Company and any Other Approved Holder may include its securities in any demand registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities effected pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities)this Section 6.1; provided, however, that if the New managing underwriter(s) or the representative(s) of the several underwriters (the "Managing Underwriter") of a proposed underwritten public offering of Common Stock advises the Holder or Holders participating intending to participate in such Demand Registration are not able offering in writing that the total amount or kind of securities which such Holders, the Company and such Other Approved Holders intend to register and sell at least two-thirds include in such offering is sufficiently large to materially adversely affect the success of such offering, then the amount or kind of securities to be offered for the accounts of the New Registrable Securities requested Other Approved Holders shall be reduced pro rata among such Other Approved Holders to the extent necessary to reduce the total amount or kind of securities to be included in a Demand Registrationsuch proposed public offering to the amount or kind recommended by such Managing Underwriter and, if such reduction results in no securities being offered for the accounts of the Other Approved Holders in such proposed public offering, then such Demand Registration shall not the amount or kind of securities to be counted as one offered for the account of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect reduced to the sale extent necessary to reduce the total amount or kind of Common Stock securities to be included in such proposed public offering to the amount or kind recommended by the Company (such managing underwriter or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)underwriters.
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Samples: Stock Purchase and Registration Rights Agreement (Metropolitan Venture Partners Ii Lp), Stock Purchase and Registration Rights Agreement (Direct Insite Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting In the event that the Company effect shall have previously effected a registration Public Offering, a Shareholder may notify the Company in writing that the Shareholder desires the Company to cause at least fifty percent (a "Demand Registration"50%) of such Shareholder's Securities to be registered for sale to the public under the Securities Act covering all or part of Act. Within fifteen (15) days after the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such HolderCompany's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such HolderShareholder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereuponrequest, the Company shallwill promptly notify the other Shareholders and prepare and file, as expeditiously as is practicableand use its best efforts to prosecute to effectiveness, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file an appropriate filing with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective of a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all covering such shares of Registrable Securities that and the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method proposed sale or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) Securities Act. Notwithstanding the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinforegoing, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file effect, or take any action to effect, a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.1 for such Shareholder (ia) more than after the Company has effected two (2) Demand Registration Statements registrations pursuant to this Section 4.1 for such Shareholder and such registrations have been declared or ordered effective by the SEC, (b) more than one registration on Form S-1 in any twelve-month period, (iic) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which on Form S-1 when the Company is a party or eligible to use Form S-3 with respect to the sale relevant offering, or (d) any registration within the 120-day period after the Public Offering. The Company may postpone filing of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer any registration statement hereunder for a reasonable period of time as (not to exceed 90 days) if the Company has been advised by legal counsel that such filing would require a special audit or the disclosure of a material transaction or other matter that the Company determines reasonably and in good faith would result in a material detriment to the Company. The Company shall use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to remain effective for such period that may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating reasonably necessary to such registration statement)complete the distribution of securities so registered for sale.
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Samples: Shareholders' Agreement (Cellstar Corp), Stock Purchase Agreement (Cellstar Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt REQUEST FOR REGISTRATION ON FORM OTHER THAN FORM S-3. In the event that the Company shall receive from holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities then outstanding, at any time after the earlier of (i) five years from the date hereof or (ii) six months after the closing of the Company's first underwritten public offering of shares of Common Stock, a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering any Registration with respect to all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or a part of such Holder's holders' Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereuponon Form S-1, the Company shall, as expeditiously soon as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand effect Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; providedspecified in such request, however, provided that the aggregate value offering price to the public of such Registrable Securities equals or exceeds $1,000,000. Upon receipt of any such request, the Company shall notify all holders of Registrable Securities from whom such notice was not received (which notice shall be delivered by the Company within fifteen days of the Company's receipt of such request) and shall include in a Registration Statement any Registrable Securities requested for inclusion under such Registration Statement by such other holders. The Company shall not be obligated to effect more than two registrations pursuant to this subsection 2.2(a), provided that a Registration shall not be counted for this purpose if (i) the Company elects to sell stock pursuant to a Registration at the same time as the Registration requested hereunder and less than all the Registrable Securities for which Registration was requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is madeare included, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants Registration Statement does not become effective or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding the requesting holders are not able to sell at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement (Mission Critical Software Inc), Investor Rights Agreement (Mission Critical Software Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt If the Company shall receive, at any time after the date of this Agreement, a written request from one or more New Holders requesting holding, or having the present right to acquire, at the time of the request at least 51% of the Registrable Securities, that the Company effect file a registration (a "Demand Registration") statement under the Securities Act covering the registration of all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredSecurities, then the Company shall promptly notify (i) if such request is received from fewer than all Holders, give prompt written notice of such requested registration to all other Holders, so that such other Holders shall have the opportunity to join in writing such request, and (ii) subject to the limitations of Sections 1.3(c) and (e), 1.5 and 1.7 hereof, within 30 days of the receipt by the Company of such request and each such Holderwritten request, in lieu of exercising file a registration statement on any appropriate form under the Securities Act. The Company agrees to use its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent Reasonable Efforts to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in cause such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause statement to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating as promptly as practicable and to all shares keep it effective for such period of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required time as may be necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with consummation of the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) offering of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timecovered thereby.
(b) If The Registrable Securities registered pursuant to this Section 1.3 may, at the majority-in-interest option of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all holding at least 51% of the Registrable Securities requested to being registered, be included offered and sold in the Demand Registration firm commitment underwritten offerings. The underwriter or underwriters conducting such offerings shall be selected by the New Holder or Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount holding at least 51% of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included being registered; provided, that the managing underwriters in connection with each such Demand Registration, offering shall not exceed the Maximum Number be nationally recognized as underwriters of Securitiessecurities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled The Company is obligated to an aggregate of four (4) effect two registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 1.3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to any registrations in which the Shelf Registration Statement Holders may participate pursuant to Section 2; provided that the other provisions of this Agreement), one of which may be, at the option of the Holders holding at least 51% of the Registrable Securities being registered, a shelf registration requested pursuant which shall be required to this Section 3 be effective for a period of one year. A registration shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared become effective by the SEC, (ii) it has and remained effective for until the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in registered under such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not statement have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)sold.
(d) Notwithstanding anything Other than the Registrable Securities, no securities (including without limitation any securities with respect to which any Person has any rights under the agreement referred to in the last sentence of Section 1.11 hereof) shall be included among the securities covered by a registration effected pursuant to this Section 1.3 unless (i) the Holder or Holders holding 51% of the Registrable Securities to be covered thereby shall have consented in writing to the contrary contained hereininclusion of such other securities or (ii) the managing underwriters of the offering shall have advised such Holder or Holders in writing that the inclusion of such other securities would not adversely affect such offering or the subsequent trading market or market price for the Common Units.
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file register any Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 1.3: (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month periodduring a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 120 days, following the initial distribution of securities by the Company pursuant to a registered underwritten public offering if such offering was commenced prior to the time the Company receives the request contemplated by Section 1.3(a), or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date during a reasonable period of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant time, not to any other registration rights agreement exceed 60 days, with respect to which the Company is Board of Directors of the Managing General Partner has determined that a party or with respect registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to the sale of Common Stock by this Section 1.3 would adversely affect the Company (because of a material non-public acquisition or such longer period of similar material transaction that is pending at the time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statementthe Company receives the request contemplated by Section 1.3(a).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Varde Partners Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Varde Partners Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of At any time prior to such time as the rights under this Section 2 terminate with respect to a Holder as provided in Section 2(e) hereof, upon written request notice from one or more New Holders such Holder in the manner set forth herein requesting that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering of any or all or part of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder, which specifies notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredsuch Registrable Securities, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a effect, in the manner set forth in Section 5, the registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares under the Securities Act of such Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereofof disposition stated in such request (including in an offering on a delayed or continuous basis under Rule 415 (or any successor rule to similar effect) promulgated under the Securities Act, as aforesaidif (x) the Company is then eligible to register such Registrable Securities on Form S-3 (or a successor form) for such offering and (y) the Company consents to such an offering (except that no consent of the Company will be required if the contemplated offering on a delayed or continuous basis under Rule 415 is the offering of Registrable Securities so registered; upon the exercise, exchange or conversion of Exchangeable Securities as contemplated by Section 6 hereof)), provided that:
(i) if, within 5 business days of receipt of a registration request pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Holder or Holders making such request are advised in writing that the Company has in good faith commenced the preparation of a registration statement for an underwritten public offering prior to receipt of the notice requesting registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) and the managing underwriter of the proposed offering has determined that in such firm's good faith opinion, a registration at the time and on the terms requested would materially and adversely affect the offering that is contemplated by the Company, the Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) (a "Transactional Deferral") until the earliest of (A) the abandonment of such offering by the Company, (B) 60 days after receipt by the Holder or Holders requesting registration of the managing underwriter's written opinion referred to above in this clause (i), unless the registration statement for such offering has become effective and such offering has commenced on or prior to such 60th day, and (C) if the registration statement for such offering has become effective and such offering has commenced on or prior to such 60th day, the day on which the restrictions on the Holders contained in Section 10 hereof lapse, provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities Company shall not be permitted to delay a requested to be registered registration in reliance on this clause (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, more than once in any 12-month period;
(ii) be at least 25% of if, while a registration request is pending pursuant to this Section 2(a), the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests Company determines, following consultation with and receiving advice from its legal counsel, that the offering be underwritten with filing of a managing underwriter selected in registration statement would require the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter disclosure of such Demand Registration advises material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential and the disclosure of which the Company determines reasonably and in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having good faith would have a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities")Company, then the Company shall include in not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earlier of (A) the date upon which such Demand Registration material information is otherwise disclosed to the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested public or ceases to be registered thereunder only material and (B) 90 days after the Company makes such determination;
(iii) the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2: (A) prior to the extent first anniversary of the number closing of the Public Offering, (B) within a period of 365 calendar days after the effective date of any other registration statement of the Company demanded pursuant to this Section 2(a), or (C) if such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the registration request is for a number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on having a pro rata basis (based Fair Market Value on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to 3 4 business day immediately preceding the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount date of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number registration request of Securities, less than $50,000,000.00; and
(iv) the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or shall not be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled file a registration statement relating to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities a registration request pursuant to this Section 3 2: (each, a "Demand for Registration"A) in addition the case of a registration request by Zapaxx xx any Permitted Transferee that has acquired, in the transaction in which it became a Permitted Transferee, at least a majority of the then issued and outstanding Voting Stock, on more than three occasions after such time as Zapaxx xx such Permitted Transferee, as the case may be, owns less than a majority of the voting power of the outstanding capital stock of the Company (it being acknowledged that so long as Zapaxx xx such Permitted Transferee owns a majority of the voting power of the outstanding capital stock of the Company, there shall be no limit to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant number of occasions on which Zapaxx xx such Permitted Transferee may exercise such rights other than as expressly set forth herein), or (B) in the case of a Holder other than Zapaxx xx a Permitted Transferee described in clause (A) above, on more than the number of occasions permitted such Holder in accordance with Section 11 hereof.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to Section 2; provided that the contrary:
(i) a registration requested by a Holder pursuant to this Section 3 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected (and, therefore, not requested for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a2(a)), (iiiA) Holders of Registrable Securities included unless the registration statement filed in connection therewith has become effective, (B) if after such registration have notstatement has become effective, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not it becomes subject to any stop order, or there is issued an injunction or other order or requirement decree of the SEC (or other governmental agency or court for any reason other than any a misrepresentation or an omission by such stop orderHolder, which injunction, or other order or requirement decree prohibits or otherwise materially and adversely affects the offer and sale of the SEC prompted Registrable Securities so registered prior to the completion of the distribution thereof in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the registration statement or (C) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied by act reason of some act, misrepresentation or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities)by the Company and are not waived by the purchasers or underwriters; providedand
(ii) nothing herein shall modify a Holder's obligation to pay Registration Expenses, howeverin accordance with Section 4 hereof, that if are incurred in connection with any withdrawn registration requested by such Holder.
(c) In the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for event that any registration pursuant to this Section 3(c)2 shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, Holders owning at least 50.1% of the Fair Market Value of the Registrable Securities to be registered in connection with such offering shall have the right to designate an underwriter reasonably satisfactory to the Company as the lead managing underwriter of such underwritten offering, and the Company shall have the right to designate one underwriter reasonably satisfactory to such Holders as a co-manager of such underwritten offering.
(d) Notwithstanding anything The Company shall have the right to cause the registration of additional securities for sale for the account of any person (including the Company) in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by any Holder pursuant to Section 2(a) only to the contrary contained hereinextent the managing underwriter or other independent marketing agent for such offering (if any) determines that, in its opinion, the additional securities proposed to be sold will not materially and adversely affect the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities to be registered in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition then contemplated by such Holder. The rights of a Holder to cause the registration of additional Registrable Securities held by such Holder in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by another Holder pursuant to Section 2(a) shall be governed by the agreement of the Holders with respect thereto as provided in Section 11(a).
(e) The Company shall not be required obligated to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other a registration statement filed relating to a registration request by a Holder pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or this Section 2 from and after such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Holder first owns Registrable Securities representing (assuming for this purpose the conversion, exchange or exercise of all Registrable Securities then owned by 5 such Holder that are convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Voting Stock of the Company) less than 10% of the then issued and outstanding Voting Stock of the Company.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Zap Com Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Zap Com Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time beginning as of the date hereof, Holders of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that majority of the Company effect a Registrable Securities may require registration (a "“Demand Registration"”) under the Securities Act covering of all or any part of their Registrable Securities; provided that each such Demand Registration must be in respect of at least 100,000 shares of Common Stock. Holders may exercise this demand registration right under this Section 2 by giving a written request to the Registrable Securities which specifies Company specifying the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredHolders’ Registrable Securities. Within five (5) business days of receipt of such request, the Company shall promptly notify all other Holders in writing of the request. The Holders shall have thirty (30) days after receipt by such Holder of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the CompanyCompany to request that their Registrable Securities be included in the registration with the shares of the Holders initially requiring registration pursuant to this Section 2. Holder will be entitled to require up to two (2) Demand Registrations on Form S-1 and unlimited Demand Registration on Form S-3 (or any respective successor forms). A Demand Registration under this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have all been effected or part of such Holder's requested (a) unless a Registration Statement with respect thereto has become effective and Holder is legally permitted to sell the Registrable Securities included therein and the Registration Statement remains effective for at least one hundred eighty (180) consecutive days (unless the Registrable Securities are sold within a shorter period, then the Registration Statement shall have remained effective for such shorter period); (b) if after the Registration Statement has become effective, a stop-order, injunction or order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is issued or any other limitation, restriction or suspension of the offer or sale of any Registrable Securities has been imposed and the Registrable Securities covered thereby have not been sold; or (c) if the conditions to be fulfilled by the Company for completion of the transactions contemplated by the selling agreement or underwriting agreement related to the registration are not satisfied by the Company or waived by the underwriters.
(a) If Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities being registered so elect, a Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten offering. If the Demand Registration is an underwritten offering, Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities being registered will have the right to select the investment bankers and managers for the offering, subject to the Company’s approval, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. In a Demand Registration that is an underwritten offering, as many securities of the Company that the Company elects may be included in such registration thereof pursuant on the same terms and conditions as the Registrable Securities to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify be included in such notice registration; however, if the managing underwriters advise the Company in writing that in their opinion the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of other securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total registration exceeds the number of securities which that can be sold therein without having in such offering at a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities")price satisfactory to Holders, then the Company shall include will give priority for inclusion in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only registration: (a) first, to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration registration by each New Holder), and, Holders and (b) second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on securities the number of Registrable Securities requested Company elects to be included in such registration.
(b) The Company may delay a Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all for up to ninety (90) days if a majority of the Registrable Securities requested Company’s Board of Directors determines that it would be significantly detrimental to be included the Company to proceed with the registration. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2 to the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiescontrary, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or will not be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with effect a Demand Registration within six months after the Registrable Securities included in such effective date of a previous Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Prospect Global Resources Inc.), Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (Prospect Global Resources Inc.)
Demand Registration. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, at any time on or after the first anniversary of the Closing Date of an initial public offering (a"IPO") After receipt or registration of the Company's capital stock under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Stockholders may deliver a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand RegistrationNotice") to the Company to register under the Securities Act covering of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), on Form S-3 any or all or part shares of the Registrable Securities Common Stock owned by such Stockholders (such shares of Common Stock as to which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of any such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof is made pursuant to this Section 3, and 1 or Section 2 hereof being the "Registrable Securities"). The Company agrees that is will use reasonable efforts to cause the prompt registration of all such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. ThereuponSecurities; provided however, the Company shallmay postpone for a limited time, as expeditiously as is practicablewhich in no event shall be longer than ninety (90) days, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during compliance with a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts registration pursuant to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered this Section 1 if (i) be at least $2,500,000such compliance would materially adversely affect (including, based on without limitation, through the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is madepremature disclosure thereof) a proposed material financing, reorganization, recapitalization, acquisition, consolidation or similar transaction, (ii) be at least 25% the Company is conducting a public offering of capital stock and the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants managing underwriter concludes in its reasonable judgment that such compliance would materially adversely affect such offering or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, notifies 2 the number of securities Stockholders that a material event has occurred or is likely to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having occur that has not been publicly disclosed and if disclosed would have a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested and its ability to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all consummate any offering of the Registrable Securities requested subject to be included in the Demand Registration Notice. If there is a postponement under any of clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, the Demand Notice may be withdrawn by the New Holders are included in Stockholders by notice to the Company. In such Demand Registrationcase, no demand shall have been made for the purposes of this Section 1. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, The Stockholders shall not exceed the Maximum Number make a demand for registration of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate shares of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities Common Stock pursuant to this Section 3 1 within six (each, 6) months following the effective date of the registration for a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement piggyback" registration pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to 2 below. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior 1 to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereincontrary, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) comply with more than two one (21) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following request of the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed Stockholders pursuant to any other this Section 1. Any underwriter selected by the Stockholders to act as such in connection with a registration rights agreement pursuant to which the Company is a party or with respect this Section 1 must be reasonably acceptable to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Company.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Insurance Management Solutions Group Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Insurance Management Solutions Group Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Subject to the provisions of a this Agreement, Holders of at least 50% of the Registrable Securities entitled to registration rights under this Agreement may, by written request from one or more New Holders requesting delivered to the Company (the "Demand Notice"), demand that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under Registration to permit the Securities Act covering all or part resale of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the Securities. The Demand Notice may not be made for a number of shares or Registrable Securities whose aggregate offering price is expected to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later less than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time100,000.00.
(b) If the majority-in-interest Within five (5) days of the Participating receipt of the Demand Notice, the Company shall deliver to all Holders in notice of receipt of the Demand Notice and each Holder shall have a Demand Registration relating period of fifteen (15) days after delivery of the notice to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises inform the Company in writing that, of their desire to include their Warrant Shares in the requested Registration. Each Holder shall be permitted to withdraw all or any part of its opinion, the number of securities Registrable Securities from a Registration Statement by written notice to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration given at any time before the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all effective date of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of SecuritiesStatement.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled The Company will use its best efforts to an aggregate effect the Registration as soon as practicable after receipt of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant the Demand Notice, and in any event to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to file the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing within 90 days of the relevant receipt of the Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3Notice, and (iv) to cause the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant Registration Statement to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)become effective.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinelsewhere in this Agreement, if at the time the Demand Notice is received, the Company shall does not be required qualify to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand a Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any on Form S-3 or such other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other equivalent short-form registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which form, then the Company shall immediately notify each Holder that it is a party or with respect unable to meet the sale requirements of Common Stock by such Demand Notice. Upon the Company (or Holder's receipt of such longer period of time as may notice from the Company, the Company's obligations under such Demand Notice shall be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)terminated.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (MHM Services Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (MHM Services Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time following the closing of a written the IPO14 [and until the anniversary thereafter], the Initiating Holders may request from one or more New Holders requesting in writing that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities Shares shall be registered for trading on the securities exchange on which specifies the intended method or methods Company's stock is traded. Within twenty (20) days after receipt of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredany such request, the Company shall promptly notify give written notice of such request to the other Holders and shall include in such registration all Registrable Shares held by all such Holders who wish to participate in writing of such demand registration and provide the Company with written requests for inclusion therein within fifteen (15) days after the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registrationnotice. Thereupon, the Company shall, shall effect the registration of all Registrable Shares as expeditiously as is practicable, but to which it has received requests for registration for trading on the securities exchange specified in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written the request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredregistration; provided, however, that the aggregate value Company shall not be required to effect any registration under this Section 2.3 within a period of one hundred and eighty (180) days following the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000effective date of a previous registration. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 3, based on if the closing trading price of managing underwriter advises the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in writing that marketing factors require a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter limitation of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities shares to be underwritten, then there shall be excluded from such registration and underwriting to the extent necessary to satisfy such limitation, first shares held by shareholders other than the Holders, then shares which the Company may wish to register for its own account, and thereafter, to the extent necessary, shares held by the Holders (pro rata to the respective number of Registrable Shares required by the Holders to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holderregistration); provided, however, that in no any event may all Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders Shares must be included in such Demand Registration unless all registration prior to any other shares of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand RegistrationCompany. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the The Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand register securities for Registration") sale for its own account in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a any registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall 2.3 unless permitted to do so by the written consent of Holders who hold at least seventy-five percent 75%) of the Registrable Shares as to which registration has been requested. The Company may not be deemed to have been effected cause any other registration of securities for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless sale for its own account (other than (i) it has been declared effective by the SECa registration effected solely to implement an employee, director and consultant benefit plan, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a)a registration on Form S-4 or a foreign equivalent thereof, or (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such a registration have not, prior relating solely to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such a Rule 145 transaction) to be initiated after a registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities requested pursuant to such Section 2.3 and to become effective less than one hundred twenty (120) days after the effective date of any registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the 2.3. [The Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) effect more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in registrations under this Section 2.3.] The aggregate net proceeds from the sale of any twelve-month periodsuch Registrable Shares may not be less than [ Unites States dollars (US$ ,)] (net of any underwriters' discounts, commissions or expenses). Such registration will count for this purpose only if (i) all Registrable Shares requested to be registered are registered and (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following such registration is closed, or withdrawn at the date request of effectiveness the Initiating Holders (other than as a result of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following a material adverse change to the date of effectiveness of any other Company). The Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2.3 if the Company shall furnish to Holders requesting a registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).this Section
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Samples: Investors' Rights Agreement, Investors' Rights Agreement
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt If at any time after the earlier of (i) four (4) years after the date of this Agreement or (ii) one hundred eighty (180) calendar days after the effective date of the registration statement for the IPO, the Company receives a request from Holders of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting majority of the Registrable Securities then outstanding that the Company effect a registration with respect to an amount of the Registrable Securities then outstanding, then the Company shall (i) within ten (10) calendar days after the date such request is given, give notice thereof (the “Demand Notice”) to all Holders other than the Initiating Holders; and (ii) as soon as practicable, and in any event within sixty (60) calendar days after the date such request is given by the Initiating Holders, file a "Demand Registration") registration statement under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Initiating Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of any additional Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration registration by any other Holders, as specified by notice given by each New Holder), and, second, such Holder to the Existing Company within twenty (20) calendar days of the date the Demand Notice is given, and in each case, subject to the limitations of Section 2.1(b).
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing obligations, if the Company furnishes to Holders on requesting a pro rata basis registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 a certificate signed by the Company’s chief executive officer stating that in the good faith judgment of the Company’s Board of Directors it would be materially detrimental to the Company and its stockholders for such registration statement to either become effective or remain effective for as long as such registration statement otherwise would be required to remain effective, because such action would (based on i) materially interfere with a significant acquisition, corporate reorganization, or other similar transaction involving the number Company; (ii) require premature disclosure of Registrable material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; or (iii) render the Company unable to comply with requirements under the Securities requested Act or Exchange Act, then the Company shall have the right to defer taking action with respect to such filing, and any time periods with respect to filing or effectiveness thereof shall be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder)tolled correspondingly, for a period of not more than sixty (60) calendar days after the request of the Initiating Holders is given; provided, however, that the Company may not invoke this right more than once in no event may Registrable Securities held by any twelve (12) month period; and provided further that the Existing Holders be included in Company shall not register any securities for its own account or that of any other stockholder during such Demand Registration unless all sixty (60) day period other than pursuant to a registration relating to the sale of securities to employees of the Registrable Securities requested Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase, or similar plan; a registration on any form that does not include substantially the same information as would be required to be included in a registration statement covering the Demand Registration by sale of the New Holders Registrable Securities; or a registration in which the only Common Stock being registered is Common Stock issuable upon conversion of debt securities that are included in such Demand Registration. If also being registered.
(c) The Company shall not be obligated to effect, or to take any action to effect, any registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 (i) during the amount period that is sixty (60) calendar days before the Company’s good faith estimate of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number date of Securitiesfiling of, and ending on a date that is one hundred eighty (180) calendar days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration, provided, that the Company may include is actively employing in good faith commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Demand Registration registration statement to become effective; (ii) after the Company has effected two registrations; (iii) if the Holders, together with the holders of any other securities of the Company entitled to and requesting inclusion in such registration, propose to sell Registrable Securities and such other securities held by other security holders (if any) at an aggregate price to the public (net of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine Selling Expenses) of less than $5,000,000; or be obligated to allow(iv) if, in an amounta distribution not underwritten, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number Initiating Holders propose to dispose of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations shares of Registrable Securities that may be immediately registered on Form S-3 pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement request made pursuant to Section 2; provided that a 2.3. A registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected counted as “effected” for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it 2.1 until such time as the applicable registration statement has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective unless the Initiating Holders withdraw their request for such registration, elect not to pay the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3expenses therefor, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities forfeit their right to one demand registration statement pursuant to Section 2.7, in which case such withdrawn registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration statement shall not be counted as one “effected” for purposes of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)2.1.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Investors’ Rights Agreement (Proteon Therapeutics Inc), Investors’ Rights Agreement (Proteon Therapeutics Inc)
Demand Registration. (ai) After receipt of At any time after September 4, 2002, First Reserve may at any time and from time to time make a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that for registration under the Company effect Securities Act in a registration firm commitment underwritten public offering of Registrable Securities owned by them having a good faith estimated public offering price of at least $20 million (a "Demand Registration") under ); provided that the Securities Act covering all Company shall not be obligated to effect more than three Demand Registrations in any 12-month period or part more than an aggregate of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and four Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 5.2(a). Such request will specify the number of shares of Registrable Securities proposed to be registeredsold. Within five days of such request, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt give written notice of such request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and each such Holder, shall include in lieu the registration in respect of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written which notice sent has been given all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests from Holders for inclusion therein within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from days after the Company) to have all or part of 's notice regarding such Holder's registration has been given as provided herein. If Registrable Securities of other Holders are included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3registration, and the Holder or Holders requesting such Holder shall specify in such notice Demand Registration may reduce the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities specified to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities registration in its or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder)their sole discretion; provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all having a good faith estimated public offering price of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders at least $20 million are included in such Demand Registrationregistration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does A registration will not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such count as a Demand Registration any other securities of until the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a such registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained SEC and remains effective for the period set forth specified in Section 7(a5.2(d)(i).
(ii) The Holder or Holders requesting the Demand Registration shall select the managing underwriters (including the book running lead managing underwriters) and any additional investment bankers and managers to be used in connection with the offering (unless a member of the First Reserve Group is included among the Holders selling pursuant to such registration, in which case First Reserve shall select such underwriters, investment bankers and managers); provided that the lead managing underwriter must be reasonably satisfactory to the Company.
(iii) Neither the Company nor any of its security holders (other than the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior capacity) shall be entitled to the filing include any of the relevant Company's securities in a Registration Statement initiated as a Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that under this Section 5.2(a) without the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions consent of Section 3, and First Reserve.
(iv) In addition to the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registrationrights enumerated above, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Amethyst Registrable Securities at any time after (X) July 1, 2002 or (Y) such earlier date which is 60 days prior to the date on which the Exchangeable Stock shall have been exchanged for Common Stock pursuant to Section 5.10 or 5.11 of the Purchase Agreement, First Reserve may make a request in writing that the Company file a registration statement under the Securities Act to register under the Securities Act all Amethyst Registrable Securities (whether or not such Amethyst Registrable Securities are then issued and outstanding) for resale on a delayed or continuous basis for a period of one year in an amount equal to the lesser of (A) all such Amethyst Registrable Securities, or (B) the number of Amethyst Registrable Securities that could be sold pursuant to the provisions of Rule 144 by an affiliate of the Company (or assuming such longer period Amethyst Registrable Securities were not restricted securities within the meaning of time as may Rule 144) during such one-year period. Such a request (and the related registration) shall be specified in an underwriting agreement relating addition to such registration statement)the Demand Registrations provided for in Section 5.2(a)(i) of this Agreement.
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Samples: Shareholder Agreements (Pride International Inc), Shareholder Agreements (Pride International Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written If at any time, Initiating Holders request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect file a registration statement for shares of Registrable Securities held by such holders and if the anticipated aggregate proceeds of the offering proposed to be so registered, net of underwriting discounts and commissions, would exceed $15,000,000, the Company will:
(a "Demand Registration"i) within ten days of the receipt by the Company of such notice, give written notice of the proposed registration, qualification or compliance to all other Holders; and
(ii) as soon as practicable and in any event within sixty (60) days, use its best efforts to effect such registration, qualification or compliance (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and **** Certain information has been omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the omitted portions. appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act covering and any other governmental requirements or regulations) as may be so requested and as would permit or facilitate the sale and distribution of all or part such portion of such Registrable Securities as are specified in such request, together with all or such portion of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method of any Holder or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, Holders joining in such request as are specified in a written request received by the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the within 20 days after receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; providedProvided, however, that the aggregate value Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any such registration, qualification or compliance pursuant to this Section 2.1:
(1) Prior to the earlier of (A) April 30, 2013 or (B) the date six (6) months following the effective date of the Company’s first registered public offering of its stock, pursuant to a firm commitment underwritten offering;
(2) In any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance unless the Company is already subject to service in such jurisdiction and except as may be required by the Securities Act;
(3) During the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the Company’s good faith estimated date of filing of, and ending on the date six (6) months immediately following (90 days immediately following such effective date in the case of a registration statement other than for the Company’s initial public offering) the effective date of, any registration statement pertaining to securities of the Company (other than a registration of securities in a Rule 145 transaction or with respect to an employee benefit plan, in which case there shall be no such limitation on the Company’s obligation) subject to Section 2.2 hereof; provided that, in the case of such period prior to the effectiveness of such registration statement, the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(4) After the Company has effected three (3) such registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1(a), and such registrations have been declared or ordered effective and the securities offered thereunder have been sold.
(5) If the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the President of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors it would be seriously detrimental to the Company or its shareholders for a registration statement to be filed in the near future, then the Company’s obligation to use its best efforts to register, qualify or comply under this Section 2.1 shall be deferred for a period not to exceed 90 days from the date of receipt of written request from the Initiating Holders; or
(6) So long as the Company is eligible to use Form S-3 for the registration of shares of its capital stock. Subject to the foregoing clauses (1) through (6), the Company shall file a registration statement covering the Registrable Securities so requested to be registered as soon as practicable and in any event within sixty (i60) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price days after receipt of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% request or requests of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below Initiating Holders. **** Certain information has been omitted and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together filed separately with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it and Exchange Commission. Confidential treatment has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale omitted portions. The Company agrees that it may not make use of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer its rights to defer its obligations to file a registration statement pursuant to Sections 2.1(a)(ii)(3) and 2.3(b)(ii) more than once in any 12-month period and may not make use of its rights to defer its obligations to file a registration statement pursuant to Sections 2.1(a)(ii)(5) and 2.3(b)(iii) for more than an aggregate deferral period of time as may be specified 90 days in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)any 12-month period.
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Samples: Investors’ Rights Agreement, Investors’ Rights Agreement (Yodlee Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written request from one or more New At any time during the Demand Period, the Holders requesting that shall have the right to require the Company effect to file a registration Registration Statement under the Securities Act (a "Demand Registration") covering all or any part of their respective Registrable Securities by delivering a written request therefor to the Company specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders and the intended method of distribution thereof. In no event shall the Company's obligation to effect a Demand Registration reduce or relieve the Company of any obligation to effect and maintain the Shelf Registration Statement for the benefit of the other PVH Holders. Upon the receipt of such demand, the Company will (i) within ten days, give written notice of the Demand Registration to all other Holders and (ii) as soon as practicable, use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act covering all and any other governmental requirements or part regulations) of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") register, for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (distribution in accordance with the such intended method of distribution, together with all or methods thereof, as aforesaid) such portion of the Registrable Securities so registeredof any Holder or Holders joining in such request as are specified in a written request received by the Company within 20 days after receipt of such written notice from the Company; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested Company shall not be obligated to be registered take any action to effect any such Demand Registration, pursuant to this Section 2.2(a):
(i) be at least $2,500,000after the Company has effected three Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.2(a), based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand which registrations are deemed effective pursuant to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, Section 2.2(d) hereof;
(ii) be if Registrable Securities equal to at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise originally issued Series B Stock or having an aggregate market value of the Warrants or at least $25,000,000 (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering market value shall be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, determined by multiplying the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders proposed per share offering price) are not included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, ;
(iii) if the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of shall have furnished to the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities requesting a registration pursuant to this Section 3 (each, 2.2(a) a "Demand for Registration") certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors or President of the Company stating that in addition the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors it would be detrimental to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected Company and its stockholders for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have notstatement to be filed at such time, prior then the Company's obligation to make such filing shall be deferred for a period not to exceed 180 days from the filing date of the relevant receipt of written request in respect of such Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities)Registration; provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) exercise such right more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements once in any twelve12-month period;
(iv) during the period of time starting with the date 60 days immediately prior to the Company's estimated date of filing of, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within and ending on the date 90 days (or 180 days in the case of an underwritten public offering) immediately following the effective date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant pertaining to any other registration rights agreement to which securities issued for the account of the Company is (other than a party registration of securities in a Rule 145 transaction or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by an employee benefit plan); provided that the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified is actively employing in an underwriting agreement relating good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement)statement to become effective; provided, further, that the Company shall not exercise such right more than once in any 12-month period; or
(v) of any Registrable Securities if such Registrable Securities are then covered by an effective Registration Statement.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Phillips Van Heusen Corp /De/), Registration Rights Agreement (Phillips Van Heusen Corp /De/)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of At any time prior to such time as the rights under this Section 2 terminate with respect to a Holder as provided in Section 2(a)(iii) hereof, upon written request notice from one or more New Holders such Holder in the manner set forth in Section 12(i) hereof requesting that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering of any or all or part of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder or any of its Affiliates which specifies notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredsuch Registrable Securities, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a effect, in the manner set forth in Section 5, the registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares under the Securities Act of such Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereofof disposition stated in such request (including (1) in an offering on a delayed or continuous basis under Rule 415 (or any successor rule of similar effect) promulgated under the Securities Act and accordingly requiring the filing of a "shelf" registration statement and/or (2) sales for cash or dispositions upon exchange or conversion of securities or dispositions for any form of consideration or no consideration), provided that:
(i) if, while a registration request is pending pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Company determines, following consultation with and receiving advice from its legal counsel, that the filing of a registration statement would require the disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as aforesaidconfidential and the disclosure of which the Company determines reasonably and in good faith would have a material adverse effect on the Company, the Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earlier of (A) the Registrable Securities so registered; date upon which such material information is otherwise disclosed to the public or ceases to be material and (B) 30 days after the Company makes such determination, provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities Company shall not be permitted to delay a requested to be registered registration in reliance on this clause (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, more than twice in any 12-month period;
(ii) the Company shall not be at least 25% obligated to file a registration statement relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2 within a period of 60 calendar days after the effective date of any other registration statement of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or Company demanded pursuant to this Section 2(a); and
(iii) include all Registrable Securities the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2: (A) in the case of a registration request by Transocean or any of its Affiliates, on more than three occasions after such time as Transocean and its Affiliates collectively own less than a majority of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock (it being acknowledged that so long as Transocean and its Affiliates collectively own a majority of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock, there shall be no limit to the number of occasions on which remain Transocean or its Affiliates may exercise their rights under this Section 2), or (B) in the case of a registration request by a Permitted Transferee or any of its Affiliates, on more than the number of occasions permitted such Holder in accordance with Section 11 hereof (it being acknowledged that (1) the exercise by such Permitted Transferee and its Affiliates of such rights shall not limit the number of occasions on which Transocean and its Affiliates may exercise their rights under this Section 2 and (2) so long as such Permitted Transferee and its Affiliates collectively own a majority of the then outstanding at shares of Common Stock, there shall be no limit to the number of occasions on which such timePermitted Transferee or its Affiliates may exercise their rights under this Section 2).
(b) If the majority-in-interest Notwithstanding any other provision of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only this Agreement to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securitiescontrary, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities registration requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities Holder pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected (and, therefore, not requested for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless 2(a)), (i) it unless the registration statement filed in connection therewith has been declared effective by the SECbecome effective, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in if after such registration have notstatement has become effective, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not it becomes subject to any stop order, or there is issued an injunction or other order or requirement decree of the SEC (or other governmental agency or court for any reason other than any a misrepresentation or an omission by such stop orderHolder, which injunction, or other order or requirement decree prohibits or otherwise materially and adversely affects the offer and sale of the SEC prompted Registrable Securities so registered prior to the completion of the distribution thereof in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the registration statement or (iii) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied other than by act reason of some act, misrepresentation or omission by a Holder and are not waived by the purchasers or underwriters.
(c) In the event that any registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, Holders owning at least 50.1% of Holders the Fair Market Value of the Registrable Securities to be registered in connection with such offering shall have the right to designate an underwriter reasonably satisfactory to the Company as the lead managing underwriter of such underwritten offering.
(d) The Company shall have the right to cause the registration of additional securities for sale for the account of any person (including the Company) in any registration of Registrable SecuritiesSecurities requested by any Holder pursuant to Section 2(a); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating managing underwriter or other independent marketing agent for such offering (if any) determines that, in such Demand Registration are not able its opinion, the additional securities proposed to register be sold will materially and sell at least two-thirds adversely affect the offering and sale of the New Registrable Securities to be registered in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition then contemplated by such Holder only the number or principal amount of such additional securities, if any (in excess of the number or principal mount of Registrable Securities), which, in the opinion of such underwriter or agent, can be so sold without materially and adversely affecting such offering shall be included such registration. The rights of a Holder to cause the registration of additional Registrable Securities held by such Holder in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by another Holder pursuant to Section 2(a) shall be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one governed by the agreement of the five Demands for Registration Holders with respect thereto as provided for pursuant to this in Section 3(c11(a).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Todco), Registration Rights Agreement (Todco)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written At any time the Initiating Holders may request from one or more New Holders requesting in writing that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods Shares shall be registered for trading on any securities exchange. Within twenty (20) days after receipt of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredany such request, the Company shall promptly notify give written notice of such request to the other Holders and shall include in such registration all Registrable Shares held by all such Holders who wish to participate in writing of such demand registration and provide the Company with written requests for inclusion therein within fifteen (15) days after the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration’s notice. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause effect the registration of all Registrable Shares as to be declared effective a which it has received requests for registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that for trading on the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") securities exchange specified in the request for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredregistration; provided, however, that the aggregate value Company shall not be required to effect any registration under this Section 3.3 within a period of ninety (90) days following the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000effective date of a previous registration. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 3, based on if the closing trading price of managing underwriter advises the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in writing that marketing factors require a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter limitation of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities shares to be underwritten, then there shall be excluded from such registration and underwriting to the extent necessary to satisfy such limitation, first shares held by shareholders other than the Holders, then shares which the Company may wish to register for its own account, and thereafter, to the extent necessary, shares held by the Holders (pro rata to the respective number of Registrable Shares requested by the Holders to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holderregistration); provided, however, that in no any event may all Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders Shares must be included in such Demand Registration unless all registration prior to any other shares of the Company, provided, further that the Registrable Securities requested Shares shall consist no less than one-third (1/3) of the number of shares to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registrationunderwritten. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the The Company may include in such Demand Registration not cause any other registration of securities of the Company and for sale for its own account (other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or than a registration effected solely to implement an employee benefit plan) to be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that initiated after a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 3.3 and to become effective less than ninety (90) days after the effective date of any registration requested pursuant to Section 3.3. The Company shall not be deemed required to have been effected for purposes of effect more than three (3) registrations under this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities)3.3; provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New obligation shall be deemed satisfied only when a registration statement covering all Registrable Securities requested Shares required to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration registration as aforesaid for sale in accordance with the method of disposition specified by the Initiating Holders shall not be counted as one have become effective or if such registration statement has been withdrawn prior to the consummation of the five Demands offering at the request of the participating Holders (other than as a result of a material adverse change in the business or condition, financial or otherwise, of the Company) and, if such method of disposition is a firm commitment underwritten public offering, all such shares shall have been sold pursuant thereto (not including shares eligible for Registration provided for sale pursuant to this Section 3(cthe underwriters’ over-allotment option).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Investors’ Rights Agreement, Investors’ Rights Agreement (Borderfree, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time and from time to time on or following the date hereof, any Holder or group of a written Holders may request from one or more New Holders requesting in writing (“Demand Registration Request”) that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's ’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities included with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such registration thereof Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and shall use its reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective, as promptly as practicable after receipt of such request; provided, however, that the Company will not be required to file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 3, (a):
(A) unless either (i) the principal amount of Registrable Securities requested to be registered on such Registration Statement equals at least twenty percent (20%) of the outstanding Registrable Securities held by all Holders or (ii) the Registrable Securities requested to be sold by the Holders pursuant to such Registration Statement have an anticipated aggregate gross offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of at least $15 million;
(B) if the Registrable Securities requested to be registered are already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement and such Holder Registration Statement may be utilized for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered;
(C) if a registration statement filed by the Company shall specify in have previously been initially declared effective by the Commission within the one hundred eighty (180) days preceding the date such notice Demand Registration Request is made; and
(D) if the number of Demand Registration Requests previously made pursuant to this Section (a) shall equal or exceed five (5); provided, however that a Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (D) unless the requested Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission for more than 75% of the full amount of Registrable Securities that for which registration has been requested.
(b) A Demand Registration Request shall specify (i) the then-current name and address of such Holder elects or Holders, (ii) the aggregate amount of Registrable Securities requested to include be registered, (iii) the total amount of Registrable Securities then beneficially owned by such Holder or Holders, and (iv) the intended means of distribution. If at the time the Demand Registration Request is made the Company appears, based on public information available to such Holder or Holders, eligible to use Form S-3 for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities, the Holder or Holders making such request may request that the registration be in such registration. Thereuponthe form of a Shelf Registration Statement (for the avoidance of doubt, the Company shallshall not be under the obligation to file a Shelf Registration on Form S-3 if, as expeditiously as upon the advice of its counsel, it is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty not eligible to make such a filing).
(30c) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period The Company may satisfy its obligations under Section 6 below(a) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement hereof by amending (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permitted by applicable law) any registration statement previously filed by the Company under the Securities Act, so that such amended registration statement will permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, of disposition specified as aforesaid) of all of the Registrable Securities for which a Demand Registration Request has been properly made under Section 4(b) hereof. If the Company so registeredamends a previously filed registration statement, it will be deemed to have effected a registration for purposes of Section (a) hereof; provided, however, however that the aggregate value Effective Date of the amended registration statement, as amended pursuant to this Section 4(c) shall be the “the first day of effectiveness” of such Registration Statement for purposes of determining the period during which the Registration Statement is required to be maintained effective in accordance with Section 4(e) hereof.
(d) Within ten (10) days after receiving a Demand Registration Request, the Company shall give written notice of such request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the provisions of Section 5(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in such registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within fifteen (15) days after the Company’s giving of such notice, provided that such Registrable Securities are not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement that may be utilized for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on in the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timemanner so requested.
(be) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in The Company will use its reasonable efforts to keep a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests Statement that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration has become effective as contemplated by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 34 continuously effective, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the SEC Commission:
(A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than any a Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such stop orderRegistration Statement, injunctionbut in no event later than two hundred seventy (270) days from the Effective Date of such Registration Statement; and
(B) in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, or other order or requirement until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) the SEC prompted date that all Registrable Securities covered by act or omission of Holders of such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities); provided, however, that in the event of any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the Commission relating to any Shelf Registration Statement, if any Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement remain unsold, the New period during which such Shelf Registration Statement shall be required to remain effective will be extended by the number of days during which such stop order, injunction or similar order or requirement is in effect; provided further, however, that if any Shelf Registration Statement was initially declared effective on Form S-3 and, prior to the date determined pursuant to Section 4(e)(B), the Company becomes ineligible to use Form S-3, the period during which such Shelf Registration Statement shall be required to remain effective will be extended by the number of days during which the Company did not have an effective Registration Statement covering unsold Registrable Securities initially registered on such Shelf Registration Statement.
(f) The Holder or Holders participating making a Demand Registration Request may, at any time prior to the Effective Date of the Registration Statement relating to such registration, revoke their request for the Company to effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities by providing a written notice to the Company. If, pursuant to the preceding sentence, the entire Demand Registration Request is revoked, then, at the option of the Holder or Holders who revoke such request, either (i) such Holder or Holders shall reimburse the Company for all of its reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the preparation, filing and processing of the Registration Statement, which out-of-pocket expenses, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) the requested registration that has been revoked will be deemed to have been effected for purposes of Section (a).
(g) If a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 4 is a Shelf Registration Statement, then upon the demand of one or more Holders, the Company shall facilitate a “takedown” of Registrable Securities in the form of an Underwritten Offering, in the manner and subject to the conditions described in Section 5 of this Agreement, provided that either (i) the principal amount of Registrable Securities to be included in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell “takedown” shall equal at least two-thirds twenty percent (20%) of the New outstanding Registrable Securities held by all Holders or (ii) the Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock sold by the Company Holders in such “takedown” shall have an anticipated aggregate offering price (or such longer period before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)at least $15 million.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Goodrich Petroleum Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Anchorage Capital Group, L.L.C.)
Demand Registration. (a) After Upon receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders a Holder holding at least 25% of the Registrable Securities at such time (on an as converted basis) requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "“Demand Registration"”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredthereof, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, 2.04 hereof may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's ’s receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's ’s Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 32.01, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, Thereupon the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicablepossible, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 2.05 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective effective, a registration statement (a "“Demand Registration Statement"”) relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("“Participating Demand Holders"”) for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests holding a majority in interest of Registrable Securities (on an as converted basis) for which such Demand Registration was requested request that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 2.13 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "“Maximum Number of Securities"”), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all of the New Holders participating in such Participating Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration held by each Existing Participating Demand Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company in an amount not to exceed the difference between (i) the Maximum Number of Securities and (ii) the Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to register by the Participating Demand Holders, as the Company may in its reasonable discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, amount which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, Registration shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders Registrations under this Section 2.01 shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in on such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement appropriate form of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement i) as shall be selected by the Company and (ii) as shall permit the disposition of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition specified in the applicable Holders’ request for such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)registration.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve12-month period, period or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 ninety (90) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Statement.
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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement (Transmeridian Exploration Inc), Investor Rights Agreement (United Energy Group LTD)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt If, at any time after the end of the Applicable Holdback Period, the Company shall receive a written request from one or more New Holders requesting FP that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering of all or part a portion of the FP’s Registrable Securities which specifies Securities, and specifying the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered(a “Demand Registration”), then the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing give written notice of such requested registration at least 15 days prior to the anticipated filing date of the receipt of registration statement relating to such request and Demand Registration to each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from Non-Requesting Stockholder. Upon the Company) to have all or part ’s giving notice of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such a requested registration. Thereupon, the Company shallwill use its best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as is practicablepossible, but in any event no later than thirty the registration under the Securities Act of:
(30i) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by FP, then held by FP, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 4.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as that requested to be registered by FP which any Non-Requesting Stockholder entitled to request the Company to effect an Incidental Registration pursuant to Section 4.02 (all such Stockholders, together with FP, the “Holders”) have requested the Company to register by written request received by the Company within 15 days after the receipt by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for saleof such written notice given by the Company, all to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered; provided, however, provided that the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless either (x) the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested proceeds expected to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on received from the closing trading price sale of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities Shares requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder)equal or exceed $10,000,000 or, andin the case of a Shortform Registration, second, to $5,000,000 or (y) the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number remaining portion of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders FP would be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested registered pursuant to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, In no event will the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) effect more than two (2) one Demand Registration Statements in hereunder within any twelvesix-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Stockholders' Agreement (Nptest Holding Corp), Shareholder Agreement (Nptest Holding Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time and from time to time on or following the Plan Effective Date, any Holder or group of a written Holders may request from one or more New Holders requesting in writing (“Demand Registration Request”) that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's ’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities included with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such registration thereof Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and shall use its reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective, as promptly as practicable after receipt of such request; provided, however, that the Company will not be required to file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 3, 4(a):
(A) unless either (i) the principal amount of Registrable Securities requested to be registered on such Registration Statement equals at least twenty percent (20%) of the outstanding Registrable Securities held by all Holders or (ii) the Registrable Securities requested to be sold by the Holders pursuant to such Registration Statement have an anticipated aggregate gross offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of at least $10 million;
(B) if the Registrable Securities requested to be registered are already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement and such Holder Registration Statement may be utilized for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered;
(C) if a registration statement filed by the Company shall specify in have previously been initially declared effective by the Commission within the one hundred eighty (180) days preceding the date such notice Demand Registration Request is made; and
(D) if the number of Demand Registration Requests previously made pursuant to this Section 4(a) shall equal or exceed five (5); provided, however that a Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (D) unless the requested Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission for more than 75% of the full amount of Registrable Securities that for which registration has been requested.
(b) A Demand Registration Request shall specify (i) the then-current name and address of such Holder elects or Holders, (ii) the aggregate amount of Registrable Securities requested to include be registered, (iii) the total amount of Registrable Securities then beneficially owned by such Holder or Holders, and (iv) the intended means of distribution. If at the time the Demand Registration Request is made the Company appears, based on public information available to such Holder or Holders, eligible to use Form S-3 for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities, the Holder or Holders making such request may request that the registration be in such registration. Thereuponthe form of a Shelf Registration Statement (for the avoidance of doubt, the Company shallshall not be under the obligation to file a Shelf Registration on Form S-3 if, as expeditiously as upon the advice of its counsel, it is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty not eligible to make such a filing).
(30c) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period The Company may satisfy its obligations under Section 6 below4(a) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement hereof by amending (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permitted by applicable law) any registration statement previously filed by the Company under the Securities Act, so that such amended registration statement will permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, of disposition specified as aforesaid) of all of the Registrable Securities for which a Demand Registration Request has been properly made under Section 4(b) hereof. If the Company so registeredamends a previously filed registration statement, it will be deemed to have effected a registration for purposes of Section 4(a) hereof; provided, however, however that the aggregate value Effective Date of the amended registration statement, as amended pursuant to this Section 4(c) shall be the “the first day of effectiveness” of such Registration Statement for purposes of determining the period during which the Registration Statement is required to be maintained effective in accordance with Section 4(e) hereof.
(d) Within ten (10) days after receiving a Demand Registration Request, the Company shall give written notice of such request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the provisions of Section 5(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in such registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within fifteen (15) days after the Company’s giving of such notice, provided that such Registrable Securities are not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement that may be utilized for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on in the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timemanner so requested.
(be) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in The Company will use its reasonable efforts to keep a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests Statement that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration has become effective as contemplated by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 34 continuously effective, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the SEC Commission:
(A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than any a Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such stop orderRegistration Statement, injunctionbut in no event later than two hundred seventy (270) days from the Effective Date of such Registration Statement; and
(B) in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, or other order or requirement until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) the SEC prompted date that all Registrable Securities covered by act or omission of Holders of such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities); provided, however, that in the event of any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the Commission relating to any Shelf Registration Statement, if any Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement remain unsold, the New period during which such Shelf Registration Statement shall be required to remain effective will be extended by the number of days during which such stop order, injunction or similar order or requirement is in effect; provided further, however, that if any Shelf Registration Statement was initially declared effective on Form S-3 and, prior to the date determined pursuant to Section 4(e)(B), the Company becomes ineligible to use Form S-3, the period during which such Shelf Registration Statement shall be required to remain effective will be extended by the number of days during which the Company did not have an effective Registration Statement covering unsold Registrable Securities initially registered on such Shelf Registration Statement.
(f) The Holder or Holders participating making a Demand Registration Request may, at any time prior to the Effective Date of the Registration Statement relating to such registration, revoke their request for the Company to effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities by providing a written notice to the Company. If, pursuant to the preceding sentence, the entire Demand Registration Request is revoked, then, at the option of the Holder or Holders who revoke such request, either (i) such Holder or Holders shall reimburse the Company for all of its reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the preparation, filing and processing of the Registration Statement, which out-of-pocket expenses, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) the requested registration that has been revoked will be deemed to have been effected for purposes of Section 4(a).
(g) If a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 4 is a Shelf Registration Statement, then upon the demand of one or more Holders, the Company shall facilitate a “takedown” of Registrable Securities in the form of an Underwritten Offering, in the manner and subject to the conditions described in Section 5 of this Agreement, provided that either (i) the principal amount of Registrable Securities to be included in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell “takedown” shall equal at least two-thirds twenty percent (20%) of the New outstanding Registrable Securities held by all Holders or (ii) the Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock sold by the Company Holders in such “takedown” shall have an anticipated aggregate offering price (or such longer period before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)at least $15 million.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (Goodrich Petroleum Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that If the Company effect has exercised the 2010 Consideration Substitute Right pursuant to Clause 7.1.2 of the Option Agreement, the Company shall, in accordance with Article IV below and subject to Section 2.8 below, either (i) file a registration (a "Demand Registration") statement under the Securities Act covering all or part of with the Registrable Commission to register under the Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the Act that number of Registrable Securities that the Company determines represents the maximum number of Registrable Securities that will be issued as the Stock Settlement Amount, or (ii) file with the Commission a prospectus supplement (the “Prospectus Supplement”) to an existing shelf registration statement on Form S-3 which is at the time currently effective (the “Form S-3”) to register such Holder elects number of Registrable Securities, but, in each case, only to include in such registrationthe extent that the Shareholders have complied with their obligations under Sections 2.6 and 6.1 below (a “Registration”). ThereuponSubject to Section 2.8 below, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registrable Securities to be declared effective a registration statement registered for resale by the Shareholders under the Securities Act on the Required Registration Date. For purposes of this Agreement, the “Required Registration Date” means (a "Demand Registration Statement"x) relating June 1, 2010, in the event that the Shareholders do not advise the Company that they intend to all shares of distribute the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (means of an underwriting in accordance with Section 2.3, (y) June 8, 2010, in the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of event that the Shareholders advise the Company that they intend to distribute the Registrable Securities so registeredby means of an underwriting in accordance with Section 2.3 and (z) in the case of the issuance of Deferred Shares, the dates that are (A) the 16th day after the issuance of such Deferred Shares, in the event that the Shareholders do not advise the Company that they intend to distribute such Registrable Securities by means of an underwriting in accordance with Section 2.3 and (B) the 23rd day after the issuance of such Deferred Shares, in the event that the Shareholders advise the Company that they intend to distribute such Registrable Securities by means of an underwriting in accordance with Section 2.3; provided, provided however, that such Required Registration Date shall be extended by one day for each day the aggregate value Shareholders have not complied with their obligations under Sections 2.6 and 6.1 below and provided further that if the Shareholders have advised the Company that they intend to distribute Registrable Securities by means of an underwriting, and if the Registrable Securities requested have not been registered in connection therewith under the Securites Act prior to be registered 7:00 a.m. (iNY time) be at least $2,500,000on June 8, based on 2009 (or the closing trading price 23rd day after the issuance of the Common Stock on Deferred Shares, as the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (iicase may be) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities")for any reason whatsoever, then the Company shall include notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement which requires CEDC to take action or assist or cooperate in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number respect of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securitiesan underwritten offering, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders CEDC shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to file the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes or Prospectus Supplement contemplated by the first sentence of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has 2.1 as if such request for an underwritten offering had not been declared effective by made. It is understood and agreed that the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for sole remedy of the period Shareholders with respect to a failure to file or cause the Registrable Securities to be registered under the Securities Act on or prior to the Required Registration Date is set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing Clause 7.2 of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)Option Agreement.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Central European Distribution Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Central European Distribution Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt If, at any time commencing six (6) months after the date of consummation of the Initial Public Offering, the Company shall receive a written request from one or more New Holders requesting Oak Hill (the “Requesting Stockholder”) that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering of all or part any portion of the such Requesting Stockholder’s Registrable Securities which specifies Securities, and specifying the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredthereof, then the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt give notice of such request and requested registration (each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least fifteen (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (1015) Business Days from prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Holder's receipt of Demand Registration to the aforementioned notice from the Company) other Stockholders and thereupon shall use its best efforts to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shalleffect, as expeditiously as is practicablepossible, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period the registration under Section 6 below) after receipt the Securities Act of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities for which remain outstanding at such timethe Requesting Stockholder has requested registration under this Section 5.01.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the The Company shall include be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by connection with each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number regardless of Securitieswhether such Registration is effected.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "A Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless occurred:
(i) it unless the registration statement relating thereto (A) has been declared become effective by under the SEC, Securities Act and (iiB) it has remained effective for the a period set forth of at least 120 days (or such shorter period in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of which all Registrable Securities of the Requesting Stockholder included in such registration have notactually been sold thereunder), prior to the filing of the relevant provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand Registration Statementif, withdrawn sufficient shares from after such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3statement becomes effective, and (iv1) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement is not subject to interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order governmental agency or requirement court and (2) less than 75% of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities)Securities included in such registration statement have been sold thereunder; provided, however, that or
(ii) if the New Holders participating Maximum Offering Size (as defined below) is reduced in accordance with Section 5.01(d) such that less than 50% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Stockholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(d) If a Demand Registration are not able involves a Public Offering and the managing underwriter advises the Company and the Requesting Stockholders that, in its view, the number of Company Securities that the Requesting Stockholder and the Company propose to register and sell include in such registration exceeds the largest number of shares that can be sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at least two-thirds of which such shares can be sold (the New “Maximum Offering Size”), the Company shall include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registrationregistered by the Requesting Stockholders, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).and
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant second, all Registrable Securities proposed to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock be registered by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Company.
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Samples: Stockholder Agreement, Stockholders' Agreement (Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After Any time after the earlier of (i) December 31, 2018 and (ii) 180 days after a Qualified IPO, an Investor Majority may notify the Company in writing that they intend to offer or cause to be offered for public sale all or any portion of their Registrable Securities in the manner specified in such request. Upon receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredsuch request, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt deliver notice of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Investors holding Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder who shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than then have thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt to notify the Company in writing of a written their desire to be included in such registration. If the request for a Demand Registrationregistration contemplates an underwritten public offering, file with the SEC Company shall state such in the written notice and in such event the right of any Person to participate in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Person’s participation in such underwritten public offering and the inclusion of such Person’s Registrable Securities in the underwritten public offering to the extent provided herein. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective expeditiously file a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to Form S-1 covering all shares of Registrable Securities that whose holders request participation in such registration under the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for saleSecurities Act, but only to the extent required to permit the disposition (provided for in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredthis Agreement; provided, however, that the aggregate value Company shall not be required to effect or pay for registration pursuant to a request under this Section 2 more than two (2) times. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no request may be made under this Section 2 within ninety (90) days after the effective date of a registration statement filed by the Company covering a firm commitment underwritten public offering in which the holders of Registrable Securities requested shall have been entitled to be join pursuant to Section 4 and in which there shall have been effectively registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities as to which remain outstanding registration shall have been requested. A registration will not count as a requested registration under this Section 2(a) unless and until the registration statement relating to such registration has been declared effective by the Commission at the request of the initiating shareholders; provided, however, that the holders that participate in such timeregistration pursuant to this Section 2(a) and hold at least sixty percent (60%) of Registrable Securities (the “Withdrawing Holders”) may request, in writing, that the Company withdraw a registration statement which has been filed under this Section 2(a) but has not yet been declared effective, and the Withdrawing Holders may thereafter request the Company to reinstate such registration statement, if permitted under the Securities Act, or to file another registration statement, in accordance with the procedures set forth herein and without reduction in the number of demand registrations permitted under this Section 2(a).
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a requested registration involves an underwritten public offering requests that and the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises offering determines in good faith that the Company in writing thatnumber of securities sought to be offered should be limited due to market conditions, in its opinion, then the number of securities to be included in such underwritten public offering is greater shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter; provided, however, that the shares to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) persons not having any contractual or other right to include such securities in the registration statement, (ii) securities held by any other Persons (other than the total number holders of securities which can be sold therein without Registrable Securities) having a material adverse effect on the distribution of contractual, incidental “piggy back” right to include such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on in the marketability thereof registration statement, (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested iii) securities to be registered thereunder only by the Company pursuant to the extent the number of such registration statement, (iv) Registrable Securities does of holders who did not exceed make the Maximum Number original request for registration and (v) Registrable Securities of Securitiesholders who requested such registration pursuant to Section 2(a). If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number there is a reduction of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in pursuant to clauses (iv) or (v), such Demand Registration reduction shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration made on a pro rata basis (based on upon the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesholders).
(c) New Holders With respect to a request for registration pursuant to Section 2(a) which is for an underwritten public offering, the managing underwriter shall be entitled to an aggregate chosen by the holders of four two-thirds (42/3) registrations in interest of the Registrable Securities to be sold in such offering (which approval will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). The Company may not cause any other registration of securities for sale for its own account (other than a registration effected solely to implement an employee benefit plan or a transaction to which Rule 145 of the Securities Act is applicable) to become effective within one hundred twenty (120) days following the effective date of any registration required pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Subject to the conditions of this Section 2.1, if FS receives a written request from one or more New Holders requesting JL that the Company effect FS file a registration (a "Demand Registration") statement under the Securities Act covering the registration of all or a part of its Registrable Securities, then FS shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities which specifies that it has requested to be registered (such request to include the number of Registrable Securities sought to be included and the intended method or methods of disposition thereof distribution of such Registrable Securities), subject to and in accordance with the number of shares terms, conditions, procedures, and limitations contained in this Agreement. JL may at any time prior to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing effective date of the receipt of such registration statement relating to a requested registration under this Section 2.1 revoke its request and each such Holderby providing written notice to FS, in lieu of exercising its rights under which case the Registration Expenses will be borne in accordance with Section 4 hereof, may elect 2.4.
(by written notice sent b) FS shall not be required to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such effect a registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty 2.1:
(30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 belowi) after receipt of a written request for a Demand RegistrationFS has effected one registration pursuant to this Section 2.1, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that a registration shall not count as having been effected unless and until it has become effective, and unless and until JL shall have had the aggregate value opportunity to register and sell 100% of the its Registrable Securities initially requested to be registered pursuant thereto, except that a registration the request for which has been revoked by JL shall count as having been effected unless the revocation is based upon material adverse information concerning the business or financial condition of FS of which JL was not aware at the time of its request for registration;
(iii) be at least $2,500,000during the period starting with the date of filing of, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock and ending on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the effective date of effectiveness of of, a registration statement pertaining to any other Registration Statement or underwritten public offering in which JL was given the opportunity to participate pursuant to Section 2.2; provided that FS uses commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; or
(iii) during any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following period when FS is not eligible to use Form S-3 to register the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Registrable Securities.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Five Star Products Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (National Patent Development Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After Upon receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders a Holder holding at least 25% of the Registrable Securities at such time (on an as converted basis) requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "“Demand Registration"”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredthereof, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, 2.04 hereof may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's ’s receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's ’s Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 32.01, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, Thereupon the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicablepossible, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 2.05 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective effective, a registration statement (a "“Demand Registration Statement"”) relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("“Participating Demand Holders"”) for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests holding a majority in interest of Registrable Securities (on an as converted basis) for which such Demand Registration was requested request that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 2.13 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "“Maximum Number of Securities"”), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all of the New Holders participating in such Participating Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration held by each Existing Participating Demand Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company in an amount not to exceed the difference between (i) the Maximum Number of Securities and (ii) the Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to register by the Participating Demand Holders, as the Company may in its reasonable discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, amount which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, Registration shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders Registrations under this Section 2.01 shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in on such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement appropriate form of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement i) as shall be selected by the Company and (ii) as shall permit the disposition of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition specified in the applicable Holders’ request for such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)registration.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, period or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 ninety (90) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Statement.
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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement (Transmeridian Exploration Inc), Investor Rights Agreement (United Energy Group LTD)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt On or after April 10, 2003, upon written notice of the Holders of a written request from one or more New Holders majority of the then outstanding Registrable Securities (on a common stock equivalent basis) requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies and specifying the intended method or methods of disposition distribution thereof and the number of shares to be registered(which may include a continuous or delayed offering), the Company shall promptly notify all Holders prepare and file a Registration Statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act, or other appropriate Form in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holderevent Form S-3 is not available, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to covering the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in then outstanding and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration thereof pursuant Registration Statement to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, become effective as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty possible and to remain effective until the earlier to occur of (30i) days (excluding any days the date on which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that covered by such Registration Statement have been sold and the Company distribution contemplated thereby has been so requested to register completed or (ii) the date by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of which all the Registrable Securities so registeredcovered thereby may be sold under Rule 144(k) (the "Effectiveness Period"); provided, however, that the aggregate value Purchaser shall not, pursuant to this Section 6.1, be entitled to sell more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the aggregate number of Registrable Securities included acquired at the Closing in such Demand Registration shall be allocated firstany calendar quarter, among all or if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on Company's fiscal year is not the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder)calendar year, and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all any fiscal quarter of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand RegistrationCompany. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a A demand registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall 6.1(a) will not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared become effective by under the SEC, (ii) it has remained Securities Act and remains effective for the period set forth in described above.
(b) A Holder (including the Purchaser) or Holders requesting a registration pursuant to this Section 7(a)6.1(a) may, (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, at any time prior to the filing effective date of the relevant Demand Registration StatementStatement relating to such registration, withdrawn sufficient shares from revoke such request by providing a written notice to the Company revoking such request.
(c) The Company and any Other Approved Holder may include its securities in any demand registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities effected pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities)this Section 6.1; provided, however, that if the New managing underwriter(s) or the representative(s) of the several underwriters (the "Managing Underwriter") of a proposed underwritten public offering of Common Stock advises the Holder or Holders participating intending to participate in such Demand Registration are not able offering in writing that the total amount or kind of securities which such Holders, the Company and such Other Approved Holders intend to register and sell at least two-thirds include in such offering is sufficiently large to materially adversely affect the success of such offering, then the amount or kind of securities to be offered for the accounts of the New Registrable Securities requested Other Approved Holders shall be reduced pro rata among such Other Approved Holders to the extent necessary to reduce the total amount or kind of securities to be included in a Demand Registrationsuch proposed public offering to the amount or kind recommended by such Managing Underwriter and, if such reduction results in no securities being offered for the accounts of the Other Approved Holders in such proposed public offering, then such Demand Registration shall not the amount or kind of securities to be counted as one offered for the account of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect reduced to the sale extent necessary to reduce the total amount or kind of Common Stock securities to be included in such proposed public offering to the amount or kind recommended by the Company (such managing underwriter or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)underwriters.
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Samples: Stock Purchase and Registration Rights Agreement (Metropolitan Venture Partners Ii Lp), Stock Purchase and Registration Rights Agreement (Direct Insite Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written request from one On or more New Holders requesting that prior to each Filing Date, the Company effect shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. Each Registration Statement filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, subject to the provisions of Section 2(d)) and shall contain (unless otherwise directed by at least 85% in interest of the Holders or to make any disclosure contained therein not misleading) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to cause a "Demand Registration"Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act covering all or part of as promptly as possible after the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicablefiling thereof, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registrationthe applicable Effectiveness Date, file with the SEC and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement cease to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall notify the Holders via e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement as promptly as practicable, and shall, if requested, provide the Holders with copies of the final Prospectus to be used in connection with the sale or other disposition of the securities covered thereby.
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) that all of the Registrable Securities so registeredcannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use reasonable best efforts to file an amendment or amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(c) with respect to filing on Form S-3 or other appropriate form; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the aggregate value Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities requested in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Securities Act Rules Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand a particular Registration Statement is made, as a secondary offering (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests and notwithstanding that the offering be underwritten Company used diligent efforts to advocate with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, Commission to maximize the number of securities Registrable Securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"registered), then the Company shall include unless otherwise directed in such Demand Registration the writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in to be registered on such Demand Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
(i) First, the Company shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested reduce or eliminate any securities to be included in such Demand Registration other than Registrable Securities; and
(ii) Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by each New Holder), and, second, Shares and Warrant Shares (applied to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the total number of unregistered Shares and Warrant Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a reduction hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days’ prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Xxxxxx’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, then the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly thereafter as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities requested that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(d) If: (i) the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to be included its Filing Date, (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held accordance with Rule 461 promulgated by the Existing Holders Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within two Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified in writing by the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be included in such Demand “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review, (iii) a Registration unless Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration is not declared effective by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If Commission by the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities Effectiveness Date of the Company and other securities held by other security holders Initial Registration Statement or (iv) after the effective date of the Company a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the all Registrable Securities included in such Demand RegistrationRegistration Statement, shall or the Holders are otherwise not exceed permitted to utilize the Maximum Number of Securities.
Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities (c) New Holders shall be entitled to other than during an Allowed Delay), for more than 15 consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of four 20 calendar days (4which need not be consecutive calendar days) registrations during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of Registrable Securities clauses (i) and (iii), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such two Trading Day period is exceeded, and for purpose of clause (iv) the date on which such 15 or 20 calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Holders 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 Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to the product of 2.0% multiplied by the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to a Holder under this Agreement shall be 12.0% of the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section 3 in full within seven Trading Days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (each, a "Demand for Registration"or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement Holder, 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 Section 2; provided the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. The parties agree that a registration requested pursuant notwithstanding anything to this Section 3 the contrary herein or in the Purchase Agreement, no liquidated damages shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless payable (i) if as of the relevant Event Date, the Registrable Securities may be sold by the Holders without volume or manner of sale restrictions under Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and reasonably acceptable to the Holder and the Company’s transfer agent, if any, (ii) to a Holder with respect to an Event caused by any action of such Holder or failure of such Holder to take any action that such Xxxxxx is required to take hereunder, or (iii) to a Holder in the event it is unable to lawfully sell any of its Registrable Securities because of possession of material non-public information.
(e) If Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)Commission.
(df) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinin this Agreement, in no event shall the Company shall not be required permitted to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in name any twelve-month period, (ii) Holder or affiliate of a Holder as any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following underwriter without the date prior written consent of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Holder.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Outlook Therapeutics, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Outlook Therapeutics, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (ai) After Upon receipt of a written request for Registration hereunder from one (A) any Affiliate (or more New Holders requesting that any affiliate thereof) or (B) any other Shareholder or Shareholders holding in the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under aggregate not less than 25% of the Securities Act covering all or part number of shares of any class of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method (a "25% Shareholder," and together with any Affiliate or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredany affiliate thereof, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupona "Requesting Party"), the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicablewith respect to any request received from a Requesting Party (or Parties), but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt subject to the terms and conditions of a written request for a Demand Registrationthis Agreement, prepare and file with the SEC Commission, and use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause to be have declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") Statement under the Securities Act relating to all shares the offer and sale by the Requesting Party (or Parties) specified in such request through such method or methods of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by distribution as specified in such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (request and otherwise in accordance with the intended method or methods thereofthis Agreement, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredspecified in such request; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration Shareholders shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested permitted to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of make only four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands requests for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, hereunder and the Company shall not be required to prepare and file more than four Registration Statements pursuant to this Agreement, provided further, that the Company may satisfy its obligations under this Section 2(a) by (i) more than two filing a shelf Registration Statement on Form F-3 (2a "Shelf Registration Statement") Demand Registration Statements under the Securities Act relating to the offer and sale by the Shareholder(s) at any time and from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis in any twelve-month periodaccordance with Rule 415 under the Securities Act, through such method or methods of distribution as the Requesting Party (or Parties) shall select, of all of the Registrable Securities and (ii) any Demand using commercially reasonable efforts to keep such Shelf Registration Statement within 90 effective under the Securities Act for so long as permitted by Rule 415 under the Securities Act or, if earlier, until such time as no Shareholder owns any Registrable Securities. In the event that the Company elects to satisfy its obligations under this Section 2(a) by filing a Shelf Registration Statement, then Shareholders shall not be permitted to make any further requests for Registration hereunder and the Company shall not be required to prepare or file further Registration Statements pursuant to this Agreement, provided that all of the Registrable Securities have been registered thereunder or have otherwise become freely tradable under applicable securities laws.
(ii) Within five days following the date of effectiveness receipt of any request for a Registration, the Company shall deliver written notice of such request to all other holders of Registrable Securities of the class or classes to be registered. Thereafter, the Company shall include in such Registration Statement any additional Registrable Securities of each such class which the holder or holders thereof have requested in writing be included in such Registration, provided that all requests therefor have been received by the Company within ten days of the Company's having sent the applicable notice to such holder or holders. All such requests shall specify the aggregate amount and class of Registrable Securities to be registered and the intended method of distribution of the same.
(iii) any Demand The Issuer shall be deemed to have effected a Registration if the applicable Registration Statement within 90 is declared effective by the SEC and remains effective for not less than 180 days following (or such shorter period as will terminate when all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold or withdrawn), or, if such Registration Statement relates to an Underwritten Offering, such longer period as, in the date opinion of effectiveness counsel for the underwriter or underwriters, is required by law for the delivery of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or Prospectus in connection with respect to the sale of Common Stock Registrable Securities by the Company (an underwriter or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)dealer.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Fiat S P A), Registration Rights Agreement (CNH Global N V)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time and from time to time beginning on the first anniversary after the Plan Effective Date, any Holder or group of a written Holders may request from one or more New Holders requesting in writing (“Demand Registration Request”) that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's ’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities included with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such registration thereof pursuant Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to this Section 3be registered, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective, as promptly as practicable after receipt of such request; provided, however, that the Company will not be required to file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 5(a):
(A) unless (i) the number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered on such Registration Statement equals at least twenty-five percent (25%) of all Registrable Securities at such time or (ii) the Registrable Securities requested to be sold by the Holders pursuant to such Registration Statement have an anticipated aggregate gross offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of at least $40 million;
(B) if the Registrable Securities requested to be registered are already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement and such Registration Statement may be utilized for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered;
(C) if a registration statement filed by the Company shall have previously been initially declared effective by the Commission within the one hundred eighty (a "180) days preceding the date such Demand Registration Statement"Request is made; and
(D) relating if the number of Demand Registration Requests previously made pursuant to all shares this Section 5(a) shall equal or exceed three (3); provided, however that a Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (D) unless the requested Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission for more than 75% of the full amount of Registrable Securities for which registration has been requested.
(b) A Demand Registration Request shall specify (i) the then-current name and address of such Holder or Holders, (ii) the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered, (iii) the total number of Registrable Securities then beneficially owned by such Holder or Holders, and (iv) the intended means of distribution. If at the time the Demand Registration Request is made the Company appears, based on public information available to such Holder or Holders, eligible to use Form S-3 for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities, the Holder or Holders making such request may request that the registration be in the form of a Shelf Registration Statement (for the avoidance of doubt, the Company has been so requested shall not be under the obligation to register file a Shelf Registration on Form S-3 if, upon the advice of its counsel, it is not eligible to make such a filing).
(c) The Company may satisfy its obligations under Section 5(a) hereof by such Holders amending ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permitted by applicable law) any registration statement previously filed by the Company under the Securities Act, so that such amended registration statement will permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, of disposition specified as aforesaid) of all of the Registrable Securities for which a Demand Registration Request has been properly made under Section 5(b) hereof. If the Company so registeredamends a previously filed registration statement, it will be deemed to have effected a registration for purposes of Section 5(a) hereof; provided, however, however that the aggregate value Effective Date of the amended registration statement, as amended pursuant to this Section 5(c) shall be the “the first day of effectiveness” of such Registration Statement for purposes of determining the period during which the Registration Statement is required to be maintained effective in accordance with Section 5(e) hereof.
(d) Within ten (10) days after receiving a Demand Registration Request, the Company shall give written notice of such request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the provisions of Section 6(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in such registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within fifteen (15) days after the Company’s giving of such notice, provided that such Registrable Securities are not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement that may be utilized for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on in the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timemanner so requested.
(be) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in The Company will use its reasonable efforts to keep a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests Statement that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration has become effective as contemplated by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 35 continuously effective, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the SEC Commission:
(A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than any a Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such stop orderRegistration Statement, injunctionbut in no event later than two hundred seventy (270) days from the Effective Date of such Registration Statement; and
(B) in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, or other order or requirement until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) the SEC prompted date that all Registrable Securities covered by act or omission of Holders of such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities); provided, however, that in the event of any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the Commission relating to any Shelf Registration Statement, if any Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement remain unsold, the New period during which such Shelf Registration Statement shall be required to remain effective will be extended by the number of days during which such stop order, injunction or similar order or requirement is in effect; provided further, however, that if any Shelf Registration Statement was initially declared effective on Form S-3 and, prior to the date determined pursuant to Section 5(e)(B), the Company becomes ineligible to use Form S-3, the period during which such Shelf Registration Statement shall be required to remain effective will be extended by the number of days during which the Company did not have an effective Registration Statement covering unsold Registrable Securities initially registered on such Shelf Registration Statement.
(f) The Holder or Holders participating making a Demand Registration Request may, at any time prior to the Effective Date of the Registration Statement relating to such registration, revoke their request for the Company to effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities by providing a written notice to the Company. If, pursuant to the preceding sentence, the entire Demand Registration Request is revoked, then, at the option of the Holder or Holders who revoke such request, either (i) such Holder or Holders shall reimburse the Company for all of its reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the preparation, filing and processing of the Registration Statement, which out-of-pocket expenses, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) the requested registration that has been revoked will be deemed to have been effected for purposes of Section 5(a).
(g) If a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 4 is a Shelf Registration Statement, then upon the demand of one or more Holders, the Company shall facilitate a “takedown” of Registrable Securities in the form of an Underwritten Offering, in the manner and subject to the conditions described in Section 6 of this Agreement, provided that (i) the number of shares included in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell “takedown” shall equal at least twotwenty-thirds five percent (25%) of all Registrable Securities outstanding at such time or (ii) the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock sold by the Company Holders in such “takedown” shall have an anticipated aggregate offering price (or such longer period before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)at least $40 million.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Monitronics International Inc), Registration Rights Agreement
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt If, at any time more than one (1) year after the date of a this Agreement, Company receives written request notice from one or more New Holders Investor requesting that the Company effect file a registration (a "Demand Registration") statement under the Securities Act covering all or part the registration of at least fifty percent (50%) of the Registrable Securities Shares then owned by Investor, Company will use its best efforts to effect the registration under the Act of all Shares which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares investor requests to be registered, to the extent necessary to permit the legally permissible sale or other disposition by Investor to be so registered.
(b) If Investor intends to distribute the Shares covered by its request by means of an underwriting, it will so advise Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing as a part of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof made pursuant to this Section 32. The underwriter selected by Investor shall be reasonably acceptable to Company. In such event, and such Holder the right of Investor to include its Shares in the registration shall specify be conditioned upon Investor's participation in such notice underwriting and the number inclusion of Registrable Securities the Shares in the underwriting. Company will enter into (together with Investor and the other shareholders distributing their securities through the underwriting) an underwriting agreement with the underwriter or underwriters selected by Investor for the underwriting, provided that such Holder elects the underwriting agreement is in customary form and is reasonably acceptable to include Company.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Company furnishes to Investor a certificate signed by the President of Company stating that in such registration. Thereuponthe good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of Company, it would be detrimental to Company and its shareholders for the registration statement to be filed and it is therefore essential to defer the filing of the registration statement, Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later will have the right to defer the filing for a period of not more than thirty ninety (3090) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written the request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredinvestor; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to utilize this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) right more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements once in any twelve-month period.
(d) Company will not be obligated to prepare, file or to take any action to effect any registration pursuant to this Section 2:
(i) Within one year from the date hereof;
(ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 After Company has effected a prior registration pursuant to this Agreement and such registration has been declared or ordered effective; or
(iii) During the period starting with the date ninety (90) days following prior to Company's good faith estimate of the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement filing of, and ending on a date one hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date of, a registration subject to Sections 1 or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other 2 hereof; provided that Company is using reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)become effective.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Image Entertainment Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Image Entertainment Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written At any time following the Closing the Initiating Holders may request from one or more New Holders requesting in writing that the Company effect shall file a Registration Statement with respect to the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering and resale of all or part of the Registrable Securities Shares held by them that are not subject to restriction on Transfer as set forth in Section 4.1 or restriction on Transfer or forfeiture as set forth in Section 3 of the Sponsor Letter Agreement, including without limitation on Form F-1 (a “Demand Registration”). As soon as practicable and in any event within twenty (20) days after receipt of any such request, the Company shall give written notice of such request to the other Holders and shall include in such registration all Registrable Shares held by all such Holders who wish to participate in such Demand Registration and provide the Company with written requests for inclusion therein within seven (7) days after the receipt of the Company’s notice; provided that no Holder who holds Registrable Shares that are subject to restriction on Transfer as set forth in Section 4.1 or restriction on Transfer or forfeiture as set forth in Section 3 shall have any right to have such Holder’s Registrable Shares that are subject to such restriction on Transfer or forfeiture participate in such Registration Statement except to the extent such restriction on Transfer or forfeiture has expired or been waived. Thereupon, the Company shall use its best efforts to effect the registration of all Registrable Shares as to which specifies it has received requests for registration for; provided, however, that: (i) the intended method Company shall not be required to effect any registration under this Section 2.3 within a period of ninety (90) days following the effective date of a previous registration filed by the Company covering a firm commitment underwritten public offering in which the holders of Registrable Shares shall have been entitled to join pursuant to Section 2.2 and in which there shall have been effectively registered all Registrable Shares as to which registration shall have been requested; (ii) the registration shall cover the public sale of Registrable Shares with an aggregate public offering price reasonably expected to be at least US$35,000,000; and (iii) if the Company furnishes to the Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company that in the good faith judgment of the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) it is not in the Company’s best interests to file such registration, the Company may defer the filing for up to ninety (90) days once during any twelve (12) month period. The Initiating Holders may elect to withdraw from any offering pursuant to this Section 2.3 by giving written notice to the Company and the underwriter(s) of their request to withdraw prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed by the SEC with respect to such Demand Registration. If the Initiating Holders withdraw from a proposed offering relating to a Demand Registration, then either the Initiating Holders shall reimburse the Company for the costs associated with the withdrawn Demand Registration (in which case such registration shall not count as a Demand Registration provided for in this Section 2.3) or methods such withdrawn registration shall count as a Demand Registration provided for in this Section 2.3. Notwithstanding any other provision of disposition thereof and this Section 2.3, if the managing underwriter advises the Holders in writing that marketing factors require a limitation on the dollar amount or the number of shares to be registeredunderwritten, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice then the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such underwritten public offering is greater shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter; provided, that the shares to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) shares held by shareholders other than the total number of securities Holders, (ii) shares which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested may wish to be registered thereunder only register for its own account, and thereafter, to the extent necessary, (iii) shares held by the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed Holders (pro rata to the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the respective number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all Shares requested by the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holderregistration); provided, however, that in no any event may all Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders Shares must be included in such Demand Registration unless all registration prior to any other shares of the Registrable Securities requested Company. The Company may not cause any other registration of securities for sale for its own account (other than a registration effected solely to implement an employee benefit plan) to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that initiated after a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 2.3 and to become effective less than ninety (90) days after the effective date of any registration requested pursuant to Section 2.3. The Company shall not be deemed required to have been effected for purposes of effect more than two (2) registrations under this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective 2.3 for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Initiating Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register PTK Holder) and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) effect more than two one (21) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand registration under this Section 2.3 if the PTK Holder is the Initiating Holder. A registration will not count as a requested registration under this Section unless and until the Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)has been declared effective by the Commission.
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Samples: Investors’ Rights Agreement (Valens Semiconductor Ltd.), Investors’ Rights Agreement (PTK Acquisition Corp.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written request from one On or more New Holders requesting that prior to each Filing Date, the Company effect shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. Each Registration Statement filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e)) and shall contain (unless otherwise directed by at least 50% in interest of the Holders or to make any disclosure contained therein not misleading) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause a "Demand Registration"Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act covering all or part of as promptly as possible after the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicablefiling thereof, but in any event no later than thirty the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement (30i) days have been sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (excluding any days which occur during ii) may be sold 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, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall notify the Holders via e-mail of the effectiveness of a written request Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for a Demand Registrationeffectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus to be used in connection with the SEC sale or other disposition of the securities covered thereby, and shall, if requested, provide the Holders with copies of such final Prospectus.
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its reasonable best efforts to cause file an amendment or amendments to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand the Initial Registration Statement") relating to all shares Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities that permitted to be registered by the Company has been so requested Commission, on Form S-3 or such other form available to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of resale the Registrable Securities so registeredas a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e); and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to payment of liquidated damages with respect to filing on Form S-3 or other appropriate form; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the aggregate value Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities requested in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Securities Act Rules Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand a particular Registration Statement is made, as a secondary offering (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests and notwithstanding that the offering be underwritten Company used diligent efforts to advocate with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, Commission to maximize the number of securities Registrable Securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"registered), then the Company shall include unless otherwise directed in such Demand Registration the writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in to be registered on such Demand Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
(i) First, the Company shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested reduce or eliminate any securities to be included other than Registrable Securities; and
(ii) Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Shares (applied, in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, secondthe case that some Shares may be registered, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the total number of unregistered Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a reduction hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days’ prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Xxxxxx’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, then the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly thereafter as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities requested that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(d) If: (i) the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Investor the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a) herein, the Company shall be included deemed to have not satisfied this clause as of the Filing Date), (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held accordance with Rule 461 promulgated by the Existing Holders Commission pursuant to the Securities Act within five (5) 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 included in such Demand “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review, (iii) a Registration unless Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration is not declared effective by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If Commission by the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities Effectiveness Date of the Company and other securities held by other security holders Initial Registration Statement or (iv) after the effective date of the Company a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the all Registrable Securities included in such Demand RegistrationRegistration Statement, shall or the Holders are otherwise not exceed permitted to utilize the Maximum Number of Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities.
, for more than fifteen (c15) New Holders shall be entitled to consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of four twenty (420) registrations 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 (iii), 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 (iv) the date on which such fifteen (15) or twenty (20) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Holders 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 Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to the product of 1.0% multiplied by the aggregate Share Purchase Price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Investment Agreement for any Registrable Securities held by such Holder on the Event Date. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to a Holder under this Agreement shall be 10.0% of the aggregate Share Purchase Price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Investment Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section 3 in full within seven (each7) Trading Days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a "Demand for Registration"rate of 10.0% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement Holder, 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 Section 2; provided that the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(e) If Form S-3 is not available for the registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)Commission.
(df) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinin this Agreement, in no event shall the Company shall not be required permitted to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in name any twelve-month period, (ii) Holder or affiliate of a Holder as any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following underwriter without the date prior written consent of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Holder.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Perspective Therapeutics, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Lantheus Holdings, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After Upon receipt of a written request (a "DEMAND REQUEST") from one or more New Holders requesting that Investors holding a majority of the Registrable Securities, which Demand Request shall set forth the number of Registrable Securities the Investors are seeking to have registered, the Company shall prepare and file with the SEC as soon as practicable, but in no event later than sixty (60) days from the date of its receipt of a Demand Request, a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or, if Form S-3 is not then available, on such form of Registration Statement as is then available to effect a registration (a "Demand Registration"of all of the Registrable Securities) under covering the Securities Act covering all or part resale of the Registrable Securities which specifies are the intended method or methods subject of disposition thereof the Demand Request. The Registration Statement filed hereunder, to the extent allowable under the Securities Act and the rules promulgated thereunder (including Rule 416), shall state that such Registration Statement also covers such indeterminate number of additional shares of Common Stock as may become issuable to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions. The Investors shall not be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such entitled to make more than four (4) Demand Requests pursuant to this Agreement. A registration request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (302(a) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of and shall not be considered a demand registration which may be requested pursuant to this Section 3(c2(a) unless (ia registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 2(a) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for . No Investor may provide a Demand Request to the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, Company prior to October 6, 2007 (the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c"INITIAL DEMAND REQUEST DATE").
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Environmental Tectonics Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Lenfest Harold Fitzgerald)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time after one hundred eighty (180) days after the consummation of the Merger, if the Company shall receive a written request from one or more New Holders requesting the Stockholder that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering of all or part any portion of the Stockholder’s Registrable Securities which specifies (a “Demand Registration”), and specifying the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and thereof, then the number Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts, consistent with the terms of shares this Stockholder Agreement, to be registeredeffect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities for which the Stockholder has requested registration under this Section 5.01; provided that, subject to Section 5.01(d) hereof, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request not be obligated to effect more than three Demand Registrations (other than short-form registrations on Form S-3 and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect provided that no Demand Registration shall be made within one hundred eighty (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30180) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a prior Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time).
(b) If At any time prior to the majority-in-interest effective date of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration registration statement relating to such registration, the Stockholder may revoke such request by providing a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises notice to the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in revoking such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesrequest.
(c) New Holders The Company shall be entitled to an aggregate liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with each Demand Registration, regardless of four whether such registration is effected.
(4d) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "A Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless occurred:
(i) it unless the registration statement relating thereto (A) has been declared become effective by under the SEC, Securities Act and (iiB) it has remained effective for the a period set forth of at least one hundred twenty (120) days (or such shorter period in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of which all Registrable Securities of the Stockholder included in such registration have notactually been sold thereunder), prior to the filing of the relevant provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand Registration Statementif, withdrawn sufficient shares from after such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3statement becomes effective, and (iv1) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement is not subject to interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order governmental agency or requirement court and (2) less than 75% of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities)Securities included in such registration statement have been sold thereunder; provided, however, that or
(ii) if the New Holders participating Demand Maximum Offering Size (as defined below) is reduced in accordance with Section 5.01(e) such that less than 75% of the Registrable Securities of the Stockholder sought to be included in such registration are included.
(e) If a Demand Registration are not able involves an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter advises the Company and the Stockholder that, in its view, the number of shares that the Stockholder and the Company propose to register and sell include in such registration exceeds the largest number of shares that can be sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at least two-thirds of which such shares can be sold (the New “Demand Maximum Offering Size”), the Company shall include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Demand Maximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included registered by the Stockholder; and
(ii) second, all shares of Common Stock proposed to be registered by the Company.
(f) The Company may defer the filing (but not the preparation) of a registration statement required by Section 5.01 until a date not later than ninety (90) days after the date which is thirty (30) days after the request to file such registration statement if (i) at the time the Company receives the request to register shares, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are engaged in a Demand Registrationconfidential negotiations or other confidential business activities (or the Board determines that the Company is at such time otherwise in possession of material non-public information with respect to the Company), then disclosure of which would be required in such Demand Registration shall registration statement (but would not be counted as one required if such registration statement were not filed), and the Board determines in good faith that such disclosure would be materially detrimental to the Company and its stockholders, or (ii) prior to receiving the request to register shares, the Board had determined to effect a registered underwritten public offering of the five Demands Company’s securities for Registration provided the Company’s account and the Company had taken substantial steps (including, but not limited to, selecting a managing underwriter for such offering) and is proceeding with reasonable diligence to effect such offering. A deferral of the filing of a registration statement pursuant to this Section 3(c5.01(f) shall be lifted, and the requested registration statement shall be filed forthwith, if, in the case of a deferral pursuant to clause (i) of the preceding sentence, the negotiations or other activities are disclosed or terminated (or such material non-public information has been publicly disclosed by the Company).
, or, in the case of a deferral pursuant to clause (dii) Notwithstanding anything of the preceding sentence, the proposed registration for the Company’s account is abandoned. In order to defer the contrary contained hereinfiling of a registration statement pursuant to this Section 5.01(f), the Company shall not be required to prepare and file promptly (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements but in any twelve-month periodevent within ten (10) days), (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following upon determining to seek such deferral, deliver to the date Stockholder a certificate signed by an executive officer of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which Company stating that the Company is a party or with respect deferring such filing pursuant to this Section 5.01(f) and (unless the sale of Common Stock by Stockholder had previously requested in writing that the Company (or not disclose to it such longer period information under this paragraph) a general statement of time as the reason for such deferral and an approximation of the anticipated delay. The Company may be specified defer the filing of a particular registration statement pursuant to this Section 5.01(f) only once in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)any 360-day period.
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Samples: Stockholder Agreement (Viasystems Group Inc), Stockholder Agreement (Viasystems Group Inc)
Demand Registration. Wedbush Xxxxxx Securities Inc. or holders of a majority of the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant shall have the right, at any time but not earlier than the Commencement Date or later than the Expiration Date, to make a written request of the Company to register under the Regulations of the SEC all shares of Common Stock to be purchased by the holders of the Warrants pursuant to the terms and conditions of such Warrants (athe "Registrable Stock"). The Registrable Stock specified in such request or a request pursuant to Section 4(d) After hereof is referred to herein as the "Subject Stock." Promptly upon receipt of such request the Company shall file with the SEC a registration statement on the applicable form for the registration of the subject stock ("registration statement") and use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective (including, without limitation, filing post-effective amendments, appropriate qualifications under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws, and appropriate compliance with the Regulations) as soon as reasonably practicable to permit or facilitate the sale and distribution of the Subject Stock. Promptly upon receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a for registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares pursuant to be registeredthis Section 4(a), the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing each of the receipt holders of the Warrants of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect request. The Company is obligated to effect only one (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (101) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 34(a). Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 4(a), if the Company shall furnish to the Warrantholders a certificate signed by the Chief Financial Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company it would be seriously detrimental to the Company and its shareholders for such Holder shall specify in a registration statement to be filed (including for reasons that the filing of such notice registration statement would adversely affect a financing, acquisition or disposition of assets, distribution rights or stock, merger or other comparable transaction or would require the number Company to make public disclosure of Registrable Securities that information the public disclosure of which would have a material adverse effect upon the Company) and it is therefore essential to defer a filing of such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereuponregistration statement, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later shall have the right to defer or suspend such filing for a period of not more than thirty sixty (3060) consecutive days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of the request of Wedbush Xxxxxx Securities Inc. or the holders of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all majority of shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Registrable Securities so registeredthis Warrant; provided, however, that the aggregate value number of days that the Company may defer or suspend a registration statement pursuant to this deferment right may not exceed ninety (90) days in any given fiscal year; and provided, further, that Wedbush Xxxxxx Securities Inc. or the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant, whomever made such written request to effect such registration, may, at any time in writing, withdraw such request for such registration and therefore preserve the Warrants right provided in this Section 4(a) for Wedbush Xxxxxx Securities Inc. or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest holders of a majority of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes shares issuable upon exercise of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able Warrant to request registration under the provisions of Section 3such registration, and (iv) restore the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant Company's right to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in defer a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)future request.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Security Agreement (Willdan Group, Inc.), Security Agreement (Willdan Group, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of If at any time after the date hereof, the Company receives a written request notice from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect Holder(s) of at least a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part majority of the Registrable Securities which specifies (the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon“Demand Notice”), the Company shall, as expeditiously on or prior to the Filing Date, prepare and file with the SEC a Registration Statement covering the resale of all Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. Such Registration Statement shall be on Form F-3 (or, if Form F-3 is not then available to the Company, on such form of Registration Statement as is practicablethen available to effect a registration for resale of the Registrable Securities). The Company shall use its best efforts (i) to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act (unless it becomes effective automatically upon filing) as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than thirty prior to the Effective Date, and (30ii) days to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until such date as is the earlier of (excluding x) the date on which all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold or (y) the date on which the Registrable Securities may be sold without any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under restriction pursuant to Rule 144 (the “Effective Period”). The Company shall telephonically request the effectiveness of the Registration Statement (unless it becomes effective automatically upon filing) as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the Effective Date. The Company shall not be required to (A) take any action to effect any registration pursuant to this Section 6 below3.1(a) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has effected three (3) registrations pursuant to this Section 3.1(a) and each registration has been so requested declared effective or (B) effect more than one (1) registration pursuant to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders"this Section 3.1(a) for sale, in any six-month period to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) Company has not suspended use of the Registrable Securities so registeredRegistration Statement or Prospectus therein pursuant to Section 3.1(d); provided, however, that the aggregate value Holders shall not be subject to the restrictions on registration set forth in (A) and (B) above upon any breach by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on obligations under Section 6.4 or commencement by any Governmental Authority of an investigation into the closing trading price Company or any of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants its Subsidiaries for any corruption or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timebribery allegation.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating Company is unable to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless Register all of the Registrable Securities requested for resale under Rule 415 due to be included in the Demand Registration limits imposed by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount SEC’s interpretation of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of SecuritiesRule 415, the Company may include in will file a Registration Statement under the Securities Act with the SEC covering the resale by the Holders of such Demand Registration any other securities lesser amount of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company Registrable Securities as the Company may in is able to Register pursuant to the SEC’s interpretation of Rule 415 and use its discretion determine or be obligated best efforts to allowhave such Registration Statement declared effective as promptly as possible and, in an amountwhen permitted to do so by the SEC, which together to file subsequent Registration Statement(s) under the Securities Act with the SEC covering the resale of any Registrable Securities included that were omitted from previous Registration Statement(s) and use its best efforts to have such registration declared effective as promptly as possible thereafter. In furtherance of the Company’s obligations set forth in the preceding sentence, the Parties agree that in the event that any Holder shall deliver to the Company a written notice at any time after the later of (x) the date which is six months after the Effective Date of the latest Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 3.1(a) or Section 3.1(b), as applicable, or (y) the date on which all Registrable Securities Registered on all of the prior Registration Statements filed pursuant to Section 3.1(a) or Section 3.1(b) are sold, that the Company shall file, within thirty (30) days following the date of receipt of such Demand Registrationwritten notice, shall not exceed an additional Registration Statement Registering all Registrable Securities that were omitted from the Maximum Number of Securitiesinitial Registration Statement.
(c) New Holders The Company shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a pay all expenses associated with each registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of underwriting discounts and commissions related to the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders sale of Registrable Securities); provided, howeverincluding all registration and filing fees, that if printing, duplicating, word processing, facsimile and delivery expenses, fees and disbursements of counsel for the New Company, reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel representing all Holders participating in the registration, “blue sky” fees and expenses and the expense of any special audits incident to or required by any such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds registration (but excluding the compensation of regular employees of the New Registrable Securities requested to Company which shall be included paid in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of any event by the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(cCompany).
(d) . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinabove, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in pay for any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness expenses of any other registration proceeding begun pursuant to Section 3.1(a) if the registration request is subsequently withdrawn at the request of the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities Then Outstanding to be Registered (in which case all selling Holders shall bear such expenses pro rata based upon the number of Registrable Securities that were to be included in the withdrawn registration), unless the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities Then Outstanding agree to forfeit their right to one (1) corresponding registration pursuant to Section 3.1(a); provided, however, if at the time of such withdrawal, the Holders have learned of a material adverse change in the condition, business, or prospects of the Company not known to the Holders at the time of their request for such registration and have withdrawn their request for registration with reasonable promptness after learning of such material adverse change, then the Holders shall not be required to pay any of such expenses and such registration shall not constitute the use of a demand registration pursuant to Section 3.1(a). All underwriting discounts, selling commissions and stock transfer taxes applicable to the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Agreement shall be borne by the holders of the securities Registered pro rata on the basis of the number of shares Registered.
(d) In the event that, in the reasonable judgment of the Company, it is advisable to suspend use of a Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any Prospectus therein due to pending material developments or other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement events that have not yet been publicly disclosed and as to which the Company is a party or with respect believes public disclosure would be detrimental to the sale Company, the Company shall notify the Holders in writing to such effect, and, upon receipt of Common Stock such notice, the Holders shall immediately discontinue any sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement or Prospectus until the Holders have received copies of a supplemented or amended Prospectus or until the Holders are advised in writing by the Company (or such longer period of time as that the then current Prospectus may be specified used and has received copies of any additional or supplemental filings that are incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference in an underwriting agreement relating such Prospectus. Notwithstanding anything to such registration statement)the contrary herein, the Company shall not exercise its rights under the preceding sentence to suspend sales of Registrable Securities for a period in excess of forty-five (45) consecutive calendar days during any 12-month period; provided, however, no suspension period may begin until at least twelve (12) months have passed since any previous suspension period.
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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement (News Corp), Investor Rights Agreement (Bona Film Group LTD)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Subject to the conditions of this Section 4.1, if the Corporation shall receive at any time after one hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date of an initial public offering of the Common Stock, a written request from one or more New Holders requesting Investor Parties holding a majority of the Common Stock on a Fully Diluted Basis held by all Investor Parties that the Company effect Corporation file a registration (a "Demand Registration") statement under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects held by the Investor Parties with an anticipated aggregate offering price (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) of at least US$10,000,000, then the Corporation shall, subject to include in such registration. Thereuponthe limitations of this Section 4.1, use all commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period registration under Section 6 below) after receipt the Securities Act of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested Investor Parties request to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000in a written request. The Corporation shall provide, based on upon request, a copy of its current shareholder register to any Investor requesting the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timesame.
(b) If Notwithstanding the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinionforegoing, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, Corporation shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled required to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities effect a registration pursuant to this Section 3 4.1:
(each, a "Demand for Registration"i) in addition any particular jurisdiction in which the Corporation would be required to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, unless the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant Corporation is already subject to Section 2service in such jurisdiction and except as may be required under the Securities Act; provided that a registration requested or
(ii) after the Corporation has effected three (3) registrations pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to 4.1, and such registrations have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), or ordered effective; or
(iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, during the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the Corporation’s good faith estimate of the date of the filing of and ending on a date one hundred eighty (180) days following the relevant Demand Registration Statementeffective date of a Corporation-initiated registration subject to Section 4.2 below, withdrawn sufficient shares from provided that the Corporation is actively employing in good faith all commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able statement to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and become effective; or
(iv) if the offering Corporation shall furnish to Investor Parties a certificate signed by the Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer or Chairman of Registrable Securities pursuant the Board stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, it would be materially detrimental to the Corporation and its stockholders for such registration is statement to be effected at such time, in which event the Corporation shall have the right to defer such filing for a period of not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement more than sixty (60) days after receipt of the SEC request of the Investor Parties, provided that such right shall be exercised by the Corporation not more than once in any twelve (12)-month period and provided further that the Corporation shall not register any securities for the account of itself or any other stockholder during such sixty (60) day period (other than any such stop ordera registration relating solely to the sale of securities of participants in a Corporation stock plan, injunction, a registration relating to a corporate reorganization or other order or requirement transaction under Rule 145 of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); providedSecurities Act, however, a registration on any form that if does not include substantially the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested same information as would be required to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to covering the sale of the Registrable Securities, or a registration in which the only Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period being registered is Common Stock issuable upon conversion of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statementdebt securities that are also being registered).
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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Ivanhoe Electric Inc.), Stockholders Agreement (Ivanhoe Electric Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of Subject to the restrictions set forth below, if at any time the Company shall receive from Holder a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration to register at least fifty percent (a "Demand Registration"50%) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies owned by the intended method Holder (or methods its respective successors and permitted assigns) as of disposition thereof and the number date of shares to be registeredsuch request, then the Company shall promptly notify all Holders effect as soon thereafter as practicable, and in writing any event within fifteen (15) days of the receipt of such request and each such Holderrequest, in lieu the Registration under the Securities Act of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in which Holder requests to be registered. The Company shall not be obligated to effect, or to take any action to effect, any such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 32.01:
(a) during the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the Company's good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and such Holder shall specify in such notice ending on a date one hundred eighty (180) days after the number of Registrable Securities effective date of, a Company-initiated Registration; provided that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after has delivered notice of such Registration to the Holder prior to its receipt of a the Holder's written request for a Demand demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its it continues to actively employ in good faith all reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.to become effective; or
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that if the offering cannot be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater made on Form S-3 for any reason other than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on Company's failure to timely file its period reports under the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder)Exchange Act; provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.or
(c) New Holders shall if in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, such Registration would be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition seriously detrimental to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant Company and the Board of Directors of the Company concludes, as a result, that it is essential to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to defer the filing of such Registration Statement at such time, and the relevant Demand Company shall furnish to Holder a certificate signed by the President of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, it would be seriously detrimental to the Company for such Registration Statement to be filed in the near future and that it is, therefore, essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement. In such event, withdrawn sufficient shares from the Company shall have the right to defer such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would filing (except as provided in subparagraph (a) above) for a period of not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and more than one hundred eighty (iv180) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement days after receipt of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement request of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities)Holder; provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration Company shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to defer its obligation in this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinmanner more than twice in any 12-month period. Furthermore, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) effect more than two (2) Demand Registrations under this Section 2.01 on behalf of Holder; provided, that a Registration Statements shall not be counted for such purposes unless such Registration has become effective and all of the Registrable Securities to be registered on behalf of Holder have been sold, in any twelve-month period, (iiaccordance with Section 3.01(a) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).this Schedule A.
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Samples: Warrant Agreement (Decorize Inc), Warrant Agreement (Decorize Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Subject to the provisions of a written this Article V, until the first date on which there are no Registrable Shares (the “Registration Termination Date”), each of Univar NV, CD&R Investor and Temasek Investor may at any time request from one or more New Holders (at which time, such requesting that Stockholder shall be referred to as the Company effect a “Initiating Stockholder”) in writing registration (a "Demand Registration") for resale under the Securities Act covering of all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect Shares separate from an S-3 Shelf Registration (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a “Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered”); provided, however, that (based on the aggregate value then-current market prices) the number of Registrable Shares included in the Demand Registration would, if fully sold, yield gross proceeds (prior to deducting underwriting discounts and commission and offering expenses) to such Stockholder of at least the Minimum Amount. Upon such request, the Company shall promptly, but no later than two days after such request, deliver notice of such request to all other Stockholders. The other Stockholders shall then have three days to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. If the request for registration contemplates an Underwritten Offering, the Company shall state such in the written notice and in such event the right of any other Stockholder to participate in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Stockholder’s participation in such Underwritten Offering and the inclusion of such Stockholder’s Registrable Shares in the Underwritten Offering to the extent provided herein. Subject to Section 5.03(d), Section 5.05 and Section 5.09, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts (i) to file a Registration Statement registering for resale such number of Registrable Shares as requested to be so registered together with all or such portion of the Registrable Securities requested Shares of any Stockholder joining in such request which have provided notification to be registered the Company pursuant to this Section 5.02(a) (ia “Demand Registration Statement”) be at least $2,500,000within 30 days and (ii) if necessary, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file cause such Demand Registration Statement to be declared effective by the SEC as soon as practicable thereafter. If permitted under the Securities Act, such Registration Statement shall be one that is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable automatically effective upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timefiling.
(b) If Subject to the majority-in-interest limitations of Section 5.02(a) and Section 5.02(d), (i) each of Univar NV and CD&R Investor (in each case, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates and their Permitted Transferees) shall be entitled to request up to five Demand Registrations in the aggregate, so long as Univar NV or CD&R Investor (in each case, together with its Permitted Transferees), as the case may be, owns 5% or more of the Participating outstanding Shares and (ii) until such time as the Company becomes eligible to register Shares on Form S-3 (or any successor form thereto) and so long as Temasek Investor owns 10% or more of the outstanding Shares, Temasek Investor (on behalf of itself and its Affiliates and their Permitted Transferees) shall be entitled to request up to three Demand Holders Registrations, provided that Temasek Investor shall only be entitled to request for one Demand Registration during the period from the date of the IPO until the end of the 12th full calendar month following the date of the IPO and provided, further that in the event that the Company ceases to be eligible to register Shares on Form S-3 after becoming so eligible, Temasek Investor shall be entitled to request up to three Demand Registrations less the number of prior Demand Registrations requested by Temasek Investor. A Registration Statement shall not count against the number of permitted Demand Registration unless and until it has become effective.
(c) The Company may include its own Capital Stock in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that or Underwritten Shelf Takedown on the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below terms provided below; and such managing underwriter of if such Demand Registration advises is an Underwritten Offering or an Underwritten Shelf Takedown, such Capital Stock may be included only with the consent of the managing underwriters of such offering and Univar NV and CD&R Investor. If the managing underwriters of the requested Demand Registration or Underwritten Shelf Takedown advise the Company and the Initiating Stockholder that in writing that, in its opinion, their good faith opinion the number amount of securities Capital Stock proposed to be included in such offering is greater than the total number Demand Registration or Underwritten Shelf Takedown exceeds the amount of securities Capital Stock which can be sold therein in such Underwritten Offering without having a material adverse effect on materially delaying or jeopardizing the distribution success of the offering (including the price per share of the Capital Stock proposed to be sold in such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"Underwritten Offering), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration or Underwritten Shelf Takedown, as the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securitiescase may be, (i) first, the number of Registrable Securities Shares that Univar NV, the CD&R Investor Parties, Temasek Investor, the Mezzanine Investors, the Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Investors and their respective Permitted Transferees propose to sell in such offering, (ii) second, the amount of Capital Stock the Company proposes to issue and (iii) third, the number of Registrable Shares of any other Stockholder who has given notice to be included in such Demand Registration registration or has exercised piggyback rights pursuant to Section 5.03; provided that, if the entirety of the Registrable Shares in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) cannot be included, the Registrable Shares to be included pursuant to each subsection shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration determined on a pro rata basis (based among the Stockholders selling pursuant to such subsection on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities Shares requested to be included therein by each selling Stockholder relative to the total number of Registrable Shares requested to be included therein by all such selling Stockholders and provided, further, that, after the IPO, until the earlier of (I) the consummation of the second Demand Registration after the IPO and (II) such time as the percentage of the CD&R Investor Parties’ Original Shares owned by the CD&R Investor Parties is no greater than the percentage of Univar NV’s Original Shares owned by Univar NV, (x) the pro rata allocation of Registrable Shares to be allocated to Univar NV pursuant to the immediately preceding proviso above shall be reduced by a number of shares equal to 30% (such number of shares, the “Reduction Amount”); and (y) the number of Registrable Shares allocated to the CD&R Investor Parties pursuant to the immediately preceding proviso above will be the sum of (A) the pro rata allocation of Registrable Shares to be allocated to the CD&R Investor Parties pursuant to the immediately preceding proviso above plus (B) the Reduction Amount.
(d) No Stockholder shall be entitled to request a Demand Registration within 90 days of the effective date of a Demand Registration, Piggyback Registration pursuant to Section 5.03 or an Underwritten Shelf Takedown requested pursuant to Section 5.04(b); provided that a Stockholder shall be entitled to request a Demand Registration at any time after such time as the Coordination Committee has been dissolved pursuant to the terms of Section 5.01. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to proceed with a Demand Registration if the offering to be effected pursuant to such registration can be effected pursuant to an S-3 Shelf Registration and the Company, in accordance with Section 5.04, effects or has effected an S-3 Shelf Registration pursuant to which such offering can be effected.
(e) Upon the date of effectiveness of any Demand Registration for an Underwritten Offering and if such offering is priced promptly on or after such date, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep such Demand Registration Statement effective for a period equal to 180 days from such date or such shorter period which shall terminate when all of the Registrable Shares covered by such Demand Registration have been sold by the Stockholders who had requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder)registration, and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may such period shall be extended for a period of time equal to the period the applicable holder of Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be Shares refrains from selling any securities included in such Registration Statement at the request of the Company or an underwriter pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement. If the Company shall withdraw any Demand Registration unless pursuant to Section 5.05 before the end of such 180 day period and before all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration Shares covered by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of have been sold pursuant thereto, the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders Initiating Stockholder shall be entitled to an aggregate a replacement Demand Registration which shall be subject to all of four (4) registrations the provisions of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Article V. A Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes count against the limit on the number of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period such registrations set forth in Section 7(a)5.02(b) if (i) after the applicable Registration Statement has become effective, (iii) Holders such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to Shares thereunder becomes the filing subject of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement restriction imposed by the SEC or any other governmental agency and such interference is not thereafter eliminated so as to permit the completion of the SEC contemplated distribution of Registrable Shares or (other than ii) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the conditions specified in the related underwriting agreement, if any, are not satisfied or waived for any such stop order, injunctionreason not attributable to the Initiating Stockholder or its Affiliates, or other order or requirement (iii) as a result of Section 5.02(c), less than 75% of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Initiating Stockholder’s Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities Shares requested to be included in the Registration Statement are included in such Registration Statement.
(f) Holders of a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one majority of the five Demands for Registration provided for Registrable Shares which are to be registered in a particular offering pursuant to this Section 3(c5.02 shall have the right, prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, to notify the Company that they have determined that the Registration Statement be abandoned or withdrawn, in which event the Company shall abandon or withdraw such Registration Statement. Any holder of Registrable Shares who has elected to sell Registrable Shares in an Underwritten Offering pursuant to this Section 5.02 (including the Stockholder who delivered the Demand Registration request) shall be permitted to withdraw from such registration by written notice to the Company if the price to the public at which the Registrable Shares are proposed to be sold will be less than 90% of the average closing price of the class of stock being sold in the offering during the 10 trading days preceding the date on which the notice of such offering was given pursuant to Section 5.02(a).
(dg) Notwithstanding anything If the Initiating Stockholder intends that the Registrable Shares requested to be covered by a Demand Registration shall be distributed by means of an Underwritten Offering, the contrary contained herein, Initiating Stockholder shall so advise the Company as a part of its request for a Demand Registration and the Company shall include such information in the notice sent by the Company to the other Stockholders with respect to such Demand Registration. In such event or in the case of an Underwritten Shelf Takedown, the lead underwriter to administer the offering shall be chosen by the Initiating Stockholder, subject to the prior written consent, not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, of the Company. If the offering covered by a Demand Registration is to be an Underwritten Offering or in any Underwritten Shelf Takedown, the right of any Stockholder to registration in such offering will be conditioned upon such Stockholder’s participation in such Underwritten Offering and the inclusion of such Stockholder’s Registrable Shares in the Underwritten Offering (unless otherwise agreed by the Initiating Stockholder) and each such Stockholder will (together with the Company and the other Stockholders distributing their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter(s) selected for such underwriting (including pursuant to the terms of any over-allotment or “green shoe” option requested by the managing underwriter(s), provided that (A) no Stockholder shall be required to prepare and file (i) sell more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements the number of Registrable Shares that such Stockholder has requested the Company to include in any twelve-month periodregistration) and (B) if any Stockholder disapproves of the terms of the underwriting, such Stockholder may elect to withdraw therefrom by written notice to the Company, the managing underwriter(s) and the Initiating Stockholder, provided further that no such Person (iiother than the Company) shall be required to make any Demand representations or warranties other than those related to title and ownership of, and power and authority to Transfer, shares and as to the accuracy and completeness of statements made in a Registration Statement within 90 days following Statement, Prospectus or other document in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information prepared and furnished to the date Company or the managing underwriter(s) by such Stockholder pertaining exclusively to such Stockholder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Stockholder shall be required to agree to any indemnification obligations on the part of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed such Stockholder that are greater than its obligations pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statementSection 5.09(b).
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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Temasek Holdings (Private) LTD), Stockholders Agreement (Univar Nv)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Commencing on August 1, 2019 and from time to time so long as there are any Registrable Securities outstanding, if the Company is not eligible to file a Shelf Registration Statement, if the Company has not caused a Shelf Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission in accordance with Section 2.2 or if the Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be effective, subject to the minimum size limitations in Section 2.3(a), the Holder(s) holding a majority of a written request from Registrable Securities then outstanding may collectively make one or more New Holders requesting that written requests to the Company effect a for registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering of all or part of the its or their Registrable Securities which specifies (a “Demand Registration”). The Holders submitting the intended method or methods request for a Demand Registration shall concurrently provide written notice of disposition thereof and the number of shares proposed registration to be registered, the all other Holders. The Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of prepare and file with the receipt of such request and each such HolderCommission, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written such request for a Demand Registration, file a registration statement on an appropriate form which the Company is then eligible to use with respect to any Demand Registration (a “Demand Registration Statement”) as selected by the SEC Company, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause any such Demand Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as promptly as reasonably practicable after the filing thereof. Any request for a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all will specify the number of shares of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in the offering thereof; provided that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders"requesting Holder(s) for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, may change the number of Registrable Securities included in such proposed to be offered pursuant to any Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested at any time prior to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration Statement with respect to the Demand Registration being declared effective by the New Holders are included Commission, in such Demand Registrationeach case subject to the minimum size limitations in Section 2.3(a). If Without the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities prior written consent of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in Holders requesting such Demand Registration, shall not exceed neither the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing Company nor any shareholder of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Company (other than the Holders) may include securities in any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities offering requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to under this Section 3(c)2.1.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Spirit MTA REIT), Registration Rights Agreement (Spirit MTA REIT)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a Upon the written request from one of the Holder or more New Holders requesting that of at least fifty percent (50%) of the Registrable Securities (the "Initiating Holders") the Company shall be obligated to effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering of such Registrable Securities as are requested to be registered by the Initiating Holders, all in accordance with the following provisions of this Agreement, provided that the obligation of the Company to effect such registration shall not be deemed to have been satisfied until the registration statement with respect thereto has become effective under the Securities Act and only so long as no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the registration statement or the qualification or registration of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction in which the Company shall be required pursuant to Section 6(d) to register or qualify such Registrable Securities shall not have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") or any similar state agency. Within ten (10) days of the request for registration by the Initiating Holders, the Company shall give written notice of such request to all Holders, who shall be entitled, by written notice to the Company and subject to Section 5(a) hereof, to include shares of Registrable Securities in any registration prepared by the Company pursuant to this Section 4(a). The Company shall not be obligated to effect more than three (3) demand registrations pursuant to this Section 4(a).
(b) In addition to the registration rights provided pursuant to Section 4(a) hereof, at any time and from time to time after six months following a firm commitment underwritten initial public offering of the Company's Common Stock (an "IPO"), upon the written request of the Initiating Holders, or at the request of any Holder which agrees to register Registrable Securities having a value of Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000) or more after an IPO, the Company shall be obligated to effect the registration under the Securities Act on Form S-3 (if the Company is then eligible to use such registration form), or any similar short form registration adopted by the Commission for which the Company may then be eligible, of all or part any portion of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder, all in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement.
(c) Whenever the Company shall be requested by the Initiating Holders pursuant to Section 4(a) or by a Holder pursuant to Section 4(b) to effect the registration of Registrable Securities under the Securities Act, the Company shall, as provided in Section 5, effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method Company has been requested to register pursuant to Section 4(a) or methods (b), all to the extent requisite to permit the disposition by such Holder of disposition thereof and the number Registrable Securities so registered.
(d) In connection with requesting registration of shares Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 4(a) or (b), if the Initiating Holders or a Holder in the case of Section 4(b) advise the Company that they intend to publicly offer or distribute Registrable Securities to be registeredcovered by the registration statement pursuant to a firm commitment underwriting with an investment banking firm or firms selected by the Holders, the Company and any other person entitled to include shares of Common Stock in such registration statement shall promptly notify all Holders enter into the same underwriting agreement with such underwriter or underwriters as shall such Holders, containing representations, warranties and agreements not substantially different from those customarily made by an issuer or selling shareholder in writing underwriting agreements with respect to secondary distributions.
(e) Neither the Company nor any of its security holders (other than the Holders) shall have the right to include any securities of the receipt of Company in a registration requested pursuant to Section 4(a) or (b) unless (i) such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt securities are of the aforementioned notice from same class as any of the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant and (ii) the offering is either (x) not being underwritten and the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities requesting registration consent to this Section 3, such inclusion in writing or (y) a firm commitment underwriting and the managing underwriter has informed the Holders that inclusion of such securities will not adversely affect the price range or the probability of success of the offering and such Holder shall specify securities are allocated as provided in such notice Section 4(f) and sold on the number of same terms and conditions as apply to the Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registrationbeing sold. Thereupon, If any security holders of the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but (other than the Holders) register securities of the Company in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method provisions of Section 4(a) or methods thereof(b), such security holders shall pay their pro rata share of the Registration Expenses, as aforesaid) defined below, unless the Company has agreed to pay such expenses and, in the opinion of counsel to the Holders, such payment would not affect the ability of the Registrable Securities so registered; providedto be registered or qualified under the blue sky laws of any jurisdiction.
(f) If the Company or any of its security holders request the right to include equity securities in a registration statement filed pursuant to Section 4(a) or (b) and such securities are proposed to be sold in a firm commitment underwritten offering and the managing underwriters advise the Company that, howeverin their opinion, that the aggregate value total number of the Registrable Securities securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file included in such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, registration exceeds the number of securities which can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the price range or probability of success of such offering, the securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated (i) first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SECbeing registered, (ii) it has remained effective for second, pro rata among the period set forth other holders of the Company's securities requesting inclusion in Section 7(a), such registration on the basis of the number of shares of securities requested to be registered by such holders and (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in third, such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock securities being offered by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Company.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pantry Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Fs Equity Partners Iii Lp)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt If the Company shall receive at any time not earlier than the earlier of (i) four (4) years after the date of this Agreement and (ii) six (6) months after the effective date of the first registration statement for a public offering of securities of the Company (other than a registration statement relating either to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or a transaction pursuant to Rule 145 under the Act) a written request from one or more New Holders requesting the Series F Requisite Investors (as defined in the Purchase Agreement), that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") register for sale under the Securities Act covering all or part any portion of the shares of Registrable Securities held by such Holders having an aggregate anticipated price to the public (before any underwriters’ discounts or commissions) of not less than $5,000,000:
(i) within ten (10) days after the receipt thereof, give written notice of such request to all Holders; and
(ii) use its reasonable best efforts to file as soon as practicable the registration under the Act of all Registrable Securities which the Holders request to be registered, subject to the limitations of Section 1.2(b).
(b) If the Holders initiating the registration request hereunder (“Initiating Holders”) intend to distribute the Registrable Securities which specifies covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the intended method Company as a part of their request made pursuant to Section 1.2(a) and the Company shall include such information in the written notice referred to in Section 1.2(a). The underwriter will be selected by the Company and shall be reasonably acceptable to a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders. In such event, the right of any Holder to include its Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in the underwriting (unless otherwise mutually agreed by a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders and such Holder) to the extent provided herein. All Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting shall (together with the Company as provided in Section 1.4(e)) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or methods underwriters selected for such underwriting. Notwithstanding any other provision of disposition thereof and this Section 1.2, if the underwriter advises the Initiating Holders in writing that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of shares to be registeredunderwritten, then the Company Initiating Holders shall promptly notify so advise all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof which would otherwise be underwritten pursuant to this Section 3Agreement, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that may be included in the underwriting shall be allocated among all Holders, including the Initiating Holders, in proportion (as nearly as practicable) to the amount of Registrable Securities of the Company has been so requested to register owned by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredeach Holder; provided, however, that the aggregate value number of the shares of Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering underwriting shall not be reduced unless all other securities are first entirely excluded from the underwriting. For purposes of the preceding sentence concerning allocation, for any Holder that is greater than a partnership or corporation, the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution partners, retired partners and stockholders of such securities Holder, or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (estates and family members of any such partners and retired partners and any trusts for the "Maximum Number benefit of Securities"), then any of the Company foregoing persons shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested be deemed to be registered thereunder only a single “Holder”, and any pro rata reduction with respect to such Holder shall be based upon the extent the number aggregate amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities shares carrying registration rights owned by all entities and individuals included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first“Holder”, among all the New Holders participating as defined in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesthis sentence.
(c) New Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company shall furnish to Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities requesting a registration statement pursuant to this Section 3 (each1.2, a "Demand for Registration") certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in addition the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, it would be detrimental to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected Company and its stockholders for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior statement to be filed and the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that statement should therefore be delayed, the remaining Holders requesting registration would not Company shall have been able the right to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant delay taking action with respect to such registration is filing for two periods of not subject to more than sixty (60) days each in any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement twelve (12) month period after receipt of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement request of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)Initiating Holders.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinIn addition, the Company shall not be required obligated to prepare and file effect, or to take any action to effect, any registration pursuant to this Section 1.2:
(i) more than After the Company has effected two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, registrations pursuant to this Section 1.2 and such registrations have been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 During the period starting with the date sixty (60) days following prior to the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or filing of, and ending on a date one hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date of, a registration subject to Section 1.3 hereof; provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause the Section 1.3 registration statement to become effective; or
(iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following If the date Initiating Holders propose to dispose of effectiveness shares of any other registration statement filed Registrable Securities that may be immediately registered on Form S-3 pursuant to any other registration rights agreement a request made pursuant to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Section 1.12 below.
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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement (Chimerix Inc), Investor Rights Agreement (Chimerix Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written Subject to Section 2(e) hereof, if at any time the Holder Representative shall request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect in writing to register under the Securities Act all or a registration part of the Registrable Securities held by the Holders (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered), the Company shall promptly notify use all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be filed and declared effective as soon as reasonably practicable (but in no event later than the 45th day after the Holder Representative's request is made) a registration statement (providing for the sale of all such Registrable Securities requested by the Holder Representative to be registered. The Company agrees to use its reasonable efforts to keep any such registration statement continuously effective and usable for resale of Registrable Securities for so long as the Holder Representative shall request. Each registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 2(a) is hereinafter referred to as a "Demand Registration Statement"." The Company may, if permitted by law, effect any registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) relating to all shares by the filing of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by a registration statement on Form S-3. However, if such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a registration involves an underwritten public offering requests that and the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises underwriter(s) at any time shall notify the Company in writing that, in its opinionthe sole judgment of such managing underwriter(s), inclusion of some or all of the information required in a more detailed form specified in such notice is of material importance to the success of the public offering of such Registrable Securities, the number Company shall use all reasonable efforts to supplement or amend the registration statement to include such information.
(b) The Company agrees (i) not to effect any public or private sale, distribution or purchase of any of its securities which are the same as or similar to the Registrable Securities, including a sale pursuant to Regulation D under the Securities Act, during the 15-day period prior to, and during the 45-day period beginning on, the closing date of each underwritten offering under any Demand Registration Statement, and (ii) to use reasonable efforts to cause each holder of its securities purchased from the Company, at any time on or after the date of this Agreement (other than in a registered public offering) to agree not to effect any public sale or distribution of any such securities during such period, including a sale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act. Except as expressly provided under this Agreement, the Holders shall not effect any public sale or distribution of any Company securities during the 15-day period prior to, and during the 45-day period beginning on, the closing of each underwritten offering under any Demand Registration Statement; provided, however, that if either or both of the periods specified in the equivalent provision in the PX Holding Registration Rights Agreement are shortened by agreement by the Company or by the Company's waiving its rights under such equivalent provision, then the corresponding period(s) in this sentence shall be deemed to be included automatically amended to be identical to the period(s) applicable to PX Holding under the equivalent provision in the PX Holding Registration Rights Agreement.
(c) The Company may postpone for a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 30 days, the filing or the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement if (i) the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith determines that (A) such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having registration would have a material adverse effect on any plan or proposal by the distribution Company with respect to any financing, acquisition, recapitalization, reorganization or other material transaction, or (B) the Company is in possession of such securities or otherwise having material non-public information that, if publicly disclosed, would result in a material disruption of a major corporate development or transaction then pending or in progress or in other material adverse effect on consequences to the marketability thereof Company, and (ii) the "Maximum Number Company so notifies the Holder(s) within five days after the Holder(s) requests such registration. The Company's right to defer the filing of Securities")a registration statement pursuant to the provisions of the preceding sentence may not be exercised more than once during any 12 month period.
(d) If at any time the Holder Representative notifies the Company in writing of the Holders' desire that the Registrable Securities to be covered by a Demand Registration Statement be sold pursuant to an underwritten offering, then the Holder Representative shall have the right to select any nationally recognized investment banking firm(s) to administer the offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, and the Company shall enter into underwriting agreements with the underwriter(s) of such offering, which agreements shall contain such representations and warranties by the Company, and such other terms, conditions and indemnities as are at the time customarily contained in underwriting agreements for similar offerings and the Company shall take or cause to be taken all such other actions as are reasonably requested by the managing underwriter(s) in order to expedite or facilitate the registration and disposition of the Registrable Securities, including, without limitation, causing management to participate in "road show" presentations.
(e) The Company shall not be obligated to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in total under this Section 2 with respect to any or all of the Holders; provided, however, that, to the extent that the Holders are unable to include in such as part of a Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that lesser of (i) one-half of the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such aggregate amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holdersuch Holders and (ii) Registrable Securities representing an aggregate of two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) shares of Common Stock (as such number may be adjusted from time to time to reflect changes in the outstanding number of shares of Common Stock through a dividend, subdivision, combination, reclassification, etc.), andthen such Demand Registration shall not be deemed to be one of the three (3) Demand Registrations that the Holders are entitled to pursuant to this Section 2.
(f) If the Holders are not entitled to include all of their Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration under this Section 2, secondthe Holder Representative may elect to withdraw its request to include any or all such Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration; provided, however, that if a Demand Registration is effected with respect to any or all of such Registrable Securities, then such Demand Registration shall be one of the Existing three Demand Registrations that the Holders on are entitled to under this Section 2 unless the Holders are unable to include as part of a pro rata basis Demand Registration the lesser of (based on i) one-half of the number aggregate amount of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may such Holders and (ii) Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to representing an aggregate of four two hundred fifty thousand (4250,000) registrations shares of Registrable Securities pursuant Common Stock (as such number may be adjusted from time to this Section 3 (eachtime to reflect changes in the outstanding number of shares of Common Stock through a dividend, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SECsubdivision, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(acombination, reclassification, etc.), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then which event such Demand Registration shall not be counted as deemed to be one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant three Demand Registrations that the Holders are entitled to under this Section 3(c)2.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Sony Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Panavision Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Article VII, if, at any time the Company shall receive a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that to register not less than 25% of the Company effect a total outstanding Registrable Securities held by all such Holders, and such notice requests registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the such Registrable Securities which specifies by the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredCompany, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders use its Best Efforts to cause such the Registrable Securities identified in writing of the receipt of such request and each notice to be registered as soon as reasonably practicable, on such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to appropriate form as the Company within ten (10) Business Days from in its discretion shall determine, so as to permit the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration sale thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredan underwritten offering; provided, however, that such requests shall express the aggregate value present intention of the Holders to offer or cause the offering of such Registrable Securities requested for distribution. The Company's obligation to use its Best Efforts to cause Registrable Securities to be registered in accordance with this Section 7.2(a) is subject to each of the following limitations, conditions and qualifications:
(i) The Company shall not be at least $2,500,000required to register any Registrable Securities which amount the Holder is able to qualify for sale under Rule 144 or otherwise within a three-month period, based on or under a comparable rule or regulation, provided that the closing trading price Company shall be required to register all Registrable Securities in excess of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, amount so qualified under Rule 144 or otherwise.
(ii) If the Company shall have previously given notice of a registration (other than a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 or similar form) to the Holders pursuant to Section 7.3, then the Company shall not be required to effect any registration requested pursuant to Section 7.2(a) for a period of 90 days from the date of such prior notice; provided, however, that if the registration which was filed in connection therewith becomes effective within such 90-day period, such 90-day period shall be extended for such period (not to exceed 45 days after the effective date of such registration statement) as may be required pursuant to the terms and conditions of any underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such proposed registration.
(iii) The Company may postpone for a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 120 days, the filing or the effectiveness of a registration required pursuant to Section 7.2(a) if the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith determines that (A) such registration right may have a Material Adverse Effect on any plan or proposal by the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to any financing, acquisition, recapitalization, reorganization or other material transaction, or (B) the Company is in possession of material non-public information that, if publicly disclosed, could result in a material disruption of a major corporate development or transaction then pending or in progress or in other material adverse consequences to the Company; provided, however, that, the Company shall not have the right to obtain such a postponement more than once in any 365-day period; and provided, further, that as soon as the conditions permitting such delay no longer apply, the Company shall give notice of that fact to the Holders, and shall proceed with the registration unless the Holders shall have elected, at any time prior to the close of business on the fifth business day after the Company has so notified the Holders, to withdraw their request for registration, and such withdrawn request shall not constitute a request hereunder.
(iv) The Company shall not be required to effect any registration pursuant to Section 7.2(a) unless such registration relates to Company Securities representing at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise held by all Holders.
(v) The obligation of the Warrants or (iii) include all Company to register Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 7.2(a) shall expire after four registration statements (which remain outstanding at may consist of (i) no more than two S-1 registration statements and (ii) up to four S-3 registration statements) filed by reason of a request pursuant to Section 7.2(a) shall have become effective.
(vi) The Company shall maintain the effectiveness of any registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 7.2 for such timeperiod up to ninety (90) days as may be requested by the Holders in their demand request. Any obligation of the Company to register Registrable Securities under this Section 7.2 shall be deemed satisfied when a registration statement covering such shares has been declared effective and has remained effective for the period specified above.
(b) If The Company may elect to include in any registration requested pursuant to Section 7.2(a) any additional Company Securities which it shall determine so to include and the majority-in-interest consent of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that shall not be required with respect thereto. Notwithstanding the offering be underwritten with a foregoing, if the managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and for such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises registration shall advise the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities proposed to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can registration should be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities")limited due to market conditions, then the Company shall not have the right to include any additional Company Securities in such Demand Registration the registration unless and until all Registrable Securities that covered by the Participating Demand Holders demand notice submitted by the Investor have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities been included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated firstregistration. For purposes of this Section 7.2(b), among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable additional Company Securities requested sought to be included in such Demand Registration any demand registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not include any securities proposed to be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock sold by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)for its own account.
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Samples: Investment and Master Strategic Relationship Agreement (Angeion Corp/Mn), Investment and Master Strategic Relationship Agreement (Angeion Corp/Mn)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Subject to the conditions of this Section 2.1, if the Company shall receive, at any time after the earlier of (i) three (3) years from the Closing and (ii) six (6) months following the closing of the Initial Offering, a written request from one a Preferred Holder or Preferred Holders holding thirty percent (30%) or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies then outstanding (the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered“Initiating Holder(s)”), that the Company file a registration statement under the Act covering the registration of (a) with respect to any written request prior to the Initial Offering, at least twenty percent (20%) of the Registrable Securities then outstanding (or a lesser percentage provided that such registration under this Section 2.1 shall promptly notify have an aggregate offering price, net of underwriting discounts and commissions, of $10,000,000 or more) and (b) with respect to any written request following the Initial Offering, any amount of the Registrable Securities then outstanding, then the Company shall:
(i) within ten (10) days of the receipt thereof, give written notice of such request to all Holders other Preferred Holders;
(ii) subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use all reasonable efforts, as soon as practicable, and in writing any event within ninety (90) days of the receipt of such request, to file a registration statement under the Act covering all Registrable Securities which the Initiating Holder(s) request and each to be registered, together with all or any portion of Registrable Securities of any other Preferred Holders joining in such Holder, request as are specified in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by a written notice sent request delivered to the Company in accordance with Section 6.6 and received by the Company within ten twenty (1020) Business Days from days after the date of such Holder's receipt mailing of the aforementioned Company’s notice from the Companypursuant to Section 2.1(a); and
(iii) use its reasonable efforts to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in cause such registration thereof pursuant statement to this Section 3, and be declared effective by the SEC as soon as practicable. Each such request by a Preferred Holder (other than the Initiating Holder(s)) shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause proposed to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with registered and the intended method of disposition thereof. The failure of any Preferred Holder (other than the Initiating Holder(s)) to respond within such twenty (20) day period referred to in clause (ii) above shall be deemed to be a waiver of such Preferred Holder’s rights under this Section 2.1 with respect to such registration, provided that any such Preferred Holder may waive its or methods thereofhis rights under this Section 2.1 prior to the expiration of such twenty (20) day period by giving written notice to the Company, as aforesaidwith a copy to the Initiating Holder(s). The Preferred Holders shall be limited to a maximum of two (2) of the Registrable Securities so registereddemand registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1; provided, however, that Xxxxx Brothers Investments (“BBI”) shall maintain a right to demand one (1) registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 in the aggregate value event that the two (2) demand registrations are made by Preferred Holders other than BBI and BBI does not participate in such registrations. The Company shall not be required to effect more than one (1) registration in any twelve (12) month period. A registration will not count toward the Preferred Holders’ limit of the two (2) demand registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 if (Y) less than all Registrable Securities requested to be registered by the Preferred Holders are registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New except for Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by registration as a result of an Underwriter Carveback (as defined below)), or (Z) the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If registration is withdrawn at the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities request of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of Preferred Holders when the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Preferred Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).have
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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement (Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc), Investor Rights Agreement (Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time after the date which is six months after the closing of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") initial underwritten public offering of the Common Stock registered under the Securities Act covering all or part Act, Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods then outstanding propose to dispose of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities, then such Holders may request the Company in writing to effect such registration under the Securities Act, stating the number of shares of Registrable Securities included in to be disposed of and the intended method(s) of disposition of such shares. Holders of Registrable Securities which request registration thereof pursuant to this Section 32(a) are referred to herein as the "Initiating Holders". In connection with any registration under this Section 2 involving an underwriting (an "Underwritten Offering"), the Initiating Holders will have the right to select an investment banker(s) and manager(s) for such Holder Underwritten Offering, which investment banker(s) and manager(s) shall specify be reasonably satisfactory to the Company. Upon receipt of a request from the Initiating Holders, the Company shall give prompt written notice thereof to all other Holders and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly effect the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities specified in such notice the requests of the Initiating Holders and the written requests (stating the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that to be disposed of and the Company has been so requested to register by intended method of disposition of such shares) of all other Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for salegiven within 20 days after receipt of such notice from the Company, all to the extent required requisite to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaidof disposition) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timeregistered.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may postpone taking action with respect to a registration requested pursuant to Section 2(a) (a "Demand Registration") for a reasonable period of time after receipt of the request (not exceeding 60 days) if, in the good faith opinion of the Company's Board of Directors, effecting the registration would adversely affect a material financing, acquisition, disposition of assets or stock, merger or other comparable transaction or would require the Company to make public disclosure of information the public disclosure of which could have a material adverse effect upon the Company; provided that Company shall not delay such action pursuant to -------- this sentence more than twice in any twelve (12) month period.
(c) If the majority-in-interest managing underwriter(s) of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in an Underwritten Offering under this Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration 2 advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, that the number of securities to be included sold in such offering Underwritten Offering, is greater than the total number which can be offered without adversely impacting such Underwritten Offering, including, without limitation, the price range or probability of success of such Underwritten Offering, then the Company will include in such Underwritten Offering the number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then managing underwriter(s) advises the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to may be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated Underwritten Offering without such adverse impact in the following priority: (i) first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration registration by each New Holder), and, the Holders (including the Initiating Holders) and (ii) second, to other securities of the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested Company proposed to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); providedregistration, however, that allocated among the holders thereof in no event may Registrable Securities held by accordance with the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of priorities then existing among the Company and other securities held by other security the holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesother securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (C Quential Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (C Quential Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt If at any time from and after the date of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredthis Agreement, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders be requested in writing by Holder to effect the registration under the Act of shares of the receipt Company's common stock then owned by Holder (which request shall specify the aggregate number of shares intended to be offered and sold by Holder, shall describe the nature or method of the proposed offer and sale thereof and shall contain an undertaking by Holder to cooperate fully with the Company in order to permit the Company to comply with all applicable requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations thereunder and to obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement contemplated thereby), the Company shall effect the registration of such securities on an appropriate form under the Act, provided that (i) Holder may exercise the right to request and each registration pursuant to this Section 2 only with respect to those shares that, at the time such request for registration is delivered to the Company, may not be sold to the public pursuant to Rule 144 under the Act or any similar or successor rule; (ii) Holder, in lieu of exercising its 's rights under this Section 4 hereof, 2 shall be exercisable only if the shares as to which Holder requests registration have an aggregate value of at least $250,000 based on the average of the closing bid price for the Company's common stock as listed on any exchange on which the Company's common stock then may elect be traded for the thirty (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (1030) Business Days from trading-day period immediately preceding the date of such Holder's receipt request for registration; (iii) the Company shall be entitled to postpone the filing of the aforementioned notice from the Company) any registration statement otherwise required to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof be prepared and filed by it pursuant to this Section 32, if at the time it receives a request for such registration, the Company's underwriter determines that such registration and offering would materially interfere with any existing or then presently contemplated financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other material transaction involving the Company, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shallpromptly gives the Holder written notice of such determination, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, postponement shall not exceed extend beyond the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled time that such material interference continues to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2exist; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant Holder shall have no right to such demand registration is not subject with respect to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of shares within ninety (90) calendar days after the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the effective date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Company.
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Samples: Consulting Agreement (KLS Enviro Resources Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (KLS Enviro Resources Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of At any time prior to such time as the rights under this Section 2 terminate with respect to a Holder as provided in Section 12(h) hereof, upon written request notice from one or more New Holders such Holder in the manner set forth in Section 12(j) hereof requesting that the Company effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering of any or all or part of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder or any of its Affiliates, which specifies notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredsuch Registrable Securities, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a effect, in the manner set forth in Section 5, the registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares under the Securities Act of such Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereofof disposition stated in such request (including (1) in an offering on a delayed or continuous basis under Rule 415 (or any successor rule of similar effect) promulgated under the Securities Act and accordingly requiring the filing of a “shelf” registration statement (a “Shelf Registration”) and/or (2) sales for cash or dispositions upon exchange or conversion of securities or dispositions for any form of consideration or no consideration), provided that:
(i) if, while a registration request is pending pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Company determines, following consultation with and receiving advice from its legal counsel, that the filing of a registration statement would require the disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as aforesaidconfidential and the disclosure of which the Company determines reasonably and in good faith would have a material adverse effect on any active proposal by the Company or its Subsidiaries to engage in any material acquisition, merger, consolidation, tender offer, business combination, reorganization or other material transaction, the Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earlier of (A) the Registrable Securities so registered; date upon which such material information is otherwise disclosed to the public or ceases to be material and (B) 30 days after the Company makes such determination, provided, however, that the aggregate value Company shall not be permitted to delay a requested registration in reliance on this clause (i) more than once in any 12-month period; provided, further, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, no such delay shall exceed such number of days that the Company determines in good faith to be reasonably necessary;
(ii) the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2: (A) before the end of any applicable lock-up period; or (B) on more than three separate occasions; and
(iii) the Company shall not be required to file a separate registration statement, but may file one registration statement covering the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timeheld by more than one Holder.
(b) If the majority-in-interest Notwithstanding any other provision of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only this Agreement to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securitiescontrary, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities registration requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities Holder pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected (and, therefore, not requested for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless 2(a)), (i) it unless the registration statement filed in connection therewith has been declared become effective by (and each Holder shall be permitted to withdraw all or part of such Holder’s Registrable Securities from a registration pursuant to this Section 2 at any time prior to the SECeffective date thereof), (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in if after such registration have notstatement has become effective, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not it becomes subject to any stop order, or there is issued an injunction or other order or requirement decree of the SEC (or other governmental agency or court for any reason other than any a misrepresentation or an omission by such stop orderHolder, which injunction, or other order or requirement decree prohibits or otherwise materially and adversely affects the offer and sale of the SEC prompted Registrable Securities so registered, or if the registration is otherwise prohibited by act applicable law, prior to the completion of the distribution thereof in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the registration statement or (iii) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied other than by reason of some act, misrepresentation or omission by a Holder and are not waived by the purchasers or underwriters.
(c) In the event that any registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, Holders owning at least a majority of Holders the Registrable Securities to be registered in connection with such offering shall have the right to designate an underwriter reasonably satisfactory to the Company as the lead managing underwriter of such underwritten offering.
(d) The Company shall have the right to cause the registration of additional securities for sale for the account of any person (including the Company) in any registration of Registrable SecuritiesSecurities requested by any Holder pursuant to Section 2(a); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating managing underwriter or other independent marketing agent for such offering (if any) determines that, in its opinion, the additional securities proposed to be sold will materially and adversely affect the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities to be registered in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition then contemplated by such Holder, only the number or principal amount of such additional securities, if any (in excess of the number or principal amount of Registrable Securities), which, in the opinion of such underwriter or agent, can be so sold without materially and adversely affecting such offering shall be included in such Demand Registration are not able registration. The rights of a Holder to register and sell at least two-thirds cause the registration of the New additional Registrable Securities held by such Holder in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by another Holder pursuant to Section 2(a) shall be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one governed by the agreement of the five Demands for Registration Holders with respect thereto as provided for pursuant to this in Section 3(c11(a).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Framework Agreement (North Atlantic Drilling Ltd.), Framework Agreement (Seadrill LTD)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time during the first three years after the Effective Time ("Initial Demand Period"), any Holder of a written Registrable Securities may request from one or more New Holders requesting in writing that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") register in an underwritten public offering under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredAct, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included (a "Demand Registration") and the Company shall thereupon promptly use its best efforts to effect, subject to the next sentence and the provisions of Subsection 2.02(c), such Demand Registration. No Demand Registration shall be effected until 30 days following the end of the Pooling Period and the Company shall not be obligated (i) to effect a Demand Registration in the six-month period following a sale of Registrable Securities under a previous Demand Registration, (ii) subject to Section 2.04, to effect more than three Demand Registrations or (iii) to effect a Demand Registration with respect to less than $25,000,000 in aggregate fair market value of Registrable Securities or such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder lesser amount as shall constitute all of the Registrable Securities then held by the Holders. A request for Demand Registration will specify in such notice the number of shares of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects proposed to include in such registrationbe sold. Thereupon, A registration will not count as a Demand Registration until the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, registration statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the Commission.
(b) Promptly (but in any no event no later more than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below15 days) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested pursuant to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders"Section 2.02(a) for salehereof, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number provide notice of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number request to all Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number books of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holderthe Company other than those who made the request under Section 2.02(a), andand each such Holder shall have the right, secondwithin a period of fifteen (15) days after the date of such notice, to request the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on Company to include in the number of Registrable Securities requested offering to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in which the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount relates all or a portion of such Holder's Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to In the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such event that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to making a request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand RegistrationRegistration pursuant to Section 2.02(b) together with the Holders who requested registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.02(a) hereof (the "Participating Holders") have requested registration of Registrable Securities in excess of the Maximum Demand Amount (as hereinafter defined), then if applicable, each Participating Holder shall have the right to register up to such number of such Holder's Registrable Securities which bears the same proportion to the Maximum Demand Amount as all of the Registrable Securities owned by such Participating Holder bears to the total number of Registrable Securities owned by all Participating Holders (hereinafter referred to as a Participating Holder's "Eligible Securities"). To the extent that any Participating Holder does not elect to have all or part of such Participating Holder's Eligible Securities included in the offering for which Demand Registration shall not be counted as one has been made, the Eligible Securities of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant other Participating Holders who elect to this Section 3(c)participate in the offering shall be increased pro rata based on the number of Eligible Securities owned by each.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (James River Corp of Virginia), Registration Rights Agreement (Fort James Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time after the expiration of a written request from the Lock-Up Period, one or more New Holders requesting Buyer Parties (the “Requesting Parties”) then holding a majority of the Registrable Securities then held by all Buyer Parties may request in writing (a “Demand Request”) that the Company effect a registration (a "“Demand Registration"”) under the 1933 Act of Registrable Securities Act covering held by such Buyer Parties. The Demand Request shall be in writing and shall specify the Registrable Securities to be sold and the intended method of disposition thereof. Upon receipt of a Demand Request, the Company shall deliver within five Business Days a written notice (a “Demand Notice”) to each Buyer Party that did not make such Demand Request stating that the Company intends to comply with a Demand Request and informing each such Buyer Party of its right to include Registrable Securities in such Demand Registration. Within five Business Days after receipt of a Demand Notice, each Buyer Party who received such Demand Notice shall have the right to request in writing that the Company include all or part a specific portion of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares held by such Buyer Party in such Demand Registration. The Company shall file a registration statement including (subject to Section 5.1(c)) all Registrable Securities requested to be registered, included therein by the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request Requesting Parties and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising any other Buyer Party who validly exercises its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect this Section5.1(a) on the appropriate form as promptly as practicable (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) 90 days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt the date the Demand Request is delivered in the case of a written request for Form S-1 and 60 days after the date the Demand Request is delivered in the case of a Demand Registration, file with the SEC Form S-3) and use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that by the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, SEC as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredsoon as practicable thereafter; provided, however, that the aggregate value of Company shall not be obligated to effect, or take any action to effect, any such registration pursuant to this Section 5.1:
(i) unless the Registrable Securities requested to be registered pursuant to such request (ix) be have an anticipated aggregate public offering price (before any underwriting discounts and commissions) of at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price 25,000,000 or (y) represent at least 15% of the total shares of Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, then outstanding that are not Registrable Securities;
(ii) be within 120 days of any other Demand Registration or a Shelf Underwritten Offering;
(iii) within 120 days of a Piggyback Offering in which all Buyer Parties were given the right to include Registrable Securities to the extent required under this Agreement and at least 2580% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at requested by such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities Buyer Parties to be included in such offering is greater than Piggyback Offering were included;
(iv) during the total number period starting with the date 30 days prior to the Company’s good faith estimate of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect the date of filing of, and ending on the distribution of date 120 days immediately following a Piggyback Offering, provided that during the 30-day period prior to such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then filing the Company shall include is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to consummate such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder)Piggyback Offering; provided, howeverfurther, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in only delay an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities offering pursuant to this Section 3 subsection (each, a)(iv) for a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall period of not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 120 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness if a filing of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which is not made within that period and the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company may only exercise this right once in any 12-month period; or
(or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)v) during any Suspension Period.
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Samples: Stockholders' Agreement (Professional Diversity Network, Inc.), Stock Purchase Agreement (Professional Diversity Network, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that Subject to the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under restrictions set forth below, if at any time after the Securities Act covering all or part consummation of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredinitial Business Combination, the Company shall promptly notify receive from the Holders (the "Requesting Holders") owning at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the then outstanding shares of Registrable Securities as of the date of the request, a written request to register at least fifteen percent (15%) of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities owned by all of the Requesting Holders as of the date of such request, then the Company will give notice of such request to all Holders within ten (10) days of receiving such request and shall effect as soon thereafter as practicable, and in writing any event within forty-five (45) days of the receipt of such request and each such Holderrequest, in lieu the Registration under the Securities Act of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included which any Holder requests to be registered except as provided in Section 2.03 below. The Company shall not be obligated to effect, or to take any action to effect, any such registration thereof Registration pursuant to this Section 32.01:
(a) During the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the Company's good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and such Holder shall specify in such notice ending on a date one hundred eighty (180) days after the number of Registrable Securities effective date of, a Company-initiated Registration; provided that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after has delivered notice of such Company-initiated Registration to the Holders prior to its receipt of a the Holders' written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC Registration and use its it continues to actively employ in good faith all reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective; or
(b) if the Holders have requested an Underwritten Registration, the Company and the Holders are unable to obtain the commitment of underwriters to firmly underwrite the offer; or
(c) if in the good faith judgment of the Board, such Registration would be seriously detrimental to the Company and the Board concludes, as a result, that it is essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement at such time, and the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the President of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, it would be seriously detrimental to the Company for such Registration Statement to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand filed in the near future and that it is, therefore, essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that . In such event, the Company has been so requested shall have the right to register by defer such Holders filing ("Participating Demand Holders"except as provided in subparagraph (a) above) for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition a period of not more than one hundred eighty (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid180) days after receipt of the Registrable Securities so registeredrequest of the Holders; provided, however, that the aggregate value of Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner more than once in any 12-month period. Notwithstanding the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000foregoing, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in ensure that no such Demand Registration the shall become effective with respect to any Registrable Securities that subject to an applicable Lock-up Period and/or Warrant Exercise Restriction until after the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all expiration of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesapplicable Lock-up Period and/or Warrant Exercise Restriction, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company case may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinbe. Furthermore, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) effect more than two three (23) Demand Registrations, which may be either Long-Form Registrations or Short-Form Registrations, under this Section 2.01 on behalf of the Holders; provided, however, that a Registration Statements shall not be counted for such purposes unless such Long-Form Registration has become effective and all of the Registrable Securities requested by the Requesting Holders to be registered on behalf of the Requesting Holders in such Long-Form Registration have been sold, in accordance with Section 3.01(a) of this Agreement; and provided, further, however, that the Company will not be obligated to effect any such Short-Form Registration:
(a) if Form S-3 is not available for such offering;
(b) if in the good faith judgment of the Board, such Registration would be seriously detrimental to the Company and the Board concludes, as a result, that it is essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement at such time, and the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the President of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, it would be seriously detrimental to the Company for such Registration Statement to be filed in the near future and that it is, therefore, essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement. In such event, the Company shall have the right to defer such filing (except as provided in subparagraph (a) above) for a period of not more than one hundred eighty (180) days after receipt of the request of the Holders; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner more than once in any twelve12-month period, ;
(iic) any Demand if the Company has effected one (1) Short-Form Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or six (iii6) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following month period prior to the date of effectiveness of any other current request for Short-Form Registration; or
(d) if the Registrable Securities to be covered by such registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which do not, in the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)aggregate, exceed $500,000.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (National Energy Resources Acquisition CO), Registration Rights Agreement (National Energy Resources Acquisition CO)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of If the Company shall receive from the Holder at any time prior to the Expiration Date, a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a any registration (a "Demand Registration") with respect to all the Warrant Shares to be issued under the Securities Act covering all or Warrants that are part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredsame series as this Warrant, the Company shall promptly notify will, as soon as practicable, use its best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, filing a registration statement on Form F-3 (or any other applicable form), pre-effective and post-effective amendments, prospectuses and prospectus supplements, appropriate qualifications under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws, and appropriate compliance with the Securities Act); and as would permit or facilitate the sale and distribution of all Holders or such portion of such Warrant Shares as are specified in writing of the receipt of such request and each cause such Holderregistration to remain effective until the earlier of two years have elapsed or all of the Warrant Shares included therein have been sold. The Company shall not be obligated to effect, or to take any action to effect, any such registration pursuant to this Section:
(i) In any particular jurisdiction in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to which the Company within ten (10) Business Days from would be required to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification, or compliance, unless the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) Company is already subject to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included service in such registration thereof jurisdiction and except as may be required by the Securities Act;
(ii) After the Company has initiated two such registrations pursuant to this Section 3, (counting for these purposes only registrations which have been declared or ordered effective and such Holder shall specify in such notice pursuant to which all securities have been sold); or
(iii) During the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, period starting with the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than date thirty (30) days prior to the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date one hundred eighty (excluding any 180) days which occur during after the effective date of, a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with Company-initiated registration; provided that the SEC and use its Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective become effective. Subject to the foregoing clauses (i) through (iii), the Company shall file a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that covering the Company has been Warrant Shares so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price as soon as practicable after receipt of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% written request or requests of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if in the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds good faith judgment of the New Registrable Securities requested Board of Directors of the Company, such registration would be seriously detrimental to the Company and the Board of Directors of the Company concludes, as a result, that it is essential to defer the filing of such registration statement at such time, and the Company shall furnish to the Holder a certificate signed by the President of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, it would be seriously detrimental to the Company for such registration statement to be included filed in a Demand Registrationthe near future and that it is, therefore, essential to defer the filing of such registration statement, then the Company shall have the right to defer such Demand Registration filing for the period during which such disclosure would be seriously detrimental, provided that (except as provided in clause (iii) above) the Company may not defer the filing for a period of more than ninety (90) days after receipt of the request of the Holder, and, provided further, that the Company shall not be counted as one of defer its obligation in this manner more than once in any twelve (12) month period. If the five Demands for Registration provided for Company or other persons shall request inclusion in any registration pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinof securities being sold for its or their own accounts, the Holder shall offer to include such securities in the underwriting and may condition such offer on its acceptance of the further applicable provisions of this Section. The Company shall not be required (together with the Holder and other persons proposing to prepare and file (idistribute their securities through such underwriting) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in enter into an underwriting agreement relating in customary form with the representative of the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Holder, which underwriters are reasonably acceptable to such registration statement)the Company.
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Samples: Warrant Agreement (FreeSeas Inc.), Warrant Agreement (FreeSeas Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt From and after January 1, 2001, the Holders of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that at least 66 2/3% of the then outstanding Registrable Securities may notify the Company effect in writing that such Holders desire for the Company, to cause all or a registration (a "Demand Registration") portion of such notifying Holders' Registrable Securities to be registered for sale to the public under the Securities Act covering Act. Upon receipt of such written request, the Company will promptly notify in writing all or part other Holders of the Registrable Securities of such request, which specifies Holders shall within twenty days following such notice from the intended method or methods Company, notify the Company in writing whether such persons desire to have Registrable Securities held by them included in such offering. The Company will, promptly following the expiration of disposition thereof such twenty day period, prepare and file subject to the provisions of this Section 1, and use its best efforts to prosecute to effectiveness, in appropriate filing, with the SEC of a registration statement covering such Registrable Securities and the number of shares proposed sale or distribution thereof under the Securities Act.
(b) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 1.2 to be registeredthe contrary, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent not be obligated to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all prepare or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such File any registration thereof statement pursuant to this Section 31.2 or to prepare or file any amendment or supplement thereto, and such Holder shall specify at any time when the Company, in such notice the number good faith judgement of Registrable Securities its Board of Directors, reasonably believes that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereuponthe filing thereof at the time requested, or the offering of securities Pursuant thereto, (i) would materially, adversely affect a pending or proposed public offering of the Company's securities, or an acquisition, merger, recapitalization, consolidation, reorganization or similar transaction, negotiations, discussions or pending proposals with respect thereto or (ii) would materially adversely affect the business or prospects of the Company shallin view of the disclosures that may be required thereby, as expeditiously as is practicableof information about the business, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt assets, liabilities or operations of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registerednot theretofore disclosed; provided, however, that the aggregate value filing of a registration statement, or any supplement or amendment thereto, by the Company may be deferred pursuant to this Section 1.2 for no longer than 180 days (but only once in every twelve month period) after the delivery of such demand notice.
(c) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 1.2 to the contrary: (i) the Company shall not be required to effect the registration of the Registrable Securities requested pursuant to this Section 1.2 more than one time in any twelve month period and no more than three times in the aggregate; and (ii) the Company shall not be registered (i) be required to effect any such registration unless at least $2,500,000, 10 million of Registrable Securities are to be sold in such registration (with such amount being determined based on the closing trading market price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iiiinitiating Holder(s) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"request), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities registration pursuant to this Section 3 1.2 is in the form of an underwritten offering, the Company will select and obtain the investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers that will administer the offering, which investment bankers must offer terms which are reasonably competitive in the marketplace for similar size companies and similar offerings. The Company shall (eachtogether with all Holders proposing to distribute Registrable Securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement, a "Demand containing usual and customary terms, with the managing underwriter selected for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders such underwriting. If any holder of Registrable Securities included in disapproves of the terms of the underwriting such registration have not, prior person may elect to withdraw therefrom by written notice to the filing of Company and the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of managing underwriter. The Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to so withdrawn shall also be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)withdrawn from registration.
(d) Notwithstanding anything If any registration statement under this Section 1.2 is not declared effective (except for the reasons specified in Section 1.9 below and except as a result of Holders withdrawing Registrable Securities), then the holders of Registrable Securities may request an additional registration under this Section 1.2.
(e) No registrations effected under this Section 1.2 shall relieve the Company of its obligations to effect any registrations under, and pursuant to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare terms of. Sections 1.3 and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)1.4 hereof.
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Samples: Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (Mobility Electronics Inc), Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (Mobility Electronics Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that Subject to the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under restrictions set forth below, if at any time after the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredProspectus Date, the Company shall promptly notify receive from the Holders (the "Requesting Holders") owning at least five percent (25%) of the then outstanding shares of Registrable Securities as of the date of the request, a written request to register at least fifteen percent (15%) of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities owned by all of the Requesting Holders as of the date of such request, then the Company will give notice of such request to all Holders within ten (10) days of receiving such request and shall effect as soon thereafter as practicable, and in writing any event within forty-five (45) days of the receipt of such request and each such Holderrequest, in lieu the Registration under the Securities Act of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in which any Holder requests to be registered. The Company shall not be obligated to effect, or to take any action to effect, any such registration thereof Registration pursuant to this Section 32.01:
(a) During the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the Company's good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and such Holder shall specify in such notice ending on a date one hundred eighty (180) days after the number of Registrable Securities effective date of, a Company initiated Registration; provided that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after has delivered notice of such Registration to the Holders prior to its receipt of a the Holders' written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC demand Registration and use its it continues to actively employ in good faith all reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective; or
(b) if the Holders have requested an Underwritten Registration, the Company and the Holders are unable to obtain the commitment of underwriters to firmly underwrite the offer; or
(c) if in the good faith judgment of the Board, such Registration would be seriously detrimental to the Company and the Board concludes, as a result, that it is essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement at such time, and the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the President of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, it would be seriously detrimental to the Company for such Registration Statement to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand filed in the near future and that it is, therefore, essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that . In such event, the Company has been so requested shall have the right to register by defer such Holders filing ("Participating Demand Holders"except as provided in subparagraph (a) above) for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition a period of not more than one hundred eighty (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid180) days after receipt of the Registrable Securities so registeredrequest of the Holders; provided, however, that the aggregate value of Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner more than once in any 12-month period. Notwithstanding the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000foregoing, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in ensure that no such Demand Registration the shall become effective with respect to any Registrable Securities that subject to an applicable Lock-up Period until after the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all expiration of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registrationapplicable Lock-up Period. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinFurthermore, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) effect more than two three (23) Demand Registrations, which may be either Long-Form Registrations or Short-Form Registrations, under this Section 2.01 on behalf of the Holders; provided, however, that a Registration Statements shall not be counted for such purposes unless such Long-Form Registration has become effective and all of the Registrable Securities requested by the Requesting Holders to be registered on behalf of the Requesting Holders in such Long-Form Registration have been sold, in accordance with Section 3.01(a) of this Agreement; and provided, further, however, that the Company will not be obligated to effect any such Short-Form Registration:
(a) if Form S-3 is not available for such offering;
(b) if in the good faith judgment of the Board, such Registration would be seriously detrimental to the Company and the Board concludes, as a result, that it is essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement at such time, and the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the President of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, it would be seriously detrimental to the Company for such Registration Statement to be filed in the near future and that it is, therefore, essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement. In such event, the Company shall have the right to defer such filing (except as provided in subparagraph (a) above) for a period of not more than one hundred eighty (180) days after receipt of the request of the Holders; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner more than once in any twelve12-month period, ;
(iic) any Demand if the Company has effected one (1) Short-Form Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or six (iii6) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following month period prior to the date of effectiveness of any other current request for Short-Form Registration; or
(d) if the Registrable Securities to be covered by such registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which do not, in the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)aggregate, exceed $500,000.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Hicks Acquisition CO I Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Hicks Acquisition CO I Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time after 180 days after the Qualified Public Offering, the holders of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part majority of the Registrable Securities which specifies may notify the intended method Company that they intend to offer or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares cause to be registeredoffered for public sale all or any portion of their Registrable Securities in the manner specified in such request (the “Demand Request”). No later than five (5) days after receipt of such Demand Request, the Company shall promptly deliver notice of such request to all Shareholders holding Registrable Securities who shall then have thirty (30) days to notify all Holders the Company in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent their desire to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities be included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. ThereuponIf the Demand Request contemplates an underwritten public offering, the Company shall, as shall state such in the written notice and in such event the right of any Person to participate in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Person’s participation in such underwritten public offering and the inclusion of such Person’s Registrable Securities in the underwritten public offering to the extent provided herein. The Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to expeditiously as is practicable, effect (but in any event no later than thirty (30) 180 days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after the receipt of a written request for a the Demand Registration, file with Request) the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to of all shares of Registrable Securities that whose holders request participation in such registration under the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for saleSecurities Act, but only to the extent required to permit the disposition (provided for in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredthis Section 2; provided, however, that the aggregate value Company shall not be required to effect registration pursuant to a request under this Section 2 more than once. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no request may be made under this Section 2 within ninety (90) days after the effective date of a registration statement filed by the Company covering a firm commitment underwritten public offering in which the holders of Registrable Securities shall have been entitled to join and in which there shall have been effectively registered a majority of the Registrable Securities as to which registration shall have been requested. A registration will not count as a requested registration under this Section 2.1(a) unless and until the registration statement relating to be registered (i) be such registration has been declared effective by the Commission at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price request of the Common Stock on initiating Shareholders; provided, however, that a majority in interest of the date participating holders of Registrable Securities may request, in writing, that the demand Company withdraw a registration statement which has been filed under this Section 2.1(a) but has not yet been declared effective, and a majority in interest of such holders may thereafter request the Company to reinstate such registration statement, if permitted under the Securities Act, or to file such Demand Registration Statement is madeanother registration statement, (ii) be at least 25% in accordance with the procedures set forth herein and without reduction in the number of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timedemand registrations permitted under this Section 2.1(a).
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a requested registration involves an underwritten public offering requests that and the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises offering determines in good faith that the Company in writing thatnumber of securities sought to be offered should be limited due to market conditions, in its opinion, then the number of securities to be included in such underwritten public offering is greater than the total shall be reduced to a number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of deemed satisfactory by such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities")managing underwriter; provided, then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested shares to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) securities to be registered thereunder only by the Company pursuant to such registration statement shall be the extent the number of such first to be reduced or excluded and (ii) Registrable Securities does not exceed of the Maximum Number of SecuritiesShareholders requesting registration shall be the last to be reduced or excluded. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number there is a reduction of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in pursuant to clause (ii), such Demand Registration reduction shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration made on a pro rata basis (based on upon the number of Registrable Securities sought to be included by the Shareholders requesting registration, and, if such reduction exceeds 25% of the Registrable Securities of Shareholders requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder)offering, and, second, to then the Existing Holders on registration shall not cause a pro rata basis (based on reduction in the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holderdemand registrations permitted under Section 2.1(a); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders With respect to a request for registration pursuant to Section 2.1(a) which is for an underwritten public offering, the managing underwriter shall be entitled to an aggregate chosen by the Board of four (4) registrations Directors and approved by the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities (which approval will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). The Company may not cause any other registration of securities for sale for its own account (other than a registration effected solely to implement an employee benefit plan or a transaction to which Rule 145 of the Securities Act is applicable) to become effective within ninety (90) days following the effective date of any registration required pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)2.1.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Securities Subscription Agreement (Adecoagro S.A.), Registration Rights Agreement (Adecoagro S.A.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time following the Closing and expiration or waiver of a written any lockup applicable to such Holders party hereto, the Initiating Holders may request from one or more New Holders requesting in writing that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies held by them shall be registered under the intended method or methods Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”). Within ten (10) days after receipt of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredany such request, the Company shall promptly notify give written notice of such request to the other Holders and shall include in such registration all Registrable Securities held by all such Holders who wish to participate in writing of such demand registration and provide the Company with written requests for inclusion therein within seven (7) days after the receipt of such request and each the Company’s notice; provided that no Holder who is subject to a lockup with respect to such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) ’s Registrable Securities shall have any right to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included participate in such registration thereof pursuant or offering except to this Section 3, and the extent such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registrationlockup has expired or been waived. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt shall effect the registration of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities as to which it has received requests for registration as soon as practicable; provided that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare effect any registration under this Section 2.3 (x) within a period of ninety (90) days following the effective date of a previous registration and file (iy) with respect to Registrable Securities with a total offering price not reasonably expected to exceed, in the aggregate, $50 million, and (ii) this provision shall not apply if a shelf registration on Form F-3 has been filed pursuant to Section 2.5 and is effective and available for use. The Company shall not be required to effect more than (A) one (1) registration under this Section 2.3 requested by the ION Holders and (B) two (2) registrations under this Section 2.3 requested by the Major Shareholder Initiating Holders. If the Company shall furnish to the Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the board of directors (the “Board”) it would be seriously detrimental to the Company or its shareholders for a registration under this Section 2.3 to be effected at such time, the Company shall have the right to defer such registration for a period of not more than one hundred and twenty (120) days after receipt of the request of the Initiating Holders under this Section 2.3, provided that the Company shall not utilize this right more than once in any twelve (12) month period. The Initiating Holders may elect to withdraw from any offering pursuant to this Section 2.3 by giving written notice to the Company and the underwriter(s) of their request to withdraw prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed with the SEC with respect to such Demand Registration. If the Initiating Holders withdraw from a proposed offering relating to a Demand Registration Statements then either the Initiating Holders shall reimburse the Company for the costs associated with the withdrawn Demand Registration (in which case such registration shall not count as a Demand Registration provided for in this Section 2.3) or such withdrawn registration shall count as a Demand Registration provided for in this Section 2.3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.3, if the managing underwriter advises the Holders in writing that marketing factors require a limitation on the dollar amount or the number of shares to be underwritten, then the amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be registered shall be reduced pro rata to the respective number of Registrable Securities held by the Holders; provided that in any twelve-month periodevent all Registrable Securities held by the Initiating Holders, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of and any other Registration Statement Holders that elect to participate in any such registration must be included in such registration (pro rata based on the total amount of Registrable Securities held by each such Initiating Holder or (iiiother Holder, as applicable) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant prior to any other shares of the Company, including shares held by persons other than Holders. The Company shall not register securities for sale for its own account in any registration rights agreement requested pursuant to which the Company is a party or with respect this Section 2.3 unless permitted to the sale of Common Stock do so by the Company (or such longer period written consent of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)the Initiating Holders.
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Samples: Investors’ Rights Agreement (Taboola.com Ltd.), Investors’ Rights Agreement (Taboola.com Ltd.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt If at any time after 180 days from the date of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that ------------------- this Agreement the Company shall be requested in writing by LCO (and LCO then holds any issued and outstanding Registrable Securities at such time) to effect a the registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of shares of the Registrable Securities Company's Common Stock then owned by Holder (which specifies request shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the aggregate number of shares intended to be registeredoffered and sold by Holder, shall describe the nature or method of the proposed offer and sale thereof and shall contain an undertaking by Holder to cooperate fully with the Company in order to permit the Company to comply with all applicable requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations thereunder and to obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement contemplated thereby), the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing effect the registration of such securities on an appropriate form under the Act, provided that:
2.1 LCO's rights under this Section 2 shall be exercisable only if the shares as to which LCO requests registration have an aggregate value of at least $500,000 based on the average of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, closing sale price for the Company's common stock as listed on the American Stock Exchange or any other exchange on which the Company's common stock then may elect be traded for the thirty (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (1030) Business Days from trading- day period immediately preceding the date of such Holder's receipt request for registration;
2.2 The independent members of the aforementioned notice from Company's Board of Directors, with the Company) to have all or part advice of such Holder's Registrable Securities included investment bankers or securities professionals as the Board shall deem necessary, shall have determined in such good faith that the cost of complying with the request for registration thereof pursuant to under this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration 2 would not have been able to request registration under a materially adverse effect upon the provisions of Section 3Company, and (iv) its operations or the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop ordermarket for the Company's common stock, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating independent members of the Company's Board of Directors determine in good faith that the cost of complying with the request for registration would have a material adverse effect upon the Company, its operations or the market for the Company's common stock, the Company may decline Holder's request to register Holder's Registrable Securities under the Act, provided further, however, that in such Demand Registration are event the Company may not able thereafter again decline LCO's request for registration based upon this Section so long as such subsequent request is received by the Company more than 120 days after LCO's request for registration which was declined based upon this Section;
2.3 LCO shall be entitled to register three demand registrations, provided that registrations two and sell three may be effected on Form S-3 or its then equivalent form promulgated by the SEC and, provided further, that any request for registration pursuant to this Section 2 which does not result in the declaration of effectiveness of a registration statement (which effectiveness is maintained continuously for at least two-thirds 120 days or such shorter period ending when all shares to which LCO has requested registration in accordance herewith have been sold in accordance with such registration) covering the offer and sale of the New Registrable Securities shares owned by Holder and requested to be included in such registration statement, whether as a Demand Registrationresult of the withdrawal of the registration statement by the Company or through other action or inaction of the Company or for any other reason except for the voluntary decision of Holder to terminate the registration after the request for such registration has been delivered to the Company, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one in determining the number of the five Demands for Registration provided for times registration rights have been exercised pursuant to this Section 3(c).2;
(d) Notwithstanding anything 2.4 The Company shall be entitled to postpone the contrary contained hereinfiling of any registration statement otherwise required to be prepared and filed by it pursuant to this Section 2, if at the time it receives a request for such registration, the independent members of the Company's Board of Directors determine that such registration and offering would materially interfere with any existing or then presently contemplated financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other material transaction involving the Company, and the Company promptly gives LCO written notice of such determination, provided, however, that such postponement shall not be required extend beyond the time that such material interference continues to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other exist; and
2.5 LCO shall have no right to demand registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to any shares within ninety (90) calendar days after the sale effective date of Common Stock any registration statement previously filed by the Company (Company, other than a registration statement on Form S-8 or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)similar form.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Ion Laser Technology Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Ion Laser Technology Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting The Company agrees that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from at the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3sole expense, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event (i) no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of following a written request demand from the Warrant Holder or the holder of Warrant Shares for a Demand Registrationregistration, file on its behalf and on behalf of the Warrant Holder or the holder of Warrant Shares with respect to the Warrant Shares specified in such demand a Registration Statement in accordance with the SEC Securities Act; and (ii) use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that by the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, Commission as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the soon thereafter as reasonably practicable. The Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allowprepare, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
file and cause to become effective only one (c1) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 3 11(d) (each, a "Demand for Registration") which Registration Statement shall be in addition to any filed under Section 11(c)). The registration required to be effected by the Shelf Registration Statement Company pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to 11(c) or this Section 3 11(d) shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(ceven though a Registration Statement with respect thereto has become effective (1) unless (i) if, after it has been declared effective by the SECbecome effective, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted Commission or other governmental agency or court, for any reason not attributable to the Warrant Holder with respect to such Registration Statement, and has not thereafter become effective or (2) if the conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement, if any, entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied or waived, other than by act or omission reason of Holders a failure on the part of Registrable Securities)the Warrant Holder with respect to such Registration Statement; provided, however, that if this the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are Warrant Holder or the holder of Warrant Shares may not be able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in make a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands demand for Registration provided for pursuant to registration under this Section 3(c).
5(d) (dA) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare unless and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other until a registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party Section 5(a) shall have expired or with respect become ineffective or (B) to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as extent that sales may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating reasonably made pursuant to such registration statement)Rule 144 under the Securities Act b the Warrant Holder.
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Samples: License Agreement (Cytogen Corp), License Agreement (Cytogen Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of If at any time the Company is eligible to use a written Form S-3 registration statement, the Company receives a request in writing from one or more New Holders requesting Restricted Stockholders (“Requesting Restricted Stockholders”) that the Company effect file a Form S-3 registration statement with respect to outstanding Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Restricted Stockholders having an anticipated aggregate offering price, net of Selling Expenses, of at least five million dollars ($5,000,000.00) (a "“Demand Registration"Registration Request”), then the Company shall as soon as practicable, and in any event within ninety (90) days after the date the Demand Registration Request is received by the Company, file a Form S-3 registration statement under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Restricted Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares requested to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant by the Requesting Restricted Stockholders, subject to this the limitations of Section 34.1(b), 4.1(c), and such Holder Section 4.3. The Company shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Form S-3 registration statement to be declared effective by the SEC as soon as practicable after filing. Any registration requested by any Restricted Stockholder pursuant to this Section 4.1 is referred to in this Agreement as a “Demand Registration.”
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing obligations, if the Company furnishes to the applicable Requesting Restricted Stockholders a certificate signed by the Company’s chief executive officer stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board it would be materially detrimental to the Company and its stockholders for such registration statement to either become effective or remain effective for as long as such registration statement otherwise would be required to remain effective, because such action would: (i) materially interfere with a "Demand Registration Statement"significant acquisition, corporate reorganization, or other similar transaction involving the Company; (ii) relating to all shares require premature disclosure of Registrable Securities material information that the Company has been so requested a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; or (iii) render the Company unable to register by comply with requirements under the Securities Act or Exchange Act, then the Company shall have the right to defer taking action with respect to such Holders filing, and any time periods with respect to filing or effectiveness thereof shall be tolled correspondingly, for a period of not more than ninety ("Participating 90) days after the Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredRegistration Request; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested Company may not invoke this right more than once with respect to be registered any given Requesting Restricted Stockholders in any twelve (i12) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests month period; and providedfurther that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities not register any securities for its own account or that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and stockholder during such ninety (90) day period other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in than an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Excluded Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders The Company shall not be entitled obligated to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant effect, or to this Section 3 (eachtake any action to effect, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement any registration pursuant to Section 24.1(a) (i) during the period that is ninety (90) days before the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date that is ninety (90) days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration, provided, that the Company is actively employing in good faith commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; provided that or (ii) if the Company has effected a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 4.1(a) within the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding the date of such request. A registration shall not be deemed to have been effected counted as “effected” for purposes of this Section 3(c4.1(c) unless (i) it until such time as the applicable registration statement has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective unless the Requesting Restricted Stockholders withdraw their request for such registration, elects not to pay the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3expenses therefor, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant forfeits its right to such one demand registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for statement pursuant to this Section 3(c4.1 as provided in Section 4.6, in which case such withdrawn registration statement shall be counted as “effected” for purposes of this Section 4.1(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything The Restricted Stockholders as a group shall only be entitled to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, Registrations under this Section 4.1.
(iie) Promptly after receipt of any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which Request, the Company shall give written notice of such request to all other Restricted Stockholders. Upon the request in writing of a Restricted Stockholder given within twenty (20) days after such notice is a party or with respect given by the Company, the Company shall use, subject to the sale provisions of Common Stock by Section 4.3, its commercially reasonable efforts to register, in accordance with the Company (or provisions of this Agreement, all the Registrable Securities that have been properly requested to be registered in such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Demand Registration.
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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Autobytel Inc), Stockholder Agreement (Autobytel Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After At any time after the earlier of the first ------------------- anniversary of the Qualified Public Offering Date and the third anniversary of this agreement, and upon receipt of a written request (the "Demand Request") from one Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx (or more New Holders requesting that his designee), Xxxxxx Xxxxxx (or her designee) or Xxxxxx Xxxxxx (or her designee) (each, a "Demand Rights Holder"), the Company effect promptly shall file a registration statement to register under the 1933 Act for sale to the public all, and not fewer than all, the Shares (which may include Shares owned by the Demand Rights Holder's Family Group members) specified in the Demand Request and thereafter shall file such amendment or amendments to such registration statement as may be necessary to cause it to become effective (a "Demand Registration") under ). The Demand Request shall specify the Securities Act covering all or part plan of distribution of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand RegistrationShares. If the amount plan of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesdistribution involves an underwritten offering, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders Rights Holder shall be entitled to an aggregate select a co-managing underwriter for the offering; however, if the Qualified Public Offering Date shall not have occurred prior to the third anniversary of this agreement, the underwriter so selected may, at the Demand Rights Holder's option, be the lead managing underwriter. The Company shall be obligated to effect a total of four Demand Registrations under this section 3.1; however, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx (4or her designee) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed entitled to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior make more than one Demand Request hereunder; and notwithstanding anything to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statementcontrary in this agreement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3if, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to for any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC reason (other than any such stop orderthe fault of a Family Shareholder), injunctionthe registration fails to become effective and provide for the distribution of all the Shares specified in the Demand Request, or other order the effectiveness is not maintained for at least 60 days in accordance with section 3.4(e) or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, howeverCompany fails to perform its obligations under this section 3.1 with respect to that registration, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one reduce the number of Demand Registrations the Company was required to effect (or a Demand Rights Holder was entitled to request) under this section 3.1 prior to that Demand Registration. The Company's obligations under this section 3.1 shall terminate on the tenth anniversary of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinQualified Public Offering Date, and the Company shall not be required obligated to prepare and file (i) effect more than two (2) one Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any period of 365 days or effect a Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following unless the date amount of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be Shares specified in an underwriting agreement relating the Demand Request (when aggregated with the amount of Shares that all other Demand Rights Holders elect to register in connection with such registration statementDemand Request) has a value (determined in accordance with section 2.2(a)) in excess of $25,000,000.
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Samples: Shareholder Agreement (Schein Pharmaceutical Inc), Shareholder Agreement (Schein Pharmaceutical Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt At any time following the Closing and expiration or waiver of a written any lockup applicable to such Holders party hereto, the Initiating Holders may request from one or more New Holders requesting in writing that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies held by them shall be registered under the intended method or methods Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”). Within ten (10) days after receipt of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredany such request, the Company shall promptly notify give written notice of such request to the other Holders and shall include in such registration all Registrable Securities held by all such Holders who wish to participate in writing of such demand registration and provide the Company with written requests for inclusion therein within seven (7) days after the receipt of such request and each the Company’s notice; provided that no Holder who is subject to a lockup with respect to such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) ’s Registrable Securities shall have any right to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included participate in such registration thereof pursuant or offering except to this Section 3, and the extent such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registrationlockup has expired or been waived. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt shall effect the registration of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities as to which it has received requests for registration as soon as practicable; provided that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare effect any registration under this Section 2.3 (x) within a period of ninety (90) days following the effective date of a previous registration and file (iy) with respect to Registrable Securities with a total offering price not reasonably expected to exceed, in the aggregate, $50 million, and (ii) this provision shall not apply if a shelf registration on Form F-3 has been filed pursuant to Section 2.5 and is effective and available for use. The Company shall not be required to effect more than (A) two (2) registration under this Section 2.3 requested by the Sponsor and (B) three (3) registrations under this Section 2.3 requested by the Major Shareholder Initiating Holders. If the Company shall furnish to the Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the board of directors (the “Board”) it would be seriously detrimental to the Company or its shareholders for a registration under this Section 2.3 to be effected at such time, the Company shall have the right to defer such registration for a period of not more than ninety (90) days after receipt of the request of the Initiating Holders under this Section 2.3, provided that the Company shall not utilize this right more than once in any twelve (12) month period. The Initiating Holders may elect to withdraw from any offering pursuant to this Section 2.3 by giving written notice to the Company and the underwriter(s) of their request to withdraw prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed with the SEC with respect to such Demand Registration. If the Initiating Holders withdraw from a proposed offering relating to a Demand Registration Statements then either the Initiating Holders shall reimburse the Company for the costs associated with the withdrawn Demand Registration (in which case such registration shall not count as a Demand Registration provided for in this Section 2.3) or such withdrawn registration shall count as a Demand Registration provided for in this Section 2.3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.3, if the managing underwriter advises the Holders in writing that marketing factors require a limitation on the dollar amount or the number of shares to be underwritten, then the amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be registered shall be reduced pro rata to the respective number of Registrable Securities held by the Holders; provided that in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following event all Registrable Securities held by the date of effectiveness of Initiating Holders and any other Registration Statement Holders that elect to participate in any such registration must be included in such registration (pro rata based on the total amount of Registrable Securities held by each such Initiating Holder or (iiiother Holder, as applicable) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant prior to any other shares of the Company, including shares held by persons other than Holders. The Company shall not register securities for sale for its own account in any registration rights agreement requested pursuant to which the Company is a party or with respect this Section 2.3 unless permitted to the sale of Common Stock do so by the Company (or such longer period written consent of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)the Initiating Holders.
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Samples: Investors’ Rights Agreement (REE Automotive Ltd.), Investors’ Rights Agreement (REE Automotive Ltd.)
Demand Registration. (a) After Upon receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Registration Request") from Initiating Holders with respect to Registrable Stock representing at least 25% of such Initiating Holders' Registrable Stock (or any lesser percentage having a reasonably anticipated aggregate offering price to the public of $2,000,000)(a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered), the Company shall (i) promptly notify all Holders in writing give notice of the receipt of such request Registration Request to all non-requesting Holders and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to ii) prepare and file with the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicableCommission promptly, but in any event no later than thirty within (30x) 90 days after its receipt of such Registration Request if the Company had not conducted an underwritten public offering of the Common Stock before such time and (excluding y) 45 days after its receipt of such Registration Request if the Company had conducted an underwritten public offering of the Common Stock before such time, a registration statement for the purpose of effecting a Registration of the sale of all Registrable Stock requested to be Registered by the requesting Holders and any other Holder who requests to have his Registrable Stock included in such registration statement within ten days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand notice by such Holder of the Registration Request. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect such Registration as soon as practicable (including, without limitation, the execution of an undertaking to file post-effective amendments and appropriate qualification under applicable state securities laws); and shall keep such Registration continuously effective until the earlier of (i) the second anniversary of the date that shares of Registrable Stock are first sold pursuant to such Registration, file with (ii) the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to date on which all shares of Registrable Securities that Stock have been sold pursuant to such registration statement or Rule 144 and (iii) the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for saledate on which, in the reasonable opinion of counsel to the extent required to permit Company, all of the disposition (Registrable Stock may be sold in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registeredRule 144(k); provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested Company shall not be obligated to be registered take any action to effect any such Registration, qualification or compliance pursuant to this Section 2 (i) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would become subject to taxation or would be at least $2,500,000required to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such Registration, based on qualification or compliance unless the closing trading price Company is already subject to taxation or service in such jurisdiction or (ii) during the period starting with the date 60 days prior to the Company's good faith estimate of the Common Stock date of filing of, and ending on a date 180 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration. Notwithstanding the demand foregoing, the Company shall have the right (the "Suspension Right") to defer such filing (or suspend sales under any filed registration statement or defer the updating of any filed registration statement and suspend sales thereunder) at any time or from time to time, for a period of not more than 90 days during any period of 365 days, if the Company shall furnish to the Holders a certificate signed by an executive officer or any trustee of the Company stating that, in the good faith judgment of the Company, it would be detrimental to the Company and its shareholders to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants registration statement or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding amendment thereto at such timetime (or continue sales under a filed registration statement) and therefore the Company has elected to defer the filing of such registration statement (or suspend sales under a filed registration statement).
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be is an underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises with other holders requesting to include their securities pursuant to other piggy back rights and the managing underwriters advise the Company in writing that, in its their opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than registration exceeds the total number of securities which that can be sold therein without having in an orderly manner in such offering within a material adverse effect on price range acceptable to the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities")Holders, then the Company shall will include securities in such Demand Registration registration in the following order of priority:
(i) first, the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities Stock requested to be included in such Demand Registration registration by each New Holder), and, second, the Holders exercising rights pursuant to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities Section 2(a) and any securities requested to be included therein by the Series AA Holders or the Series CC Holders, pro rata among all such holders based upon the number of shares of such securities requested for inclusion in such Demand Registration registration by each Existing Holder); providedsuch holder;
(ii) second, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities any securities requested to be included therein by any other holders pursuant to such holders' piggyback rights, if any, pro rata based upon the number of shares of such securities requested for inclusion in such registration by each such holder; and
(iii) third, the Demand Registration Common Stock proposed to be registered by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of SecuritiesCompany, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesif any.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the The Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) effect more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed Registrations pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Commvault Systems Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Credit Suisse/)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Any Holder(s) of a written Registrable Securities (the “Initiating Holder”) shall have the right to request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect file a Registration Statement, on behalf of itself or, in the case of any member of the Shareholder Group, on behalf of any other member of the Shareholder Group, with the SEC on the appropriate registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering form for all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies held by such Initiating Holder, by delivering a written request thereof to the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and Company specifying the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Initiating Holder elects wishes to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty register (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a “Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered”); provided, however, that the anticipated aggregate value number of Company Ordinary Shares subject to such Demand Registration exceeds 2% of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered total issued and outstanding Company Shares. The Company shall (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price within five (5) Business Days of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file receipt of a Demand Registration, give written notice of such Demand Registration Statement is madeto all Holders of Registrable Securities, (ii) be at least 25% use its reasonable best efforts to prepare and file the Registration Statement as expeditiously as possible but in any event within 45 days of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or such request, and (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If use reasonable best efforts to cause the majority-in-interest Registration Statement to become effective in respect of the Participating Demand Holders in a each Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that in accordance with the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner intended method of distribution set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, written request delivered by the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Initiating Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may shall not be required to cause such Registration Statement to become effective prior to the Listing Date. The Company shall include in such Registration all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company receives, within the five (5) Business Days immediately following the receipt by the Holder(s) of such notice from the Company, a request for inclusion in the Registration from the Holder(s) thereof. Each such request from a Holder of Registrable Securities for inclusion in the Registration shall also specify the aggregate amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be Registered. The Initiating Holder may request that the Registration Statement be on any appropriate form, including Form F-4 in the case of an Exchange Offer or a Shelf Registration Statement, and the Company shall effect the Registration on the form so requested.
(b) The Holder(s) may collectively make a total of six (6) Demand Registration requests pursuant to Section 2.01(a) (including any other securities exercise of rights to Demand Registration transferred pursuant to Section 3.08); provided that the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company Holder(s) may not make more than two (2) Demand Registration requests in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securitiesany 365-day period.
(c) New Holders The Company shall be entitled deemed to an aggregate have effected a Registration for purposes of four this Section 2.01 if the Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC or becomes effective upon filing with the SEC and remains effective until the earlier of (4i) registrations of the date when all Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 thereunder have been Sold and (each, ii) 60 days from the effective date of the Registration Statement (or from the date the applicable Prospectus is filed with the SEC if the Company is satisfying a "request for a Demand for Registration") in addition to the Registration by filing a Prospectus under an effective Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 Statement) (the “Registration Period”). No Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes effective if the conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement or dealer manager agreement, if any, entered into in connection with such Registration are not satisfied by reason of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective a wrongful act, misrepresentation or breach of such applicable underwriting agreement or dealer manager agreement by the SECCompany. If during the Registration Period, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (or other than Governmental Entity or the need to update or supplement the Registration Statement, the Registration Period shall be extended on a day-for-day basis for any period in which the Holders are unable to complete an offering as a result of such stop order, injunction, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission other Governmental Entity.
(d) With respect to any Registration Statement, whether filed or to be filed pursuant to this Agreement, if the Company shall reasonably determine, upon the advice of legal counsel, that maintaining the effectiveness of such Registration Statement or filing an amendment or supplement thereto (or, if no Registration Statement has yet been filed, filing such a Registration Statement) would require the public disclosure of material nonpublic information concerning any transaction or negotiations involving the Company or any of its consolidated Subsidiaries that would materially interfere with such transaction or negotiations (a “Disadvantageous Condition”), the Company may, for the shortest period reasonably practicable, and in any event for not more than 60 consecutive calendar days (a “Blackout Period”), notify the Holders whose offers and Sales of Registrable SecuritiesSecurities are covered (or to be covered) by such Registration Statement (a “Blackout Notice”) that such Registration Statement is unavailable for use (or will not be filed as requested). Upon the receipt of any such Blackout Notice, the Holders shall forthwith discontinue use of the Prospectus contained in any effective Registration Statement; provided, howeverthat, if at the time of receipt of such Blackout Notice any Holder shall have Sold its Registrable Securities (or have signed a firm commitment underwriting agreement with respect to the purchase of such shares) and the Disadvantageous Condition is not of a nature that if would require a post-effective amendment to the New Registration Statement, then the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to take such action as to eliminate any restriction imposed by federal securities laws on the timely delivery of such Registrable Securities. When any Disadvantageous Condition as to which a Blackout Notice has been previously delivered shall cease to exist, the Company shall as promptly as reasonably practicable notify the Holders and take such actions in respect of such Registration Statement as are otherwise required by this Agreement. The effectiveness period for any Demand Registration for which the Company has given notice of a Blackout Period shall be increased by the length of time of such Blackout Period. In connection with the Company’s Registration obligation under this Section 2.01 and Section 2.03, Section 2.04 and Section 2.05, the Company shall not impose, in any 365-day period, Blackout Periods more than twice, and any such Blackout Periods may not last, in the aggregate, in excess of 90 calendar days during such 365-day period. If the Company declares a Blackout Period with respect to a Demand Registration for a Registration Statement that has not yet been declared effective, (i) the Holders may by notice to the Company withdraw the related Demand Registration request without such Demand Registration request counting against the number of Demand Registration requests permitted to be made under Section 2.01(b) and (ii) the Holders shall not be responsible for any of the Company’s related Registration Expenses.
(e) If the Initiating Holder so indicates at the time of its request pursuant to Section 2.01(a), such offering of Registrable Securities shall be in the form of an Underwritten Offering or an Exchange Offer, and the Company shall include such information in the written notice to the Holders required under Section 2.01(a). In the event that the Initiating Holder intends to Sell the Registrable Securities by means of an Underwritten Offering or Exchange Offer, the right of any Holder to include Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such Underwritten Offering or Exchange Offer and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in the Underwritten Offering or the Exchange Offer to the extent provided herein. The Holders of a majority of the outstanding Registrable Securities being included in any Underwritten Offering or Exchange Offer shall select the underwriter(s) in the case of an Underwritten Offering or the dealer manager(s) in the case of an Exchange Offer; provided that such underwriter(s) or dealer manager(s) are reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(f) If the managing underwriter or underwriters of a proposed Underwritten Offering of Registrable Securities included in a Registration pursuant to this Section 2.01 inform(s) in writing the Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able Registration, with a copy of such writing provided to register and sell at least two-thirds the Company, that, in its or their opinion, the number of the New Registrable Securities securities requested to be included in such Registration exceeds the number that can be Sold in such offering without being likely to have a Demand significant adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the securities offered or the market for the securities offered, the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such Registration shall be reduced to the maximum number recommended by the managing underwriter or underwriter and allocated pro rata among the Holders, including the Initiating Holder, in proportion to the number of Registrable Securities each Holder has requested to be included in such Registration; provided, then that the Initiating Holder may notify the Company in writing that the Registration Statement shall be abandoned or withdrawn, in which event the Company shall abandon or withdraw such Demand Registration Statement. In the event the Initiating Holder notifies the Company that such Registration Statement shall be abandoned or withdrawn, such Holder shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for deemed to have requested a Demand Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c2.01(a).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, and the Company shall not be required deemed to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) have effected a Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement Section 2.01(b). If the amount of Registrable Securities to which be underwritten has not been limited in accordance with the first sentence of this Section 2.01(f), the Company is a party and the holders of Company Shares or, if the Registrable Securities include securities other than Company Shares, the holders of securities of the same class of those securities included in the Registrable Securities, in each case, other than the Holders (“Other Holders”), may include such securities for their own account or with respect for the account of Other Holders in such Registration if the underwriter(s) so agree and to the sale extent that, in the opinion of Common Stock by such underwriter(s), the Company (or inclusion of such longer period additional amount will not adversely affect the offering of time as may be specified the Registrable Securities included in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Registration.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Terex Corp), Stock and Asset Purchase Agreement (Terex Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Subject to the conditions of this Section 2.2, if the Company shall receive a written request from one or more New the Holders requesting holding not less than a majority of the Preferred Registrable Securities then outstanding (the “Initiating Holders”) that the Company effect file a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering statement with respect to all or part of the Preferred Registrable Securities which specifies under the intended method or methods Securities Act with an anticipated aggregate offering price of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredat least US$7,000,000, then the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holdershall, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from calendar days of the date receipt thereof, give written notice of such Holder's receipt request to all Holders of Registrable Securities, and, subject to the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part limitations of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 32.2, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a effect, as expeditiously as reasonably possible, the registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to under the Securities Act of all shares of Preferred Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested Holders request to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, be registered pursuant to the extent required to permit the disposition (and in accordance with this Agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding the intended method foregoing, if no Preferred Registrable Securities held by Series A-2 Investors are included in an Initial Public Offering, whether as a consequence of their own election, a determination made by the managing underwriter of the Initial Public Offering or methods thereoffor any other reason, Holders holding not less than a majority of the Series A-2 Preferred then outstanding (the “Initiating A-2 Holders”) may by written notice to the Company request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to all or part of the Preferred Registrable Securities held by the Series A-2 Investors under the Securities Act with an anticipated aggregate offering price of at least US$7,000,000. The Company shall, within ten (10) calendar days of the receipt of such notice, give written notice of such request to all Holders of Registrable Securities, and, subject to the limitations of this Section 2.2, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as aforesaidexpeditiously as reasonably possible, the registration under the Securities Act of all Preferred Registrable Securities that the Series A-2 Investors request to be registered pursuant to and in accordance with this Agreement. The Company shall not be required to effect or take any action to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2.2(b): (i) after the Company has effected one (1) such registration and such registration has been declared and ordered effective (which, for purposes of this Agreement, shall mean that the registration shall have been continuously effective for one hundred eighty (180) calendar days, or until all Preferred Registrable Securities covered thereby have been sold, if earlier); or (ii) if the Initiating A-2 Holders propose to dispose of Preferred Registrable Securities that may be immediately registered on Form S-3 pursuant to a request made pursuant to Section 2.4 below and the Company promptly takes all actions necessary to effect a registration of all requesting Series A-2 Investors’ Preferred Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.4 below.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.2(a) and Section 2.2(b) above, if the Company shall furnish to Holders requesting a registration statement pursuant to this Section 2.2 a certificate signed by the President or Chief Executive Officer of the Registrable Securities so registeredCompany (A) stating that in the Board’s good faith judgment it would be seriously detrimental to the Company and its stockholders for such a registration statement to be filed in the near future, and (B) setting forth in reasonable detail the reasons for such judgment, the Company shall have the right to defer such filing for a period of not more than ninety (90) days after receipt of the request of the Initiating Holders or the Initiating A-2 Holders, as applicable; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include not utilize this right more than once in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least twotwelve-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)month period.
(d) Notwithstanding anything The Company shall not be required to effect or take any action to effect a registration pursuant to Section 2.2(a):
(i) after the contrary contained hereinCompany has effected one (1) registration prior to January 20, 2009, pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and such registration has been declared and ordered effective (which, for purposes of this Agreement, shall mean that the registration shall have been continuously effective for one hundred eighty (180) calendar days, or until all Preferred Registrable Securities covered thereby have been sold, if earlier), in which case the Company shall not be required to prepare and file effect or take any action to effect another registration pursuant to Section 2.2(a) until on or after January 20, 2009;
(iii) more than after the Company has effected two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month periodregistrations from and after January 20, 2009 pursuant to Section 2.2(a), if the Company effected one (ii1) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following registration prior to January 20, 2009 pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and all such registrations effected by the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or Company have been declared and ordered effective;
(iii) after the Company has effected three (3) registrations from and after January 20, 2009 pursuant to Section 2.2(a), if the Company did not effect any Demand Registration Statement registrations prior to January 20, 2009 pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and all such registrations effected by the Company have been declared and ordered effective;
(iv) if the Company, within 90 ten (10) days following of its receipt of the date request from the Initiating Holders provided for in Section 2.2(a), provides written notice to all Initiating Holders of effectiveness of any other its intent to file a registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which for its Initial Public Offering within sixty (60) days (provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective); or
(v) if the Initiating Holders propose to dispose of Preferred Registrable Securities that may be immediately registered on Form S-3 pursuant to a party or with respect request made pursuant to the sale of Common Stock by Section 2.4 below and the Company (promptly takes all actions necessary to effect a registration of all requesting Holders’ Preferred Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.4 below; provided that any registration of a requesting Holder’s Preferred Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.4 shall not constitute a demand for registration pursuant to Section 2.2(a) or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statementSection 2.2(b).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (EPAM Systems, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 2.1, at any time after the date that is one hundred eighty (180) days following the completion of the IPO, if the Company receives a written request from one or more New Holders requesting any Holder that the Company effect file a registration (Registration Statement covering a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part number of the Registrable Securities which specifies that would result in gross proceeds that would, based on an anticipated aggregate offering price, net of any underwriting discounts and selling commissions exceeding, in the intended method event of a “block trade,” $50,000,000, or methods in the event of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registereda public offering other than a “block trade,” $75,000,000, then the Company shall promptly notify all Holders shall, in writing each case, within five (5) business days of the receipt of such request, give written notice of such request to all Holders and use reasonable best efforts to file, as soon as practicable but in any event within ninety (90) days (or, in the case of a Shelf Registration, thirty (30) days or such shorter period as is reasonably required to effect an underwritten offering, including a “block trade”) of the receipt of such request, a Registration Statement covering the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. Any Registration Statement filed by the Company pursuant to this Section 2.1(a) shall be a “shelf” registration statement that permits sales on a continuous or delayed basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act on Form S-3 or Form F-3 (a “Shelf Registration”) if the Company is then eligible to effect a Shelf Registration. If permitted under the Securities Act, such Shelf Registration will be one that is automatically effective upon filing.
(b) Within ten (10) days (or such shorter period as is reasonably required to effect an underwritten offering, including a “block trade”) after the date the Company receives a request pursuant to Section 2.1(a), the Company shall give notice thereof to all Holders other than the Initiating Holders, and the Company shall include in such registration all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by any such other Holders, as specified by notice given by each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent Holder to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from days (or such shorter period as is reasonably required to effect an underwritten offering, including a “block trade”) of the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) ’s notice is given, and in each case, subject to have all or the limitations of Sections 2.1(c). If the Initiating Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwritten offering, they shall so advise the Company as a part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof their request made pursuant to this Section 32.1, and the Company shall include such information in the written notice referred to in the first sentence of this Section 2.1(b). In such event, the right of any Holder shall specify to include its Registrable Securities in such notice registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in the underwritten offering (unless otherwise agreed by the Initiating Holders) to the extent provided herein. The Company and all Holders proposing to distribute their Registrable Securities through such underwritten offering shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities held by all Initiating Holders (which underwriter or underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company).
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.1, if the lead managing underwriter advises the Company that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of securities to be offered in the applicable underwritten offering (including Registrable Securities), then the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities that would otherwise be offered in such underwritten offering, and the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to may be included in such underwritten offering is greater than the total number of securities which can shall be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only allocated to the extent the number Holders of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by all such Holders (including the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(cInitiating Holders).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinany other provision of this Section 2.1, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2.1:
(i) more than two if the Company has effected a registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 within the preceding ninety (290) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, days;
(ii) any Demand Registration Statement if the Company has effected three (3) registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 within 90 the preceding three hundred sixty-five (365) days; provided that no registration initiated by Viking Capital shall count towards the three (3) registrations permitted pursuant to this Section 2.1; or
(iii) during the period starting with the date that is fifteen (15) days prior to the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on the date ninety (90) days following the effective date of, a Registration Statement; provided that the Company uses reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective.
(e) Notwithstanding the other provisions of Section 2, if the Company shall furnish to the Holders otherwise participating in any registration written notice stating that, in the good faith determination of the Board after consultation with outside counsel, that (i) the filing, initial effectiveness or continued use of any other a Registration Statement would be Seriously Detrimental to the Company and its shareholders and it is therefore essential to delay the filing or initial effectiveness of, or suspend the use of, such Registration Statement or (iiiii) the filing or initial effectiveness of a Registration Statement, or the continued use of any Demand Registration Statement, at any time would require the inclusion in such Registration Statement within 90 days of financial statements that are unavailable to the Company for reasons beyond the Company’s control, the Company shall, upon promptly delivering such notice to the Holders otherwise participating in such registration, have the right to delay the filing or initial effectiveness of, or suspend the use of, such Registration Statement. In no event shall the Company be permitted to (A) delay the filing or initial effectiveness of, or suspend the use of, a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2.1(e) for a period in excess of ninety (90) days, or (B) exercise its rights under this Section 2.1(e) more than once in any twelve (12) month period. In the event the Company exercises its rights under this Section 2.1(e), each Holder shall not effect any sale of Registrable Securities and shall halt any use, publication, dissemination or distribution of any prospectus or Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities. Upon receipt of such notice, each Holder shall (except as required by applicable law) keep the fact of any such notice, and any information relating to such notice, strictly confidential. If so directed by the Company, each Holder will deliver to the Company (at the reasonable expense of the Company) all copies then in such Xxxxxx’s possession of the prospectus covering the Registrable Securities at the time of receipt of such notice. The Holders may recommence effecting sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the applicable Registration Statement following further notice to such effect from the Company, which notice shall be given by the Company to the Holders in the manner described above promptly (and no later than forty-eight (48) hours) following the date conclusion of the event giving rise to delay or suspension and its effect.
(f) Holders may elect to withdraw from any offering pursuant to this Section 2.1 by giving written notice to the Company and any underwriter or underwriters of their request to withdraw prior to the effectiveness of any other registration statement the Registration Statement filed pursuant to any this Section 2.1. Subject to compliance with the other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale provisions of Common Stock by this Agreement, the Company (whether on its own determination or such longer period as the result of a withdrawal by the Initiating Holders) may withdraw a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 2.1 at any time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating prior to such registration statement)the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.
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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement (Viking Holdings LTD), Investor Rights Agreement (Viking Holdings LTD)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt of a written request from one or more New Holders a Holder requesting that the Company effect a registration or, in the case of a Shelf Registration (as defined below), renew a "registration (each, a “Demand Registration"”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the such Holder’s Registrable Securities (which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredthereof), the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 4.02 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's ’s receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's ’s Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 34.01, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, Thereupon the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicablepossible, but in any event no later than thirty (30) 30 days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective effective, a registration statement (a "“Demand Registration Statement"”) relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("“Participating Demand Holders"”) for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to effect a Demand Registration (i) unless the aggregate value number of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be constitute at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price 3% of the Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date the demand to file such written request for a Demand Registration Statement is made, made or (ii) be at least 25% the time when, because the Company’s independent public accounting firm has not completed its audit or review of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of Company’s annual or quarterly financial statements, the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such timeCompany is not able to file a registration statement that complies with SEC rules.
(b) If the majority-in-interest Company is eligible to register shares of its common stock for a delayed or continuous offering by stockholders, the Demand Registration Statement may be required by the initiating Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating Holder to be with regard to a public delayed or continuous offering requests that of all the offering be underwritten Registrable Securities (a “Shelf Registration Statement”) in accordance with a managing underwriter selected in the manner methods and distribution set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration and Rule 415 under the provisions of Section 3, and Securities Act (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand “Shelf Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c”).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement).
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Samples: Stockholder Agreement (Bank of Nova Scotia /), Investment Agreement (First Bancorp /Pr/)
Demand Registration. (a) After receipt Buyer, on its own behalf and on behalf of a the other Holders, may make up to three written request from one requests for registration under the Securities Act of all or more New any part of the Registrable Securities held by the Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (each, a "Demand Registration"); provided that (i) under Buyer may not request a Demand Registration before the Securities Act covering all or part first anniversary of the Registrable Securities which specifies Closing Date, (ii) no Demand Registration may be requested within 180 days after the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written preceding request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "iii) each Demand Registration Statement"must be (x) relating to in respect of Registrable Securities with a fair market value of at least $25,000,000 or (y) in respect of all remaining Registrable Securities and have a fair market value of at least $5,000,000. Such request will specify the aggregate number of shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested proposed to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with be sold and will also specify the intended method or methods of disposition thereof, . A registration will not count as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating until it has become effective. Should a Demand Registration not become effective due to the failure of a public offering requests that Holder to perform its obligations under this Exhibit B or the offering be underwritten inability of the requesting Holders to reach agreement with a managing underwriter selected the Underwriters for the proposed sale on price or other customary terms for such transaction, or in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such event the requesting Holders withdraw or do not pursue the request for the Demand Registration advises (in each of the Company foregoing cases, provided that at such time the Corporation is in writing that, compliance in all material respects with its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"obligations under this Exhibit B), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis deemed to have been effected (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, provided that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in if the Demand Registration does not become effective because of a material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), business, assets or results of operations of the Corporation and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole that occurs subsequent to the date of the written request made by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If requesting Holders, then the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected effected).
(b) In the event that the requesting Holders withdraw or do not pursue a request for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant a Demand Registration Statementand, withdrawn sufficient shares from pursuant to Section 2.01(a) hereof, such registration Demand Registration is deemed to have been effected, the Holders may reacquire such Demand Registration (such that the remaining withdrawal or failure to pursue a request will not count as a Demand Registration hereunder) if the Holders requesting registration would not have been able reimburse the Corporation for any and all Registration Expenses incurred by the Corporation in connection with such request for a Demand Registration; provided that the right to request registration under reacquire a Demand Registration may be exercised a maximum of two times.
(c) If the provisions of Section 3Selling Holders so elect, and (iv) the offering of such Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall be in the form of an underwritten offering. A majority in interest of the Selling Holders shall have the right to select the managing Underwriters and any additional investment bankers and managers to be used in connection with such offering, subject to the Corporation's approval, which approval shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c)unreasonably withheld.
(d) Notwithstanding anything The Selling Holders will inform the Corporation of the time and manner of any disposition of Registrable Securities, and agree to reasonably cooperate with the contrary contained herein, Corporation in effecting the Company shall disposition of the Registrable Securities in a manner that does not be required unreasonably disrupt the public trading market for the Common Stock.
(e) The Corporation will have the right to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) preempt any Demand Registration Statement with a primary registration by delivering written notice (within 90 five business days following after the date Corporation has received a request for such Demand Registration) of effectiveness such intention to Buyer indicating that the Corporation has identified a specific business need and use for the proceeds of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of such securities and the Corporation shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect a primary registration within 60 days of such notice. In the ensuing primary registration, the Holders will have such piggyback registration rights as are set forth in Section 2.02 hereof. Upon the Corporation's preemption of a requested Demand Registration, such requested registration will not count as a Demand Registration; provided that a Demand Registration will not be deemed preempted if the Holders are permitted to sell all requested securities in connection with the ensuing primary offering by exercising their piggyback registration rights as set forth in Section 2.02. The Corporation may exercise the right to preempt only twice in any 360-day period; provided, that during any 360-day period there shall be a period of at least 120 consecutive days during which the Selling Holders may effect a Demand Registration.
(f) Subject to Section 2.03, the Corporation will be entitled to include in a Demand Registration shares of Common Stock by for its own account or for the Company (or such longer period account of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)other Persons.
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Samples: Stock Purchase Agreement (RCN Corp /De/), Stock Purchase Agreement (Scott Walter Jr)
Demand Registration. (ai) After receipt of a Request for Registration. Upon the written request from of one or more New Holders requesting of not less than 20% of the Registrable Securities (calculated on an as-converted basis) (the "Requesting Holders") that the Company effect the registration of all or a registration part of such Holders' Registrable Securities (which request shall specify the intended method of disposition of such Registrable Securities) (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered), the Company shall will:
(1) promptly notify all Holders in writing give written notice of the receipt of such request and each such Holderproposed registration to all other Holders; and
(2) as soon as reasonably possible, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as expeditiously as is practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause effect such registration (including, without limitation, the execution of an undertaking to file post-effective amendments, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act) as may be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to and as would permit or facilitate the extent required to permit the disposition sale and distribution (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the such Registrable Securities so registered; providedas are specified in such request, however, that the aggregate value together with all or such portion of the Registrable Securities requested of any Holder or Holders joining in such request as are specified in a written request received by the Company within 15 days after written notice from the Company is given under Section 2(a)(i)(1) above; provided that the Company shall not be obligated to be registered (i) be at least $2,500,000effect, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand or take any action to file effect, any such Demand Registration Statement is made, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.registration pursuant to this Section 2(a):
(bA) If such registration is prohibited by applicable law;
(B) For a period of 30 days before the majority-in-interest anticipated consummation of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that by the offering Company of its equity securities and 90 days subsequent to the consummation of such public offering;
(C) In any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be underwritten with required to execute a managing underwriter selected general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance, unless the manner set forth Company is already subject to service in such jurisdiction and except as may be required by the Securities Act or applicable rules or regulations thereunder;
(D) After the Company has effected three (3) Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 14 below 2(a) and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises registrations have been declared or ordered effective and the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number sales of such Registrable Securities does not exceed shall have closed;
(E) If the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested by all Holders to be included in registered pursuant to such request do not constitute at least 20% of the Registrable Securities (calculated on an as-converted basis);
(F) Within 90 days after the effective date of a previous Demand Registration by each New Holder)or a previous registration under which the Requesting Holders had piggyback rights pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof wherein the Requesting Holders were permitted to register, andand sold, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all at least 50% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included therein;
(G) If the Company shall furnish to the Requesting Holders a certificate signed by the President of the Company stating that in the Demand Registration by good faith judgment of the New Holders are included Board of Directors it would be in such Demand Registration. If the amount best interests of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in to defer such Demand Registration because such registration would jeopardize any other securities material corporate transaction of the Company and other securities held by other security holders or would require the disclosure of material non-public information, then the Company as shall have the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated right to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in defer filing a registration statement for such Demand Registration, shall Registration for a period not to exceed sixty (60) days from the Maximum Number date of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate receipt of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to written request from the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities)Requesting Holders; provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) exercise such right more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements once in any (12) twelve-month period. The registration rights set forth in this Section 2 may be assigned, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement in whole or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant in part, to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale transferee of Common Stock Registrable Securities (who shall be bound by the Company (or such longer period all obligations of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statementthis Agreement).
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Demand Registration. If, at any time after the date hereof, ------------------- the Company shall receive from the Holders (athe "Requesting Holders") After receipt owning as of the date of such request at least 50% of the then outstanding shares of Registrable Securities a written request from one or more New Holders requesting that the Company effect a registration (a "Demand Registration") under the Securities Act covering all or part to register at least 30% of the Registrable Securities which specifies owned by such Holders as of the intended method or methods date of disposition thereof and the number of shares to be registeredsuch request, then the Company shall will promptly notify give notice of such request to all Holders and shall effect as soon thereafter as practicable, and in writing any event within 90 days of the receipt of such request and each such Holderrequest, in lieu the Registration under the Securities Act of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from the Company) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant which any Holder requests to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice be registered. Notwithstanding the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereuponforegoing, the Company shallshall not be under any obligation to have a Demand Registration become effective prior to a date earlier than six (6) months following the date hereof. Further, as expeditiously as the Company shall not be obligated to effect, or to take any action to effect, a Demand Registration if Requesting Holders request that the Demand Registration to be filed is practicable, but in any event no later than during the period starting with the date (determined at the time such request for Demand Registration is made) thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") relating to all shares of Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, prior to the extent required Company's good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date one hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated underwritten Registration in which the Holders may participate as to permit the disposition at least forty percent (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid40%) of the Registrable Securities so registeredheld by each of them pursuant to Section 2.2; provided, however, provided that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective. The Holders shall not be registered entitled to more than one (i1) be at least $2,500,000Demand Registration. However, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such any Demand Registration Statement is madethat does not become effective, (ii) be at least 25% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants or (iii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in if any offering associated with a Demand Registration relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "Maximum Number of Securities"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. If such amount exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, the number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated first, among all the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each New Holder), and, second, to the Existing Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each Existing Holder); provided, however, that in no event may Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders be included in such Demand Registration unless all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the New Holders are included in such Demand Registration. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the Company and other securities held by other security holders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities.
(c) New Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of four (4) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if the New Holders participating in such Demand Registration are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds close, through no fault of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand RegistrationHolders and no other person, then such Demand Registration shall not be counted as one of deemed to be the five Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is a party or with respect to the sale of Common Stock by the Company (or such longer period of time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to such registration statement)Holders are entitled.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Rf Monolithics Inc /De/)