Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered. (b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b). (c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC. (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement. (e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (E-House (China) Holdings LTD), Registration Rights Agreement (China Real Estate Information Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (China Real Estate Information Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time after the expiration of the “lock-up” agreed to by the Investor Shareholders with the managing underwriter(s) in connection with the IPO (or if such “lock up” is waived by such underwriter(s), from and after such earlier date), any Shareholders that, on the date that a Demand (as hereinafter defined) is one hundred and eighty made, constitute Demand Shareholders (180“Requesting Shareholders”) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of shall be entitled to make a written request from of the Company (a Holder (such Holder“Demand”) for registration under the Securities Act of an amount of Registrable Securities that, when taken together with its Affiliatesthe amounts of Registrable Securities requested to be registered under the Securities Act by such Requesting Shareholders’ Permitted Transferees, equals or is greater than the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration Registrable Amount (a “Demand Registration”) ); provided, that, in addition to the foregoing, in the event a Demand Shareholder holds Registrable Securities less than the Registrable Amount (such lesser amount, the “Remaining Securities”), such Demand Shareholder shall be entitled to make a single Demand for registration under the Securities Act covering of all of such Demand Shareholder’s Remaining Securities, notwithstanding any failure for such Demand to involve Registrable Securities equal to or part of greater than the Registrable SecuritiesAmount. Thereupon the Company will, and which notice shall specify subject to the number terms of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereofthis Agreement, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a effect the registration statement as promptly as practicable under the Securities Act of:
(a “Demand Registration Statement”i) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC which the Company has been so requested to register by the Requesting Shareholders for saledisposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand;
(ii) all other Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to register pursuant to Section 5.1(b) but subject to Section 5.1(f); and
(iii) all Class P Shares which the Company may elect to register in connection with any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 5.1, but subject to Section 5.1(f); all to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Class P Shares, if any, to be so registered.
(b) If A Demand shall specify: (i) the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the approximate aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include registered in such Demand Registration, up (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to the Maximum Offering Size, firstextent then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Shareholder (or Requesting Shareholders). Within five (5) calendar days after receipt of a Demand, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand to all other Shareholders. The Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by such Demand all Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder the Company has requested registrationreceived a written request for inclusion therein within ten (10) calendar days after the Company’s notice required by this paragraph has been given, subject to Section 5.1(f). CRIC Such written request shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent comply with the rights requirements of priority provided a Demand as set forth in this Section 2(b5.1(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 A Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless and shall not count as a Demand Registration (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such unless a registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection statement with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating respect thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified one hundred twenty (120) calendar days (or (x) such shorter period in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any which all Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes have actually been sold thereunder or (y) such longer period as counsel for the underwriters advises is required by law in connection with sales thereunder), (ii) if, after it has become effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by becomes subject prior to one hundred twenty (120) calendar days after effectiveness to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency Governmental Entity or court solely due for any reason or (iii) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such Demand Registration, if applicable, are not satisfied, other than by reason of any act or omission in breach of such purchase agreement or underwriting agreement, as applicable, by such Requesting Shareholders.
(d) Demand Registrations shall be on such appropriate registration form of the SEC as shall be selected by the Requesting Shareholders and shall be reasonably acceptable to the actions Company.
(e) The Company shall (A) not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration at any time that the Shelf Registration Statement is effective (subject to the Company’s performance of its obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Shelf Registration Statement) and (B) shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Demand Shareholders) the filing or omissions the effectiveness of a registration statement for any Demand Registration if, in the Company’s good faith reasonable judgment, it is not feasible for the Company to act proceed with the Demand Registration because audited or pro forma financial statements that are required by the Securities Act to be included in such registration statement are then unavailable, until such time as such financial statements are no longer unavailable, provided that the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to complete, obtain or otherwise make available such financial statements as promptly as practicable. In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Demand Shareholders) the filing or the effectiveness of CRICa registration statement for any Demand Registration in the event of a Blackout Period until the expiration of the applicable Blackout Period.
(f) If, in connection with a Demand Registration that involves an Underwritten Offering, any managing underwriter advises the Company, in writing, that, in its reasonable opinion, the inclusion of all of the securities sought to be registered in connection with such Demand Registration Statement would significantly adversely affect the marketability of the Registrable Securities sought to be sold pursuant thereto, then the Company shall include in such registration statement only such securities as the Company is advised by such underwriter or investment bank can be sold without such significant adverse effect (the “Underwriter Amount”) as follows and in the following order of priority: (i) first, up to the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by (x) the Demand Shareholders and (y) other Shareholders holding Registrable Securities who the managing underwriter(s) of such Underwritten Offering have expressly required, in connection with such Underwritten Offering, to enter into an agreement restricting the sale or distribution of their Shares in accordance with Section 5.5 hereof (the “Relevant Holdback Shareholders”), which, in the opinion of the underwriter or investment bank can be sold without significantly adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, pro rata among such Demand Shareholders and Relevant Holdback Shareholders on the basis of the number of such Registrable Securities requested to be included by such Demand Shareholders and Relevant Holdback Shareholders; (ii) second, Registrable Securities duly requested to be included in such Demand Registration by other Shareholders pursuant to Section 5.1(b) other than the Relevant Holdback Shareholders, pro rata among such Shareholders requesting to be included in such Demand Registration, on the basis of the number of such Registrable Securities requested to be included by such Shareholders; (iii) third, Class P Shares the Company proposes to sell; and (iv) fourth, all other securities of the Company duly requested to be included in such registration statement, pro rata on the basis of the amount of such other securities requested to be included or such other method determined by the Company.
(g) Any time that a Demand Registration involves an Underwritten Offering, the Requesting Shareholders and representatives of the executive officers of the Company shall jointly participate in the process of selecting the investment banker or investment bankers and managers that will serve as lead and co-managing underwriters with respect to such Underwritten Offering; provided, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Requesting Shareholders representing a majority of the Registrable Securities proposed to be included in the Demand shall in their sole discretion make such ultimate selection, and shall have ultimate control and discretion over what process, if any, shall be at used in such selection; and provided, further, that notwithstanding anything to the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one contrary in this Agreement or any corporate governance policy or similar document of the Demand Registrations which may Company, the Board or any committee thereof applicable to related party transactions between the Company and Affiliates of the Investor Shareholders, there shall be requested no restriction on the identity of such Requesting Shareholders’ selections pursuant to this Section 25.1(g).
(h) All rights of the Shareholders under this Section 5.1 shall be subject to the restrictions of Section 2.1.
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Samples: Shareholder Agreement, Shareholder Agreement (Kinder Morgan, Inc.), Shareholder Agreement (Kinder Morgan, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that In addition to any other registration rights to which any Holder is one hundred entitled, at any time and eighty (180) days from time to time after the date hereof and hereof, Company (upon receipt each request of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part Holders of at least 50% of the Registrable SecuritiesWarrant Shares and Warrants) shall prepare, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC Commission and shall use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, become effective as promptly as reasonably possible a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”on Form S-3 or any successor form, if available) relating to all covering such number of Warrant Shares owned or then purchasable as is requested by such Holders. Notwithstanding the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for saleforegoing, to the extent Company shall not be required to permit so prepare and file upon the disposition demand of such Holders either (a) more than two (2) such registration statements that are declared effective by the Commission and maintained in accordance with the intended method effect by Company for at least 90 consecutive calendar days and are not on a Form S-3 (or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
any successor form), or (b) If any such registration statement within the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering first 180 calendar days after the closing of a Public Offering in which 50% or more of the Warrant Shares and Warrants were included, or (c) any registration statement if the managing underwriter anticipated gross proceeds of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other Public Offering is less than the Exercising Holder lesser of $1,000,000 or the proceeds realized by registering all Warrants and Warrant Shares then held by Holders. In connection with any such demand registration, Company shall use its best efforts to engage (such or, at Holders' request, shall use its best efforts to assist Holders in engaging) one or more underwriters to purchase on a best-efforts or a firm-offer basis the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including Warrant Shares owned or then purchasable at the price at which such securities can Warrant Shares are to be sold resold under such registration statement less the underwriters' discount (the “Maximum Offering Size” )less, then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which Warrants, the applicable Exercise Price then in effect). The registration statement shall also provide that sales of the Warrant Shares may be made by dealers, on an exchange if listed, directly to purchasers or in any other security holder has requested registrationmanner. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities No such registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 2; provideddemand registration provision (without the consent of Holders of at least 50% of the total Warrant Shares and Warrants) may relate to any securities other than the Warrant Shares (other than the underwriters' warrants and the advisors' warrants existing as of the date hereof), that a registration requested pursuant and no other securities (other than the underwriters' warrants and the advisors' warrants existing as of the date hereof) may be sold incidentally to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the any such underwritten 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in Warrant Shares so registered. In connection with any such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to demand registration, Company shall keep effective and maintain the contrary contained hereinregistration, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month periodqualification, approval or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following listing covering the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective Warrant Shares for a period of at least that specified 90 consecutive calendar days (or in Section 5(athe event such registration is on Form S-3 or any successor form, on a continuous basis); provided. Company from time to time shall amend or supplement the prospectus and registration statement used in connection with any such registration to the extent necessary to comply with applicable law (including to reflect additional information relating to the plan of distribution), however, that and shall immediately advise each Holder if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by prospectus or registration statement does not so comply and/or if any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement similar order is issued or threatened or any request for amendment or supplement is received from any regulatory agency. Company shall make every reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any stop order and, if any stop order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment. Company shall comply with all other applicable laws in connection with any offering of Warrant Shares and will promptly make available an earnings statement in accordance with Section 11(a) of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to Securities Act and the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2regulations promulgated thereunder.
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Samples: Warrant Agreement (Bizness Online Com), Warrant Agreement (MCG Finance Corp), Warrant Agreement (Bizness Online Com)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time after the twelve (12) month anniversary of the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days of the Securities Purchase Agreement, after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) Selling Shareholder requesting that CRIC ASTI effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part at least 250,000 shares of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts toASTI shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event no later than forty-five (45) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 4 below) after receipt of such written request, 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 of the Registrable Securities that CRIC ASTI has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC ASTI and the Exercising Holder Selling Shareholder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC ASTI or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the within an acceptable price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” )range, then CRIC ASTI shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, Registration first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder Selling Shareholder proposes to register, and thirdsecond, any securities CRIC proposes ASTI proposed to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registrationregister. CRIC ASTI shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, Selling Shareholder shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC ASTI shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements Statement in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) 120 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Norsk Hydro a S A)
Demand Registration. (ai) Following After the first date upon which Units held by the Holders may be redeemed until the date on which there are no Registrable Shares (as hereinafter defined) remaining, subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, including without limitation the conditions set forth in Section 1(b)(ii) below, any Holder or Holders may request that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to Company cause to be declared effective, filed a registration statement (a “"Demand Registration Statement”") under Rule 415 under the Securities Act relating to all the sale by such Holders of the their previously or concurrently issued Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (Shares in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, terms hereof. As used in its reasonable opinionthis Agreement, the number term "Registrable Shares" means shares of Registrable Securities requested Common Stock issued or to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up issued to the Maximum Offering SizeHolders upon redemption or in exchange for their Units, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to excluding (A) Common Stock for which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has to the issuance or sale thereof shall have become effective under the Securities Act and which have been issued or sold, as applicable, under such Registration Statement, (B) Common Stock sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act or (C) Common Stock which, together with all other Registrable Shares held by such Holder and any other Holder whose sales of Registrable Shares must be aggregated with sales of such Holder pursuant to Rule 144(e), is eligible for sale pursuant to Rule 144(e) under the Securities Act. Upon receipt of any such request, the Company shall give written notice of such proposed registration to all Holders of Units and Registrable Securities of Shares. Such Holders shall have the Holder right, by giving written notice to the Company within fifteen (15) business days after such notice referred to in the preceding sentence has been given by the Company to elect to have included in the Demand Registration Statement such of their Registrable Shares as each Holder may request in such notice of election. Thereupon, the Company shall use reasonable efforts to cause such Demand Registration Statement have actually to be filed and declared effective by the SEC for all Registrable Shares which the Company has been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any requested to register as soon as practicable thereafter. The Company agrees to use reasonable efforts to keep the Demand Registration Statement requested continuously effective until the earliest of (a) the date on which the Holders no longer hold any Registrable Shares registered under the Demand Registration Statement, (b) the date on which the Registrable Shares registered under the Demand Registration Statement held by each Holder may, together with all other Registrable Shares held by such Holder and any other Holder whose sales of Registrable Shares must be aggregated with sales of such Holder pursuant to Rule 144(e), be sold by such Holder pursuant to Rule 144(e) under the Securities Act or (c) the date which is twelve (12) months from the effective date of such Demand Registration Statement. The Company shall not be required to file and effect a new Demand Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement 1(b) until a period of twelve (12) months has elapsed from the termination of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due registration statement with respect to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Registrable Shares covered by a prior registration request.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Bradley Real Estate Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Bradley Real Estate Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Bradley Real Estate Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time after the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of (or such earlier date (i) as would permit the Company to cause any filings required hereunder to be filed on the 180th day after the date hereof or (ii) as is permitted by waiver under the IPO Underwriting Agreement), any Stockholders that on the date a Demand (as hereinafter defined) is made constitute Demand Stockholders (a “Requesting Stockholder”) shall be entitled to make a written request from of the Company (a Holder (such Holder“Demand”) for registration under the Securities Act of a number of Registrable Securities that, when taken together with its Affiliatesthe number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered under the Securities Act by such Requesting Stockholder’s Permitted Transferees who are Stockholders, equals or is greater than the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration Registrable Amount (a “Demand Registration”) and thereupon the Company will, subject to the terms of this Agreement, use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration as promptly as practicable under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement of:
(a “Demand Registration Statement”i) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC which the Company has been so requested to register by the Requesting Stockholders for saledisposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand which may be an Underwritten Offering;
(ii) all other Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to register pursuant to Section 6.1(b); and
(iii) all Class A Shares which the Company may elect to register in connection with any offering of Registrable Securities, but subject to Section 6.1(f); all to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Class A Shares, if any, to be so registered.
(b) If A Demand shall specify: (i) the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to the extent then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Stockholder (or Requesting Stockholders). Within five (5) days after receipt of a Demand, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand to all other Stockholders. Subject to Section 6.1(f), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration relates covered by such Demand all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received a written request for inclusion therein within ten (10) days after the Company’s notice required by this paragraph has been given. Such written request shall comply with the requirements of a Demand as set forth in this Section 6.1(b).
(c) For so long as the Secondary Class B Condition is satisfied, Holdings shall be entitled to an underwritten unlimited number of Demand Registrations until such time as the Stockholders and their Permitted Transferees who are Stockholders, together, Beneficially Own less than a Registrable Amount. After the Secondary Class B Condition ceases to be satisfied, each Stockholder shall be entitled to an unlimited number of Demand Registrations until such time as such Stockholder and its Permitted Transferees who are Stockholders, together, Beneficially Own less than a Registrable Amount.
(d) Demand Registrations shall be on such registration form of the SEC for which the Company is eligible as shall be selected by the Requesting Stockholders, including, to the extent permissible, an automatically effective registration statement or an existing effective registration statement filed by the Company with the SEC, and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(e) The Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration (A) within ninety (90) days of a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering in which all Stockholders were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to Section 6.2 (subject to Section 6.1(f)) and provided that at least 50% of the number of Registrable Securities requested by such Stockholders to be included in such Demand Registration were included, (B) within ninety (90) day of any other Underwritten Offering pursuant to Section 6.3(e). In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Stockholders) for a reasonable period of time not to exceed ninety (90) days in succession the filing or the effectiveness of a registration statement for any Demand Registration (but no more than twice, or for more than one hundred and twenty (120) days in the aggregate, in any period of twelve (12) consecutive months) if the Board determines in good faith and in its reasonable judgment that the filing or effectiveness of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration would cause the disclosure of material, non-public offering and information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential. In the event of a postponement by the Company of the filing or effectiveness of a registration statement for a Demand Registration, the holders of a majority of Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Stockholders shall have the right to withdraw such Demand in accordance with Section 6.4.
(f) The Company shall not include any securities other than Registrable Securities in a Demand Registration, except with the written consent of Stockholders participating in such Demand Registration that hold a majority of the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration. If, in connection with a Demand Registration, any managing underwriter of (or, if such proposed public offering Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, a nationally recognized investment bank engaged in connection with such Demand Registration) advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder Company, in writing, that, in its reasonable opinion, the inclusion of all of the securities, including securities of the Company that are not Registrable Securities, sought to be registered in connection with such Demand Registration would adversely affect the marketability of the Registrable Securities sought to be sold pursuant thereto, then the Company shall include in such registration statement only such securities as the Company is advised by such underwriter or investment bank can be sold without such adverse effect as follows and in the following order of priority: (i) first, up to the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the such Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holderthe Stockholders, including any Holders other than which, in the Exercising Holder (such Holders, opinion of the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably underwriter can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, including pro rata among such Stockholders requesting such Demand Registration on the price at which basis of the number of such securities can be sold held by such Stockholders and such Stockholders that are Piggyback Sellers (the “Maximum Offering Size” as defined below), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for second, securities the period set forth in Section 5(a) Company proposes to sell; and (iii) third, all other securities of the offering Company duly requested to be included in such registration statement, pro rata on the basis of the number of such other securities requested to be included or such other method determined by the Company.
(g) Any investment bank(s) that will serve as an underwriter with respect to such Demand Registration or, if such Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, any investment bank engaged in connection therewith, shall be selected (i) by Holdings, for so long as the Secondary Class B Condition is satisfied, and thereafter (ii) by the Stockholder participating in such Demand Registration that holds (together with its Permitted Transferees who are Stockholders) a number of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for constituting a period plurality of at least that specified all Registrable Securities included in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Registration.
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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Moelis & Co), Shareholder Agreement (Moelis & Co), Stockholders Agreement (Moelis & Co)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon After receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) one or more New Holders requesting that CRIC the Company effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and Securities which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and specifies the intended method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, CRIC the Company shall use promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its best efforts torights 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 soon expeditiously as reasonably 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 such a written requestrequest 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 the Registrable Securities that CRIC 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 of distribution 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 relates relating to an underwritten a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and the such managing underwriter of such proposed public offering Demand Registration advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder Company in writing that, in its reasonable 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 (including securities to be sold by CRIC or 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 holderholders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, including any Holders other than in an amount, which together with the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, up to shall not exceed the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights Number of priority provided in this Section 2(b)Securities.
(c) Each of the E-House New Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three four (34) 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, provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a7(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 (iiiiv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SECSEC (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 event the Exercising Holder revokes New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) Registration, then such Demand Registration shall count not be counted as having been effected unless one of the Exercising Holder pays all five Demands for Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICprovided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one two (12) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
Statement or (eiii) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is interfered a party or with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due respect to the actions sale of Common Stock by the Company (or omissions to act such longer period of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included time as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant specified in an underwriting agreement relating to this Section 2such 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) Following Upon written notice to the date that is one hundred and eighty Issuer from any Demand Holder at any time during the Effective Period (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”"Demand Request") requesting that CRIC the Issuer effect a the registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities 1933 Act covering of any or all or part of the Registrable SecuritiesSecurities held by such requesting Demand Holder or any member of such requesting Demand Holder's Demand Holder Group, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt disposition of such written Registrable Securities (which method or methods may relate to a "shelf" registration pursuant to Rule 415 promulgated under the 1933 Act), subject to compliance with any restrictions to which such Demand Holder may be subject under the Governance Agreement, the Issuer shall prepare and, within 30 days after such request, file with the SEC Commission a registration statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and thereafter use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all effective under the 1933 Act for purposes of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (dispositions in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition stated in such request. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary:
(i) each Demand Holder may exercise its rights to request registration in respect of Registrable Securities held by such Demand Holder or any member of such Demand Holder's Demand Holder Group under this Section 2.02(a) on not more than four occasions (each such registration being referred to herein as a "Demand Registration");
(ii) the Issuer shall not be required to effect more than one Demand Registration in any period of 120 consecutive days;
(iii) the Issuer shall not be required to effect a Demand Registration unless the Registrable Securities to be registered pursuant to such Demand Registration shall have a then current market value of at least $1,000,000, unless such Demand Registration is for all remaining Registrable Securities held by the requesting Demand Holder or any member of the requesting Demand Holder's Demand Holder Group, as the case may be; and
(iv) the Issuer shall not be required to effect a Demand Registration at any time that it shall have effective a shelf registration statement pursuant to which the requesting Demand Holder or members of the requesting Demand Holder's Demand Holder Group, as the case may be, could effect the disposition of the Registrable Securities so registeredheld by such Demand Holder or member of such Demand Holder's Demand Holder Group in the manner requested.
(b) If Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising requested by a Demand Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 2.02 shall not be deemed to have been effected effected, and, therefore, not requested and the rights of such Demand Holder shall be deemed not to have been exercised for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless 2.02(a), (i) it if such Demand Holder 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 under the period set forth in Section 5(a) and 1933 Act, was not maintained effective under the 1933 Act (iii) the offering other than as a result of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that Commission or other Governmental Entity solely on the account of a material misrepresentation or omission of such Demand Holder) for at least (x) in the event the Exercising Holder revokes case of a Demand Registration request that is a Rule 415 Offering, twelve months, (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration y) in the case of effectiveness a Demand Registration that is an underwritten offering, 120 days and (z) in the case of any other Demand Registration, 180 days (or, in each case, 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 registration statement90-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 any Demand Holder during the Effective Period but the related Demand Registration is delayed or not effected in the circumstances set forth in this Section 2.02(b), then such Demand Registration Holder shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked be deemed not to have used one of its rights to request a Demand Registration within seven under this Section 2.02 and shall continue to have such right.
(7c) days The Issuer shall not include any securities that are not Registrable Securities in any registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of written request therefor by CRICthe members of the Demand Holder Groups who hold a majority of the Registrable Securities proposed to be sold therein.
(d) Notwithstanding anything If the lead or managing underwriter referred to in Section 2.03 determines that marketing factors require a limitation on the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not number of Registrable Securities to be required to prepare offered and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following sold by the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested Holders pursuant to this Section 2 a Demand Registration, there shall be included in the offering only that number of Registrable Securities that such lead or managing underwriter reasonably and in good faith believes will not be deemed to have been effected unless jeopardize the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto success of the offering (i) has become effective under including a material reduction in the Securities Act and any price per share of the Registrable Securities to be sold). In such event, and providing the lead or managing underwriter has so notified the Holders of the Holder included Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been in writing (with a copy to the Issuer), the number of Registrable Securities to be offered and sold thereunder and by such Holders in such offering shall be allocated pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the relative number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder (iiin which case Section 2.02(a)(iii) has remained effective shall be disregarded for a period purposes of at least that specified in Section 5(asuch Demand Registration); provided, however, provided that if after any the Demand Holder that made such Demand Request shall be entitled to request one additional Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant (without needing to this Section 2 becomes effectivemake a Demand Request therefor within the Effective Period and disregarding Sections 2.02(a)(i) and 2.02(a)(iii) for purposes of such additional Demand Registration) if, as a result of such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop orderallocation, injunction or other order or requirement less than 50% of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due Registrable Securities originally proposed to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, be sold in such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC offering are actually included and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2sold in such offering.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Time Warner Inc/), Registration Rights Agreement (Cdnow Inc/Pa), Registration Rights Agreement (Time Warner Inc/)
Demand Registration. (ai) Following Any Holder that holds any Registrable Securities shall have the date that is one hundred option and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of right, exercisable by delivering a written request from notice to Triangle (a “Demand Notice,” and the Holder (that delivers such Holder, together with its Affiliatesa Demand Notice, the “Exercising Initiating Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect ), to require Triangle to, pursuant to the terms of and subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, prepare and file with the Commission a registration Registration Statement registering the offering and sale of the number and type of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in the Demand Notice in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Demand Notice, which may include sales on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify ). The Demand Notice must set forth the number of Registrable Securities that the Initiating Holder intends to include in such Demand Registration. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event shall Triangle be required to effectuate a Demand Registration for which registration is requested and Registrable Securities having an aggregate value of less than $30 million based on the intended method or methods VWAP of distribution thereofsuch Registrable Securities as of the date of the Demand Notice.
(ii) Within five Business Days of the receipt of the Demand Notice, CRIC Triangle shall use its best efforts togive written notice of such Demand Notice to all Holders and, as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable thereafter, after receipt shall, subject to the limitations of such written requestthis Section 2(a), file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested the Holders shall in writing request (such request to register for sale, be given to Triangle within three days of receipt of such notice of the extent required Demand Notice given by Triangle pursuant to permit this Section 2(a)(ii)) to be included in such Demand Registration as promptly as practicable as directed by the disposition (Initiating Holder in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) terms and conditions of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates Notice and use all commercially reasonable efforts to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of cause such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and remain effective under the Securities Act until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(iii) Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, Triangle is not obligated hereunder to effect (A) more than one Demand Registration in any 12 month period, (B) more than a total of three Demand Registrations pursuant to this Agreement and (C) a subsequent Demand Registration pursuant to a Demand Notice if a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities held by the Holders providing such Demand Notice shall have become effective under the Securities Act and remains effective under the Securities Act and is sufficient to permit offers and sales of the Holder included number and type of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in such the Demand Notice in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Demand Notice.
(iv) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2(a), Triangle shall not be required to effect a registration or file a Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (iior any amendment thereto) has remained effective for a period of up to 60 days, if (A) the Board determines that a postponement is in the best interest of Triangle and its stockholders generally due to a pending transaction involving Triangle, (B) the Board determines such registration would render Triangle unable to comply with applicable securities laws or (C) the Board determines such registration would require disclosure of material information that Triangle has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential (any such period, a “Blackout Period”); provided, however, that (i) in no event shall any Blackout Period together with any Suspension Period collectively exceed an aggregate of 120 days in any 12 month period, (ii) during any Blackout Period contemplated by Section 2(a)(iv)(B) or any Suspension Period, Triangle shall not engage in any transaction involving the offer, issuance, sale, or purchase of Triangle Securities (whether for the benefit of Triangle or a third Person), except transactions involving the issuance or purchase of Triangle Securities as contemplated by Triangle employee benefit plans or employee or director arrangements or in connection with the conversion or exercise of outstanding securities, including the Convertible Note, and (iii) during any Blackout Period contemplated by Section 2(a)(iv)(B) or (C) or any Suspension Period, Triangle shall not file a registration statement (or any amendment or supplement thereto) for any other holder of registration rights.
(v) Triangle may include in any such Demand Registration other Triangle Securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person; provided that if the managing underwriter, if any, for the Underwritten Offering determines that the type or number of Triangle Securities proposed to be offered in such offering would likely have an adverse effect in any material respect on the price, timing or distribution of the Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such offering, the Registrable Securities to be sold by the Holders shall be included in such registration before any Triangle Securities proposed to be sold for the account of Triangle or any other Person other than the NGP Holders.
(vi) Subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, Triangle shall effect any Demand Registration on Form S-3 (except if Triangle is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case such Demand Registration shall be effected on another appropriate form for such purpose pursuant to the Securities Act) and if Triangle becomes, and is at least that specified in Section 5(athe time of its receipt of a Demand Notice, a WKSI, the Demand Registration for any offering and selling of Registrable Securities shall be effected pursuant to an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, which shall be on Form S-3 or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act (if available to Triangle); provided, however, that if after at any time a Registration Statement on Form S-3 is effective and a Holder provides written notice to Triangle that it intends to effect an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities included on such Registration Statement, Triangle will amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place.
(vii) Without limiting Section 3, in connection with any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 2 becomes effective2(a), Triangle shall, (A) promptly prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed (1) such additional forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents, as may be necessary or advisable to register or qualify the securities subject to such Demand Registration, including under the securities laws of such states as the Holders shall reasonably request; provided, however, that no such qualification shall be required in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, Triangle would become subject to general service of process or to taxation or qualification to do business in such jurisdiction solely as a result of registration and (2) such forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents as may be necessary to apply for listing or to list the Registrable Securities subject to such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by on the Trading Market and (B) do any stop order, injunction or and all other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC acts and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which things that may be reasonably necessary or appropriate or reasonably requested pursuant by the Holders to this Section 2enable the Holders to consummate a public sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Triangle Petroleum Corp), Stock Purchase Agreement (Triangle Petroleum Corp), Purchase and Sale Agreement (Triangle Petroleum Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following Any investors demanding registration pursuant to this Article II are sometimes referred to in this Agreement as the “Demand Investors” and the registration requested by Demand Investors pursuant to this Article II is sometimes referred to in this Agreement as a “Demand Registration”. The management of the Company shall have the power to appoint investment banking and legal advisors to assist the Company with the actions required of it under this Article II, such investment banking and legal advisors to be reasonably acceptable to the Demand Investors. The Company shall not be required to effect any Demand Registration on Form S-3 or any comparable or successor form or forms or any similar short-form registration (“Short-Form Registrations”).
(b) Commencing on that date that is one hundred and eighty six (1806) days months after the date hereof hereof, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, upon receipt written notice delivered by the GEI Parties holding an aggregate number of Registrable Securities equal to more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the number of shares of Registrable Securities held by the GEI Parties on the date of such notice (a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising HolderGEI Demand”) requesting that CRIC the Company effect a the registration (a “GEI Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering of any or all or part of the Registrable SecuritiesSecurities held by the GEI Parties, and which notice GEI Demand shall specify the number of such Registrable Securities for which registration is requested to be registered and the intended method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition of such Registrable Securities, CRIC the Company shall promptly give written notice of such GEI Demand to all Persons who may have piggyback registration rights with respect to such GEI Demand Registration and shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with to effect the SEC registration under the Securities Act and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement applicable state securities laws of:
(a “Demand Registration Statement”x) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC which the Company has been so requested to register for saleby such Persons in the GEI Demand, and
(y) all other Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to register by the Holders thereof by written request given to the Company within thirty (30) days after the giving of such written notice by the Company (which request shall specify the intended method of disposition of such Registrable Securities), all to the extent required requisite to permit the disposition (in accordance with the such intended method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Container Store Group, Inc.), Stockholders Agreement (Tindell William A), Stockholders Agreement (Container Store Group, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following If at any time prior to the fifth anniversary of ------------------- the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after of this Agreement the date hereof and upon receipt of Company shall receive from the Purchaser a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”Request") that the Company register on Form S-3 (or on Form S-1 if Form S-3 is not available to the Company) under the Securities Act covering all (or part of if such form is not available, any registration statement form then available to the Company) Registrable Securities, then the Company shall prepare and which notice shall specify file with the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, Commission as soon as reasonably practicable, but in no event later than forty-five (45) days after receipt of such written requestDemand Request, file with the SEC and a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") to effect such registration. The Company shall use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested specified in such Demand Request (the "Demand Registrable Securities") to become or be declared effective as soon as practicable. The Company shall provide copies of all correspondence to, and from, the Commission within twenty-four (24) hours after receipt, or delivery, as the case may be, of any such correspondence. Each such Demand Request shall: (a) include an initial request to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
having an aggregate offering value of not less than $10 million; (b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, specify the number of Demand Registrable Securities requested intended to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be offered and sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
Purchaser pursuant thereto; (c) Each express the present intention of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled Purchaser to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) offer or cause the offering of such Demand Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
Statement, (d) Notwithstanding anything to describe the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) nature or method of distribution of such Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder (including, in particular, whether the Purchaser plans to effect such distribution by means of an underwritten offering); (e) identify the proposed Demand Managing Underwriter, if any; and (iif) has remained contain the undertaking of the Purchaser to provide all such information and materials and take all such actions as may be required in order to permit the Company to comply with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules and Regulations of the Commission thereunder, and to obtain any desired acceleration of the effective for a period date of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Statement.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Finestar International LTD), Registration Rights Agreement (Artesyn Technologies Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Artesyn Technologies Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time after the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) 180 days after the closing of the Initial Public Offering (or in the case of the first Demand (as hereafter defined), such prior date hereof and upon receipt as would permit the Company to cause any filings required hereunder to be filed on such date or the first possible date thereafter), any Person that is a Stockholder (a “Requesting Stockholder”) on the date of such request shall be entitled to make a written request from of the Company (a Holder (such Holder“Demand”) for registration under the Securities Act of an amount of Registrable Securities that, when taken together with its Affiliatesthe amounts of Registrable Securities requested to be registered under the Securities Act by such Requesting Stockholder’s Affiliates and other Requesting Stockholders, equals or is greater than the “Exercising Holder”Registrable Amount (or such lesser amount as may be approved by both the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer) requesting that CRIC effect a registration on the date of such request (a “Demand Registration”) and thereupon the Company will, subject to the terms of this Agreement, use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement of:
(a “Demand Registration Statement”i) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC which the Company has been so requested to register by the Requesting Stockholders for saledisposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand, which may be an Underwritten Offering;
(ii) all other Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to register pursuant to Section 3.1(b); and
(iii) all shares of Common Stock which the Company may elect to register in connection with any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3.1, but subject to Section 3.1(f); all to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Common Stock, if any, to be so registered.
(b) If A Demand shall specify: (i) the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to the extent then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Stockholder (or Requesting Stockholders). Within 5 days after receipt of a Demand, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand to each other Person that on the date a Demand is delivered to the Company is a Stockholder. Subject to Section 3.1(f), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration relates covered by such Demand all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received a written request for inclusion therein (i) if a notice by the Company is required by this paragraph, within 5 days after such notice by the Company has been given, or (ii) if no notice by the Company is required by this paragraph, within 5 days after receipt by the Company of such Demand. Such written request shall comply with the requirements of a Demand as set forth in this Section 3.1(b).
(c) Each Stockholder shall be entitled to an underwritten unlimited number of Demand Registrations until such time as the Stockholders, together, Beneficially Own less than a Registrable Amount of the issued and outstanding Common Stock of the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to effect more than one Demand Registration per calendar year.
(d) Demand Registrations shall be on such appropriate registration form of the Commission as shall be selected by the Requesting Stockholders, including, to the extent permissible, an existing effective registration statement filed by the Company with the Commission, and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(e) The Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration (i) within three months of a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering in which all Stockholders were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to Section 3.2 (subject to Section 3.1(f)) and at least 50% of the number of Registrable Securities requested by such Stockholders to be included in such Demand Registration were included) or (ii) within three months of any other Demand Registration. In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Stockholders) for up to 120 days the filing or the effectiveness of a registration statement for any Demand Registration (but no more than twice in any period of 12 consecutive months) if the Board determines in good faith and in its reasonable judgment that the filing or effectiveness of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration would cause the disclosure of material, non-public offering and information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential. In the event of a postponement by the Company of the filing or effectiveness of a registration statement for a Demand Registration, the holders of a majority of Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Stockholder(s) shall have the right to withdraw such Demand in accordance with Section 3.4.
(f) The Company shall not include any securities other than Registrable Securities in a Demand Registration, except with the written consent of Stockholders participating in such Demand Registration that hold a majority of the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration. If, in connection with a Demand Registration, any managing underwriter of (or, if such proposed public offering Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, a nationally recognized independent investment bank selected by the Company advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder Company, in writing, that, in its reasonable opinion, the inclusion of all of the securities, including securities of the Company that are not Registrable Securities, sought to be registered in connection with such Demand Registration would adversely affect the marketability of the Registrable Securities sought to be sold pursuant thereto, then the Company shall include in such registration statement only such securities as the Company is advised by such underwriter or investment bank can be sold without such adverse effect as follows and in the following order of priority: (i) first, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 3.3 hereof, up to the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the such Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holderthe Stockholders, including any Holders other than which, in the Exercising Holder (such Holders, opinion of the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably underwriter can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, including pro rata among such Stockholders requesting such Demand Registration on the price at which basis of the number of such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in held by such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, Stockholders and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2by Stockholders that are Piggyback Sellers; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for second, securities the period set forth in Section 5(a) Company proposes to sell; and (iii) third, all other securities of the Company duly requested to be included in such registration statement, pro rata on the basis of the amount of such other securities requested to be included or such other method determined by the Company.
(g) Any time that a Demand Registration involves an Underwritten Offering, the Company shall select the investment banker or investment bankers and managers that will serve as lead and co-managing underwriters with respect to 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICSecurities.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Fuller Max L), Registration Rights Agreement (Us Xpress Enterprises Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Us Xpress Enterprises Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following The Holders shall have the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days right after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written IPO Date to request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration in writing (a “Demand Registration”"Request") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and (which notice request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested intended to be disposed of by such Holders and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC including in a Rule 415 Offering, if DSW is then eligible to register such Registrable Securities on Form S-3 (or a successor form) for such offering) that DSW register such portion of such Holders' Registrable Securities as shall use its best efforts tobe specified in the Request (a "Demand Registration") by filing with the Commission, as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable thereafter, but not later than the 30th day (or the 45th day if the applicable registration form is other than Form S-3) after the receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectivea Request by DSW, a registration statement (a “"Demand Registration Statement”") relating covering such Registrable Securities, and DSW shall use its best efforts to have such Demand Registration Statement declared effective by the Commission as soon as practicable thereafter, but in no event later than the 75th day (or the 90th day if the applicable registration form is other than Form S-3) after the receipt of such a Request, and to keep such Demand Registration Statement Continuously Effective for a period of at least twenty-four (24) months, in the case of a Rule 415 Offering, or, in all other cases, for a period of at least 180 days following the date on which such Demand Registration Statement is declared effective (or for such shorter period which will terminate when all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has covered by such Demand Registration Statement shall have been so requested to register for salesold pursuant thereto), including, if necessary, by filing with the Commission a post-effective amendment or a supplement to the extent Demand Registration Statement or the related prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or by filing any other required document or otherwise supplementing or amending the Demand Registration Statement, if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to permit the disposition registration form used by DSW for such Demand Registration Statement or by the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, any state securities or blue sky laws, or any rules and regulations thereunder; PROVIDED that such period during which the Demand Registration Statement shall remain Continuously Effective shall, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, be extended for such period (if any) as the underwriters shall reasonably require, including to satisfy, in accordance with the intended method or methods judgment of distribution thereof) of counsel to the Registrable Securities so registeredunderwriters, any prospectus delivery requirements imposed by applicable law.
(b) If the DSW shall not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and in any calendar year. For purposes of the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder thatpreceding sentence, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the a Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected (and, therefore, not requested for purposes of this Section 2(cparagraph (a) unless above), (i) it unless a Demand Registration Statement with respect thereto has been declared effective by the SECbecome effective, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in if after such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes become effective, such Demand Registration Statement the offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is interfered with prevented by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission or other governmental agency or court solely due for any reason not attributable to any Holder and such effect is not thereafter eliminated 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 or waived other than by reason of a failure on the part of any Holder. If DSW shall have complied with its obligations under ARTICLE IV, a right to a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.1 shall be deemed to have been satisfied upon the earlier of (x) the date as of which all of the Registrable Securities included therein shall have been sold to the actions underwriters or omissions distributed pursuant to act the Demand Registration Statement and (y) the date as of CRIC, which such Demand Registration Statement shall have been Continuously Effective for a period of at least twenty-four (24) months, in the case of a Rule 415 Offering, or, in all other cases, for a period of at least 180 days following the effectiveness of such Demand Registration Statement.
(c) Any request made pursuant to this Section 4.1 shall be at addressed to the attention of the secretary of DSW, and shall specify (i) the number of Registrable Securities to be registered (which shall be not less than the lesser of (x) 5% of the total number of Registrable Securities outstanding or (y) the remaining balance of the Registrable Securities then held by the Holders.
(d) DSW may not include in a Demand Registration pursuant to Section 4.1 hereof shares of DSW Capital Stock for the account of DSW or any subsidiary of DSW, but, if and to the extent required by a contractual obligation, may, subject to compliance with Section 4.1(e), include shares of DSW Capital Stock for the account of any other Person who holds shares of DSW Capital Stock entitled to be included therein; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the Underwriters' Representative of any offering described in this Section 4.1 shall have informed DSW in writing that in its judgment there is a Maximum Number of shares of DSW Capital Stock that all Holders and any other Persons desiring to participate in such Registration may include in such offering, then DSW shall include in such Demand Registration all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Holders together with up to such additional number of shares of DSW Capital Stock that any other Persons entitled to participate in such registration desire to include in such registration up to the Maximum Number that the Underwriters' Representative has informed DSW may be included in such registration without materially and adversely affecting the success or pricing of such offering; PROVIDED that the number of shares of DSW Capital Stock to be offered for the account of all such other Persons participating in such registration shall be reduced in a manner determined by DSW in its sole expense discretion.
(e) No Holder may participate in any Underwritten Offering under Section 4.1 hereof and no other Person shall be permitted to participate in any such offering pursuant to Section 4.1 hereof unless it completes and executes all customary questionnaires, powers of CRIC attorney, custody agreements, underwriting agreements and other customary documents required under the customary terms of such underwriting arrangements. In connection with any Underwritten Offering under Section 4.1 hereof, each participating Holder and DSW and, except in the case of a Rule 415 Offering hereof, each other Person shall be a party to the underwriting agreement with the underwriters and may be required to make certain customary representations and warranties and provide certain customary indemnifications for the benefits of the underwriters; PROVIDED that the Holders shall not be required to make representations and warranties with respect to DSW or their business and operations and shall not be included required to agree to any indemnity or contribution provisions less favorable to them than as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2are set forth herein.
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Samples: Master Separation Agreement (DSW Inc.), Master Separation Agreement (Retail Ventures Inc), Master Separation Agreement (DSW Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following Request by Holders. One or both of Holders may request that the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after Company register the date hereof and upon Registrable Securities. Upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Requesting Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration the Company register the Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Holder (a “Demand RegistrationRequest”), then the Company shall, within fifteen (15) days after receipt of such Demand Request, give written notice of such request (a “Request Notice”) under to the Securities Act covering all or part of other Holder, provided, however, that if both Holders jointly request that the Company register their Registrable Securities, and which notice then the Company shall have no obligation to deliver any such Request Notice. Each Demand Request shall (x) specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and that the Requesting Holders intend to sell or dispose of, (y) state the intended method or of methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after sale or disposition of the Registrable Securities and (z) specify the expected price range (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) acceptable to the Requesting Holders to be received for such Registrable Securities. Following receipt of such written requesta Demand Request, file with the SEC Company shall, subject to the limitations and conditions of Section 2.1(c) and Section 2.5:
(i) use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be declared effectivefiled, as soon as practicable, but within forty-five (45) days of the date of delivery to the Company of the Demand Request, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Statement covering such Registrable Securities that CRIC which the Company has been so requested to register by the Requesting Holder(s) and, if applicable, the other Holder who requests to the Company that his or its Registrable Securities be registered within ten (10) days of their receipt of the Request Notice, providing for sale, the registration under the Securities Act of such Registrable Securities to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include specified in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).Request; and
(cii) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed use commercially reasonable efforts to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been such Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC, SEC as soon as practicable thereafter and no later than ninety (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (790) days after the filing of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other such Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Mastech Digital, Inc.), Securities Purchase Agreement (Mastech Digital, Inc.), Securities Purchase Agreement (Mastech Digital, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (ai) Following Any Holder that holds any Registrable Securities shall have the date that is one hundred option and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of right, exercisable by delivering a written request from notice to Triangle (a “Demand Notice,” and the Holder (that delivers such Holder, together with its Affiliatesa Demand Notice, the “Exercising Initiating Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect ), to require Triangle to, pursuant to the terms of and subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, prepare and file with the Commission a registration Registration Statement registering the offering and sale of the number and type of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in the Demand Notice in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Demand Notice, which may include sales on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify ). The Demand Notice must set forth the number of Registrable Securities that the Initiating Holder intends to include in such Demand Registration. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event shall Triangle be required to effectuate a Demand Registration for which registration is requested and Registrable Securities having an aggregate value of less than $30 million based on the intended method or methods VWAP of distribution thereofsuch Registrable Securities as of the date of the Demand Notice.
(ii) Within five Business Days of the receipt of the Demand Notice, CRIC Triangle shall use its best efforts togive written notice of such Demand Notice to all Holders and, as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable thereafter, after receipt shall, subject to the limitations of such written requestthis Section 2(a), file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested the Holders shall in writing request (such request to register for sale, be given to Triangle within three days of receipt of such notice of the extent required Demand Notice given by Triangle pursuant to permit this Section 2(a)(ii)) to be included in such Demand Registration as promptly as practicable as directed by the disposition (Initiating Holder in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) terms and conditions of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates Notice and use all commercially reasonable efforts to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of cause such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and remain effective under the Securities Act until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(iii) Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, Triangle is not obligated hereunder to effect (A) more than two Demand Registrations in any 12 month period, (B) more than a total of five Demand Registrations pursuant to this Agreement and (C) a subsequent Demand Registration pursuant to a Demand Notice if a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities held by the Holders providing such Demand Notice shall have become effective under the Securities Act and remains effective under the Securities Act and is sufficient to permit offers and sales of the Holder included number and type of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in such the Demand Notice in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Demand Notice.
(iv) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2(a), Triangle shall not be required to effect a registration or file a Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (iior any amendment thereto) has remained effective for a period of up to 60 days, if (A) the Board determines that a postponement is in the best interest of Triangle and its stockholders generally due to a pending transaction involving Triangle, (B) the Board determines such registration would render Triangle unable to comply with applicable securities laws or (C) the Board determines such registration would require disclosure of material information that Triangle has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential (any such period, a “Blackout Period”); provided, however, that (i) in no event shall any Blackout Period together with any Suspension Period collectively exceed an aggregate of 120 days in any 12 month period, (ii) during any Blackout Period contemplated by Section 2(a)(iv)(B) or any Suspension Period, Triangle shall not engage in any transaction involving the offer, issuance, sale, or purchase of Triangle Securities (whether for the benefit of Triangle or a third Person), except transactions involving the issuance or purchase of Triangle Securities as contemplated by Triangle employee benefit plans or employee or director arrangements or in connection with the conversion or exercise of outstanding securities, including the Convertible Note, and (iii) during any Blackout Period contemplated by Section 2(a)(iv)(B) or (C) or any Suspension Period, Triangle shall not file a registration statement (or any amendment or supplement thereto) for any other holder of registration rights.
(v) Triangle may include in any such Demand Registration other Triangle Securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person; provided that if the managing underwriter, if any, for the Underwritten Offering determines that the type or number of Triangle Securities proposed to be offered in such offering would likely have an adverse effect in any material respect on the price, timing or distribution of the Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such offering, the Registrable Securities to be sold by the Holders shall be included in such registration before any Triangle Securities proposed to be sold for the account of Triangle or any other Person.
(vi) Subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, Triangle shall effect any Demand Registration on Form S-3 (except if Triangle is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case such Demand Registration shall be effected on another appropriate form for such purpose pursuant to the Securities Act) and if Triangle becomes, and is at least that specified in Section 5(athe time of its receipt of a Demand Notice, a WKSI, the Demand Registration for any offering and selling of Registrable Securities shall be effected pursuant to an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, which shall be on Form S-3 or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act (if available to Triangle); provided, however, that if after at any time a Registration Statement on Form S-3 is effective and a Holder provides written notice to Triangle that it intends to effect an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities included on such Registration Statement, Triangle will amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place.
(vii) Without limiting Section 3, in connection with any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 2 becomes effective2(a), Triangle shall, (A) promptly prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed (1) such additional forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents, as may be necessary or advisable to register or qualify the securities subject to such Demand Registration, including under the securities laws of such states as the Holders shall reasonably request; provided, however, that no such qualification shall be required in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, Triangle would become subject to general service of process or to taxation or qualification to do business in such jurisdiction solely as a result of registration and (2) such forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents as may be necessary to apply for listing or to list the Registrable Securities subject to such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by on the Trading Market and (B) do any stop order, injunction or and all other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC acts and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which things that may be reasonably necessary or appropriate or reasonably requested pursuant by the Holders to this Section 2enable the Holders to consummate a public sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Triangle Petroleum Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (NGP Natural Resources X, L.P.), Stock Purchase Agreement (Triangle Petroleum Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following If the date that Company is one hundred and eighty (180) unable to file within 75 days after the date hereof and upon receipt Closing, cause to be effective within 90 days thereafter or thereafter maintain the effectiveness of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its AffiliatesShelf Registration Statement during the Shelf Effective Period as required under Section 2.1, the Majority Investor Parties shall have the right, by delivering a written notice to the Company (a “Exercising HolderDemand Notice”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration ), to require the Company to register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act the number of Registrable Securities Beneficially Owned by the Investor Parties and requested by such Demand Notice to be so registered (a “Demand Registration”); provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.2(a) under after the Securities Act covering all or part Company has effected two (2) Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.2(a); and provided further, that the Investor Parties shall not be entitled to deliver to the Company more than two (2) Demand Registrations in any 12-month period and, in any event, a Demand Notice may only be made if the sale of the Registrable Securities, and which notice Securities requested to be registered by the Investor Parties includes at least 5% of the originally issued shares of the Registrable Securities issued upon conversion of Preferred Stock originally issued to Investor Parties or is reasonably expected to result in aggregate gross cash proceeds in excess of $1,000,000 (without regard to any underwriting discount or commission). A Demand Notice shall also specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended expected method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition of the applicable Registrable Securities. Following receipt of a Demand Notice, CRIC the Company shall use its best reasonable efforts toto file, as soon promptly as reasonably practicable, but not later than 30 days after receipt by the Company of such written requestDemand Notice, file a Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by the Investor Parties in accordance with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement methods of distribution elected by the Majority Investor Parties (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating and shall use its reasonable efforts to all of cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to Act as promptly as practicable after the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution filing thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If any of the Registrable Securities registered pursuant to a Demand Registration relates are to an be sold in a firm commitment underwritten public offering offering, and the managing underwriter underwriter(s) of such underwritten offering advise the Investor Parties in writing that it is their good faith opinion that the total number or dollar amount of Registrable Securities proposed public to be sold in such offering, together with any Other Securities proposed to be included by holders thereof which are entitled to include securities in such Registration Statement, exceeds the total number or dollar amount of such securities that can be sold without having an adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the Registrable Securities to be so included together with all such Other Securities, then there shall be included in such firm commitment underwritten offering advises CRIC the number or dollar amount of Registrable Securities and such Other Securities that in the Exercising Holder thatopinion of such managing underwriter(s) can be sold without so adversely affecting such offering, and such number of Registrable Securities and Other Securities shall be allocated for inclusion as follows:
(i) first, the Registrable Securities for which inclusion in its reasonable opinion, such underwritten offering was requested by any Investor Party based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in Beneficially Owned by such Investor Party; and
(ii) second, among any holders of Other Securities, pro rata, based on the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in Other Securities Beneficially Owned by each such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)Other Securities.
(c) Each In the event of a Demand Registration, the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, Company shall be entitled required to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by maintain the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of continuous effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand applicable Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 180 days after the effective date thereof or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement have actually been sold.
(d) The Majority Investor Parties shall have the right to notify the Company that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, it has determined that if after any the Registration Statement relating to a Demand Registration Statement requested be abandoned or withdrawn, in which event the Company shall promptly abandon or withdraw such Registration Statement. The Company shall not be required to pay for the expenses of the Investor Parties in connection with any registration proceeding begun pursuant to Section 2.2(a) that has been subsequently withdrawn pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective2.2(d) at the request of the Majority Investor Parties, unless the withdrawal is based upon material adverse information concerning the Company that the Company had not publicly disclosed at least two (2) Business Days prior to the Company’s receipt of such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement Notice.
(e) With the prior written consent of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and Majority Investor Parties (which consent shall not be included as unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), the Company shall be entitled to coordinate any offerings under this Section 2.2 with any offerings to be effected pursuant to similar agreements with the holders of Other Securities, including, if practicable, by filing one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested Registration Statement for any Registrable Securities being registered pursuant to this Section 22.2 and all Other Securities.
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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement (Bears Holding Sub, Inc.), Investor Rights Agreement (RTI Biologics, Inc.), Investment Agreement (RTI Biologics, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred On and eighty (180) days after the date hereof Registration Availability Date, the Securities Holder may make written request to the Company requesting that the Company register under the Securities Act all or any part of the issued and upon outstanding Registrable Securities, but such request may be made only after the Registrable Securities relating to such Shares have been issued (a “Demand Registration Request”). The Securities Holder is entitled to make a total of three Demand Registration Requests pursuant to this Agreement, but not more than one such request in any 12 month period. Upon receipt by the Company of a written valid Demand Registration Request, subject to the restrictions contained herein, the Company shall, in accordance with Article V below, (i) file a registration statement under the Securities Act with the Commission as promptly as practicable after receiving such request from to register under the Securities Act that number of Registrable Securities that has been issued and requested in the respective Demand Registration Request, 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”) as promptly as practicable after receiving such request hereof to register such number of Registrable Securities, but, in each case, only to the extent that the Securities Holder (such Holder, together has complied with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration obligations under Section 7.1 below (each a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered).
(b) If In the event that the Securities Purchase Agreement has been terminated pursuant to the terms thereof, the Securities Holder may make two written requests to the Company requesting that the Company register under the Securities Act the New Debt. The Company shall endeavor to register such New Debt in substantially the same manner as, and the Company and the Securities Holder shall be subject to the same terms, conditions and agreements herein provided for, a Demand Registration relates of Shares, with such appropriate changes to an underwritten public offering and reflect the managing underwriter nature of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder thatsecurity registered, in its reasonable opinionas the parties hereto shall agree, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)each acting reasonably.
(c) Each From and after the Debt Securities Lock-Up End Date (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement), (or if the Securities Holder has not acquired all of the E-House Holders Additional Shares and the Sina HoldersNew Exchange Common Stock by April 23, in each case2013, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate from and after the earlier of three (3a) registrations of Registrable six months after the Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it Holder has been declared effective by issued all of the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for Additional Shares and the period set forth in Section 5(a) New Exchanged Common Stock under the Securities Purchase Agreement and (iiib) such time after the offering Debt Securities Lock-Up End Date where the Securities Holder has agreed not to purchase any New Exchanged Common Stock or receive any Additional Shares for a period of Registrable six months), the Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of make three written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything requests to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following Company requesting that the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective Company register under the Securities Act the Rollover Notes and/or the Backstop Notes. The Company shall endeavor to register such Rollover Notes and/or Backstop Notes, as applicable, in substantially the same manner as, and any the Company and the Securities Holder shall be subject to the same terms, conditions and agreements herein provided for, a Demand Registration of Shares, with such appropriate changes to reflect the nature of the Registrable Securities of security registered, as the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); providedparties hereto shall agree, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2each acting reasonably.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (Central European Distribution Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following If at any time the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of Company shall receive a written request from (a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising HolderDemand Notice”) requesting from the Demand Committee that CRIC the Company effect a the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities specified in the Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration”) ), specifying the information set forth under Section 2.5(j), then the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as expeditiously as reasonably practicable, subject to the restrictions in Section 2.2(d), the registration under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which the Demand Committee has requested registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereofunder this Section 2.2, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered. The Demand Committee shall allocate participation in any Demand Registration ratably among Covered Persons in accordance with their Registrable Securities.
(b) At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Demand Committee may revoke such Demand Registration request by providing a notice to the Company revoking such request. The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration.
(c) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the sole or managing underwriter of such proposed public offering a Demand Registration advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, Company in writing that in its reasonable opinion, opinion the number of Registrable Securities and other securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of Registrable Securities and other securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offeringadversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, including the price at which that will be paid in such securities can be sold (offering or the “Maximum Offering Size” )marketability thereof, then CRIC shall the Company will include in such Demand Registration, up to registration the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights greatest number of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective Registrable Securities proposed to be registered by the SECholders thereof, (ii) it has remained effective for securities having Other Registration Rights that are pari passu with the period set forth demand rights granted in Section 5(a) respect of Registrable Securities hereunder proposed to be registered by the holders thereof and (iii) securities proposed to be registered by the Company for its own account which in the opinion of such underwriters can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, the price that will be paid in such offering or the marketability thereof, ratably among the holders of Registrable Securities, the holders of such Other Registration Rights and the Company, based (A) as between the Company and such holders requesting registration, on the respective amounts of securities requested to be registered, and (B) as among the holders requesting registration, on the respective amounts of Registrable Securities (whether requested to be registered pursuant to such registration is not Sections 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3) and securities subject to any stop ordersuch Other Registration Rights, injunction or other order or requirement of as the SECcase may be, held by each such holder; provided, however, that the Company shall have the right (the “Priority Right”) to receive priority over all holders of Registrable Securities in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a any Demand Registration request (which revocation may only to be made prior effected under this Section 2.2 with respect to CRIC securities that the Company proposes to include in such registration for its own account by giving written notice of its election to exercise such Priority Right to the holders of Registrable Securities requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICthereof.
(d) Notwithstanding anything Upon notice to the contrary contained hereinDemand Committee, CRIC shall the Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 2.2 on up to three occasions during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 120 days in the aggregate (which period may not be required to prepare and file extended or renewed), if (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements the Board shall determine in any twelve-month period, good faith that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Company the preparation of which had then been commenced or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date Company is in possession of effectiveness material non-public information the disclosure of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall which during the period specified in such notice the Board believes in good faith would not be deemed to have been effected unless in the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any best interests of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Company.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (FXCM Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (FXCM Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following If the date that is one hundred and eighty Company shall be requested in writing (180a “Demand Request”) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from by a Holder or Holders who beneficially own in the aggregate at least 2,500,000 Registrable Shares (such Holderas appropriately adjusted for any share split, together with its Affiliatescombination, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification, share dividend, share distribution or similar event), to effect a registration under the Securities Act of Registrable Shares in accordance with this Section 2 (a “Demand Registration”) under ), then the Securities Act covering all or part Company shall promptly give written notice of the Registrable Securitiessuch proposed registration to each other Holder, if any, and shall offer to include (subject to the terms of this Agreement) in such proposed registration any Registrable Shares requested to be included in such proposed registration by such other Holders who respond in writing to the Company’s notice within 10 days after delivery of such notice (which notice response shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is Shares proposed to be included in such registration). Such Demand Request shall specify the approximate number of Registrable Shares requested to be registered and the intended method of distribution. With respect to any Demand Registration, the requesting Holders may request the Company to effect a registration of the Registrable Shares under a registration statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (or methods of distribution thereofany successor rule) (a “Shelf Registration”). Subject to Section 2.2, CRIC the Company shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and promptly use its best efforts to cause effect such registration on an appropriate form (which shall be Form S-3, if at such time the Company is eligible to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”use such Form) relating to all under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities that CRIC Shares which the Company has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registeredregister.
(b) If the Company shall be requested in writing (a “Takedown Request”) by a Holder or Holders who beneficially own in the aggregate at least 2,500,000 Registrable Shares (as appropriately adjusted for any stock split, combination, reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification, share dividend, share distribution or similar event) to assist them in effecting an offering (a “Takedown Offering”) pursuant to a shelf registration statement that has previously been filed and declared effective pursuant to a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and Registration, then the managing underwriter Company shall promptly give written notice of such proposed public offering advises CRIC Takedown Offering to each other Holder that is eligible to sell Shares pursuant to such effective Shelf Registration and shall offer to include, subject to the Exercising terms of this Agreement, any Shares of such other Holder that, that are registered in its reasonable opinion, such effective Shelf Registration to the extent so requested by such other Holder in writing within 3 Business Days after delivery of such notice (which request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities requested Shares proposed to be included by such Holders in such Takedown Offering. The Takedown Request shall specify the number of Shares to be included in such Takedown Offering and the intended method of distribution. Subject to Section 2.2, the Company shall promptly use its best efforts to cooperate with the Holders and any managing underwriter(s) to effect such Takedown Offering
(a) The Company shall not be obligated to file:
(i) a Demand Registration (including securities A) within 60 days after the effective date of a previous Demand Registration, or (B) within 180 days (or, if determined to be necessary pursuant to the IPO Underwriting Agreement within 214 days) after the effective date of the IPO Registration Statement;
(ii) a Demand Registration unless the Demand Request is for a number of Registrable Shares with a market value that is equal to at least $50 million as of the date of such Demand Request; and
(iii) more than three Demand Registrations during any 12-month period thereafter;
(b) The Company shall not be obligated to file or cause to be declared effective any registration statement, or assist the Holders in connection with any Takedown Offering pursuant to a Shelf Registration that has been previously filed and declared effective pursuant to a Demand Registration, during any period in which (i) any other registration statement (other than on Form S-4 or Form S-8 promulgated under the Securities Act or any successor forms thereto) (A) pursuant to which Primary Shares are to be sold by CRIC has been filed within the prior 90 days and not withdrawn or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”B) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of which Primary Shares were sold within the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period90 days, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty the Company has determined in good faith that the disclosure requirements of a registration statement (180including in connection with a proposed Takedown Offering) days following would require the disclosure of material non-public information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, such filing to be delayed until the date that is 90 days after the receipt of such Demand Request; provided, that the Company may only so delay the filing or effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested a registration statement, or the assistance with respect to a Takedown Offering, pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed 2.1(b)(ii) on one occasion during any twelve month period; and
(c) With respect to have been effected unless a Demand Registration, the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included Company may include in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a)registration any Primary Shares or Other Shares; provided, however, that if after a managing underwriter in respect of any proposed underwritten offering to be made pursuant to such Demand Registration Statement requested (including any Takedown Offering) advises the Company in writing that the inclusion of all Registrable Shares, Primary Shares and Other Shares proposed to be included in such proposed underwritten offering would adversely affect the successful marketing (including pricing) of all such securities, then the number of Registrable Shares, Primary Shares and Other Shares proposed to be included in such proposed underwritten offering shall be included in the following order:
(i) First, the Registrable Shares held by all Selling Holders, pro rata based upon the number of Registrable Shares owned by each such Selling Holder at the time of such registration;
(ii) Second, the Primary Shares; and
(iii) Third, the Other Shares.
2.3. The Holder or Holders submitting a Demand Request or Takedown Request may specify in such Demand Request or Takedown Request that such registration (or that any Takedown Offering) cover an underwritten offering. Upon such election, such Holder shall select one or more nationally recognized investment banks to act as the managing underwriters and shall select any additional investment banks to be used in connection with such offering, provided that such selection shall be subject to the consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Company shall, together with Selling Holders, enter into a customary underwriting agreement with such underwriters.
2.4. A Demand Registration may be rescinded by written notice to the Company by the Selling Holders holding a majority of the Registrable Shares to be included in such registration under the following circumstances:
(i) If such Demand Registration is rescinded prior to the date of the initial filing of the related registration statement, such rescinded Demand Registration shall not count as a Demand Registration initiated pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, for purposes of Section 2.2(a); and
(ii) If such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement rescinded after the date of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due initial filing of the related registration statement but prior to the actions or omissions to act of CRICits effective date, such rescinded Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included count as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested a registration statement initiated pursuant to this Section 2 for purposes of Section 2.1(a) if the Selling Holders (x) have reimbursed the Company for all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Company in connection with such rescinded Demand Registration or (y)
(1) reasonably believed that the registration statement contained an untrue statement of material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements made therein not misleading, (2) notified the Company of such fact and requested that the Company correct such alleged misstatement or omission and (3) the Company has refused to correct such alleged misstatement or omission.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (OneBeacon Insurance Group, Ltd.), Registration Rights Agreement (OneBeacon Insurance Group, Ltd.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time and from time to time beginning on the date first anniversary after the Plan Effective Date, any Holder or group of Holders may request in writing (“Demand Registration Request”) that is the Company effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and shall 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 and eighty (180) days after preceding the date hereof and upon receipt such Demand Registration Request is made; and
(D) if the number of Demand Registration Requests previously made pursuant to this Section 5(a) shall equal or exceed three (3); provided, however that a written request from a Holder Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, D) unless the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under requested Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Securities Act covering all or part Commission for more than 75% of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number full amount of Registrable Securities for which registration is 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 method or methods means of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with distribution. If at the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “time the Demand Registration Statement”) relating Request is made the Company appears, based on public information available to all such Holder or Holders, eligible to use Form S-3 for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities Securities, the Holder or Holders making such request may request that CRIC has been so requested the registration be in the form of a Shelf Registration Statement (for the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall not be under the obligation to register for salefile 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 amending (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 of distribution thereofdisposition 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 that the 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.
(bd) If the Within ten (10) days after receiving a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and Request, the managing underwriter Company shall give written notice of such proposed public offering advises CRIC request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the Exercising Holder thatprovisions of Section 6(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in its reasonable opinionsuch 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 number offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)manner so requested.
(ce) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled The Company will use its reasonable efforts to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to keep a Registration Statement that has become effective as contemplated by this Section 2; provided5 continuously effective, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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 SECCommission:
(A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement, but 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, until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due Commission relating to any Shelf Registration Statement, if any Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement remain unsold, the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, period during which such Demand 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 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 sole expense option of CRIC 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 be included include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registrations which may Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) the requested registration that has been revoked will be requested deemed to have been effected for purposes of Section 5(a).
(g) If a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 24 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 “takedown” shall equal at least twenty-five percent (25%) of all Registrable Securities outstanding at such time or (ii) the Registrable Securities requested to be sold by the Holders in such “takedown” shall have an anticipated aggregate offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of at least $40 million.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Monitronics International Inc), Registration Rights Agreement
Demand Registration. (ai) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt The holders of a written request from a Holder majority of the then-outstanding Registrable Securities (such Holderthe “Initiating Holders”) shall have the right to require the Company to effect registrations of the Registrable Securities on Form S-1 (or successor form thereto promulgated by the SEC) under the Securities Act and, together with its Affiliates(ii) if available, the “Exercising Holder”holders of at least 20% or more of the total number of Registrable Securities then outstanding will have the right to require the Company to file registrations having a proposed aggregate offering price of not less than $500,000 in each such registration on Form S-3 (or successor form thereto promulgated by the SEC) requesting that CRIC effect a registration under the Securities Act (any such registration, a “Demand Registration”) under ); provided that the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) a registration statement on Form S-3 pursuant to such demand registration rights more than once in any twelve (12) month period. Upon receipt of any request for a Demand Registration, the Company shall give prompt written notice of such request to each Reg Rights Holder, and shall include in such Demand Registration all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within thirty (30) days after the delivery of the Company’s notice.
(ii) If other securities are included in any Demand Registration that is not an underwritten offering, all Registrable Securities included in such offering shall be sold prior to the sale of any such other securities. If other securities are included in any Demand Registration that is an underwritten offering, and the managing underwriter for such offering advises the Company that in its opinion the number of securities to be included exceeds the number of securities which can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the marketability thereof, any Shares to be sold by the Company in such offering shall have priority, and the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration shall be reduced on a pro rata basis based on the percentage of the Shares to be included in such registration held by each Reg Rights Holder (or former holder as the case may be); provided, however, that the number of shares of Registrable Securities to be included in such underwriting and registration shall not be reduced unless all securities of the Company other than Registrable Securities are first entirely excluded from such underwriting and registration. Any Registrable Securities excluded or withdrawn from such underwriting shall be withdrawn from the registration.
(iii) The Company shall have the right to select the investment banker(s) and manager(s) to administer any Demand Registration that is an underwritten offering, subject to the approval of the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be included in such Demand Registration. If, as a result of inclusion of Shares in any Demand Registration, the holders of the Registrable Securities are unable to sell at least 90% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration, such registration shall not count as one of the Demand Registrations afforded the holders of Registrable Securities under this Section 7(a).
(iv) The Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 7(a):
(A) prior to the earlier of (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month periodthe third anniversary of the date of this Agreement, or (ii2) any Demand Registration Statement within one one-hundred and eighty (180) days following the effective date of effectiveness the registration statement pertaining to the Company’s first firm commitment underwritten public offering of any other Registration Statement.its Common Shares registered under the Securities Act (the “Initial Offering”);
(eB) A Demand Registration requested after the Company has effected two (2) registrations pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to 7(a), and such registrations have been effected unless declared or ordered effective;
(C) if the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under Reg Rights Holders, together with the Securities Act and holders of any other securities of the Company entitled to inclusion in such registration, propose to sell Registrable Securities and such other securities (if any) at an aggregate price to the public of less than five million dollars ($5,000,000);
(D) during the Holder included in such Demand period starting with the date of filing of, and ending on the date ninety (90) days following the effective date of a non-Initial Offering registration statement, other than pursuant to a Special Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a)Statement; provided, however, that the Company makes a reasonable good faith effort to effect such registration as soon thereafter as practicable;
(E) if after any Demand within thirty (30) days of receipt of a written request from the Reg Rights Holders pursuant to Section 7(a)(i), the Company gives notice to the Reg Rights Holders of the Company’s intention to file a registration statement for a public offering, other than pursuant to a Special Registration Statement requested Statement, within sixty (60) days of the time of request; or
(F) if the Company shall furnish to the Reg Rights Holders requesting a registration statement pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective7(a), such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with a certificate signed by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement the Chairman of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due Board stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, it would be seriously detrimental to the actions or omissions Company and its stockholders for such registration statement to act be effected at such time, in which event the Company shall have the right to defer such filing for a period of CRICnot more than ninety (90) days after receipt of the request of the Initiating Holders; provided, however, that such Demand Registration Statement right to delay a request shall be at exercised by the sole expense Company not more than once in any twelve (12) month period. A registration shall be counted for purposes this Section 7(a)(iv) only if (x) not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of CRIC and shall not all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration are included in such registration, and (y) such registration statement has been declared effective by the SEC (unless the Reg Rights Holders initiating such registration withdraw their request for such registration (other than as one a result of information concerning the business or financial condition of the Demand Registrations Company which may be requested is made known to the Reg Rights Holders after the date on which such registration was requested) and elect not to pay the registration expenses therefor pursuant to this Section 27(c).
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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Syncardia Systems Inc), Stockholders Agreement (Syncardia Systems Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) Commencing 120 days after the date hereof Closing Date, each Holder shall have the right, subject to the terms of this Agreement, to require the Company to register for offer and upon receipt sale under the Securities Act all or a portion of a written request from a the Registrable Securities then owned by such Holder subject to the requirements and limitations in this Section 5.1. In order to exercise such right, the Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Demanding Holder”) must give written notice to the Company (a “Demand Notice”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) the Company register under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, offer and which notice shall specify the number sale of Registrable Securities for which registration (i) having a market value on the date the Demand Notice is requested and received (the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration StatementDate”) relating of at least $500 million based on the then prevailing market price, or (ii) representing at least 10% of the outstanding Common Stock (on a fully diluted basis) or (iii) as to Vivendi and its Controlled Affiliates, representing all of the Registrable Securities then held by Vivendi and its Controlled Affiliates. Upon receipt of the Demand Notice, the Company shall (i) promptly notify the other Holders, as well as any other Person that CRIC has been so requested is entitled to register for salesell securities pursuant to such Registration and this Agreement, of the receipt of such Demand Notice, (ii) prepare and file with the Commission as soon as practicable and in no event later than 90 days after the Demand Date a Demand Registration Statement relating to the extent required offer and sale of the Applicable Securities on any available form agreed to permit by the disposition Demanding Holder and the Company for which the Company then qualifies (which may include a “shelf” Registration Statement under Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act solely for use in connection with delayed underwritten offerings under Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act) and (iii) use reasonable efforts to cause such Demand Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as practicable. The Company shall use reasonable efforts to have each Demand Registration Statement remain effective until the earlier of (i) one year (in accordance with the intended method case of a shelf Demand Registration Statement) or methods 60 days (in the case of distribution thereofany other Demand Registration Statement) from the Effective Time of such Registration Statement and (ii) such time as all of the Registrable Applicable Securities so registeredhave been disposed of by the Electing Holders.
(b) If The Company shall have the right to postpone (or, if necessary or advisable, withdraw) the filing, or to delay the effectiveness, of a Registration Statement or offers and sales of Applicable Securities registered under a shelf Demand Registration relates Statement if a majority of the Independent Directors (as defined in the Company’s bylaws) of the Company determines in good faith that the sale of Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement (i) would interfere with any pending financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other corporate transaction involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) would require disclosure of any event or condition that such directors determine would be disadvantageous for the Company to disclose and which the Company is not otherwise required to disclose at such time, or (iii) would otherwise be materially detrimental to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and furnishes to the Electing Holders a copy of a resolution of the such Independent Directors setting forth such determination; provided, however, that no single postponement shall exceed 120 days in the aggregate. The Company shall advise the Electing Holders of any such determination as promptly as practicable.
(c) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 5.1, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action under this Section 5.1:
(i) with respect to more than four (4) Demand Registration Statements relating to underwritten offerings which have become effective and which covered all the Registrable Securities requesting to be included therein; or
(ii) with respect to more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements which have become and remained effective as required by this Agreement in a twenty-four month period.
(d) The Company may include in any registration requested pursuant to Section 5.1(a) hereof other securities for sale for its own account or for the account of another Person, subject to the following sentence. In connection with an underwritten public offering and offering, if the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC the Company and the Exercising Holder that, Electing Holders that in its reasonable opinion, good faith view the number of Registrable Securities securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) registered exceeds the largest maximum number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such materially adversely affecting the pricing, timing or likely success of the offering (with respect to any offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” Number”), then CRIC the Company shall include such Maximum Number in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, Registration Statement as follows: (i) first, the Registrable Applicable Securities requested to be registered by the Exercising Holder proposes to registerDemanding Holder, (ii) second, the Registrable Applicable Securities requested to be included by any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to registerother Electing Holders, and if any, (iii) third, any securities CRIC proposes proposed to register be included by the Company and (iv) fourth, any other securities with respect requested to be included in such Registration Statement. For purposes of this Agreement, an “underwritten offering” shall be an offering pursuant to which any securities are sold to a broker-dealer or other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)financial institution or group thereof for resale by them to investors.
(ce) Each of The Demanding Holder shall have the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, right to withdraw its Demand Notice (in each case, collectively, which case such Demand Notice shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed never to have been effected given for purposes of this Section 2(c5.1(a) unless or Section 5.1(c)) (i) it at any time prior to the time the Demand Registration Statement has been declared or becomes effective if the Demanding Holder reimburses the Company for the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the SECit prior to such withdrawal in effecting such Registration, (ii) it has remained effective for upon the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) issuance by the offering Commission or any court or other governmental agency or authority of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any a stop order, injunction or other order which prohibits or requirement of interferes with such Registration, (iii) if the SEC; provided, however, that conditions to closing specified in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days registration are not satisfied other than as a result of written request therefor default by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month periodDemanding Holder, or (iiiv) if the Company exercises any of its rights under Section 5.1(b) of this Agreement. If the Holders withdraw a Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested Notice pursuant to this Section 2 5.1(e) and the Company nevertheless decides to continue with the Registration as to securities other than the Applicable Securities, then the Holders shall not be deemed entitled to have been effected unless participate in such Registration pursuant to Section 5.2 hereof, but in such case the Demand Intended Offering Notice must be given to the Holders at least 10 business days prior to the anticipated filing date of the Registration Statement relating thereto and the Holders shall be required to give the Piggyback Notice no later than five business days after the Company’s delivery of such Intended Offering Notice.
(if) has become effective under the Securities Act and If any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective5.1 shall relate to an underwritten offering, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement each of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due Demanding Holder and the Company shall select a joint lead managing underwriter reasonably acceptable to the actions or omissions to act of CRICother party, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and which consent shall not be included as one unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, and the right of any other Holder to participate therein shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to underwriting agreements and arrangements required by this Section 2Agreement.
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Samples: Business Combination Agreement (Activision Inc /Ny), Investor Agreement (Activision Blizzard, Inc.)
Demand Registration. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, and in addition to its obligations under Section 3(a) hereinabove, the Company shall:
(ai) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a the Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC the Company effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and Securities held by such Holder which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and specifies the intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts toas expeditiously as is possible, as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event no later than 90 days after receipt of such a written requestrequest for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effectiveeffective as soon as reasonably practicable, a registration statement (a “"Demand Registration Statement”") relating to all shares of the Registrable Securities that CRIC which the Company has been so requested to register by the Holder for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(bii) If the Company is eligible to use Form S-3, any Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and Statement may be required by the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in an appropriate form under the Demand Registration (including securities Securities Act relating to be sold by CRIC any or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number all of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent in accordance with the rights methods and distribution set forth in the Form S-3 and Rule 415 under the Securities Act (the "Shelf Registration"). Any such demand to file a Form S-3 shall require the use of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, one Demand Registration. The Holder shall be entitled to an aggregate of two registrations of Registrable Securities.
(iii) The Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 3:
(1) pursuant to a written opinion of counsel for the Company, all the Registrable Securities can be sold pursuant to Rule 144 in any three month period (3such date being the "144 Sale Date"); or
(2) registrations during the period starting with the date 45 days prior to the Company's estimated date of filing of, and ending on the date 90 days immediately following the effective date of, any registration statement pertaining to an underwritten public offering of newly issued securities of the Company with respect to which the Holder has the right to request inclusion of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided3, provided that a registration requested pursuant the Company is actively employing in good faith commercially reasonable efforts to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to cause such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICbecome effective.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Digital Lifestyles Group Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Digital Lifestyles Group Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its AffiliatesEffective Date, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration Selling Shareholder shall have the right to request in writing (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested intended to be disposed of and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt ) that the Company register any and all of such written request, file the Selling Shareholder’s Registrable Securities by filing with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement covering such Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating ). Upon the receipt of such a request, the Company shall, not later than the 45th calendar day after the receipt of such a request, cause to all be filed a Demand Registration Statement providing for the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities that CRIC which the Company has been so requested to register for saleby the Selling Shareholder, to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofthereof specified in such request, and shall use its best efforts to have such Demand Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC or otherwise become effective as soon as practicable thereafter (but in no event later than the 75th calendar day after the receipt of such a request) of and to keep such Demand Registration Statement continuously effective for 120 calendar days following the date on which such Demand Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC or has otherwise become effective or such shorter period terminating when all the Registrable Securities so registeredcovered by such Demand Registration Statement have been sold pursuant thereto (including, if necessary, by filing with the SEC a post-effective amendment or a supplement to the Demand Registration Statement or the related prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or by filing any other required document or otherwise supplementing or amending the Demand Registration Statement, if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form under the Securities Act used by the Company for such Demand Registration Statement or by the Securities Act, any state securities or “blue sky” laws, or any other rules and regulations thereunder).
(b) If the A Demand Registration relates Statement shall be deemed not to an underwritten public offering have become effective (and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, related registration shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall deemed not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(ceffected) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained SEC or otherwise becomes effective for as provided by the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SECAct; provided, however, that in if, after it has been declared (or becomes) effective, the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness offering of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court solely due (other than any such stop order or injunction issued as a result of the inclusion in such Demand Registration Statement of any information supplied in writing to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, Company for inclusion therein by the Selling Shareholder) such Demand Registration Statement shall be deemed not to have become effective.
(c) The Selling Shareholder may only make five demands under Section 2(a). Any demand by the Selling Shareholder under Section 2(a) shall be for the registration of at least (i) 5% of the total number of Common Shares of the Company outstanding at the sole expense of CRIC time such demand is made; and shall not be (ii) the aggregate public offering price for the Registrable Securities included as one in such demand (based on the closing sale price of the Common Shares on the NYSE, or such other exchange or market on which the Common Shares are principally listed or quoted, if the Common Shares cease to be listed on the NYSE, on the last trading day prior to the delivery of the request) shall be at least $250,000,000.
(d) If the Selling Shareholder desires to sell Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering pursuant to a Demand Registrations Registration Statement filed under this Section 2, the underwriter(s), including the managing underwriter(s), shall be selected by the Selling Shareholder, which may underwriter(s) and managing underwriter(s) shall be requested reasonably satisfactory to the Company.
(e) No other Person, including the Company or any subsidiary of the Company, shall be permitted to offer securities under any Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 22 unless the Selling Shareholder consents in writing.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Alcon Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Alcon Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days If at any time after the six month anniversary date hereof and upon receipt of this Agreement, Micron shall receive from TI a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”"DEMAND REQUEST") that Micron register on Form S-3 under the Securities Act covering all (or part if such form is not available, any registration statement form then available to Micron) Registrable Securities equal to at least two percent (2%) of the Registrable SecuritiesVoting Securities of Micron outstanding on the date of such Demand Request, and which notice then Micron shall specify use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, specified in such Demand Request (THE "DEMAND REGISTRABLE SECURITIES") to be registered as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable so as to permit the offering and sale thereof and, in connection therewith, shall prepare and file with the SEC as soon as practicable after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectiveDemand Request, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”"DEMAND REGISTRATION STATEMENT") relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of effect such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in each such Demand Request shall: (i) specify the event the Exercising Holder revokes a number of Demand Registration request Registrable Securities intended to be offered and sold by TI pursuant thereto (which revocation may only number of Demand Registrable Securities shall not be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness less than two percent (2%) of the registration statementVoting Securities of Micron outstanding on the date of such Demand Request); (ii) then express the present intention of TI to offer or cause the offering of such Demand Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless Statement, (iii) describe the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with nature or method of distribution of such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything Registrable Securities pursuant to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any such Demand Registration Statement within one hundred (including, in particular, whether TI plans to effect such distribution by means of an underwritten offering); and eighty (180iv) days following contain the undertaking of TI to provide all such information and materials and take all such actions as may be required in order to permit Micron to comply with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder, and to obtain any desired acceleration of the effective date of effectiveness of any other such Demand Registration Statement.
(eb) A The procedures to be followed by Micron and TI, and the respective rights and obligations of Micron and TI, with respect to the preparation, filing and effectiveness of Demand Registration requested Statements and the distribution of Demand Registrable Securities pursuant to Demand Registration Statements under this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified 4.1 are set forth in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 24.4 hereof.
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Samples: Acquisition Agreement (Texas Instruments Inc), Acquisition Agreement (Micron Technology Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is At any time and from time to time beginning one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt Plan Effective Date, any Holder or group of a written Holders may request from a Holder in writing (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising HolderDemand Registration Request”) requesting that CRIC the Company effect a the registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and shall 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 percent (20%) of all Registrable Securities at such time or (ii) the Registrable Securities, 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 which notice commission) of at least $25 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 specify have previously been initially declared effective by the Commission within the one hundred eighty (180) days preceding the date such Demand Registration Request is made; and
(D) if the number of Demand Registration Requests previously made pursuant to this Section 5(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 for which registration is 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 method or methods means of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with distribution. If at the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “time the Demand Registration Statement”) relating Request is made the Company appears, based on public information available to all such Holder or Holders, eligible to use Form S-3 for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities Securities, the Holder or Holders making such request may request that CRIC has been so requested the registration be in the form of a Shelf Registration Statement (for the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall not be under the obligation to register for salefile 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 amending (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 of distribution thereofdisposition 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 that the 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.
(bd) If the Within ten (10) days after receiving a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and Request, the managing underwriter Company shall give written notice of such proposed public offering advises CRIC request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the Exercising Holder thatprovisions of Section 6(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in its reasonable opinionsuch 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 number offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)manner so requested.
(ce) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled The Company will use its reasonable efforts to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to keep a Registration Statement that has become effective as contemplated by this Section 2; provided5 continuously effective, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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 SECCommission:
(A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement, but 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, until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due Commission relating to any Shelf Registration Statement, if any Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement remain unsold, the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, period during which such Demand 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 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 sole expense option of CRIC 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 be included include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registrations which may Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) the requested registration that has been revoked will be requested deemed to have been effected for purposes of Section 5(a).
(g) If a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 24 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 “takedown” shall equal at least twenty percent (20%) of all Registrable Securities at such time or (ii) the Registrable Securities requested to be sold by the Holders in such “takedown” shall have an anticipated aggregate offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of at least $25 million.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (Linn Energy, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a the Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC E-House effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC E-House shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC E-House has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC E-House and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC E-House or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) holder exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC E-House shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and thirdsecond, any securities CRIC E-House proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC E-House shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b2.1(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, The Holder shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 22.1; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 2.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c2.1(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a2.4(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC E-House requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICE-House.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC E-House shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements Statement in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 2.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a2.4(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 2.1 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRICE-House, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC E-House and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 22.1.
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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement (E-House (China) Holdings LTD), Investor Rights Agreement (Sina Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred On and eighty (180) days after the date hereof Registration Availability Date, the Securities Holder may make written request to the Company requesting that the Company register under the Securities Act all or any part of the issued and upon outstanding Registrable Securities, but such request may be made only after the Registrable Securities relating to such Shares have been issued (a “Demand Registration Request”). The Securities Holder is entitled to make a total of three Demand Registration Requests pursuant to this Agreement, but not more than one such request in any 12 month period. Upon receipt by the Company of a written valid Demand Registration Request, subject to the restrictions contained herein, the Company shall, in accordance with Article V below, (i) file a registration statement under the Securities Act with the Commission as promptly as practicable after receiving such request from to register under the Securities Act that number of Registrable Securities that has been issued and requested in the respective Demand Registration Request, 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”) as promptly as practicable after receiving such request hereof to register such number of Registrable Securities, but, in each case, only to the extent that the Securities Holder (such Holder, together has complied with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration obligations under Section 7.1 below (each a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered).
(b) If In the event that the Securities Purchase Agreement has been terminated pursuant to the terms thereof, the Securities Holder may make two written requests to the Company requesting that the Company register under the Securities Act the New Debt. The Company shall endeavor to register such New Debt in substantially the same manner as, and the Company and the Securities Holder shall be subject to the same terms, conditions and agreements herein provided for, a Demand Registration relates of Shares, with such appropriate changes to an underwritten public offering and reflect the managing underwriter nature of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder thatsecurity registered, in its reasonable opinionas the parties hereto shall agree, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)each acting reasonably.
(c) Each of From and after the EDebt Securities Lock-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three Up End Date (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that as defined in the event Securities Purchase Agreement), the Exercising Securities Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of make three written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything requests to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following Company requesting that the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective Company register under the Securities Act the Rollover Notes and/or the Backstop Notes. The Company shall endeavor to register such Rollover Notes and/or Backstop Notes, as applicable, in substantially the same manner as, and any the Company and the Securities Holder shall be subject to the same terms, conditions and agreements herein provided for, a Demand Registration of Shares, with such appropriate changes to reflect the nature of the Registrable Securities of security registered, as the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); providedparties hereto shall agree, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2each acting reasonably.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Central European Distribution Corp), Securities Purchase Agreement (Central European Distribution Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following After the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof Lockup Expiration Date and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC the Company effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part at least 200,000 ordinary shares of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and requested, the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts toCompany shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 5 below) after receipt of such written request, 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 of the Registrable Securities that CRIC the Company has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC the Company and the Exercising such Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC the Company or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the within an acceptable price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” )range, then CRIC the Company shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, Registration first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising such Holder proposes to register, and thirdsecond, any securities CRIC the Company proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC The Company shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b3(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three two (32) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 23; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a6(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one two (12) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty ninety (18090) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Sina Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Sina Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time and from time to time on or following the date hereof, any Holder or group of Holders may request in writing (“Demand Registration Request”) that is the Company effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such 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 (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 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 and eighty (180) days after preceding the date hereof and upon receipt such 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 written request from a Holder Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, D) unless the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under requested Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Securities Act covering all or part Commission for more than 75% of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number full amount of Registrable Securities for which registration is 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 amount of Registrable Securities requested to be registered, (iii) the total amount of Registrable Securities then beneficially owned by such Holder or Holders, and (iv) the intended method or methods means of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with distribution. If at the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “time the Demand Registration Statement”) relating Request is made the Company appears, based on public information available to all such Holder or Holders, eligible to use Form S-3 for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities Securities, the Holder or Holders making such request may request that CRIC has been so requested the registration be in the form of a Shelf Registration Statement (for the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall not be under the obligation to register for salefile 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 (a) hereof by amending (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 of distribution thereofdisposition 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 that the 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.
(bd) If the Within ten (10) days after receiving a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and Request, the managing underwriter Company shall give written notice of such proposed public offering advises CRIC request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the Exercising Holder thatprovisions of Section 5(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in its reasonable opinionsuch 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 number offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)manner so requested.
(ce) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled The Company will use its reasonable efforts to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to keep a Registration Statement that has become effective as contemplated by this Section 2; provided4 continuously effective, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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 SECCommission:
(A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement, but 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, until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due Commission relating to any Shelf Registration Statement, if any Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement remain unsold, the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, period during which such Demand 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 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 sole expense option of CRIC 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 be included include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registrations which may Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) the requested registration that has been revoked will be requested deemed to have been effected for purposes of Section (a).
(g) If a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 24 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 “takedown” shall equal 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 in such “takedown” shall have an anticipated aggregate offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of 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. (ai) Following Subject to the date provisions hereof, at any time after Closing Date but solely during any period that Talen is one hundred and eighty (180) days after then ineligible under applicable law to register Registrable Securities on the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such HolderShelf Registration Statement or, together if Talen is so eligible but has failed to comply with its Affiliatesobligations under Section 4(a) of this Agreement, RJS shall have the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect right to require Talen to file a registration Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of the Registrable Securities of RJS under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify by delivering a written request therefor to Talen (A) specifying the number of Registrable Securities for which to be included in such registration is requested and by RJS, (B) specifying whether the intended method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as and (C) containing all information about RJS required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as reasonably practicable, practicable after the receipt of such written requestdemand, file with the SEC and Talen shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be declared effective, a effect such registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”including appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC Talen has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition register.
(in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofii) The offering of the Registrable Securities so registeredpursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an Underwritten Offering; provided, however, that (A) any such Underwritten Offering shall be for no fewer than the number of shares of Talen Common Stock representing the lesser of (x) $100 million or (y) all of the shares of Talen Common Stock owned by RJS as of the date of such request and (B) Talen will not be obligated to effect more than one Underwritten Offering in any six (6) month period. In such case, (A) RJS may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, with the consent of Talen, not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed and (B) Talen and RJS shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings by a selling holder of equity securities with the managing underwriter(s) proposing to distribute their securities through such Underwritten Offering, which underwriting agreement shall have indemnification provisions in substantially the form as set forth in Section 4(j) of this Agreement; provided that, (x) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, Talen to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of RJS, (y) RJS shall not be required to make any representations and warranties to, or agreements with, any underwriter in a registration other than customary representations, warranties and agreements and (z) unless otherwise agreed by RJS, the liability of RJS in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation arising under such underwriting agreement (1) shall be limited to losses arising out of or based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in such Registration Statement, any such preliminary prospectus, final prospectus, summary prospectus, amendment or supplement, incorporated document or other such disclosure document or other document or report, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to Talen by or on behalf of RJS expressly for inclusion therein and (2) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to RJS (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by RJS pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. Talen shall not be obligated to effect such Underwritten Offering (A) unless RJS agrees to sell its Registrable Securities on the basis provided in such underwriting agreement and completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting agreement, (B) during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering of Registrable Securities or (C) during any blackout period pursuant to Section 4(h).
(biii) If A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as an Underwritten Offering unless at least 75% of the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold offering by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold RJS are included in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include and Talen has complied in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect to which any other security holder has requested registrationthereto. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
If (cA) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration offering requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall 4(b) is deemed not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless as an Underwritten Offering or (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iiiB) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration Underwritten Offering requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall 4 does not be deemed to have been effected unless remain continuously effective until the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto earlier of forty-five (i45) has become effective under days after the Securities Act and any commencement of the distribution by RJS of the Registrable Securities covered by such Underwritten Offering or the completion of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provideddistribution, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested then Talen shall continue to be obligated to effect an Underwritten Offering pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, 4 of such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Registrable Securities.
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Samples: Stockholder Agreement (PPL Energy Supply LLC), Stockholder Agreement (Talen Energy Holdings, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following The Holder shall have the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days right, at any time after the date hereof Public Offering, to require the Company to register for offer and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) sale under the Securities Act covering all or part a portion of the Registrable SecuritiesSecurities then held by the Holder; it being understood that the Holder may exercise its rights under this Section 2(a) on not more than three occasions in the aggregate. As promptly as practicable after the Company receives a notice from the Holder (a "Demand Notice") demanding that the Company register for offer and sale under the Securities Act Registrable Securities consisting, and which notice shall specify the number as to each Registration, of an amount of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and held by the intended method or methods Holder having an estimated market value of distribution thereof$5 million, CRIC subject to Section 2(b), the Company shall use its best efforts to(i) prepare and, as soon as reasonably practicable, within 60 days after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC Commission a Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of the Applicable Securities on such form as the Company may reasonably deem appropriate (provided that the Company shall not, unless the Company otherwise consents, be obligated to register any securities on a "shelf" registration statement or otherwise to register securities for offer or sale on a continuous or delayed basis) and, thereafter, (ii) use its best reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand effective under the Securities Act as promptly as practicable after the date of filing of such Registration Statement”) relating . Subject to all of Section 2(b), the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested Company shall use reasonable efforts to register for sale, to the extent required keep each Registration Statement continuously effective in order to permit the disposition Prospectus forming a part thereof to be usable by the Holder for resales of Applicable Securities for an Effectiveness Period ending on the earlier of (in accordance with i) 30 days from the intended method Effective Time of such Registration Statement or methods (ii) such time as all of distribution thereof) such Applicable Securities have been disposed of by the Registrable Securities so registeredHolder.
(b) If The Company shall have the right to postpone (or, if necessary or advisable, withdraw) the filing, or delay the effectiveness, of a Registration Statement, or fail to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective or not amend or supplement the Registration Statement or included Prospectus, if (i) the filing or causing to be declared effective or keeping continuously effective any such Registration Statement would require an audit of the Company's financial statements at a time such audit would not otherwise be required pursuant to the Exchange Act, (ii) the Company determines in good faith and on the advice of counsel that it would be required to disclose in such Registration Statement information which the Company has not otherwise publicly disclosed and is not at the time required to publicly disclose, (iii) the Company determines in good faith that such Registration would interfere with any pending financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or any other corporate development involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (iv) within the 90 day period preceding the receipt by the Company of a Demand Notice, the Company has effected any other registration of its securities; provided that the Company may postpone a Demand Registration relates no more than once in any 18 month period and that any such postponement period shall not exceed 90 days in the aggregate. The Company shall advise the Holder of any such determination as promptly as practicable.
(c) The Company may include in any registration requested pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof other securities for sale for its own account or for the account of another Person, subject to the following sentence. In connection with an underwritten public offering and pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof, if the managing underwriter or underwriters advise the Company that in its or their opinion the number of securities requested to be registered exceeds the number which can be sold in such proposed public offering advises CRIC and offering, the Exercising Holder Company shall include in such Registration the number of securities that, in its reasonable opinionthe opinion of such managing underwriter or underwriters, can be sold as follows: (i) first, the number of Applicable Securities requested to be registered, (ii) second, any other Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand such Registration pursuant to Section 3(a) hereof and (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”iii) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any other securities CRIC proposes requested to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided be included in this Section 2(b)such Registration.
(cd) Each of The Holder shall have the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled right to an aggregate of three (3withdraw such request for Registration under Section 2(a) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it prior to the time the Registration Statement in respect of such Registration has been declared effective by the SECeffective, (ii) it has remained effective for upon the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) issuance by a governmental agency or the offering Commission of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any a stop order, injunction or other order which interferes with such Registration, (iii) upon the Company availing itself of Section 2(b) hereof, or requirement (iv) if the Holder is prevented pursuant to Section 2(c) hereof from selling any of the SECApplicable Securities it requested to be registered; provided, however, it being understood that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count be deemed not to have been requested for purposes of Section 2(a) hereof if the Holder withdraws its request pursuant to clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) above. If the Holder withdraws a request made pursuant to Section 2(a) but the Company nevertheless determines to complete, within 30 days after such withdrawal, the Registration so requested as having been effected unless to securities other than the Exercising Applicable Securities, the Holder pays all shall be entitled to participate in such Registration Expenses pursuant to Section 3 hereof, but in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to case the contrary contained herein, CRIC Intended Offering Notice shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand be given to the Holder at least 10 business days prior to the anticipated filing date of the Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date Holder shall be required to give the Piggy-back Notice no later than 5 business day after the Company's delivery of effectiveness of any other Registration Statementsuch Intended Offering Notice.
(e) A Demand In the event that any Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, the managing underwriter or underwriters shall be deemed to have been effected unless selected by the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act Company in good faith and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due shall be reasonably satisfactory to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Holder.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Starband Communications Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Starband Communications Inc)
Demand Registration. Commencing on the Closing Date, the holders of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (a662/3%) Following of the date aggregate number of (i) Shares that were sold to Purchasers in the Transaction, (ii) the Shares into which the Notes are or may be convertible, (iii) Warrant Shares that are issuable upon exercise of the Warrants and (iv) Warrant Shares that are issuable upon exercise of the Agent Warrants (collectively, the “Registrable Securities”) shall have the right to request registration under the Securities Act for all or any portion of the Registrable Securities upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Section 1(a). Promptly after receipt of a request for registration pursuant to this Section 1(a) the Company shall notify each registered holder of the Registrable Securities (a “Holder”) in writing of such request for registration except to the extent that such Holder’s Registrable Securities were included in the demand. Upon receipt of such notice from the Company (the “Company Notice”), the Holder or the Holder’s agent may give the Company a written request to register all or some of the Holder’s Shares in the Registration Statement described in the Company Notice (the “Demand Notice”), provided that such Demand Notice is one hundred and eighty given within ten (18010) days after the date hereof on which the Company Notice is given (with such request stating (i) the amount of Shares to be included and upon receipt (ii) any other information reasonably requested by the Company to properly effect the registration of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts toShares). The Company shall, as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable after the date on which the Company Notice is given, after receipt of such written request, use reasonable commercial efforts to file a Registration Statement with the SEC Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) covering the Shares specified in the Demand Notice and in any written request from any other Purchaser received by the Company within ten (10) days of the date on which the Company Notice is given and will use its best reasonable commercial efforts to cause the Registration Statement to become effective. No right to registration of Shares under this Section 1(a) shall be declared effective, a construed to limit any registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”required under Section 1(b) relating to all hereof. The obligations of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in Company under this Section 2(b).
(c1(a) Each of shall expire after the E-House Company has afforded the Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled opportunity to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to exercise registration rights under this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected 1(a) for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICone registration.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Securities Purchase Agreement (SMF Energy Corp), Securities Purchase Agreement (SMF Energy Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon After receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC 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 Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of such Holder’s Registrable Securities for (which registration is requested and specifies the intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof), CRIC the Company shall use promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its best efforts torights under Section 4.02 hereof, may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within ten 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 4.01, 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 soon expeditiously as reasonably practicableis possible, but in any event no later than 30 days after receipt of such a written requestrequest 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 the Registrable Securities that CRIC 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 of distribution 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 number of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered constitute at least 3% of the Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date such written request for a Demand Registration is made or (ii) at the time when, because the Company’s independent public accounting firm has not completed its audit or review of the Company’s annual or quarterly financial statements, the Company is not able to file a registration statement that complies with SEC rules.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes Company is eligible to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights shares of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holdersits common stock for a delayed or continuous offering by stockholders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto may be required by the initiating Participating Demand Holder to be with regard to a delayed or continuous offering of all the Registrable Securities (ia “Shelf Registration Statement”) has become effective in accordance with the methods and distribution set forth in the Shelf Registration Statement and Rule 415 under the Securities Act and any of (the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a“Shelf Registration”); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Investment Agreement (First Bancorp /Pr/), Stockholder Agreement (Bank of Nova Scotia /)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon After receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC the Company effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and Securities which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and specifies the intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof, CRIC the Company shall use promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its best efforts torights 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 soon expeditiously as reasonably practicableis possible, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 5 below) after receipt of such a written requestrequest for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective, effective as soon as practical after the filing thereof a registration statement (a “"Demand Registration Statement”") relating to all shares of the Registrable Securities that CRIC which the Company has been so requested to register for saleby such Holders ("Participating Demand Holders"), to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate number of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered constitute at least 10% of the initial amount of the Registrable Securities or include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time; provided further that, the Company may, if permitted by applicable Laws and Regulations, utilize the Shelf Registration Statement to satisfy its obligations hereunder.
(b) If the majority of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relates relating to an underwritten a public offering so request that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and the such managing underwriter of such proposed public offering Demand Registration advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder Company in writing that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested securities to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other such offering is greater than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest total number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering therein without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which distribution of such securities can be sold or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the “"Maximum Offering Size” Number of Securities"), then CRIC the Company shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, Registration the Registrable Securities that the Exercising Holder proposes Participating Demand Holders have requested to register, secondbe 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 any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC included in such Demand Registration shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with be allocated among all the rights Participating Demand Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of priority provided in this Section 2(bRegistrable Securities held by each Participating Demand Holder).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three two (32) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 23(a) in respect of an underwritten secondary offering (each, a "Demand for Registration"); provided, provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 3(a) shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c3(d) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a6(a) and (iii) 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; providedSEC (other than any such stop order, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness injunction or other requirement of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days SEC prompted by act or omission of written request therefor by CRICHolders of Registrable Securities).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) two Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-12 month period, period or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Txu Corp /Tx/), Registration Rights Agreement (Txu Us Holdings Co)
Demand Registration. (a) Following The Holders shall have the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days right after the date hereof and upon receipt of IPO Date to request in writing (a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising HolderRequest”) requesting (which request shall specify the Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Holders and the intended method of distribution thereof, including in a Rule 415 Offering, if Covisint is then eligible to register such Registrable Securities on Form S-3 (or a successor form) for such offering) that CRIC effect a registration Covisint register such portion of such Holders’ Registrable Securities as shall be specified in the Request (a “Demand Registration”) under by filing with the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts toCommission, as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable thereafter, but not later than the 45th day (or the 75th day if the applicable registration form is other than Form S-3) after the receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectivea Request by Covisint, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating covering such Registrable Securities, and Covisint shall use commercially reasonable efforts to have such Demand Registration Statement become effective with the Commission concurrently with filing or as soon as practicable thereafter, but in no event later than the 90th day (or the 105th day if the applicable registration form is other than Form S-3) after the receipt of such a Request, and, subject to Section 2.4, to keep such Demand Registration Statement Continuously Effective for a period of at least twenty-four (24) months, in the case of a Rule 415 Offering, or, in all other cases, for a period of at least 180 days following the date on which such Demand Registration Statement is declared effective (or for such shorter period which will terminate when all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has covered by such Demand Registration Statement shall have been so requested to register for salesold pursuant thereto), including, if necessary, by filing with the Commission a post-effective amendment or a supplement to the extent Demand Registration Statement or the related prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or by filing any other required document or otherwise supplementing or amending the Demand Registration Statement, if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to permit the disposition registration form used by Covisint for such Demand Registration Statement or by the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, any state securities or blue sky laws, or any rules and regulations thereunder; provided that such period during which the Demand Registration Statement shall remain Continuously Effective shall, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, and subject to Section 2.4, be extended for such period (if any) as the underwriters shall reasonably require, including to satisfy, in accordance with the intended method or methods judgment of distribution thereof) of counsel to the Registrable Securities so registeredunderwriters, any prospectus delivery requirements imposed by applicable law.
(b) If Covisint shall not be obligated to effect more than two (2) Demand Registrations in any calendar year. For purposes of the preceding sentence, a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected (and, therefore, not requested for purposes of this Section 2(cparagraph (a) unless above), (i) it unless a Demand Registration Statement with respect thereto has been declared effective by the SECbecome effective, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in if after such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes become effective, such Demand Registration Statement the offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is interfered with prevented by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission or other governmental agency or court solely due for any reason not attributable to any Holder and such effect is not thereafter eliminated 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 or waived other than by reason of a failure on the part of any Holder. If Covisint shall have complied with its obligations under ARTICLE II, a right to a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall be deemed to have been satisfied upon the earlier of (x) the date as of which all of the Registrable Securities included therein shall have been sold to the actions underwriters or omissions distributed pursuant to act the Demand Registration Statement and (y) the date as of CRIC, which such Demand Registration Statement shall have been effective for an aggregate period of at least twenty-four (24) months, in the case of a Rule 415 Offering, or, in all other cases, for a period of at least 180 days following the effectiveness of such Demand Registration Statement.
(c) Any request made pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall be addressed to the attention of the Secretary of Covisint, and shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be registered (which shall be not less than the lesser of (x) five percent (5%) of the total number of Registrable Securities outstanding or (y) the remaining balance of the Registrable Securities then held by the Holders).
(d) Each Holder shall be permitted to withdraw all or, subject to compliance with the parenthetical in Section 2.1(c) above, part of such Holder’s Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the sole expense effective date thereof and each Holder shall have the right to withdraw such Holder’s Request at any time prior to the execution of CRIC an underwriting agreement with respect thereto by giving written notice to Covisint of such Holder’s request to withdraw.
(e) Covisint may not include in a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 shares of Covisint Capital Stock for the account of Covisint or any Subsidiary of Covisint, but, if and to the extent required by a contractual obligation, may, subject to compliance with Section 2.1(f), include shares of Covisint Capital Stock for the account of any other Person who holds shares of Covisint Capital Stock entitled to be included therein; provided, however, that if the Underwriters’ Representative of any offering described in this Section 2.1 shall have informed Covisint in writing that in its judgment there is a Maximum Number of shares of Covisint Capital Stock that all Holders and any other Persons desiring to participate in such Demand Registration may include in such offering, then Covisint shall include in such Demand Registration: (i) first, the number of securities that such underwriters advise can be so sold without materially and adversely affecting the success or pricing of such offering, allocated pro rata among the Holders, if necessary, on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities required to be included therein by each such Holder, and (ii) second, such additional number of securities that such underwriters advise can be so sold without materially and adversely affecting the success or pricing of such offering, allocated pro rata among any other Person who holds shares of Covisint Capital Stock entitled to be included therein, on the basis of the number of shares of Capital Stock requested to be included in such offering by such other Person.
(f) No Holder may participate in any Underwritten Offering under this Section 2.1 and no other Person shall be permitted to participate in any such offering pursuant to this Section 2.1 unless it completes and executes all customary questionnaires, powers of attorney, custody agreements, underwriting agreements and other customary documents required under the customary terms of such underwriting arrangements. In connection with any Underwritten Offering under this Section 2.1, each participating Holder and Covisint and, except in the case of a Rule 415 Offering hereof, each other Person shall be a party to the underwriting agreement with the underwriters and may be required to make certain customary representations and warranties and provide certain customary indemnifications for the benefits of the underwriters; provided that the Holders shall not be required to make representations and warranties with respect to Covisint or their business and operations and shall not be included required to agree to any indemnity or contribution provisions less favorable to them than as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2are set forth herein.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Covisint Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Covisint Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days At any time after the date hereof and upon receipt of the Agreement, a written request from BRS Entity or a Holder BRS Demand Transferee or, if registration on Form S-2 or Form S-3 (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”or any successor form(s) under the Securities Act) shall be available to B&G Foods, a Canterbury Entity, a CIT Entity, a Canterbury Demand Transferee or a CIT Demand Transferee may make a written request for registration with the SEC under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act covering of all or part of the its, his or her Registrable Securities; provided, and which notice shall specify that B&G Foods may, if the number Board so determines in the exercise of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of reasonable judgment that it would be inadvisable to effect such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating at such time, defer such Demand Registration for a single period not to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registeredexceed 180 days.
(b) BRS Entities, Canterbury Entities and CIT Entities (including each of their respective Demand Transferees) shall each be entitled to two (2) Demand Registrations.
(c) If the a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering involves a Public Offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder underwriter(s) shall advise B&G Foods that, in its reasonable opinionview, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number amount of securities which reasonably can proposed to be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including Demand Registration will exceed the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC B&G Foods shall include in such Demand Registrationregistration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, so many of the securities proposed to be registered as would not cause the offering to exceed the Maximum Offering Size allocated in the following orders of priority: (i) first, the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by the Exercising Holder proposes to registerSelling Shareholder(s), (ii) second, the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by the Shareholders other than the Selling Shareholder(s) and (iii) any Non-Exercising Holder proposes Common Stock proposed to registerbe registered by B&G Foods; provided that (y) if all the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by members of any group set forth above are not to be included, selection of Registrable Securities to be included from within such group shall be made pro rata based on the number of Registrable Securities that each member of such group shall have requested to be included therein, and third, (z) if any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder Shareholder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided inclusion in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each such Demand Registration and if 10% or more of the E-House Holders and the Sina HoldersRegistrable Securities requested to be included by such Shareholder are not so included, in each case, collectively, such Shareholder shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to additional Demand Registration hereunder on the same terms and conditions as would have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant applied to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Shareholder had such earlier Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having not been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICeffected.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Securities Holders Agreement (BGH Holdings Inc), Securities Holders Agreement (Polaner Inc)
Demand Registration. Subject to the provisions of Section 5.01(d), if the Company is ineligible to use a Shelf Registration Statement or if the Shelf Registration Statement is otherwise unavailable to the Company, the Stockholders (athe “Demanding Holders”) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of may make a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, demand that the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, Company promptly prepare and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to under the Securities Act of all or part of their Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of the value of all the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested owned by the Stockholders, which written demand shall describe the amount and type of security to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (be included in accordance with such Demand Registration Statement and the intended method or methods method(s) of distribution thereof) of , which may include delayed distribution pursuant to Rule 415 under the Registrable Securities so registered.
Act (b) If the such written demand a “Demand Registration”). Each Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and shall be for the managing underwriter sale of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the a number of Registrable Securities requested equal to be included or greater than the Registrable Amount. The Company shall, within ten (10) Business Days after receipt of the Demand Registration, notify, in the writing, all other Stockholders, if any, of such demand, and each holder of Registrable Securities who thereafter wishes to include all or a portion of such holder’s Registrable Securities in a Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC each such holder that includes all or any other security a portion of such holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include ’s Registrable Securities in such Demand Registration, up to a “Requesting Holder”) shall so notify the Maximum Offering SizeCompany, firstin writing, within five (5) Business Days after the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any receipt by such other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each Stockholders of the E-House Holders and notice from the Sina HoldersCompany. Upon receipt by the Company of any such written notification from a Requesting Holder(s), in each case, collectively, such Requesting Holder(s) shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of have their Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; providedincluded in such Demand Registration and the Company shall effect, that a as soon thereafter as practicable, the registration of all Registrable Securities requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(aDemanding Holder(s) and (iiiRequesting Holder(s) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop orderDemand Registration, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes including by filing a Demand Registration request Statement relating thereto as soon as practicable, but not more than sixty (which revocation may only 60) days immediately after the Company’s receipt of the Demand Registration. Under no circumstances shall the Company be made prior obligated to CRIC requesting acceleration of obtain effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in Statement under this Section 5.02 with respect to any twelve-or all Registrable Securities within any twelve (12) month period, or (ii) any ; provided that a Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected count against this limitation unless and until (i) the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the Commission, (iii) the Company has become complied with all of its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto, and (iii) the Demand Registration Statement has remained effective under for the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in Shelf Registration Effectiveness Period; provided, further, that if, after such Demand Registration Statement have actually has been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for declared effective, an offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is subsequently interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement injunction of the SEC Commission, federal or state court or any other governmental agency or court solely due to agency, then the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at deemed not to have been declared effective, unless and until, such stop order or injunction is removed, rescinded or otherwise terminated; provided, further, that the sole expense of CRIC and Company shall not be included as one of obligated or required to file another Demand Registration Statement until the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant Registration Statement that has been previously filed with respect to this Section 2a Demand Registration becomes effective or is subsequently terminated.
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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement (Ares Management Corp), Investor Rights Agreement (Ares Management Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following If at any time the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of Company shall receive a written request from (a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising HolderDemand Notice”) requesting from Medley Group that CRIC the Company effect a the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities specified in the Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration”), specifying the information set forth under Section 2.5(j), then the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as expeditiously as reasonably practicable, subject to paragraphs (c) and (d) of this Section 2.2, the registration under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which Medley Group has requested registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereofunder this Section 2.2, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered.
(b) At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, Medley Group may revoke such Demand Registration request by providing a notice to the Company revoking such request. The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration.
(c) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the sole or managing underwriter of such proposed public offering a Demand Registration advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, Company that in its reasonable opinion, opinion the number of Registrable Securities and other securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of Registrable Securities and other securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offeringadversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, including the price at which that will be paid in such securities can be sold offering or the marketability thereof (the “Maximum Offering Size” ”), then CRIC the Company shall include in such Demand Registrationregistration, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size, :
(i) first, the all Registrable Securities requested to be registered in the Exercising Holder proposes Demand Registration by Medley Group (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to registerexceed the Maximum Offering Size, in such proportions as shall be determined by Medley Group);
(ii) second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes proposed to register be registered by the Company for its own account and any securities with respect entitled to which any other security holder has Other Registration Rights requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with to be registered by the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of holders thereof, ratably among the E-House Holders Company and the Sina Holdersholders of such Other Registration Rights, in each casebased (A) as between the Company and the holders of such Other Registration Rights, collectivelyon the respective amounts of securities requested to be registered, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iiiB) as among the offering holders of Registrable Securities pursuant such Other Registration Rights, on the respective amounts of securities subject to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Other Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then Rights held by each such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICholder.
(d) Notwithstanding anything Upon notice to Medley Group, the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 2.2 for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 120 days in the aggregate (which period may not be required to prepare and file extended or renewed), if (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements the Board shall determine in any twelve-month period, good faith that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Company the preparation of which had then been commenced or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date Company is in possession of effectiveness material non-public information the disclosure of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall which during the period specified in such notice the Board believes in good faith would not be deemed to have been effected unless in the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any best interests of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Company.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Medley Management Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Medley Management Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) At any time commencing at least 365 days after the effective date hereof and upon of any registration statement covering the IPO, after receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC CAM effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and Securities held by such Holder which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and specifies the intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof, CRIC CAM shall use promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its best efforts torights under Section 3 hereof may elect (by written notice sent to the CAM within 10 Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from CAM) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 2, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon CAM shall, as soon expeditiously as reasonably practicableis possible, but in any event no later than 30 days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 4 below) after receipt of such a written requestrequest for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC Commission and use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “"Demand Registration Statement”") relating to all shares of the Registrable Securities that CRIC which CAM 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 of distribution thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered, provided, however, that CAM shall not be required to file a Demand Registration Statement and otherwise comply with the provisions of this Section 2 unless the aggregate number of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) constitute at least 5% of the Registrable Securities issued and outstanding as of the date of this Agreement or (ii) have an aggregate minimum market value of at least US$85,000,000 based on the closing trading price of the Class A Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made.
(b) If the majority of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relates relating to an underwritten a public offering so request that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 12 below and the such managing underwriter of such proposed public offering Demand Registration advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder CAM in writing that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested securities to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other such offering is greater than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest total number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering therein without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which distribution of such securities can be sold or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the “"Maximum Offering Size” Number of Securities"), then CRIC CAM shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, Registration the Registrable Securities that the Exercising Holder proposes Participating Demand Holders have requested to registerbe 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, secondthe number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated among all the Participating Demand Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities held by each Participating Demand Holder). If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, CAM may include in such Registration any other securities of CAM and other securities held by other security holders of CAM, as CAM may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount which together with the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC included in such Demand Registration shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with exceed the rights Maximum Number of priority provided in this Section 2(b)Securities.
(c) Each Any Demand Registration Statement may be required by Participating Demand Holders constituting a majority of the E-House Registrable Securities to be in an appropriate form under the Securities Act (a "Shelf Registration Statement") relating to any or all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the methods and distribution set forth in the Shelf Registration Statement and Rule 415 under the Securities Act (the "Shelf Registration"). Any such demand to file a Shelf Registration Statement shall require the use of two Demand for Registration requests.
(d) Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) 15 registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 22 (each, a "Demand for Registration"); provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c2(d) unless (i) it a Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SECCommission, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a), (iii) CAM shall have complied with the provisions of Sections 2(a), 2(b) and 2(c), without giving effect to the proviso in Section 2(a) and (iiiiv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration Registration Statement is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; providedCommission (other than any such stop order, howeverinjunction, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness or other requirement of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days Commission prompted by act or omission of written request therefor by CRICHolders of Registrable Securities).
(de) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC CAM shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) two Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Calamos Asset Management, Inc. /DE/), Registration Rights Agreement (Calamos Asset Management, Inc. /DE/)
Demand Registration. (a) Following If at any time following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after third anniversary of the date hereof and upon receipt of IPO Date, Lazard Ltd shall receive a written request (a “Demand Notice”) from a Holder Covered Person or group of Covered Persons (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the a “Exercising HolderDemand Requesting Covered Person”) requesting that CRIC Lazard Ltd effect a the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of such Covered Person’s Registrable Securities (including any Registrable Securities that are issuable pursuant to an MD Exchange in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Master Separation Agreement such that such Registrable Securities would be capable of being sold in such Demand Registration) representing Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration equal to or in excess of the Minimum Demand Number (including, for purposes of calculating the Minimum Demand Number, any Registrable Securities that are issuable pursuant to an MD Exchange in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Master Separation Agreement such that such Registrable Securities would be capable of being sold in such Demand Registration) as of the date on which the Demand Registration is made (a “Demand Registration”), specifying the intended method of disposition thereof, then Lazard Ltd shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as reasonably practicable, subject to the restrictions in Section 4.2(d) and Section 4.3 and such Demand Requesting Covered Person’s compliance with its obligations under the other applicable provisions of this Article IV, the registration under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which such Demand Requesting Covered Person has requested registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereofunder this Section 4.2, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered.
. Upon the receipt of a Demand Notice, Lazard Ltd shall promptly give written notice to all other holders of Registrable Securities that such Demand Registration is to be effected. Lazard Ltd shall include in such Demand Registration such Registrable Securities for which it has received written requests by such other holders within fifteen (b15) If days after the delivery of the written notice to such other holders, and such other holders that submit such written requests for inclusion in the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of within such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested fifteen (15) day period shall be deemed to be included in the definition of “Demand Registration Requesting Covered Person” (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holderprovided that, including any Holders other than for the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number avoidance of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, firstdoubt, the Registrable Securities of such other holders shall not be included in the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities calculation of Minimum Demand Number with respect to which such Demand Registration). Notwithstanding the foregoing, any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into Demand Notice submitted during any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights “blackout” period of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders Lazard Ltd applicable to its directors and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 executive officers shall not be deemed to have been effected delivered until the first Business Day following the earlier to occur of the expiration of (x) such periods and (y) thirty (30) days following the beginning of any such period (and this restriction on submission of Demand Notices shall not be effective for purposes more than thirty (30) days in any ninety (90) day period).
(b) At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Demand Requesting Covered Person may revoke such Demand Registration request by providing a notice to Lazard Ltd revoking such request. Lazard Group shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, (i) a Demand Requesting Covered Person shall be entitled to no more than one Demand Registration during any six-month period, and (ii) Lazard Ltd shall not be obligated to seek to declare or make effective any registration statement with respect to a Demand Registration in the event that an Annual Registration or Piggyback Registration (as defined below) had been available under this Article IV within the 180 days preceding the date of the Demand Notice; provided, that neither of the restrictions set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) shall restrict any Covered Person from submitting a Demand Notice requesting a Demand Registration that complies with the other provisions of this Section 2(c) unless 4.2 and the time period limitations set forth in clauses (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, and (ii) it has remained effective for of this sentence.
(c) A Demand Registration may, at the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering option of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop orderLazard Ltd, injunction be conducted either as a Public Offering or other order or requirement of the SECas a shelf registration; provided, however, that in the event that (1) any Registrable Shares that first became eligible for participation in an Annual Registration at the Exercising Holder revokes most recent Annual Registration hereunder and were sought to be so registered and sold in such Annual Registration but were reduced as a result of the Maximum Offering Size in accordance with Section 4.1(b) shall continue to be unsold at such time (taking into account any prior Demand Registrations and Piggyback Registrations) and (2) the Board of Directors of LAZ-MD shall object to Lazard Ltd’s election of a Public Offering, Lazard Ltd shall conduct such Demand Registration as a shelf registration. Lazard Ltd shall have the right (but not the obligation) to register additional shares of Common Stock and other securities together with such Demand Registration. If a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness the seventh anniversary of the registration statement) then IPO Date involves a Public Offering and the managing underwriter advises Lazard Ltd that, in its view, the number of shares of Common Stock required to be included in such Public Offering would adversely impact the offering or the market for the Common Stock, Lazard Ltd may in its discretion reduce the number of shares of Common Stock included in such Public Offering, provided that Lazard Ltd shall consult with the Board of Directors of LAZ-MD with respect to such reduction (and shall use reasonable efforts to so consult prior to such reduction). If a Demand Registration on or after the seventh anniversary of the IPO Date involves a Public Offering and the managing underwriter advises Lazard Ltd that, in its view, the number of shares of Common Stock requested to be included in such Public Offering exceeds the largest number of shares that can be sold within the price range (or 10% below the end of such range) that was included in the “red xxxxxxx” registration statement for such Public Offering (provided that the Board of Directors of LAZ-MD shall count not have objected to such price range prior to the filing of such red xxxxxxx registration statement after notice thereof), the number of shares of Common Stock included in such Public Offering shall be reduced to such largest number of shares. In the event that the number of shares of Common Stock requested to be included in such Public Offering is reduced in accordance with this Section 4.2(c), Lazard Ltd shall include in such Public Offering, in the priority listed below, up to the applicable maximum number of shares to be included in such Public Offering as having been effected unless determined in the Exercising Holder pays immediately preceding two sentences:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be registered in the Demand Registration Expenses in connection by the Demand Requesting Covered Persons according to the Covered Persons Priority; and
(ii) second, any securities proposed to be registered by Lazard Ltd or any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any other persons (including under Section 4.3), with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor priorities among them as Lazard Ltd shall determine or as is otherwise required by CRICSection 4.3.
(d) Notwithstanding anything Upon notice to the contrary contained hereinDemand Requesting Covered Person, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested Lazard Ltd may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall 4.1 on one occasion during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 120 days (which period may not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto extended or renewed), if (i) has become effective under Lazard Ltd shall determine in good faith that effecting the Securities Act registration would materially and any adversely affect an offering of securities of such company the Registrable Securities preparation of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually which had then been sold thereunder and commenced, (ii) has remained effective for a Lazard Ltd is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); providedsuch notice Lazard Ltd believes in good faith would not be in the best interests of Lazard Ltd, howeveror (iii) an Annual Registration shall have commenced (or is reasonably expected to commence within 30 days of such Demand Registration) (it being understood that, that if after in lieu of any such Demand Registration, Lazard Ltd may elect to include any Demand Requesting Covered Person’s Registrable Securities subject to a Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to hereunder with such Annual Registration in full satisfaction of its obligations under this Section 2 becomes effective, 4.2 with respect to such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Registration).
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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Lazard Group LLC), Stockholders' Agreement (Lazard LTD)
Demand Registration. (a) Following Commencing 30 days following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt Effective Date, any Holder of Registrable Securities may make a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, substantially in the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a form of Annex A hereto for registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering of all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of its or their Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “"Demand Registration"); provided that the Issuer shall not be obligated to effect (i) any Demand Registration, except for the first Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all hereunder, unless the aggregate market value of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so covered by such written requests (calculated as of a recent date as determined by the Issuer) is at least $50,000,000, (ii) more than one Demand Registration in any 6-month period, (iii) more than three Demand Registrations requested to register for saleby Appaloosa and more than two Demand Registrations requested by Holders other than Appaloosa, to (iv) any Demand Registration within 3 months of a previous registration in which the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods holders of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates were given piggyback rights pursuant to an underwritten public offering Section 2.3 and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, which there was no reduction in the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the or (v) any Demand Registration (including securities at a time when doing so would be in violation of Section 5.3(b) of the Preferred Registration Rights Agreement. Each such request will specify the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold by CRIC or and will also specify the intended method of disposition thereof and may specify the book-running managing Underwriter and any additional investment bankers and managers to be used in connection with an underwritten offering. Promptly after receipt of requests for the registration of Registrable Securities with an aggregate market value of at least $50,000,000 (determined as aforesaid) or, in the case of the first Demand Registration hereunder, promptly after the receipt of a request for the registration of Registrable Securities, the Issuer will give written notice of such registration request to all other security holder, including any Holders of the Registrable Securities and include in such registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to which the Issuer has received a written request for inclusion therein within 30 calendar days after written notice has been mailed. Each such request will also specify the number of Registrable Securities to be registered and the intended method of disposition thereof. The registration statement to be filed pursuant to a Demand Registration shall not include securities being sold for the account of other persons and entities (other than securities being sold for the Exercising Holder account of other persons and entities pursuant to the piggy-back registration rights provisions of the Preferred Registration Rights Agreement) or for the account of the Issuer, unless the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be included in such Demand Registration consent in writing thereto.
(b) A registration will not count as a Demand Registration until it has become effective and remains effective for not less than 90 days or such Holdersshorter period as is required for all of the Registrable Securities so registered to be sold unless such Demand Registration has not become effective due solely to the fault of, or is terminated at the request of, the “Non-Exercising requesting Holders”.
(c) exceeds If the largest number Holders of securities which reasonably can a majority of the Registrable Securities to be sold registered in a Demand Registration so elect, the offering of such offering without having Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration shall be in the form of an underwritten offering. Unless otherwise specified by the Holders of a material adverse effect on such offering, including majority of the price at which such securities can Registrable Securities to be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include included in such Demand Registration, up and subject to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights approval of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina such Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 which shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by unreasonably withheld, the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for Issuer shall select the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses book-running managing Underwriter in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor offering and any additional investment bankers and managers to be used in connection with the offering. Any book-running managing Underwriter or additional investment bankers and managers specified by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything the Holders shall be subject to the contrary contained hereinapproval of the Issuer, CRIC which shall not be required to prepare and file (i) unreasonably withheld. To the extent 25% or more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities so requested to be registered are excluded from the offering in accordance with Section 2.4, the registration of the Holder included in such offering will not count as a Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Registration.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Conseco Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Appaloosa Management Lp)
Demand Registration. (ai) Following If the date that is one hundred and eighty Company shall be requested in writing by holders (180the “Holders”) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, majority of the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect Registrable Securities to file a registration statement for Registrable Securities having an aggregate offering price to the public of not less than US$15,000,000 under the Securities Act (a “Demand RegistrationNotice”) under in accordance with this Section 2(a), then the Company shall use best efforts to effect such a registration statement. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice, the Company shall, within 10 days, give written notice of such proposed registration to all Holders and shall offer to include in such proposed registration any Registrable Securities Act covering all or part requested to be included in such proposed registration by such Holders who respond in writing to the Company’s notice within 30 days after delivery of the Registrable Securities, and such notice (which notice response shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC proposed to be included in such registration). The Company shall promptly use its best efforts to, to effect such registration as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable on an appropriate form, after receipt of such written requestincluding Form S-2 or S-3, file with if available, under the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all Securities Act of the Registrable Securities that CRIC which the Company has been so requested to register for saleregister; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to effect any registration under the extent required to permit Securities Act in the disposition following circumstances:
(in accordance with A) after the intended method or methods Company has already filed two registration statements initiated by the Holders of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registeredpursuant to this Section 2(a); or
(B) during any period in which any other registration statement (other than on Form S-4 or Form S-8 promulgated under the Securities Act or any successor forms thereto) pursuant to which Registrable Securities are to be or were sold has been filed and not withdrawn or has been declared effective within the prior 90 days.
(bii) If the Demand Registration relates Holders requesting to be included in a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) so elect, the offering of such Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration shall be in the form of an underwritten public offering and offering. The Holders of a majority of the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration shall select one or more nationally recognized firms of investment bankers reasonably acceptable to the Demand Registration (including securities Company to act as the lead managing underwriter or underwriters in connection with such offering and shall select any additional investment bankers and managers to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than used in connection with the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can shall also be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up reasonably acceptable to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)Company.
(ciii) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled With respect to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities any registration pursuant to this Section 2; provided2(a), that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth Company may include in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a)Common Stock; provided, however, that if after the managing underwriter advises the Company that the inclusion of all Registrable Securities and Common Stock requested to be included by the Company in such registration would interfere with the successful marketing (including pricing) of all such securities, then the number of Registrable Securities and Common Stock proposed to be included in such registration shall be included in the following order:
(A) first, the Registrable Securities shall be included, pro rata among the participating Holders based upon the number of Registrable Securities held by such Holders at the time of such registration; and
(B) second, Common Stock requested to be included by the Company.
(iv) At any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 time before the registration statement covering Registrable Securities becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement Holders of a majority of the SEC Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration may request the Company to withdraw or other governmental agency not to file the registration statement. In that event, if such request of withdrawal shall have been caused by, or court solely due to made in response to, a material adverse effect or change in the actions Company’s financial condition, operations, business or omissions to act of CRICprospects, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense Holders of CRIC and Registrable Securities shall not be included as deemed to have used one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to their demand registration rights under this Section 22(a).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Winwin Gaming Inc), Joint Venture Agreement (Winwin Gaming Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following Upon the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from time to time (a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising HolderRequest”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration of any of the Blackstone Entities (a “Demand RegistrationParty”) that the Company effect the registration under the Securities Act covering of all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of such Demand Party’s Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and specifying the amount and intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof, CRIC shall the Company will promptly give written notice of such requested registration to the other Shareholders and, as expeditiously as possible, use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a effect the registration statement under the Securities Act of:
(a “Demand Registration Statement”1) relating to all of the such Registrable Securities that CRIC which the Company has been so requested to register for sale, to by the extent required to permit the disposition Demand Party; and
(in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof2) of the Registrable Securities so registeredof other Shareholders which the Company has been requested to register by written request given to the Company within 10 days after the giving of such written notice by the Company (which request shall specify the amount and intended method of disposition of such securities). The Demand Party shall have the right to select the managing underwriter or underwriters to administer the offerings covered by its Requests.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates a requested registration pursuant to this Section 2.2 involves an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder Company in writing that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the maximum number of securities which can be sold in such offering without having an adverse effect on such offering (including the price at which such securities can be sold), then the number of such securities to be included in such registration shall be reduced to such extent, and the Company will include in such registration such maximum number of securities as follows: (i) first, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Registration Shareholders, which number shall be allocated pro rata among all such requesting Shareholders based on the relative number of Registrable Securities then held by each such requesting Shareholder; (ii) second, the number of securities of the Company requested to be registered by holders of securities (including any Employee Stockholders) having equivalent rights under similar agreements (including the Employee Stockholders’ Agreement); and (iii) third, the number of securities of the Company proposed to be sold by CRIC or any other security holderthe Company, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)if any.
(c) Each of the E-House Holders If a requested registration pursuant to this Section 2.2 involves an underwritten offering and the Sina Holdersmanaging underwriter advises the Company that, in each caseits opinion, collectivelycertain disclosure is of material importance to the success of such proposed offering, then the Company shall cooperate with the managing underwriter to provide such disclosure. The Company agrees to include in any registration statement all information which, in the reasonable view of counsel to the underwriters (if any) or Designated Counsel, is required to be included.
(d) The Demand Party shall be entitled permitted to request that any registration under this Section 2.2 be made under Rule 415 under the Securities Act (the “Shelf Registration”). The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect such Shelf Registration and to keep it continuously effective until such date on which there are no Registrable Securities covered by such registration. During the period during which the Shelf Registration is effective, the Company shall supplement or make amendments to the Shelf Registration, if required by the Securities Act or if reasonably requested by the Demand Party or an aggregate underwriter of three Registrable Securities to be sold pursuant thereto, including to reflect any specific plan of distribution or method of sale, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to have such supplements and amendments declared effective, if required, as soon as practicable after filing.
(3e) registrations The Company will pay all Registration Expenses in connection with each registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC2.2.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Blackstone Capital Partners (Cayman) LTD 1), Registration Rights Agreement (Celanese CORP)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ”), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days If at any time after the date hereof and upon receipt of March 31, 1999, Micron shall receive from Intel a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”Request") that Micron register on Form S-3 under the Securities Act covering all (or part if such form is not available, any registration statement form then available to Micron) Registrable Securities equal to at least the lesser of two percent (2%) of the Voting Securities outstanding on the date of such Demand Request and securities having an aggregate market value of in excess of $100 million on such date, then Micron shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registrable Securities specified in such Demand Request (the "Demand Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, ") to be registered as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable so as to permit the offering and sale thereof and, in connection therewith, shall prepare and file with the SEC as soon as practicable after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectiveDemand Request, a registration statement (a “"Demand Registration Statement”") relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of effect such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in each such Demand Request shall: (i) specify the event the Exercising Holder revokes a number of Demand Registration request Registrable Securities intended to be offered and sold by Intel pursuant thereto (which revocation may only number of Demand Registrable Securities shall not be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration less than the lesser of effectiveness two percent (2%) of the registration statementRegistrable Securities outstanding on the date of such Demand Request and securities having an aggregate market value of in excess of $100 million on such date); (ii) then express the present intention of Intel to offer or cause the offering of such Demand Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless Statement, (iii) describe the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with nature or method of distribution of such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything Registrable Securities pursuant to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any such Demand Registration Statement within one hundred (including, in particular, whether Intel plans to effect such distribution by means of an underwritten offering or other method); and eighty (180iv) days following contain the undertaking of Intel to provide all such information and materials and take all such actions as may be required in order to permit Micron to comply with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder, and to obtain any desired acceleration of the effective date of effectiveness of any other such Demand Registration Statement.
(eb) A The procedures to be followed by Micron and Intel, and the respective rights and obligations of Micron and Intel, with respect to the preparation, filing and effectiveness of Demand Registration requested Statements and the distribution of Demand Registrable Securities pursuant to Demand Registration Statements under this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified 4.1 are set forth in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 24.4 hereof.
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Samples: Securities Rights and Restrictions Agreement (Intel Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time after the date that which is one hundred and eighty (180) 180 days after the date hereof and upon receipt Effective Date (or such earlier time as permitted by the terms of a written the lockup agreements executed in connection with the IPO), Cornell may request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering and/or applicable Canadian Securities Laws of all or part any portion of the its and any Cornell Permitted Holder’s Registrable Securities, and which notice Securities pursuant to a Long-Form Registration. Each request for a Long-Form Registration shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Long-Form Registration. Upon receipt of any such request, the Corporation shall promptly (but in no event later than five (5) Business Days following receipt thereof deliver notice of such request to all other Pre-IPO Holders who shall then have five (5) Business Days from the date such notice is given (or such shorter period as may be reasonably requested under the circumstances in connection with an underwritten offering, provided such period is at least 24 hours) to notify the Corporation in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. The Corporation shall, as soon as possible after the fifth (5th) Business Day following the date of the notice sent by the Corporation: (x) prepare and file with (or confidentially submit to) the SEC a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities that the holders thereof have requested to be included in such Long-Form Registration and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective by the SEC as soon as practicable thereafter; (y) prepare and file with (or confidentially submit to) the Canadian Securities Authorities in all Canadian Jurisdictions (unless otherwise determined by Cornell) one or more Canadian Preliminary Prospectuses (as necessary) and a Canadian Prospectus covering all of the Registrable Securities that the holders thereof have requested to be included in such Long-Form Registration and shall use its reasonable best efforts to secure a receipt or deemed receipt (as necessary) for the Canadian Prospectus and otherwise qualify the distribution of the Registrable Securities in the applicable Canadian Jurisdictions; or (z) a combination of both (x) and (y), in each case, as specified in the notice.
(b) The Corporation shall use its reasonable best efforts to qualify and remain qualified to register the offer and sale of securities under the Securities Act pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any successor form thereto, subject to further requirements for “automatic shelf registration statements” as defined in Section 4.2. The Corporation shall also use its reasonable best efforts to qualify and remain qualified to file short form prospectuses under NI 44-101. At such time as Short-Form Registrations are available to the Corporation for registrations under the Securities Act or Canadian Securities Laws, Cornell shall have the right to request an unlimited number of Short-Form Registrations in the applicable jurisdictions. Each request for a Short-Form Registration shall specify the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Short-Form Registration. Upon receipt of any such request, the Corporation shall promptly (but in no event later than five (5) Business Days following receipt thereof deliver notice of such request to all other Pre-IPO Holders who shall then have five (5) Business Days from the date notice is given (or such shorter period as may be reasonably requested under the circumstances in connection with an underwritten offering, provided such period is at least 24 hours) to notify the Corporation in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. The Corporation shall, as soon as possible after the fifth (5th) Business Day following the date of the notice sent by the Corporation: (x) prepare and file with (or confidentially submit to) the SEC a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities that the Pre-IPO Holders thereof have requested to be included in such Short-Form Registration and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective by the SEC as soon as practicable thereafter; (y) prepare and file with (or confidentially submit to) the Canadian Securities Authorities in all Canadian Jurisdictions (unless otherwise determined by the Pre-IPO Holder requesting the registration) one or more Canadian Preliminary Prospectuses (as necessary) and a Canadian Prospectus covering all of the Registrable Securities that the Pre-IPO Holders thereof have requested to be included in such Short-Form Registration and shall use its reasonable best efforts to secure a receipt or deemed receipt (as necessary)for the Canadian Prospectus and otherwise qualify the distribution of the Registrable Securities in the applicable Canadian Jurisdictions; or (z) a combination of both (x) and (y), in each case, as specified in the notice. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, in the event that a Short-Form Registration is requested in connection with a Bought Deal, the time periods set forth in this Section 2.1(b) for notice to other Pre-IPO Holders and for the completion of registration procedures shall not apply and the Corporation shall give other Pre-IPO Holders such notice as is practicable under the circumstances given the speed and urgency with which Bought Deals are carried out in common market practice and such other Pre-IPO Holders shall have only such time as is practicable under the circumstances to notify the Corporation that they will participate in the Bought Deal, and the Corporation shall complete the registration procedures under this Section 2.1(b) and Article 4 as soon as reasonably practicable given the speed and urgency with which Bought Deals are carried out in common market practice.
(c) The Corporation shall not be obligated to effect any Long-Form Registration within 180 days after the effective date of a previous Long-Form Registration pursuant to this Agreement (which, for greater certainty, in the case of a registration pursuant to a Canadian Prospectus, shall be date of such Canadian Prospectus). The Corporation may postpone for up to 180 days the filing of a Registration Statement or of a Canadian Preliminary Prospectus or Canadian Prospectus, as the case may be, for a Demand Registration if the Board determines in its reasonable good faith judgment that such Demand Registration would (including i) materially interfere with a significant acquisition, corporate organization, financing, securities offering or other similar transaction involving the Corporation; (ii) require premature disclosure of material information that the Corporation has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; or (iii) render the Corporation unable to comply with requirements under the Securities Act or Exchange Act or applicable Canadian Securities Laws; provided, that in such event Cornell shall be entitled to withdraw such request and, if such request for a Demand Registration is withdrawn, such Demand Registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registrations under this Section 2.1 and the Corporation shall pay all registration expenses in connection with such registration in accordance with Section 5.1.
(d) If Cornell elects to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by its request in an underwritten offering, it shall so advise the Corporation as a part of its request made pursuant to Section 2.1(a) or Section 2.1(b), and the Corporation shall include such information in its notice to the other Pre-IPO Holders. Cornell shall select the investment banking firm or firms to act as the managing underwriter or underwriters in connection with such offering; provided, that, except in connection with a Bought Deal, such selection shall be subject to the consent of the Corporation, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
(e) The Corporation shall not include in any Demand Registration any securities which are not Registrable Securities without the prior written consent of such Pre-IPO Holders holding at least a majority of the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. If a Demand Registration involves an underwritten offering and the managing underwriter of the requested Demand Registration advises the Corporation and the Pre-IPO Holders in writing that in its reasonable and good faith opinion the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold by CRIC or any other security holderincluded in the Demand Registration, including any Holders all Registrable Securities and all other than the Exercising Holder (Shares proposed to be included in such Holdersunderwritten offering, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities Registrable Securities which reasonably can be sold in such underwritten offering without having a material adverse effect on and/or the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such Demand Registration would adversely affect the price per security proposed to be sold in such underwritten offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC Corporation shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, Registration (i) first, the Registrable Securities that Cornell and the Exercising Holder proposes Cornell Permitted Holders propose to registersell, (ii) second, the Registrable Securities any Nonthat all other Pre-Exercising Holder proposes IPO Holders propose to registersell, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with pro rata among the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each respective Pre-IPO Holders on the basis of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations number of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; providedowned by each such Pre-IPO Holder over the total number of Registrable Securities owned by all of such Pre-IPO Holders or in such manner as they may otherwise agree, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) third, the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant Shares proposed to such registration is not subject be included therein by any other Persons (including Shares to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement be sold for the account of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration Corporation and/or other holders of effectiveness of the registration statementShares) then allocated among such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included Persons in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included manner as one of the Demand Registrations which they may be requested pursuant to this Section 2agree.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Knowlton Development Corp Inc)
Demand Registration. (ai) Following If, at any time after six months from the effective date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after of a registration statement relating to the date hereof and upon receipt initial public offering of the Company's Common Stock, the Company shall receive a written request from the Eligible Holders who in the aggregate own a Holder majority-in-interest (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, as defined below) of the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under Registrable Securities to register the Securities Act covering sale of all or part of the such Registrable Securities, the Company shall, as promptly as practicable, at the Company's sole cost and expense (other than the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Eligible Holders and the underwriting discounts, if any, payable in respect of the Registrable Securities sold by any Eligible Holder) prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement sufficient to permit the public offering and sale of the Registrable Securities through the facilities of all appropriate securities exchanges, if any, on which notice the Common Stock is being sold or on the over-the-counter market, and will use its best efforts through its officers, directors, auditors, and counsel to cause such registration statement to become effective as promptly as practicable; provided, however, that the Company shall specify only be obligated to file one such registration statement. The Company shall have the right to register and sell shares of Common Stock for its own account in such registration statement; provided, however, that if such registration statement relates to an underwritten offering and the managing underwriter advises the Company that, in its opinion, the number of securities proposed to be included in such offering exceeds the number of securities which can be sold therein without adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, then the Company will promptly so advise each holder of Registrable Securities that has requested registration, and such registration will include: first, Registrable Securities requested to be so included by such Eligible Holders, allocates pro rata among such holders based on the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security each such holder has requested registration; and second, any other securities included in such registration is equal to the number thereof that, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, can be sold without adversely affecting the marketability thereof. CRIC The Company shall not hereafter enter into be obligated to effect any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights registration of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities its securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided1(b) within six months after the effective date of any previous registration statement filed by the Company with respect to which the Eligible Holders had the "piggyback" registration rights provided for in Section 1(a) of this agreement. Within ten business days after receiving any request contemplated by this Section s 1(b), the Company shall give written notice to all the other Eligible Holders, advising each of them that the Company is proceeding with such registration and offering to include therein all or any portion of such Eligible Holder's Registrable Securities, provided that the Company receives a written request to do so from such Eligible Holder within 20 days after receipt by him or it of the Company's notice. As used herein "majority-in-interest" of Registrable Securities means a majority of the shares of Common Stock and the shares of common stock underlying the Warrant included in the Registrable Securities.
(i) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall 1(b) will not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by under the SECSecurities Act; provided, (ii) it however, that if after a registration has remained become so effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop orderterminated, injunction suspended or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRICcourt, such Demand Registration Statement registration will be deemed not to have been effected.
(ii) If the Eligible Holders requesting registration so elect, the Company shall be at use its best efforts to cause the sole expense offering of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 21(b) to be an underwritten offering. In the case of any registration which involves an underwritten offering, the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities being so registered shall have the right to select the managing underwriter, subject to the Company's approval, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pinpoint Recovery Solutions Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon After receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) Initiating Holders requesting that CRIC Parent effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and Securities which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and specifies the intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof, CRIC Parent shall use promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its best efforts torights under Section 2.02, may elect (by written notice sent to Parent within ten Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned notice from Parent) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 2.01, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon Parent shall, as soon expeditiously as reasonably practicableis possible, but in any event no later than 30 days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 2.03 below) after receipt of such a written requestrequest for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and use its best reasonable efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “"Demand Registration Statement”") relating to all shares of the Registrable Securities that CRIC which Parent has been so requested to register by such Holders EXECUTION COPY ("Participating Demand Holders") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) constitute at least 15% of the Registrable Securities issued pursuant to the Merger Agreement or (ii) include all Registrable Securities held by all of the Holders at such time.
(b) If the majority of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relates relating to an underwritten a public offering so request that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 2.11 below and the such managing underwriter of such proposed public offering Demand Registration advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder Parent in writing that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested securities to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other such offering is greater than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest total number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering therein without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which distribution of such securities can be sold or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the “"Maximum Offering Size” Number of Securities"), then CRIC Parent shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, Registration the Registrable Securities that the Exercising Holder proposes Participating Demand Holders have requested to registerbe 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, secondthe number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated among all the Participating Demand Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities held by each Participating Demand Holder). If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, Parent may include in such Registration any other securities of Parent held by other security holders of Parent, as Parent may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, in an amount which together with the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC included in such Demand Registration shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with exceed the rights Maximum Number of priority provided in this Section 2(b)Securities.
(c) Each of the E-House The Initiating Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) two registrations of Registrable Securities per calendar year on Form S-3 (or such other successor form to Form S-3) pursuant to this Section 22.01 (each, a "Demand for Registration") and one of such registrations per year may be an underwritten offering pursuant to Section 2.01(b); provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 2.01 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c2.01(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a2.04(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not 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 2.01 and (iiiiv) 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; providedSEC (other than any such stop order, howeverinjunction, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness or other requirement of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days SEC prompted by act or omission of written request therefor by CRICHolders of Registrable Securities).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC Parent shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) two Demand Registration Statements in any twelve12-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) 60 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Zonagen Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time and from time to time on or following the date hereof, any Holder or group of Holders may request in writing (“Demand Registration Request”) that is the Company effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such 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 (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 $12 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 and eighty (180) days after preceding the date hereof and upon receipt such 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 written request from a Holder Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, D) unless the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under requested Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Securities Act covering all or part Commission for more than 75% of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number full amount of Registrable Securities for which registration is 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 amount of Registrable Securities requested to be registered, (iii) the total amount of Registrable Securities then beneficially owned by such Holder or Holders, and (iv) the intended method or methods means of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with distribution. If at the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “time the Demand Registration Statement”) relating Request is made the Company appears, based on public information available to all such Holder or Holders, eligible to use Form S-3 for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities Securities, the Holder or Holders making such request may request that CRIC has been so requested the registration be in the form of a Shelf Registration Statement (for the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall not be under the obligation to register for salefile 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 (a) hereof by amending (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 of distribution thereofdisposition 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 that the 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.
(bd) If the Within ten (10) days after receiving a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and Request, the managing underwriter Company shall give written notice of such proposed public offering advises CRIC request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the Exercising Holder thatprovisions of Section 5(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in its reasonable opinionsuch 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 number offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)manner so requested.
(ce) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled The Company will use its reasonable efforts to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to keep a Registration Statement that has become effective as contemplated by this Section 2; provided4 continuously effective, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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 SECCommission:
(A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement, but 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, until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due Commission relating to any Shelf Registration Statement, if any Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement remain unsold, the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, period during which such Demand 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 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 sole expense option of CRIC 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 be included include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registrations which may Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) the requested registration that has been revoked will be requested deemed to have been effected for purposes of Section (a).
(g) If a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 24 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 “takedown” shall equal 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 in such “takedown” shall have an anticipated aggregate offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of at least $12 million.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Goodrich Petroleum Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days At any time after the date hereof and upon receipt of hereof, any Group or any other Holder to which rights under this Section 2.1 have been transferred or assigned (a "Demand Registrant") may make a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”"Registration Request") requesting that CRIC effect a for registration (a “"Demand Registration”") under the Securities Act covering all or part of Registrable Securities having a value (determined in the good faith judgment of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall Board of Directors) of not less than five million dollars. The Registration Request will specify the number of shares of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested proposed to be sold and will also specify the intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof, CRIC ; provided that the Company shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts not be obligated to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement effect (a “i) more than one Demand Registration Statement”for the Edwaxxx Xxxup and its transferees, (ii) relating more than two Demand Registrations for the Johnxxxx Xxxup and its transferees, (iii) more than one Demand Registration for B&M and its transferees, or (iv) a Demand Registration if counsel to all of the Company delivers to the Demand Registrant a written opinion in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Demand Registrant to the effect that registration under the Securities Act is not necessary in order for the Demand Registrant to sell the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for in the manner contemplated by the Demand Registrant and, following such sale, to the extent required to permit transferee (assuming such transferee is not the disposition (in accordance with the intended method Company or methods of distribution thereof) an - 3 - 4 Affiliate of the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act) will be free to resell such Registrable Securities so registeredwithout restriction and without registration under the Securities Act.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter For purposes of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder thatSection 2.1(a), in its reasonable opinion, the number a registration of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the will not count as a Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than until it has become effective under the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)Act.
(c) Each of If the E-House Holders and the Sina HoldersDemand Registrant so elects, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only shall be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration in the form of effectiveness an underwritten offering. The Board of Directors shall select the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses book-running managing Underwriter in connection with such revoked offering, and the Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICRegistrant may select one additional investment banking firm to serve as co-managing underwriter in connection with the offering.
(d) The Company will use its best efforts to effect the registration and the sale of Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method of disposition thereof as quickly as practicable in connection with any Registration Request.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinherein contained, CRIC shall the Company will not be required obligated to prepare and file effect (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following until after the first anniversary of the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and Agreement, (ii) has remained effective for a period not more than one Demand Registration between the first and second anniversaries of at least that specified in Section 5(a); providedthe date of this Agreement, however, that if after and (iii) any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement after the fifth anniversary of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act date of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Agreement.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Fm Precision Golf Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon After receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC the Company effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and Securities which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and specifies the intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof, CRIC the Company shall use promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its best efforts torights under Section 3 may elect (by written notice sent to the Company within 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 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 soon expeditiously as reasonably practicableis possible, but in any event no later than forty-five (45) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 4) after receipt of such a written requestrequest 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 the Registrable Securities that CRIC 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 of distribution thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) constitute in the aggregate at least 33% of the Registrable Securities issued or issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock or (ii) 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 relates relating to an underwritten a public offering so request that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 12 and the such managing underwriter of such proposed public offering Demand Registration advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder Company in writing that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested securities to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other such offering is greater than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest total number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering therein without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which distribution of such securities can be sold or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the “"Maximum Offering Size” Number of Securities"), then CRIC the Company shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, Registration the Registrable Securities that the Exercising Holder proposes Participating Demand Holders have requested to registerbe 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, secondthe number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated among all the Participating Demand Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities held by each Participating Demand Holder). If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company may include in such 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 any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC included in such Demand Registration shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with exceed the rights Maximum Number of priority provided in this Section 2(b)Securities.
(c) Each Registrations under this Section 2 shall be on such appropriate registration form of the ESEC (i) as shall be selected by the issuer and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the holders of a majority-House Holders in-interest of Registrable Securities requesting participation in the Demand Registration and (ii) as shall permit the Sina Holdersdisposition of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition specified in the applicable holders' requests for such registration. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, pursuant to a Demand Registration, (x) the issuer proposes to effect registration by filing a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any successor or similar short-form registration statement), (y) such registration is in connection with an underwritten offering and (z) the managing underwriter or underwriters shall advise the issuer in writing that, in each caseits or their opinion, collectivelythe use of another form of registration statement (or the inclusion, rather than the incorporation by reference, of information in the Prospectus related to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or other short-form registration statement)) is of material importance to the success of such proposed offering, then such registration shall be effected on such other form (or such information shall be so included in such Prospectus).
(d) Holders shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) two registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 22 (each, a "Demand for Registration"); provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c2(d) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a), (iii) Holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration have not 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 this Section 2 and (iiiiv) 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; providedSEC or other governmental agency or court (other than any such stop order, howeverinjunction, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness or other requirement of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days SEC or other governmental agency or court prompted by act or omission of written request therefor by CRICHolders of Registrable Securities).
(de) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC (i) the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (iA) more than one (1) two Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, period or (iiB) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Piggy-Back Registration Statement requested filed pursuant to Section 3 shall be excluded from the limitations set forth in this Section 2 becomes effective2(e)(i)(B) and (ii) the Company may, at its option, purchase (or cause a designee to purchase) such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement Registrable Securities in lieu of effecting the registration of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to Registrable Securities that are the actions or omissions to act subject of CRIC, such a Demand for Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 213.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Rubicon Medical Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty If at any time after ninety (18090) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of hereof, Micron shall receive from Intel Capital a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand RegistrationRequest”) that Micron register on Form S-3 under the Securities Act covering all (or part if such form is not available, any registration statement form then available to Micron) Registrable Securities equal to at least the lesser of two percent (2%) of the Voting Securities outstanding on the date of such Demand Request and securities having an aggregate market value of $100 million or more on such date, then Micron shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registrable Securities specified in such Demand Request (the “Demand Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, ”) to be registered as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable so as to permit the offering and sale thereof and, in connection therewith, shall prepare and file with the SEC as soon as practicable after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectiveDemand Request, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all effect such registration, and to obtain any desired acceleration of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods effective date of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the such Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SECStatement; provided, however, that in each such Demand Request shall: (i) specify the event the Exercising Holder revokes a number of Demand Registration request Registrable Securities intended to be offered and sold by Intel Capital pursuant thereto (which revocation may only number of Demand Registrable Securities shall not be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration less than the lesser of effectiveness two percent (2%) of the registration statementVoting Securities outstanding on the date of such Demand Request and securities having an aggregate market value in excess of $100 million on such date); (ii) then express the present intention of Intel Capital to offer or cause the offering of such Demand Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless Statement, (iii) describe the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with nature or method of distribution of such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder (including, in particular, whether Intel Capital plans to effect such distribution by means of an underwritten offering or other method); and (iiiv) has remained effective for a period contain the undertaking of at least that specified Intel Capital to provide all such information and materials and take all such actions as may be required in Section 5(a); providedorder to permit Micron to comply with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due thereunder.
(b) The procedures to be followed by Micron and Intel Capital, and the respective rights and obligations of Micron and Intel Capital, with respect to the actions or omissions to act preparation, filing and effectiveness of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at Statements and the sole expense distribution of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested Registrable Securities pursuant to Demand Registration Statements under this Section 24.1 are set forth in Section 4.4 hereof.
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Samples: Securities Rights and Restrictions Agreement (Micron Technology Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following If the date that Company is one hundred and eighty unable to file, cause to be effective or maintain the effectiveness of the Initial Registration Statement or a New Registration Statement as required under Section 2.1, then Holders holding not less than fifteen percent (18015%) days after of the date hereof and upon receipt of outstanding Registrable Securities (the “Demanding Holders”) shall have the right by delivering a written request from notice to the Company (a Holder (such Holder“Demand Notice”) to require the Company to, together pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, register under and in accordance with its Affiliatesthe provisions of the Securities Act, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration number of Registrable Securities beneficially owned by any Holders and requested by such Demand Notice to be so registered (a “Demand Registration”) under ); provided, however, that a Demand Notice may only be made if the Securities Act covering all or part sale of the Registrable Securities, and which notice Securities requested to be registered by the Demanding Holders is reasonably expected to result in aggregate gross cash proceeds in excess of $2,000,000 (without regard to any underwriting discount or commission). A Demand Notice shall also specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended expected method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition of the applicable Registrable Securities, CRIC it being agreed that if any Holder intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering it shall promptly so advise the Company and the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to facilitate such distribution, including the actions required pursuant to Section 3. Following receipt of a Demand Notice, the Company shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to cause file, and the Holders shall cooperate with the Company to be declared effectivethe extent reasonably requested by the Company, as promptly as practicable, and in any event no later than thirty (30) days after the date of such Demand Notice (subject to Section 3(o) hereof), a registration statement on Form S-3 or any comparable or successor form or forms (or to the extent the Company is not eligible to use Form S-3 or any comparable or successor form or forms, on Form S-1 or any comparable or successor form or forms), relating to the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by the Demand Holders in accordance with the methods of distribution elected by the Demand Holders (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating and shall use its reasonable best efforts to all cause such Demand Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as practicable after the filing thereof and in no event later than the date that is ninety (90) days after the date of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registeredsuch Demand Notice.
(b) If The Company will notify all Holders of Registrable Securities of its receipt of such Demand Notice, and each Holder may provide written notice to the Company (the “Demand Participation Notice”) within fifteen (15) days after the receipt by the Holder of the notice from the Company that such Holder desires to have his or her Registrable Securities included in the Demand Registration. Subject to Section 2.2(g) and Section 3(p), each Holder submitting a Demand Participation Notice shall be entitled to have its Registrable Securities included in the Demand Registration, and the Company shall take such actions as are necessary to have such Holder's Registrable Securities included in any Demand Registration Statement and related Prospectus or prospectus supplement or any amendment or supplement thereto.
(c) In the event of a Demand Registration, the Company shall be required to maintain the continuous effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement until such time as all Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration Statement have been publicly sold by the Holders.
(d) The Demanding Holders shall have the right to notify the Company that they have determined that the Demand Registration relates Statement relating to an underwritten public offering a Demand Registration be abandoned or withdrawn, in which event the Company shall promptly abandon or withdraw such Demand Registration Statement, and in which event, for purposes of Section 2.2(f), no Demand Registration shall have deemed to have been made pursuant to Section 2.2(a).
(e) The Company shall not be required to pay for expenses of any registration proceeding begun pursuant to Section 2.2(a), which has been subsequently withdrawn pursuant to Section 2.2(d) at the managing underwriter request of the Demanding Holders, and shall be reimbursed by the Holders whose Registrable Securities were intended to be included in the Demand Registration Statement for reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including legal fees and printing expenses) so incurred, unless the withdrawal is based upon material adverse information concerning the Company that the Company had not publicly disclosed at least seventy-two (72) hours prior to the Company's receipt of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and withdrawal request.
(f) The Company shall not be required to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2.2(a) hereof: (i) if the Exercising Holder Company has effected a Demand Registration within six (6) months prior to the date of the Demand Notice; provided, that, in its reasonable opinion, if more than 25% of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the any Demand Registration (including securities by the Demanding Holders are excluded from such Demand Registration pursuant to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” Section 2.2(g), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall Registration will not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that constitute a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected Demand Registration for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless clause (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period), or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following if the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant Company shall furnish to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the all Holders requesting Registrable Securities of the Holder be included in such Demand Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2.2(a) hereof, a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that, in the good faith and reasonable judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, the filing of the Demand Registration Statement would require the Company to disclose a material financing, acquisition or other corporate development which has not been, and would not otherwise be required to be, disclosed to the public and such disclosure at such time would be materially adverse to the Company, in which event the Company shall have actually been the right to defer such filing for a period of not more than sixty (60) days after receipt of the request of the Holders Representative.
(g) In the event that the offering pursuant to a Demand Registration Statement is to be an underwritten public offering, and the managing underwriter(s) of such underwritten offering advise the Holders in writing that it is their good faith opinion that the total number or dollar amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold thereunder in such offering, together with all U.S. Treasury Shares with respect to which the Company has received a U.S. Treasury Notice of Inclusion and all Other Securities that any other Persons having rights to participate in such registration intend to include in such offering, exceeds the total number or dollar amount of such securities that can be sold without having an adverse effect on the per share offering price, timing or distribution of the Registrable Securities to be so included together with all such U.S. Treasury Shares and Other Securities, then there shall be included in such underwritten offering the number or dollar amount of Registrable Securities and such U.S. Treasury Shares and Other Securities that in the opinion of such managing underwriter(s) can be sold without so adversely affecting such offering, and such number of Registrable Securities, U.S. Treasury Shares and Other Securities shall be so included in the following order of priority: (i) first, any U.S. Treasury Shares with respect to which the Company has received a U.S. Treasury Notice of Inclusion, (ii) second, all Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Holders (allocated, if necessary, among all such Holders in the same proportion, as nearly as practicable, that the number of Registrable Securities included in each Holder's Piggyback Inclusion Request bears to the aggregate number of Registrable Securities included in Piggyback Inclusion Requests), and (iii) third, any Other Securities proposed to be included in such offering. The Company shall not be entitled to include any securities in any underwritten Demand Registration, and no holder of U.S. Treasury Shares or Other Securities shall be entitled to include such U.S. Treasury Shares or Other Securities in any underwritten Demand Registration unless such holder (i) shall have agreed in writing to sell such U.S. Treasury Shares or Other Securities on the same terms and conditions as shall apply to the Registrable Securities to be included in such Demand Registration, and (ii) has remained effective shall have entered into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the managing underwriter(s) selected by the Holders for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Registration.
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Demand Registration. (ai) Following At any time commencing six months following the closing date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable SecuritiesStock Purchase Agreement, and which notice any Eligible Holder shall specify have the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and right to make written requests (each, a "Demand") on the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with Company to cause the SEC and Company to use its best efforts to file and cause to be declared effectiveeffective a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any other similar registration under the Securities Act with respect to the Eligible Common Stock, a registration statement provided, that (a “Demand Registration Statement”x) relating to all the expected offering price of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so Eligible Common Stock held by the requesting Eligible Holder requested to register be registered is at least $5 million, and (y) the expected offering of Eligible Common Stock includes at least one-half of all remaining shares of Eligible Common Stock held by the Eligible Holders, and provided further that the requesting Eligible Holder shall use reasonable efforts to sell such Eligible Common Stock requested to be registered. This Section 3(a)(i) shall be applicable for saleso long as the Eligible Common Stock cannot be freely transferred pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC) without the imposition of volume, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods manner of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registeredsale and holding period limitations.
(bii) If the Each Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, shall set forth the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities shares of Eligible Common Stock proposed to be sold by CRIC the Eligible Holders and the intended method of distribution of such shares.
(iii) In the case of any underwritten public offering of Eligible Common Stock pursuant to a registration under this Section 3(a), if the managing underwriter advises the Eligible Holders and the Company in its opinion that (A) the inclusion in such registration of some or any other security holderall of such Common Stock requested to be registered (including without limitation, including any Holders securities to be registered by the Company included pursuant to incidental or "piggyback" rights heretofore or hereafter granted by the Company to Persons other than the Exercising Holder Eligible Holders) will cause the proceeds or price per share to the Eligible Holders to be reduced or (such Holders, B) that the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can to be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including registered at the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each request of the E-House Eligible Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant 3(a) plus the number of securities sought to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective registered by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for Company or such other Persons will materially and adversely affect the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement success of the SEC; providedoffering, however, that then the number of securities sought to be registered by each holder other than an Eligible Holder of Common Stock shall be reduced pro rata in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything proportion to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not number of shares of Common Stock sought to be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in registered by such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due holders to the actions or omissions extent necessary to act reduce the number of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall securities to be at registered to the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of number recommended by the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2managing underwriter (the "Recommended Number").
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Southern Mineral Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon After receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) one or more New Holders requesting that CRIC the Company effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and Securities which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and specifies the intended method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition thereof and the number of shares to be registered, CRIC the Company shall use promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its best efforts torights 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 soon expeditiously as reasonably 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 such a written requestrequest 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 the Registrable Securities that CRIC 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 of distribution 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 relates relating to an underwritten a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and the such managing underwriter of such proposed public offering Demand Registration advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder Company in writing that, in its reasonable 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 (including securities to be sold by CRIC or 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 holderholders of the Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to allow, including any Holders other than in an amount, which together with the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration, up to shall not exceed the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights Number of priority provided in this Section 2(b)Securities.
(c) Each of the E-House New Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three four (34) 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, provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a7(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 (iiiiv) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SECSEC (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 event the Exercising Holder revokes New Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) Registration, then such Demand Registration shall count not be counted as having been effected unless one of the Exercising Holder pays all five Demands for Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICprovided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one two (12) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
Statement or (eiii) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement any other registration rights agreement to which the Company is interfered a party or with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due respect to the actions sale of Common Stock by the Company (or omissions to act such longer period of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included time as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant specified in an underwriting agreement relating to this Section 2such registration statement).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Aegis Communications Group Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days If at any time after the date hereof and upon receipt first anniversary of the Closing or after a written request from Change of Control (as defined in the Warrant), a Holder Shelf Registration Statement is not effective (such Holder, together with its Affiliatessubject to any permitted postponement pursuant to Section 2.03), the “Exercising Holder”) requesting Majority Holders may request in writing that CRIC the Company effect a the registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities 1933 Act covering of any or all or part of the Registrable SecuritiesSecurities held by such requesting Holders, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt disposition of such written requestRegistrable Securities. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Company shall prepare and (within ninety (90) days after such request has been given) file with the SEC a registration statement with respect to (x) all Registrable Securities included in such request and (y) all Registrable Securities included in any request delivered by the Requesting Holders pursuant to Section 2.02(f), and thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a effect the registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all under the 1933 Act and applicable state securities laws of the such Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition stated in such request; provided that the Company shall not be obligated to effect any such registration pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) if (i) within thirty (30) days of receipt of a written request from the Requesting Holders, the Company gives notice to the Requesting Holders that the Company intends to effect an offering of the Registrable Securities so registered.
Company's securities for the Company's account and has taken substantial steps (bincluding, but not limited to, selecting a managing underwriter or placement agent for such offering) If and is proceeding with reasonable diligence to effect such offering (provided that in such case, the Demand Registration relates Company shall, subject to an underwritten Section 2.04(c), use its reasonable best efforts to include in the registration relating to such public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of all Registrable Securities requested to be included by any Holder pursuant to Section 2.04(c) and, in the Demand Registration (including securities event Section 2.04(c) applies to be sold by CRIC or any other security holdersuch registration, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the registration a number of such Registrable Securities that is equal to at least 25% of the Exercising Holder proposes to registershares of Common Stock (on an as-converted basis, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock to be included in such registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which ) that the Company is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities registering pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(csuch registration) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, or (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Requesting Holders propose to sell less than all Registrable Securities then held by them pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of statement and the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything estimated aggregate price to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date public of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the such Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and is less than Five Million Dollars (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a$5,000,000); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following Subject to the date that is terms and conditions of this Agreement, at any time after one hundred and eighty (180) days after an IPO, any Holder of at least fifteen percent (15%) or more of the date hereof Registrable Securities (excluding, solely for purposes of calculating the number of issued Ordinary Shares used in the denominator of that calculation, the MIP Shares, the MIP Awards and upon receipt any Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to the terms of the Opioid Trust CVR) may request in writing (“Demand Registration Request”) that the Company facilitate an Underwritten Offering in the manner and subject to the conditions described in this Section 2 and Section 4 hereof. If a written request from Registration Statement for a Holder Shelf Registration on Form S-3 (such Holderthe “Form S-3 Shelf”) or Form S-1 (the “Form S-1 Shelf”, and, together with its Affiliatesthe Form S-3 Shelf, the “Exercising HolderShelf Registration Statement”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under has previously been filed and been declared effective, then the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice Company shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, facilitate such Underwritten Offering as soon an Underwritten Shelf Takedown pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement as reasonably practicable, promptly as practicable after receipt of such written request. If no Shelf Registration Statement has previously been filed, then the Company will file with a Registration Statement covering the SEC Holder’s Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and shall use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all as promptly as practicable after receipt of such request, and facilitate such Underwritten Offering as an Underwritten Shelf Takedown; provided, however, that the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent Company will not be required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2(a) or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.effect an Underwritten Offering:
(bA) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, unless either (i) the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included offered and sold in such Underwritten Offering equals at least ten percent (10%) of the outstanding Registrable Securities (excluding, solely for purposes of calculating the number of issued Ordinary Shares used in the Demand Registration denominator of that calculation, the MIP Shares, the MIP Awards and any Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to the terms of the Opioid Trust CVR) or (including securities ii) the Registrable Securities requested to be sold by CRIC the Holders pursuant to such Registration Statement would have an anticipated aggregate gross offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of at least $50.0 million;
(B) if an Underwritten Offering pursuant to this Section 2(a) shall previously have been consummated within the one hundred twenty (120) days preceding the date such Demand Registration Request is made;
(C) if the number of Demand Registration Requests previously made pursuant to this Section 2(a) shall equal or exceed two (2) in any other security holdertwelve (12)-month period; provided, including any Holders other however, that a Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (C) unless more than seventy-five percent (75%) of the Exercising Holder full amount of Registrable Securities for which registration has been requested have been sold pursuant thereto; or
(such D) if the requesting Holder(s) have previously made, in aggregate, three (3) or more Demand Registration Requests.
(b) A Demand Registration Request shall specify (i) the then-current name and address of the requesting Holders, (ii) the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest aggregate number of securities which reasonably can Registrable Securities requested to be registered and sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offeringan Underwritten Offering, including (iii) the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the total number of Registrable Securities then beneficially owned by the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to registerrequesting Holders, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with (iv) the rights intended means of priority provided in this Section 2(bdistribution for such Underwritten Offering (including whether such Underwritten Offering will be accomplished as an underwritten “block trade”).
(c) Each The Company may satisfy its obligations under Section 2(a) hereof by amending (to the extent 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 of all of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities for which a Demand Registration Request has been properly made under Section 2(b) hereof in an Underwritten Offering. If the Company so amends a previously filed registration statement, the Effective Date of the amended registration statement, as amended pursuant to this Section 2; provided, 2(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 2(d) hereof.
(d) The Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep a Registration Statement that a registration requested pursuant to has become effective as contemplated by this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SECcontinuously effective, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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 SECCommission:
(A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement, but 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, until all Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities.
(e) The requesting Holders may, in connection with making a Demand Registration Request, at any time prior to the Effective Date of the Registration Statement relating to such registration, revoke their request for the Company to effect an Underwritten Offering of all or part of the requesting 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, either (i) the requesting 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 (and the Company shall not be required to reimburse the Holders for expenses of their counsel pursuant to Section 8 hereof), which out-of-pocket expenses, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include overhead expenses, and the requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) within ten (10) Business Days from the date of revocation, the Holders of a Majority of Registrable Securities may consent, by written notice to the Company, to the requested Underwritten Offering that has been revoked being deemed to have been effected for purposes of Section 2(a); provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC Company shall not have the right to be reimbursed as provided in clause (i) above (and shall be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following reimburse the date Holders for expenses of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested their counsel pursuant to this Section 2 shall 8 hereof), and the cancelled Underwritten Offering may not be deemed to have been effected unless pursuant to clause (ii) above if the reason for the requesting Holders’ revocation of the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto Request was either (ia) has become effective under the Securities Act and Company’s failure to comply in any material respect with its obligations hereunder, or (b) the commencement of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Grace Period.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days If, at any time after the date hereof and upon receipt of Corporation has filed any registration statement under the Securities Act or the Securities Exchange Act, except with respect to registration statements filed on Form S-8 or any successor form, the Corporation receives a written request from by ACAS, its successors or assigns (each, a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Demanding Holder”) requesting that CRIC to effect a the registration under the Securities Act of shares of Registrable Securities of the Corporation (a “Demand Registration”) ), the Corporation shall follow the procedures described in this Section. Thereupon, the Corporation shall, as expeditiously as possible, use its best reasonable efforts to effect the registration on a form of general use under the Securities Act covering of the shares it has been requested to register in such initial request and in any response to such notice given to the Corporation within twenty (20) days after the Corporation’s giving of such notice; provided, however, that the Corporation shall not be required to effect a Demand Registration if more than two Demand Registrations have been undertaken. The Corporation may not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section during the first 180 days after the effective date of any registration statement filed by the Corporation under Section 8.1 if the Demand Holders have been afforded the opportunity to register in such registration all or part a majority of the their Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number . The Corporation may include in any registration under this Section any other shares of Registrable Securities (including issued and outstanding shares of stock as to which the holders thereof have contracted with the Corporation for which “piggyback” registration is requested and rights) so long as the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt inclusion in such registration of such written requestshares will not, file in the opinion of the managing underwriter of the shares of the stockholder or stockholders first demanding registration (if the offering is underwritten), interfere with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (successful marketing in accordance with the intended method of sale or methods other disposition of distribution thereof) of all the Registrable Securities so registered.
stock sought to be registered by such demanding stockholder or stockholders pursuant to this Section. (b) If In addition to the Demand Registration relates registration rights provided in Section 8.1 and 8.2(a) above, if at any time the Corporation is eligible to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter use Commission Form S-3 (or any successor form) for registration of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder thatsecondary sales of Registrable Securities, in its reasonable opinion, the number any single Stockholder of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration holding two percent (including securities to be sold by CRIC 2%) or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each more of the E-House Holders and Common Stock, on a Fully Diluted Basis, may request in writing that the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations Corporation register shares of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; providedon such form or any successor form. Upon receipt of such request, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.Corporation
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Samples: Stockholders Agreement
Demand Registration. (a) Following During the period commencing on the first (1st) anniversary of the Closing Date and expiring on the date that is one hundred and eighty on which the Company’s obligations under this Section 4.01 shall terminate in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.01(f) below (180) days after such period, the date hereof and upon receipt “DEMAND PERIOD”), Holders of not less than 25% of the Registrable Securities may make a written request from a Holder to the Company (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested intended to be disposed of by such Persons and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with ) that the SEC Company register any and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC requested to be so registered by filing with the SEC a Registration Statement covering such Registrable Securities (a “DEMAND REGISTRATION STATEMENT”). Upon the receipt of such a request, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders from whom notice has not been received, and such Holders shall then be entitled within ten (10) days thereafter to request the Company to include in such Demand Registration Statement all or any portion of their Registrable Securities. Not later than the forty-fifth (45th) day after the earlier of (i) the expiration of such 10-day period and (ii) the date on which all Holders have indicated their intention to have Registrable Securities held by them included in such Demand Registration Statement, and provided the Company is then in the Demand Period, the Company shall cause to be filed a Demand Registration Statement providing for the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofthereof specified in such request, and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to have such Demand Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC as soon as practicable thereafter and to keep such Demand Registration Statement continuously effective for a period of time necessary following the date on which such Demand Registration Statement is declared effective for the underwriters or Selling Holders, as applicable, to sell all the Registrable Securities covered by such Demand Registration Statement, but in any event a period of no more than 150 days following the date on which such Demand Registration Statement is declared effective (the “SELLING PERIOD”) or such shorter period which will terminate when all of the Registrable Securities so registeredcovered by such Demand Registration Statement have been sold pursuant thereto (including, if necessary, by filing with the SEC a post-effective amendment or a supplement to the Demand Registration Statement or the related prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or by filing any other required document or otherwise supplementing or amending the Demand Registration Statement, if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company for such Demand Registration Statement or by the Securities Act, any state securities or “blue sky” laws, or any other rules and regulations thereunder). The Company shall not be required to cause to be effective more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements pursuant to this Section 4.01. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, at any time that the Company is eligible to register a primary offering of securities on Form S-3 (or its successor Form) under the General Instructions to such Form, the Selling Holders shall be entitled to require that either or both of the demand registrations hereunder be effected as a shelf registration in accordance with Rule 415 under the Securities Act (or any similar rule that may be adopted by the SEC), and the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Demand Registration Statement effecting such shelf registration continuously effective during the period from the date the Demand Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC until the earlier to occur of (i) the second (2nd) anniversary of the effective date of such Demand Registration Statement, (ii) following the first anniversary of the Closing Date, the first date on which all Registrable Securities held by all members of the Investor Group represent less than 1% of all then Outstanding Shares, or (iii) the first date on which no member of the Investor Group is an “affiliate” of the Company as such term is defined in Rule 144 and all Registrable Securities held by all members of the Investor Group may be sold to the public without SEC registration in a single transaction under Rule 144(k).
(b) If Subject to the provisions of Section 4.01(e), a Demand Registration relates Statement shall be deemed not to an underwritten public offering have become effective (and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, related registration shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall deemed not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(ceffected) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in if, after it has been declared effective, the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness offering of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court solely due to (other than any such stop order or injunction issued as a result of the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, inclusion in such Demand Registration Statement of any information supplied to the Company for inclusion therein by a Selling Holder), the Selling Period shall be extended by that number of days during which such stop order, injunction or other order or requirement remains in effect or is not reversed, vacated, waived or otherwise lifted.
(c) If at any time or from time to time any Selling Holder desires to sell Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering pursuant to a Demand Registration Statement, the sole expense of CRIC underwriters, including the managing underwriter, shall be selected by the Selling Holders and shall not be included as one of reasonably acceptable to the Demand Registrations which may be requested Company.
(d) If a registration pursuant to this Section 24.01 involves an underwritten offering of the securities being registered (an “UNDERWRITTEN OFFERING”), which securities are to be distributed on a firm commitment basis by or through one or more underwriters of recognized standing, and the underwriter or the managing underwriter, as the case may be, of such Underwritten Offering shall inform the Company and the Selling Holders that, in its opinion, the amount of securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the amount which can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, then the Company will include in such registration only the amount of Registrable Securities and other securities that the Company is so advised can be sold in such offering; provided, however, that the amount of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration that the Company is so advised can be sold in such offering shall be allocated pro rata among the Selling Holders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered by all Selling Holders.
(e) The Selling Holders, at any time prior to the effective date of a Demand Registration Statement, may revoke the Demand Registration Statement, without liability to any Holder except as may be provided under this Section 4.01(e), by providing a written notice to the Company revoking such request. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4.01(b), any Demand Registration Statement revoked by Selling Holders (whether before or after such Demand Registration Statement has been declared effective) shall be deemed to have been “effective” for purposes of this Agreement unless the Selling Holders, within 30 days of such revocation, reimburse the Company for all Registration Expenses incurred by the Company in connection with the Demand Registration Statement so revoked.
(f) The Company’s obligations under this Section 4.01 shall terminate upon the first date on which: (i) following the first anniversary of the Closing Date, all Registrable Securities held by all members of the Investor Group represent less than 1% of all then Outstanding Shares, or (ii) no member of the Investor Group is an “affiliate” of the Company as such term is defined in Rule 144 (other than in situations in which the only reason no member of the Investor Group is such an “affiliate” is the Company’s breach of its obligations under Section 2.01) and all Registrable Securities held by all members of the Investor Group may be sold to the public without SEC registration in a single transaction under Rule 144(k).
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Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time after issuance of the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its AffiliatesRegistrable Shares, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a Seller shall have the right to request registration (a “"Demand Registration”") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Seller's Registrable Securities, Shares upon the terms and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, subject to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registeredterms, conditions and limitations set forth herein.
(b) If The Seller may elect to exercise the right to request a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2 by furnishing the Company with written notice thereof (a "Demand Notice") which sets forth the number of Registrable Shares requested to be registered and the Seller's preferred method of distribution of such Registrable Shares. The Company shall as soon as practicable after the date on which it receives the Demand Notice, file with the Commission and use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause to become effective a Registration relates Statement which shall cover the Registrable Shares specified in the Demand Notice.
(c) Notwithstanding the preference of the Seller as to an underwritten public offering and the method of distribution of any Registrable Shares that may be set forth in a Demand Notice, the Company, in its sole discretion, may determine that the sale of Registrable Shares pursuant to any Demand Registration be pursuant to a firm commitment underwriting, the managing underwriter of which shall be a nationally recognized investment banking firm selected by the Company. If the lead managing underwriter of any such proposed underwritten public offering advises CRIC and determines in good faith that the Exercising Holder thataggregate number of Registrable Shares to be offered exceeds the number of shares that could be sold without having an adverse effect on such offering (including the price at which the Registrable Shares may be sold), in its reasonable opinionthen, subject to Section 3(a)(v), the number of Registrable Securities requested Shares to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to offered shall be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up reduced to the Maximum Offering Sizeamount recommended by such lead managing underwriter. The Company shall enter into the same underwriting agreement as shall the Seller, firstcontaining representations, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to registerwarranties, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to registerindemnities, and third, any securities CRIC proposes agreements reasonably acceptable to register the Company and any securities not substantially different from those customarily made by an issuer in underwriting agreements with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICsecondary distributions.
(d) Notwithstanding In response to any Demand Notice, the Company may, in its sole discretion, prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Shares for offering and sale on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a "Shelf Registration Statement"). The section of the Shelf Registration Statement entitled "Plan of Distribution" shall be prepared in accordance with the requirements of Item 508 of Regulation S-K promulgated by the Commission under the Securities Act ("Regulation S-K") and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required provide that the Seller may distribute the Registrable Shares pursuant to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand such Registration Statement within one hundred only during a Sale Period and eighty (180) days following solely in the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statementmanner set forth on Exhibit A hereto.
(e) A The Company shall be entitled to postpone, for a reasonable period of time not in excess of 120 days after its receipt of a Demand Notice, the filing of any Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto Statement, if (i) has become effective under at any time prior to the Securities Act filing of such Registration Statement the Company determines, in its reasonable business judgment, that such registration and offering could interfere with or otherwise adversely affect any financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization, or other material transaction or development involving the Company or any of its affiliates or require the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in Company to disclose matters that otherwise would not be required to be disclosed at such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder time and (ii) has remained effective the Company gives the Seller written notice of such postponement. Any such notice need not specify the reasons for a period such postponement if the Company determines, in its reasonable business judgment, that doing so would interfere with or adversely affect such transaction or development or would result in the disclosure of at least material non-public information. In the event of such postponement, the Company shall file such Registration Statement as soon as practicable after it shall determine, in its reasonable business judgment, that specified such registration and offering will not interfere with the matters described in the first sentence of this Section 5(a2(e); . If the Company shall postpone the filing of any Registration Statement, the Seller shall have the right to withdraw his request for such registration by giving notice to the Company within 15 days of the notice of postponement. In the event that the Seller withdraws his request in the foregoing manner, such request shall not be counted for purposes of determining the number of registrations to which the Seller is entitled pursuant to Section 3(a)(i) or Section 3(a)(ii) hereof.
(f) The Seller may, before any underwriting agreement relating to his Registrable Shares is signed or before any Registration Statement becomes effective, withdraw his Registrable Shares from inclusion therein, should the terms of sale not be satisfactory to him, provided, however, that if such registration shall be deemed to have occurred for the purposes of Section 3(a)(i) and Section 3(a)(ii) hereof, unless the Seller pays, within 20 days after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effectivesuch withdrawal, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement all of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one out-of-pocket expenses of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Company incurred in connection with such registration.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Tele Communications Inc /Co/)
Demand Registration. (ai) Following the date that is one hundred From and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt hereof, the holders of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, majority of the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC then outstanding Greenwich Stock shall have the right to require the Company to effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) up to two registrations of their Common Stock on Form S-1 under the Securities Act covering all and, if available, unlimited registrations on Form S-2 or part S-3 under the Securities Act, (ii) from and after a Qualified Public Offering, SG shall have the right to require the Company to effect up to two registrations of the Registrable SecuritiesCommon Stock on Form S-2 or S-3 , and which notice (iii) from and after a Qualified Public Offering, the holders of Warrant Shares shall have the right to require the Company to effect up to three registrations of Warrant Shares and Conversion Shares (any such registration, a "DEMAND REGISTRATION") (the Stockholder requesting such Demand Registration, the "REQUESTING STOCKHOLDER"), each such request to specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after thereof (which may include a distribution in an underwritten offering). Upon receipt of any request for a Demand Registration, the Company shall give prompt written notice of such written requestrequest to each Stockholder, file with and, subject to the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectiveprovisions set forth below, a registration statement (a “shall include in such Demand Registration Statement”) relating all Stockholder Shares with respect to all which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within 30 days after the delivery of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, Company's notice (including shares covered by Vested Options to the extent required to permit that the disposition (Company receives appropriate assurances that such Options will be exercised upon effectiveness of such registration). If other shares of Common Stock are included in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the any Demand Registration relates to that is not an underwritten public offering, all Stockholder Shares included in such offering shall be sold prior to the sale of any of such other securities. If other shares of Common Stock are included in any Demand Registration that is an underwritten offering, and the managing underwriter of for such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, Company that in its reasonable opinion, opinion the number of Registrable Securities requested securities to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having adversely affecting the pricing or marketability thereof, the Company will include in such registration FIRST, the Stockholder Shares of the Requesting Stockholder, SECOND, the Stockholder Shares of Greenwich and SG, on a material adverse effect pro rata basis and THIRD, all other Stockholder Shares, pro rata among the holders thereof, based on the percentage of the outstanding Stockholder Shares held by each such Stockholder (assuming the exercise of all Vested Options held by participating Stockholders). The Company shall have the right to select the investment banker(s) and manager(s) to administer any Demand Registration that is an underwritten offering, including subject to the price at which such securities can approval of the holders of a majority of the Greenwich Stock to be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include included in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Day International Group Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time and from time to time beginning on the date the Company is eligible to use Form S-3 for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities, any Holder or group of Holders that is one hundred and eighty hold, in the aggregate, at least five percent (1805%) days after of the date hereof and upon receipt outstanding shares of a written Common Stock or twenty percent (20%) of the aggregate principal amount outstanding of Senior Secured PIK Notes, as applicable, at such time, may request from a Holder in writing (“Demand Registration Request”) that the Company effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ applicable Registrable Securities with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act (each, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”). The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and shall 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):
(i) under if the Registrable Securities Act covering all or part 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, and which notice shall specify Securities requested to be registered; or
(ii) if the number of Demand Registration Requests previously made pursuant to this Section 5(a) shall equal or exceed four (4) in any twelve (12)-month period irrespective of whether the Demand Registration relates to Common Stock or Senior Secured PIK Notes; provided, however, that a Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (ii) 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 is 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 method or methods means of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use distribution.
(c) The Company may satisfy its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement obligations under Section 5(a) hereof by amending (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register 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 of distribution thereofdisposition 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.
(bd) If the Within five (5) Business Days after receiving a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and Request, the managing underwriter Company shall give written notice of such proposed public offering advises CRIC request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the Exercising Holder thatprovisions of Section 6(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in its reasonable opinionsuch registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within ten (10) 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 number offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)manner so requested.
(ce) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to keep a Registration Statement that has become effective as contemplated by this Section 2; provided5 continuously effective, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that Commission:
(i) in the event case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement; and
(ii) in the Exercising case of a Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3, until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3; and (y) the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 shall cease to be Registrable Securities.
(f) The Holder revokes or Holders making a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made Request may, at any time prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness the Effective Date of the Registration Statement relating to such registration, revoke their request for the Company to effect the registration statement) then 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 shall count as having been effected unless Request is revoked, then, at the Exercising option of the Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with or Holders who revoke such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinrequest, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file either (i) more than 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 (1) of the permitted Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, Requests hereunder or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not registration that has been revoked will be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any for purposes of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand .
(g) If a Registration Statement requested filed pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective5 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 the number of shares of Common Stock or Senior Secured PIK Notes, as applicable, included in such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction “takedown” shall equal at least five percent (5%) of all outstanding shares of Common Stock or other order or requirement twenty percent (20%) of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act aggregate principal amount outstanding of CRICSenior Secured PIK Notes, as applicable, at such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2time.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Petroquest Energy Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time and from time to time on or following the date Plan Effective Date, any Holder or group of Holders may request in writing (“Demand Registration Request”) that is the Company effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such 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 4(a):
(A) unless either (i) the number 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 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 and eighty (180) days after preceding the date hereof and upon receipt such 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 written request from a Holder Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, D) unless the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under requested Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Securities Act covering all or part Commission for more than 75% of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number full amount of Registrable Securities for which registration is 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 method or methods means of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with distribution. If at the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “time the Demand Registration Statement”) relating Request is made the Company appears, based on public information available to all such Holder or Holders, eligible to use Form S-3 for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities Securities, the Holder or Holders making such request may request that CRIC has been so requested the registration be in the form of a Shelf Registration Statement (for the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall not be under the obligation to register for salefile 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 4(a) hereof by amending (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 of distribution thereofdisposition 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 that the 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.
(bd) If the Within ten (10) days after receiving a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and Request, the managing underwriter Company shall give written notice of such proposed public offering advises CRIC request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the Exercising Holder thatprovisions of Section 5(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in its reasonable opinionsuch 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 number offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)manner so requested.
(ce) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled The Company will use its reasonable efforts to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to keep a Registration Statement that has become effective as contemplated by this Section 2; provided4 continuously effective, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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 SECCommission:
(A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement, but 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, until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due Commission relating to any Shelf Registration Statement, if any Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement remain unsold, the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, period during which such Demand 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 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 sole expense option of CRIC 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 be included include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registrations which may Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) the requested registration that has been revoked will be requested deemed to have been effected for purposes of Section 4(a).
(g) If a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 24 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 number of Registrable Securities to be included in such “takedown” shall equal 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 in such “takedown” shall have an anticipated aggregate offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of at least $15 million.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Goodrich Petroleum Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days At any time on or after the date hereof and upon receipt of Registration Trigger, the Holder shall have the right by delivering a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, notice to the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration Company (a “"Demand Registration”Notice") to require the Company to, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify 1933 the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is Beneficially Owned by the Holder and requested by such Demand Notice to be so registered (a "Demand Registration"); provided, however, that (i) the number of Demand Registrations in any 12-month period shall not exceed one, and the intended method or methods number of distribution thereof, CRIC Demand Registrations together with any Shelf Offerings in any 12-month period shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of not exceed two. The Company shall not be required to register the Registrable Securities requested by the Demand Notice unless the Holder has requested to include in such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”either (x) relating to Registrable Securities having a principal amount of at least $200,000,000 or (y) all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent then held by such Holder. No Demand Registration shall be required to permit be made by the disposition Company for a Holder if it is within six (in accordance with 6) months of another registration that included such Holder's Registrable Securities. The Demand Notice shall also specify the intended expected method or methods of distribution thereof) disposition of the applicable Registrable Securities so registeredSecurities.
(b) If Subject to Section 3.4, following receipt of a Demand Notice, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to file, as promptly as reasonably practicable, a Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of the Registrable SRZ-10895481 2 Securities requested to be included therein by the Holder (and any Other Securities requested to be included therein by the holders thereof) in accordance with the methods of distribution elected by the Holder in the Demand Notice (a "Demand Registration relates Statement") and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933 as promptly as practicable after the filing thereof.
(c) The Holder may withdraw its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time by providing the Company with written notice. Upon receipt of such written notice, the Company shall cease all efforts to secure registration; provided, however, such registration shall nonetheless be deemed a Demand Registration for all purposes hereunder unless (i) the withdrawal is made following the occurrence of a Material Adverse Change not known to the Holder at the time of the Demand Notice, (ii) the withdrawal is made because the registration would require the Company to make an Adverse Disclosure or (iii) the Holder has paid or reimbursed the Company for all of the reasonable out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred by the Company in the preparation, filing and processing of the withdrawn registration.
(d) If any of the Registrable Securities to be registered pursuant to a Demand Registration Statement are to be sold in an underwritten public offering, and such offering and the managing underwriter of is subject to an Offering Limitation, then there shall be included in such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinionoffering: (i) first, the number dollar amount of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Demand Registration Holder (including securities up to an aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000), (ii) second, the dollar amount of the Registrable Securities requested to be sold included in such registration by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, and the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number dollar amount of securities which reasonably requested to be included in such registration by the Company that in the mutual opinion of one underwriter selected by the Company and one underwriter selected by the Holder can be sold without adversely affecting the price, timing, distribution or marketability of such offering of the securities referred to in clause (i) above and this clause (ii), with such dollar amount of securities allocated for inclusion pro rat and without priority among the Company and the Holder on the basis of the dollar amount of Registrable Securities owned by the Holder and the dollar amount of the securities requested to be included in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offeringregistration by the Company in good faith, including and (iii) third, the price at which such securities dollar amount of any Other Securities requested to be included therein by the holders thereof that in the opinion of the managing or lead underwriter(s) selected by the Company can be sold without adversely affecting the size, price, timing, distribution or marketability of such offering of the securities referred to in clauses (i) or (ii) above or the “Maximum Offering Size” price, timing, distribution or marketability of such offering of the securities referred to in this clause (iii), then CRIC and such dollar amount of securities shall include in be allocated for inclusion pro rata and without priority among the holders of all such securities on the basis of the dollar amount of such securities of the Company owned by each such holder.
(e) the right to select one or more nationally recognized co-managers (which, for avoidance of doubt, shall not be named or function as lead underwriters or as bookrunners, or otherwise appear on the left-hand side of the cover of any prospectus, prospectus supplement, offering circular or other similar document, with respect to such Demand Registration) of such Demand Registration, up who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Maximum Offering Size, firstCompany. In connection with any such underwritten public offering, the Registrable Securities Holder and the Exercising Holder proposes Company agree that they will each enter into a customary underwriting agreement with the underwriters selected pursuant to registerthe preceding sentence, secondsuch underwriting agreement to be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Company, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three underwriters (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, it being understood that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare make any representations and file (i) more warranties other than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month periodwith respect to itself, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any its ownership of the Registrable Securities and its intended method of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC distribution thereof and shall not be included as one required to provide an indemnity other than with respect to information it provides to the Company in writing expressly for use in such underwritten public offering pursuant to a Demand Registration, and any such indemnity shall be limited in amount to the net proceeds of such underwritten public offering pursuant to a Demand Registration actually received by the Holder). The Holder and the Company agree that all decisions under this Section 3.2 regarding whether an Offering Limitation is necessary (and any related determinations pursuant to clause (iii) or (iv) of Section 3.2(d), other than any determination under clause (ii) of Section 3.2(d), which shall be made in the sole discretion of the Demand Registrations which may co-manager(s) selected by the Holder) shall be requested pursuant to this Section 2made in the sole discretion of the managing or lead underwriter(s) selected by the Company.
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Samples: Settlement Agreement
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred At any time and eighty (180) days from time to time after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written this Agreement, any Holder or Holders of more than 25% of the Registrable Shares (the "Requesting Holders," which term shall include parties deemed "Requesting Holders" pursuant to Section 2.1(f) hereof) may request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration in writing (a “"Demand Registration”Request") that the Company effect the registration under the Securities Act covering of all or part of its or their Registrable Shares (a "Demand Registration"); provided, that if all the Requesting Holders are Subsequent Holders, such request must be to register Registrable SecuritiesShares resulting in anticipated gross proceeds of at least $50,000,000. The Company will not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to a Demand Request made only by one or more Subsequent Holders more than once in any six (6) month period, and which notice or within six (6) months after any Underwritten Shelf Takedown or any Demand Request made by Requesting Holders that include Initial Holders.
(b) Each Demand Request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and Shares proposed to be sold. Subject to Section 2.1(g), the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to, to file the Demand Registration as soon as reasonably practicable, but not later than 60 days after receipt of such written requestreceiving a Demand Request (subject to the delay period referred to in Section 2.1(g), file with the SEC "Required Filing Date"), and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the same to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of effective by the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of SEC as soon as reasonably practicable after such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)filing.
(c) Each The offering of Registrable Shares pursuant to a Demand Registration may, at the option of the E-House Holders and of a majority of the Sina Registrable Shares to be registered in a Demand Registration (the "Majority Requesting Holders"), be in each case, collectively, the form of a "firm commitment" underwritten offering. The Company shall not be entitled obligated to effect more than an aggregate of three 10 underwritten offerings (3) registrations of Registrable Securities including any Underwritten Shelf Takedowns pursuant to this Section 2; provided2.1(d) hereof). If such Majority Requesting Holders request a "firm commitment" underwritten offering, the Majority Requesting Holders shall select the investment banking firm or firms to manage such underwritten offering, provided that a registration requested pursuant such selection shall be subject to this Section 2 the consent of the Company, which consent shall not be deemed unreasonably withheld. No Person may participate in any underwritten registration pursuant to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c2.1(a) unless such Person (i) it has been declared effective by agrees to sell such Person's Registrable Shares on the SECbasis provided in any underwriting arrangements described above, and (ii) it has remained effective for such Person completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents reasonably required under the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering terms of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICunderwriting arrangements.
(d) Notwithstanding If the Company is then eligible to file a registration statement on Form S-3 and if requested by the Majority Requesting Holders, any Demand Registration may be made pursuant to a "shelf" registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a "Shelf Registration"). The Holders of a majority of Registrable Shares included in any such Shelf Registration may request an underwritten takedown of Registrable Shares off of such Shelf Registration (an "Underwritten Shelf Takedown"), subject to the limitation provided in Section 2.1(c), and shall select the investment banking firm or firms to manage such Underwritten Shelf Takedown, provided that such selection shall be subject to the consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. In an effort to conduct any such Underwritten Shelf Takedown in the most efficient and organized manner, each Holder included in such Shelf Registration agrees to coordinate with the other Holders prior to initiating any sales efforts and cooperate with the other Holders as to the terms of such Underwritten Shelf Takedown, including, without limitation, the aggregate amount of securities to be sold and the number of Registrable Shares to be sold by each Holder. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Company shall give prompt notice to all Holders whose Registrable Shares are included in the Shelf Registration of the receipt of a request from another Holder whose Registrable Shares are included in the Shelf Registration of a proposed Underwritten Shelf Takedown under and pursuant to the Shelf Registration and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC will provide such Holders a period of two (2) Business Days to participate in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown. All such Holders electing to be included in an Underwritten Shelf Takedown must sell their Registrable Shares to the underwriters selected on the same terms and conditions as apply to any other selling Holders. The Company will not be obligated to effect more than one Underwritten Shelf Takedown requested by Majority Requesting Holders consisting only of Subsequent Holders in any six month period or within six months after any Demand Registration or Underwritten Shelf Takedown. Consummation of any Underwritten Shelf Takedown is also subject to Section 2.1(g).
(e) The Company and the other holders of the Company's securities that have piggyback rights pursuant to the agreements set forth on Schedule 2.1(d) (as in effect on the date hereof) shall have the right to participate in and be included in a Demand Registration (including any Underwritten Shelf Takedown), unless, if such Demand Registration is an underwritten offering, the managing underwriter or underwriters shall advise the Company or the Requesting Holders in writing that the inclusion of all such securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration will materially and adversely affect the price or success of the offering (a "Material Adverse Effect"). If the inclusion of all securities requested to be included therein will have a Material Adverse Effect, then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration (including any Underwritten Shelf Takedown) the maximum number of shares of Common Stock that such managing underwriter advises can be so sold without having a Material Adverse Effect, allocated (i) first, to Registrable Shares requested by Holders to be included in such Demand Registration allocated among such requesting Holders on a pro rata basis based on the number of shares of Common Stock owned or in such other manner as the Holders may agree, and (ii) second, to shares of Common Stock the Company proposes to sell and to other shares of Common Stock requested to be included by the other holders of the Company's securities that have piggyback rights pursuant to the agreements set forth on Schedule 2.1(d) (as in effect on the date hereof) in such Demand Registration on a pro rata basis based on the number of shares of Common Stock requested to be included or in such other manner as the Company and such holders may agree.
(f) Upon receipt of any Demand Request (other than pursuant to Section 2.1(d)), the Company shall promptly (but in any event within 10 days) give written notice of such proposed Demand Registration to all other Holders, who shall have the right, exercisable by written notice to the Company within 10 days of their receipt of the Company's notice, to elect to include in such Demand Registration such portion of their Registrable Shares as they may request. All Holders requesting to have their Registrable Shares included in a Demand Registration in accordance with the preceding sentence shall be deemed to be "Requesting Holders" for purposes of this Section 2.1(f).
(g) The Company may defer the filing (but not the preparation) of a registration statement required by Section 2.1(a) or any post-effective amendment or prospectus for any Underwritten Shelf Takedown pursuant to Section 2.1(c) until a date not later than 90 days after the Required Filing Date (or, if longer, 90 days after the effective date of the registration statement contemplated by clause (ii) below) if (i) at the time the Company receives the Demand Request or Underwritten Shelf Takedown, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are engaged in confidential negotiations or other confidential business activities, disclosure of which would be required in such registration statement (but would not be required if such registration statement were not filed), and the Board of Directors of the Company determines in good faith that such disclosure would be materially detrimental to prepare the Company and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements its stockholders, or the Board of Directors determines in any twelve-month periodgood faith that such postponement is necessary in order to avoid premature disclosure of a matter that the Board has determined would not be in the best interest of the Company to be disclosed at that time, or (ii) prior to receiving the Demand Request or Underwritten Shelf Takedown, the Board of Directors had determined to effect a registered underwritten public offering of the Company's securities for the Company's account and the Company and is proceeding with reasonable diligence to effect such offering, or (iii) if the Company cannot obtain, after using its reasonable best efforts, financial information (or information used to prepare such information) from any third party necessary for inclusion in such Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following including any Underwritten Shelf Takedown). A deferral of the date filing of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested a registration statement pursuant to this Section 2 2.1(g) shall not be deemed lifted, and the requested registration statement shall be filed forthwith, if, in the case of a deferral pursuant to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto clause (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities preceding sentence, the negotiations or other activities are disclosed or terminated, or, in the case of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and a deferral pursuant to clause (ii) has remained effective of the preceding sentence, the proposed registration for the Company's account is abandoned. In order to defer the filing of a period registration statement pursuant to this Section 2.1(g), the Company shall promptly (but in any event within ten days), upon determining to seek such deferral, deliver to each Requesting Holder a certificate signed by an executive officer of at least the Company stating that specified the Company is deferring such filing pursuant to this Section 2.1(g). The Company may defer the filing of a particular registration statement or prospectus pursuant to this Section 2.1(g) only two times in Section 5(a)any 12 month period; provided, however, that if any second such deferral in any 12 month period may not occur until at least 120 days after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement the termination of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, first such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2deferral period in any 12 month period.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I, Ltd.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following Request by Holders. One or both of Holders may request that the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after Company register the date hereof and upon Registrable Securities. Upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Requesting Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration the Company register the Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Holder (a “Demand RegistrationRequest”), then the Company shall, within fifteen (15) days after receipt of such Demand Request, give written notice of such request (a “Request Notice”) under to the Securities Act covering other Holders, provided, however, that if all or part of Holders jointly request that the Company register their Registrable Securities, and which notice then the Company shall have no obligation to deliver any such Request Notice. Each Demand Request shall (x) specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and that the Requesting Holders intend to sell or dispose of, (y) state the intended method or of methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after sale or disposition of the Registrable Securities and (z) specify the expected price range (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) acceptable to the Requesting Holders to be received for such Registrable Securities. Following receipt of such written requesta Demand Request, file with the SEC Company shall, subject to the limitations and conditions of Section 2.1(c) and Section 2.5:
(i) use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be declared effectivefiled, as soon as practicable, but within forty-five (45) days of the date of delivery to the Company of the Demand Request, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Statement covering such Registrable Securities that CRIC which the Company has been so requested to register by the Requesting Holder(s) and, if applicable, the other Holders who request to the Company that his or its Registrable Securities be registered within ten (10) days of their receipt of the Request Notice, providing for sale, the registration under the Securities Act of such Registrable Securities to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include specified in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).Request; and
(cii) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed use commercially reasonable efforts to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been such Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC, SEC as soon as practicable thereafter and no later than ninety (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (790) days after the filing of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other such Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Mastech Digital, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following If the date that Company is one hundred and eighty (180) days after unable to file, cause to be effective or maintain the date hereof and upon receipt effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement as required under Section 5.01, each Investor Representative shall have the right by delivering a written request from notice to the Company (a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising HolderDemand Notice”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration to require the Company to, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act the number of Registrable Securities held by any Holders and requested by such Demand Notice to be so registered (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice ). A Demand Notice shall also specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended expected method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition of the applicable Registrable Securities. Following receipt of a Demand Notice, CRIC the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts toto file, as soon promptly as reasonably practicable, but not later than 45 days after receipt by the Company of such written requestDemand Notice (subject to paragraph (e) of this Section 5.02), file a Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by the Holders thereof in accordance with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement methods of distribution elected by such Holders (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating and shall use its reasonable best efforts to all of cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to Act as promptly as practicable after the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution filing thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If any of the Registrable Securities to be registered pursuant to a Demand Registration relates are to an be sold in a firm commitment underwritten public offering offering, and the managing underwriter underwriter(s) of such underwritten offering advise the Holders in writing that it is their good faith opinion that the total number or dollar amount of Registrable Securities proposed public to be sold in such offering, together with any other securities proposed to be included by Holders which are entitled to exercise piggyback registration rights as set forth herein with respect to such Registration Statement, exceeds the total number or dollar amount of such securities that can be sold without having an adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the Registrable Securities to be so included together with all such Other Piggyback Securities, then there shall be included in such firm commitment underwritten offering advises CRIC the number or dollar amount of Registrable Securities and such other securities that in the Exercising Holder thatopinion of such managing underwriter(s) can be sold without so adversely affecting such offering, and such number of Registrable Securities and other securities shall be allocated for inclusion as follows:
(i) first, among the Holders of the Registrable Securities set forth in its reasonable opinionthe Demand Notice, pro rata (if applicable), based on the number of Registrable Securities requested Beneficially Owned by each such Holder; and
(ii) second, among the Holders holding Registrable Securities exercising piggyback registration rights under Section 5.03 with respect to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each In the event of a Demand Registration, the Company shall be required to maintain the continuous effectiveness of the E-House Holders applicable Registration Statement for a period of at least 180 days after the effective date thereof or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement have actually been sold.
(d) The Company shall be obligated to effect a total of only two Demand Registrations or Shelf Demand Offerings pursuant to Sections 5.01 and the Sina Holders5.02, in each casethe aggregate, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate at the request of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities the Xxxxxxx Representative and two Demand Registrations or Shelf Demand Offerings pursuant to this Section 2; providedSections 5.01 and 5.02, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by in the SECaggregate, (ii) it has remained effective for at the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement request of the SECTrusts Representative; provided, however, that any such Demand Registration or Shelf Demand Offering shall in no event be in amount less than $250 million. In the event the Exercising Holder revokes Company has failed to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective, and the Company receives from an Investor Representative a notice requesting that the Company effect a registration on Form S-3 (provided that the Company is eligible to effect such registration on Form S-3 at such time), the Company shall be obligated to effect any such requested registration on Form S-3 without regard to the number of Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior Registrations made. The Xxxxxxx Representative and the Trusts Representative shall use commercially reasonable efforts to CRIC requesting acceleration coordinate the timing of effectiveness of their Demand Notices under this Section 5.02 so as to not unduly burden the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses Company in connection with such revoked its fulfilling its obligations under this Article V, it being understood that the Company shall fulfill all its obligations under this Article V if the Company receives any Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICNotice.
(de) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinin this Agreement, CRIC the Company shall not be required entitled, from time to prepare and file time on or after the Closing Date, to declare a Suspension Period, provided that the Company delivers a written certificate to the Holders signed by either the Chief Executive Officer of the Company or the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, certifying that the Company has determined, in its good faith judgment, that such action or proposed action (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements would adversely affect or interfere with any proposal or plan by the Company or any of its affiliates to engage in any twelve-month periodmaterial financing or in any material acquisition, merger, consolidation, tender offer, business combination, securities offering or other material transaction or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within would require the Company to make an Adverse Disclosure. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall have the right, exercisable one hundred time from and eighty (180) days following after the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to Closing Date under either this Section 2 5.01(e) or Section 5.02(e), to extend the successive 30-day or aggregate 90-day Suspension Period limitation for up to an additional 15 days, provided that the Company shall not be deemed deliver a written certificate to have been effected unless the Holders signed by either the Chief Executive Officer of the Company or the Chief Financial Officer of the Company certifying that the Company has a proposal or plan with respect to a material acquisition, merger, consolidation, tender offer, business combination or other strategic transaction and that, in its good faith judgment, such action would adversely affect or interfere with such proposal or plan. Immediately upon receipt of such notice, the Holders covered by the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become shall discontinue the disposition of Registrable Securities under such Demand Registration Statement until the requisite changes to the Prospectus have been made as required below. Each Holder shall keep confidential any communications received by it from the Company regarding the suspension of, or the use of the Demand Registration Statement, except as required by applicable law or court order. The Company agrees that it will terminate any such Suspension Period as promptly as reasonably practicable and will promptly notify the Holders of such termination. After the expiration of any Suspension Period and without any further request from any Holder, the Company shall as promptly as reasonably practicable prepare a post-effective under amendment or supplement to the Securities Act and Demand Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or any document incorporated therein by reference, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to purchasers of the Registrable Securities included therein, the Prospectus will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the Holder included in such circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(f) The Demanding Investor Representative, as applicable, shall have the right to notify the Company that it has determined that the Registration Statement relating to a Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified be abandoned or withdrawn, in Section 5(a)which event the Company shall promptly abandon or withdraw such Registration Statement; provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction abandonment or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one withdrawal of the Demand Registrations which may Registration shall be requested pursuant permissible only if, at the time of such notice to this the Company, (i) no action has been taken under Section 25.04(xiv) and (ii) no offers for the Registrable Securities had been made under such Demand Registration.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following Upon the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration respect to any Registrable Securities (a “Demand RegistrationRegistration Notice”) under of (i) First Reserve, for itself or on behalf of one or more First Reserve Investors or both, WLR, for itself or on behalf of one or more WLR Investors or both, or a CarVal Majority, for one or more CarVal Entities or on behalf of one or more CarVal Investors or both, given to the Securities Act Company at any time following 180 days after the completion of the IPO (with respect to First Reserve, the First Reserve Investors, WLR and the WLR Investors) or the third anniversary of the Contribution Agreement (with respect to the CarVal Entities and the CarVal Investors), or (ii) Chengdong, for itself or on behalf of one or more Chengdong Investors or both, at any time following the date a Registration has been effected pursuant to clause (i) above or otherwise covering the sale of some or all or part of the Registrable SecuritiesSecurities held by First Reserve, the First Reserve Investors, WLR, the WLR Investors, the CarVal Entities or the CarVal Investors, and which notice in each case with a copy of such request given to all Investors, to Register some or all of the Registrable Securities held or beneficially owned at such time by such Investor(s) in a Registration that would reasonably be expected to result in a Qualified Offering, the Company will, as soon as reasonably practicable following receipt of the Demand Registration Notice, take such steps as are necessary to Register such Registrable Securities under the Applicable Securities Laws on a Qualified Exchange and shall, except as otherwise set forth herein, use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration to become Effective under the Applicable Securities Laws in accordance with the proposed timing of the resale and distribution of such Registrable Securities as advised by the Initiating Investor, acting reasonably, so as to permit such resale and distribution to be effected in accordance with the Applicable Securities Laws in such manner as the Initiating Investor may reasonably designate. The Demand Registration Notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested to be Registered and the intended method or methods manner of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt disposition of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts Registrable Securities. Any Investor may elect to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to include some or all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, held by such Investor in such Registration by notice to the extent Company within 60 days of receipt of the Demand Registration Notice. Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Company shall not be required to permit effect more than three demand Registrations pursuant to this Agreement for or on behalf of First Reserve and the disposition (in accordance with First Reserve Investors, three for or on behalf of WLR and the intended method WLR Investors, three for or methods on behalf of distribution thereof) Chengdong and the Chengdong Investors, and three for or on behalf of the Registrable Securities so registeredCarVal Entities and the CarVal Investors.
(b) If Notwithstanding the Demand Registration relates foregoing obligations, if the Company furnishes to an underwritten public offering and Initiating Investor a certificate signed by the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included Company’s chief executive officer stating that in the Demand good faith judgment of the Company’s board of directors (or similar governing body) it would be materially detrimental to the Company and all the Investors for a Registration effected under Section 2.1(a)(i) (including securities excluding the first such Registration effected under such Section) or Section 2.1(a)(ii) to either become effective or remain effective for as long as such Registration Statement otherwise would be sold by CRIC required to remain effective, because such action would (i) materially interfere with a significant acquisition, corporate reorganization, or any other security holder, including any Holders other than similar transaction involving the Exercising Holder Company or (such Holders, ii) require premature disclosure of material information that the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having Company has a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” )bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, then CRIC the Company shall include in such Demand Registration, up have the right to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities defer taking action with respect to which such filing, and any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC time periods with respect to filing or effectiveness thereof shall be tolled correspondingly, for a period of not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with more than 120 days after the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each request of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration Initiating Investor is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SECgiven; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation Company may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) invoke this right more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements once in any twelve12-month period, ; and provided further that the Company shall not Register any securities for its own account or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness that of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested Person during such 120-day period other than pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed a Registration relating to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any sale of securities to employees of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for Company or a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested Subsidiary pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Special Registration.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Diamond S Shipping Group, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days At any time after the date hereof and upon receipt initial public offering of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a Company's Common Stock pursuant to an effective registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part Act, the holders of at least ten percent (10%) of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify Securities may notify the number Company that they intend to offer or cause to be offered for public sale all or any portion of their Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and in the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of manner specified in such written request, file with the SEC and . The Company will use its best efforts to cause expeditiously effect the registration of all Registrable Securities to the extent provided for in the following provisions of this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no request may be declared effective, 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 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 “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all or in the event of an initial public offering, 180 days after the date of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance final prospectus filed with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofCommission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Registrable Securities so registeredAct or if no filing under Rule 424(b) is made, the date of the final prospectus included in the Form S-1 when declared effective under the Securities Act).
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to a requested registration involves an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed offering determines in good faith that the number of securities sought to be offered should be limited due to market conditions, then the number of securities to be included in such underwritten public offering advises CRIC and shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter, PROVIDED that the Exercising Holder thatshares to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) securities held by any other Persons (other than the holders of Registrable Securities) having a contractual, incidental "piggy back" right to include such securities in its reasonable opinionthe registration statement, (ii) Registrable Securities of holders who did not make the original request for registration and, if necessary, (iii) Registrable Securities of holders who requested such registration pursuant to Section 2(a). If there is a reduction of the number of Registrable Securities requested pursuant to clauses (ii) or (iii), such reduction shall be included in made on a pro rata basis (based upon the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest aggregate number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(bheld by such holders).
(c) Each With respect to a request for registration pursuant to Section 2(a) which is for an underwritten public offering, the managing underwriter shall be chosen by the holders of a majority of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that 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 requested pursuant effected solely to this Section 2 shall not be deemed implement an employee benefit plan or a transaction to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement which Rule 145 of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior Securities Act is applicable) to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement become effective within one hundred and eighty twenty (180120) days following the effective date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested registration required pursuant to this Section 2.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time and from time to time beginning on the date the Company is eligible to use Form S-3 for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities, any Holder or group of Holders that is one hundred and eighty hold, in the aggregate, at least five percent (1805%) days after of the date hereof and upon receipt outstanding shares of a written Common Stock or twenty percent (20%) of the aggregate principal amount outstanding of Senior Secured PIK Notes, as applicable, at such time, may request from a Holder in writing (“Demand Registration Request”) that the Company effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ applicable Registrable Securities with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act (each, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”). The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and shall 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):
(i) under if the Registrable Securities Act covering all or part 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, and which notice shall specify Securities requested to be registered; or
(ii) if the number of Demand Registration Requests previously made pursuant to this Section 5(a) shall equal or exceed four (4) in any twelve (12)-month period irrespective of whether the Demand Registration relates to Common Stock or Senior Secured PIK Notes; provided, however, that a Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (ii) 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 is 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 method or methods means of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use distribution.
(c) The Company may satisfy its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement obligations under Section 5(a) hereof by amending (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register 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 of distribution thereofdisposition 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.
(bd) If the Within five (5) Business Days after receiving a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and Request, the managing underwriter Company shall give written notice of such proposed public offering advises CRIC request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the Exercising Holder thatprovisions of Section 6(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in its reasonable opinionsuch registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within ten (10) 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 number offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)manner so requested.
(ce) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to keep a Registration Statement that has become effective as contemplated by this Section 2; provided5 continuously effective, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that Commission:
(i) in the event case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement; and
(ii) in the Exercising case of a Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3, until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3; and (y) the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 shall cease to be Registrable Securities.
(f) The Holder revokes or Holders making a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made Request may, at any time prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness the Effective Date of the Registration Statement relating to such registration, revoke their request for the Company to effect the registration statement) then 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 shall count as having been effected unless Request is revoked, then, at the Exercising option of the Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with or Holders who revoke such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinrequest, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file either (i) more than 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 (1) of the permitted Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, Requests hereunder or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not registration that has been revoked will be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any for purposes of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand .
(g) If a Registration Statement requested filed pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective5 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 the number of shares of Common Stock or Senior Secured PIK Notes, as applicable, included in such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction “takedown” shall equal at least five percent (5%) of all outstanding shares of Common Stock or other order or requirement twenty percent (20%) of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act aggregate principal amount outstanding of CRICSenior Secured PIK Notes, as applicable, at such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2time.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement
Demand Registration. (a) Following If at any time the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of Company shall receive a written request from (a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising HolderDemand Notice”) requesting from the Demand Committee that CRIC the Company effect a the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities specified in the Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration”) ), specifying the information set forth under Section 2.5(j), then the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as expeditiously as reasonably practicable, subject to the restrictions in Section 2.2(d), the registration under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which the Demand Committee has requested registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereofunder this Section 2.2, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered.
(b) At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Demand Committee may revoke such Demand Registration request by providing a notice to the Company revoking such request. The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration.
(c) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the sole or managing underwriter of such proposed public offering a Demand Registration advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, Company in writing that in its reasonable opinion, opinion the number of Registrable Securities and other securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of Registrable Securities and other securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offeringadversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, including the price at which that will be paid in such securities can be sold (offering or the “Maximum Offering Size” )marketability thereof, then CRIC shall the Company will include in such Demand Registration, up to registration the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights greatest number of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective Registrable Securities proposed to be registered by the SECholders thereof, (ii) it has remained effective for securities having Other Registration Rights that are pari passu with the period set forth demand rights granted in Section 5(a) respect of Registrable Securities hereunder proposed to be registered by the holders thereof and (iii) securities proposed to be registered by the Company for its own account which in the opinion of such underwriters can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, the price that will be paid in such offering or the marketability thereof, ratably among the holders of Registrable Securities, the holders of such Other Registration Rights and the Company, based (A) as between the Company and such holders requesting registration, on the respective amounts of securities requested to be registered, and (B) as among the holders requesting registration, on the respective amounts of Registrable Securities (whether requested to be registered pursuant to such registration is not Sections 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3) and securities subject to any stop ordersuch Other Registration Rights, injunction or other order or requirement of as the SECcase may be, held by each such holder; provided, however, that the Company shall have the right (the “Priority Right”) to receive priority over all holders of Registrable Securities in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a any Demand Registration request (which revocation may only to be made prior effected under this Section 2.2 with respect to CRIC securities that the Company proposes to include in such registration for its own account by giving written notice of its election to exercise such Priority Right to the holders of Registrable Securities requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICthereof.
(d) Notwithstanding anything Upon notice to the contrary contained hereinDemand Committee, CRIC shall the Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 2.2 on up to three occasions during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 120 days in the aggregate (which period may not be required to prepare and file extended or renewed), if (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements the Board shall determine in any twelve-month period, good faith that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Company the preparation of which had then been commenced or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date Company is in possession of effectiveness material non-public information the disclosure of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall which during the period specified in such notice the Board believes in good faith would not be deemed to have been effected unless in the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any best interests of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Company.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time and from time to time on or following the date that is one hundred and eighty Plan Effective Date, any Holder or group of Holders may request in writing (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising HolderDemand Registration Request”) requesting that CRIC the Company effect a the registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and shall 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 4:
(A) if the number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered on such Registration Statement is less than twenty percent (20%) of the Initial Registrable Securities Number;
(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 pursuant to this Agreement shall have previously been initially declared effective by the Commission within the one hundred twenty (120) days preceding the date of such 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.
(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, and which notice 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 shall specify not be under the number obligation to file a Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 if, upon the advice of Registrable Securities for which registration its counsel, it is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use not eligible to make such a filing).
(c) The Company may satisfy its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement obligations under Section 4(a) hereof by amending (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register 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 of distribution thereofdisposition specified pursuant to Section 4(b)(iv)) of all of the Registrable Securities for which a Demand Registration Request has been properly made under Section 4(b). If the Company so registeredamends a previously filed Registration Statement, the Company will be deemed to have effected a registration for purposes of Section 4(a); provided, however, that the 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).
(bd) If the Within ten (10) days after receiving a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and Request, the managing underwriter Company shall give written notice of such proposed public offering advises CRIC request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the Exercising Holder thatprovisions of Section 5(d) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in its reasonable opinionsuch 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 number offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)manner so requested.
(ce) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to keep a Registration Statement that has become effective as contemplated by this Section 2; provided4 continuously effective, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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 SECCommission:
(A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement, but 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, until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due Commission relating to any Shelf Registration Statement, if any Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement remain unsold, the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, period during which such Demand 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 making a Demand Registration Request may, at any time prior to the Effective Date of the Registration Statement relating to such Demand Registration Request, revoke such Demand Registration Request for 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 sole expense option of CRIC the Holder or Holders who revoke such Demand Registration 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 be included include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registrations which may Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) the requested registration that has been revoked will be requested pursuant deemed to this have been effected for purposes of Section 24(a).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Chaparral Energy, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following Waterfall shall have the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of right, by delivering a written request from notice to the Company (a Holder (“Demand Notice”), to require the Company to register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act the resale of the number of Registrable Securities Beneficially Owned by the Investor Parties and requested by such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration Demand Notice to be so registered (a “Demand Registration”); provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.2(a) under after the Securities Act covering all or part Company has effected two (2) Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.2(a); and provided further, that the Investor Parties shall not be entitled to deliver to the Company more than two (2) Demand Registrations in any 12-month period and, in any event, a Demand Notice may only be made if the sale of the Registrable Securities, and which notice Securities requested to be registered by the Investor Parties includes at least 20% of the originally issued shares of the Registrable Securities originally issued to Investor Parties or is reasonably expected to result in aggregate gross cash proceeds in excess of $1,000,000 (without regard to any underwriting discount or commission). A Demand Notice shall also specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended expected method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition of the applicable Registrable Securities. Following receipt of a Demand Notice, CRIC the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts toto file, as soon promptly as reasonably practicable, but not later than 30 days after receipt by the Company of such written requestDemand Notice, file a Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by the Investor Parties in accordance with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement methods of distribution elected by Waterfall (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating and shall use its reasonable best efforts to all of cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to Act as promptly as practicable after the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution filing thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If any of the Registrable Securities registered pursuant to a Demand Registration relates are to an be sold in a firm commitment underwritten public offering offering, and the managing underwriter underwriter(s) of such underwritten offering advise the Investor Parties in writing that it is their good faith opinion that the total number or dollar amount of Registrable Securities proposed public to be sold in such offering, together with any Other Securities proposed to be included by holders thereof which are entitled to include securities in such Registration Statement, exceeds the total number or dollar amount of such securities that can be sold without having an adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the Registrable Securities to be so included together with all such Other Securities, then there shall be included in such firm commitment underwritten offering advises CRIC the number or dollar amount of Registrable Securities and such Other Securities that in the Exercising Holder thatopinion of such managing underwriter(s) can be sold without so adversely affecting such offering, and such number of Registrable Securities and Other Securities shall be allocated for inclusion as follows:
(i) first, the Registrable Securities for which inclusion in its reasonable opinion, such underwritten offering was requested by any Investor Party based on the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in Beneficially Owned by such Investor Party; and
(ii) second, among any holders of Other Securities, pro rata, based on the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in Other Securities Beneficially Owned by each such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)Other Securities.
(c) Each In the event of a Demand Registration, the Company shall be required to maintain the continuous effectiveness of the E-House Holders and applicable Registration Statement (or any successor Registration Statement) continuously effective under the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate Securities Act until the earlier of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has the date when all of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been declared effective by the SEC, sold and (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) date on which the offering of Investor Parties cease to own any Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICSecurities.
(d) Notwithstanding anything Waterfall shall have the right to notify the contrary contained hereinCompany that it has determined that the Registration Statement relating to a Demand Registration be abandoned or withdrawn, CRIC in which event the Company shall promptly abandon or withdraw such Registration Statement. The Company shall not be required to prepare and file pay for the expenses of the Investor Parties in connection with any registration proceeding begun pursuant to Section 2.2(a) that has been subsequently withdrawn pursuant to this Section 2.2(d) at the request of Waterfall, unless the withdrawal is based upon material adverse information concerning the Company that the Company had not publicly disclosed at least two (i2) more than one (1) Business Days prior to the Company’s receipt of such Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration StatementNotice.
(e) A Demand With the prior written consent of Waterfall (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), the Company shall be entitled to coordinate any offerings under this Section 2.2 with any offerings to be effected pursuant to similar agreements with the holders of Other Securities, including, if practicable, by filing one Registration requested Statement for any Registrable Securities being registered pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act 2.2 and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2all Other Securities.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following The Holders shall have the right after the date that is one hundred and eighty 180 days after the IPO Date (180or such earlier date (i) days as would permit Mobileye to cause any filings required hereunder to be filed on the 180th day after the date hereof and upon receipt of (ii) as is permitted by waiver under the Underwriting Agreement) to request in writing (a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising HolderRequest”) requesting that CRIC effect Mobileye register such portion of such Holders’ Registrable Securities as shall be specified in the Request on Form S-1 or any similar long-form Registration Statement (a registration “Long-Form Registration”) or (y) on Form S-3 or any similar short-form Registration Statement, which shall include a prospectus supplement to an existing Form S-3 (a “Short-Form Registration”) at such time that Mobileye qualifies to use such short form Registration Statement (any such requested Long-Form Registration or Short-Form Registration, a “Demand Registration” and the Holder submitting such Demand Registration, the “Initiating Holder”) under by filing with the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts toCommission, as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable thereafter, but not later than the 30th day (or the 45th day in case of a Long-Form Registration) after the receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectivea Request by Mobileye, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all covering such Registrable Securities. A request shall specify (i) the aggregate number of the such Initiating Holders’ Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for salebe registered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to the extent required to permit then known, and (iii) the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) identity of the Initiating Holder. Mobileye shall (i) within 10 days of the receipt of such request, give written notice of such Demand Registration (the “Company Notice”) to all Holders other than the relevant Initiating Holder (the “Eligible Holders”) and to any other Person who holds shares of Mobileye Capital Stock entitled to be included therein pursuant to a contractual obligation (such other Persons, the “Other Holders”), (ii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to file a Registration Statement in respect of such Demand Registration within 30 days of receipt of the request in case of a Short-Form Registration and within 45 days of receipt of the request in case of a Long-Form Registration, and (iii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Demand Registration Statement to become effective as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter. Mobileye shall include in such Registration all Registrable Securities so registeredthat the Initiating Holder, the Eligible Holders and the Other Holders request to be included within the 10 Business Days following their receipt of the Company Notice.
(b) If Mobileye shall not be obligated to effect more than (i) two (2) Long-Form Registrations in any calendar year, (ii) from and after the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opiniontime Mobileye becomes eligible for a Short- Form Registration, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of effect three (3) registrations Short- Form Registrations per calendar year in the aggregate and not any Long-Form Registrations. For purposes of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; providedthe preceding sentence, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless occurred if the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified 180 calendar days (or such shorter period in Section 5(a); providedwhich all Registrable Securities of the participating Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder or withdrawn) or, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement relates to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), such longer period as, in the opinion of counsel for the underwriter(s), a prospectus is interfered required by law to be delivered in connection with sales of Registrable Securities by any stop orderan underwriter or dealer (the applicable period, injunction or other order or requirement the “Demand Period”) and(iii) at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due Registrable Securities that the Initial Holder and the Eligible Holders sought to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, be included in such Demand Registration are included. No request for a Demand Registration may be made by the Holders to the extent that a Shelf Registration Statement (as defined below) has been effected pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.2 and remains effective as of the date of the Request, registers the Registrable Securities subject to such Request and permits the intended method of disposition of such Registrable Security as set forth in such Request; provided that any such Request may instead be effected as an Underwritten Shelf Takedown Request.
(c) Mobileye may not include in a Demand Registration pursuant to Section 4.1 hereof shares of Mobileye Capital Stock for the account of Mobileye or any Subsidiary of Mobileye. If the Underwriters’ Representative of a proposed Underwritten Offering described in this Section 4.1 shall have informed Mobileye (or, in the case of a Demand Registration not being underwritten, the board of directors of Mobileye determines in its reasonable discretion) that, in its view, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including any securities that the Other Holders propose to be included that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the largest number of shares that can be sold without being likely to have an adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the shares offered in such offering (the “Maximum Offering Size”), then Mobileye shall include in such Demand Registration: (i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Initiating Holder and the Eligible Holders, and (ii) thereafter, and only if all the securities referred to in clause (i) have been included, any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any Other Holders with such priorities among them as Mobileye shall determine.
(d) No Holder may participate in any Underwritten Offering under Section 4.1 hereof and no other Person shall be at permitted to participate in any such offering pursuant to Section 4.1 hereof unless it completes and executes all customary questionnaires, powers of attorney, custody agreements, underwriting agreements and other customary documents required under the sole expense customary terms of CRIC such underwriting arrangements. In connection with any Underwritten Offering under Section 4.1 hereof, each participating Holder, Mobileye and, each other Person desiring to participate in such Underwritten Offering shall be a party to the underwriting agreement with the underwriters and may be required to make certain customary representations and warranties with respect to their ownership of Registrable Securities being included in such Underwritten Offering and provide certain customary indemnifications for the benefits of the underwriters with respect to the information they have provided for inclusion in the Registration Statement; provided that the Holders and such Persons shall not be required to make representations and warranties with respect to Mobileye or its business and operations and shall not be included required to agree to any indemnity or contribution provisions less favorable to them than as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2are set forth herein.
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Samples: Master Transaction Agreement (Mobileye Global Inc.)
Demand Registration. (ai) Following A Holder or Holders that hold not less than a majority of the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder then outstanding Registrable Securities (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, Holder or group being referred to as the “Exercising Initiating Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a registration written notice to the Corporation (a “Demand RegistrationNotice”) under ), to require the Securities Act covering all or part Corporation to, pursuant to the terms of and subject to the Registrable Securitieslimitations contained in this Agreement, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its reasonable best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, to prepare and file with the SEC a Registration Statement registering the offering and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to sale of all but not less than all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to held by the extent required to permit the disposition (Initiating Holder in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofspecified in the Demand Notice, which may include sales on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 (a “Demand Registration”).
(ii) Subject to the remainder of this Section 2(a), within 60 days following receipt of the Demand Notice, the Corporation shall file a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities so registered.
held by the Initiating Holder and use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement (bi) If to become effective under the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering Securities Act within 180 days following filing with the SEC and (ii) remain effective under the managing underwriter Securities Act until the earlier of (A) two years after the initial effective date of such proposed public offering advises CRIC registration statement and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of (B) there are no longer any Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold outstanding (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(bEffectiveness Period”).
(ciii) Each Notwithstanding any other provision of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided2(a), that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 the Corporation shall not be deemed required to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(ceffect a registration or file a Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) unless (i) it or, if a Registration Statement has been filed but not declared effective by the SEC, request effectiveness of such Registration Statement, for a period of up to 90 days, but only while the condition giving rise to such is present, if (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iiiA) the Board of Directors determines that a postponement is in the best interest of the Corporation and its stockholders generally due to a pending significant transaction involving the Corporation (including, without limitation, a pending securities offering by the Corporation, or any proposed financing, acquisition, merger, tender offer, business combination, corporate reorganization, consolidation or other significant transaction involving the Corporation), (B) the Board of Registrable Securities pursuant to Directors determines such registration is not subject would render the Corporation unable to any stop ordercomply with applicable securities laws, injunction or (C) the Board of Directors determines such registration would require disclosure of material information that the Corporation has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, (D) audited financial statements as of a date other order or requirement than the fiscal year end of the SECCorporation would be required to be prepared, or (E) filing a Registration Statement would be prohibited by the terms of a customary “lock-up” or “market stand-off” provision included in an underwriting agreement relating to an underwritten offering (any such period, a “Blackout Period”); provided, however, that in the no event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request shall any Blackout Period together with any Suspension Period collectively exceed an aggregate of 90 days in any 12 month period.
(which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statementiv) then The Corporation will include in any such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless Registrable Securities held by Holders other than the Exercising Initiating Holder pays all Registration Expenses pursuant to Section 2(b) and may include in connection with any such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days other Equity Securities for sale for its own account or for the account of written request therefor by CRICany other Person.
(dv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 2(a)(ii), but subject to the other limitations contained hereinin this Agreement, CRIC the Corporation shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) effect any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty on Form S-3 (180unless the Corporation is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case such Demand Registration shall be effected on another appropriate form for such purpose pursuant to the Securities Act). If the Corporation is a WKSI at the time of filing a registration statement pursuant to Section 2(a) days following the date of effectiveness of any other hereof, such registration shall be effected pursuant to an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Tellurian Inc. /De/)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time after six (6) months following an initial Public Offering, the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after holders of a majority of the date hereof and upon receipt BRS Registrable Securities, the holders of a majority of the FSI Registrable Securities, or the holders of a majority of the Canterbury Registrable Securities, or the holders of a majority of the Blackstone Registrable Securities may make a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together for registration with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) SEC under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act covering of all or part of its, his or her Registrable Securities; provided, that Acquisition Corp. may, if the Board so determines in the exercise of its reasonable judgment that it would be inadvisable to effect such Demand Registration at such time, defer such Demand Registration for a single period not to exceed 180 days.
(b) The BRS Entities, FSI Entities, Canterbury Entities and Blackstone Entities (including each of their respective Demand Transferees) shall each be entitled to two (2) Demand Registrations.
(c) Acapulco Corp. will not include in any Demand Registration any securities which are not Registrable Securities without the prior written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities, Securities included in such registration. If a Demand Registration is an underwritten offering and which notice shall specify the managing underwriters advise Acapulco Corp. in writing that in their opinion the number of Registrable Securities and, if permitted hereunder, other securities requested to be included in such offering exceeds the number of Registrable Securities and other securities, if any, which can be sold therein without adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, Acapulco Corp. will include in such registration (A) for a Demand Registration which registration is a Qualified Public Offering, (i) first, the Canterbury Registrable Securities and Blackstone Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration, pro rata among the holders thereof on the basis of the number of shares of Canterbury Registrable Securities and Blackstone Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such holder, (ii) second, the intended method or methods of distribution thereofother Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt pro rata among the holders of such written request, file with Registrable Securities on the SEC and use its best efforts to cause basis of the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be declared effectiveincluded therein by each such holder and (iii) third, a any other securities of Acquisition Corp. requested to be included in such registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all pro rata, if necessary, on the basis of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods number of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter shares of such proposed public offering advises CRIC other securities owned by each such holder and the Exercising Holder that(B) for all other Demand Registrations, in its reasonable opinion(i) first, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration pro rata, if necessary, among the Demand Registration holders of Registrable Securities based on the number of shares of Registrable Securities owned by each such holder and (including ii) second, any other securities of Acquisition Corp. requested to be sold by CRIC or any other security holderincluded in such registration pro rata, including any Holders other than if necessary, on the Exercising Holder (such Holders, basis of the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of shares of such other securities which reasonably can owned by each such holder; provided that (y) if all the Registrable Securities requested to be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include included in such Demand RegistrationRegistration by members of any group set forth above are not to be included, up selection of Registrable Securities to be included from within such group shall be made pro rata based on the Maximum Offering Sizenumber of Registrable Securities that each member of such group shall have requested to be included therein, first, and (z) if any Shareholder has requested inclusion in such Demand Registration and if at least 662/3% of the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes requested to registerbe included by such Shareholder are not so included, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, such Shareholder shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to additional Demand Registration hereunder on the same terms and conditions as would have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant applied to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Shareholder had such earlier Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having not been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICeffected.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days If at any time after the date hereof and upon receipt one-year anniversary of the Closing Date, the Company shall receive from Purchaser a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”"DEMAND REQUEST") that the Company register on Form S-3 under the Securities Act covering all (or part if such form is not available, any registration statement form then available to the Company) Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price, net of underwriting discounts and commissions, of at least $50 million, then the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, specified in such Demand Request (THE "DEMAND REGISTRABLE SECURITIES") to be registered as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable so as to permit the offering and sale thereof and, in connection therewith, shall prepare and file with the SEC as soon as practicable after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectiveDemand Request, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”"DEMAND REGISTRATION STATEMENT") relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of effect such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in each such Demand Request shall: (i) specify the event the Exercising Holder revokes a number of Demand Registration request Registrable Securities intended to be offered and sold by Purchaser pursuant thereto (which revocation may only be made prior number of Demand Registrable Securities shall have an anticipated aggregate offering price, net of underwriting discounts and commissions, of at least $50 million); (ii) express the present intention of Purchaser to CRIC requesting acceleration offer or cause the offering of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless Statement; (iii) describe the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with nature or method of distribution of such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything Registrable Securities pursuant to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any such Demand Registration Statement within one hundred (including, in particular, whether Purchaser plans to effect such distribution by means of an underwritten offering or other method); and eighty (180iv) days following contain the undertaking of Purchaser to provide all such information and materials and take all such actions as may be required in order to permit the Company to comply with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder, and to obtain any desired acceleration of the effective date of effectiveness of any other such Demand Registration Statement.
(eb) A The procedures to be followed by the Company and Purchaser, and the respective rights and obligations of the Company and Purchaser, with respect to the preparation, filing and effectiveness of Demand Registration requested Statements and the distribution of Demand Registrable Securities pursuant to Demand Registration Statements under this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified 4.1 are set forth in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 24.3 hereof.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time after the twelve (12) month anniversary of the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days of the Securities Purchase Agreement, after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) Selling Shareholder requesting that CRIC the Company effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part at least 250,000 shares of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts tothe Company shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event no later than forty-five (45) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 4 below) after receipt of such written request, 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 of the Registrable Securities that CRIC the Company has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC the Company and the Exercising Holder Selling Shareholder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC the Company or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the within an acceptable price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” )range, then CRIC the Company shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, Registration first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder Selling Shareholder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities securities of any Non-Exercising Holder other selling security holders who have exercised any “piggyback” registration rights, in an amount that together with the securities the Selling Shareholder proposes to register, shall not exceed the “Maximum Number of Securities” (as defined below), such amount to be allocated among such other selling security holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of securities of the Company held by each such other selling security holder), and third, any securities CRIC proposes the Company proposed to register and any in an amount that together with the securities with respect to which any other the initiating security holder has requested registrationand the other selling security holders propose to register, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. CRIC The Company shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, Selling Shareholder shall be entitled to an aggregate of three two (32) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements Statement in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) 120 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon After receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) one or more Holders requesting that CRIC the Company effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of New Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and specifies the intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof, CRIC the Company shall use promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its best efforts torights 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 New Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of New Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon, the Company shall, as soon expeditiously as reasonably practicableis possible, 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 such a written requestrequest 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 the New Registrable Securities that CRIC 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 of distribution 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 $10,000,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made or (ii) be at least 20% of the New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.
(b) If the majority-in-interest of the Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration relates relating to an underwritten a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 14 below and the such managing underwriter of such proposed public offering Demand Registration advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder Company in writing that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested securities to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other such offering is greater than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest total number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering therein without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which distribution of such securities can be sold or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the “"Maximum Offering Size” Number of Securities"), then CRIC the Company shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, Registration the Registrable Securities that the Exercising Participating Demand Holders and the participating Old Piggy-Back 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 among all the Participating Demand Holders and the participating Old Piggy-Back Holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of Registrable Securities held by each Participating Demand Holder proposes and participating Old Piggy-Back Holder). 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 registerallow, secondin an amount, which together with the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to registerincluded in such Demand Registration, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with exceed the rights Maximum Number of priority provided in this Section 2(b)Securities.
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three two (32) registrations of New Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3 (each, a "Demand for Registration") in addition to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2; provided, provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c3(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a7(a), (iii) Holders of New 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 (iiiiv) the offering of New Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SECSEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other order or requirement of the SEC prompted by act or omission of Holders of New Registrable Securities); provided, however, that if, as a result of the inclusion of Old Registrable Securities held by participating Old Piggy-Back Holders, the Participating Demand Holders are not able to register and sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) Registration, then such Demand Registration shall count not be counted as having been effected unless one of the Exercising Holder pays all two Demands for Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICprovided for pursuant to this Section 3(c).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one two (12) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) 180 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
Statement or (eiii) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand the Old Registration Statement is interfered Agreement or with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due respect to the actions sale of Common Stock by the Company (or omissions to act such longer period of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included time as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant specified in an underwriting agreement relating to this Section 2such registration statement).
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Samples: Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement (Pac-West Telecomm Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon After receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) BSC requesting that CRIC Celsion effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and Securities which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and specifies the intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts toCelsion shall, as soon expeditiously as reasonably practicableis possible, but in any event no later than sixty (60) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 10.05 below) after receipt of such a written requestrequest for a Demand Registration, file with the SEC 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 the Registrable Securities that CRIC which Celsion has been so requested to register by BSC for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered, provided, however, that the aggregate number of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) constitute at least 20% of the Registrable Securities issued pursuant to this Agreement or (ii) include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time.
(b) If the Any Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested Statement may be required by BSC to be included in an appropriate form under the Demand Securities Act (a "Shelf Registration (including securities Statement") relating to be sold by CRIC any or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number all of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent in accordance with the rights methods and distribution set forth in the Shelf Registration Statement and Rule 415 under the Securities Act (the "Shelf Registration"). Any such demand to file a Shelf Registration Statement shall require the use of priority provided in this Section 2(b)two Demand for Registration requests.
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, BSC shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 210.03 (each, a "Demand for Registration"); provided, provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 10.03 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c10.03(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) 10.06(a), and (iii) 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; providedSEC (other than any such stop order, howeverinjunction, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness or other requirement of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless SEC prompted by the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days act or omission of written request therefor by CRICBSC).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC Celsion shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) two Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Transaction Agreement (Celsion Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following Upon the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt written request of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC or Holders to effect a registration under the Securities Act of Registrable Shares in accordance with this Section 2 (a “Demand Request”), then, subject to Section 2.2, the Company shall promptly use its best efforts to effect the registration on an appropriate form (which shall be Form S-3, if at such time the Company is eligible to use such Form) under the Securities Act of the Registrable Shares which the Company has been so requested to register (a “Demand Registration”) under ). Such Demand Request shall specify the Securities Act covering all or part approximate number of Registrable Shares requested to be registered and the Registrable Securitiesintended method of distribution. Promptly after receiving a Demand Request, the Company shall give written notice of such proposed registration to each other Holder, if any, and shall offer to include (subject to the terms of this Agreement) in the proposed registration any Registrable Shares requested to be included in such proposed registration by such other Holders who respond in writing to the Company’s notice within ten (10) days after delivery of such notice (which notice response shall specify the number of Registrable Shares proposed to be included in such registration). With respect to any Demand Registration, the requesting Holders may request the Company to effect a registration of the Registrable Shares under a registration statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities for which Act (or any successor rule) (a “Shelf Registration”).
(b) Upon the written request of a Holder or Holders to assist them in effecting an offering pursuant to a shelf registration is requested statement that has previously been filed and declared effective pursuant to a Demand Registration (a “Takedown Request”), then, subject to Section 2.2, the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC Company shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and promptly use its best efforts to cooperate with the Holders and any managing underwriter(s) to effect such an offering (a “Takedown Offering”). Such Takedown Request shall specify the approximate number of Registrable Shares to be included in such Takedown Offering and the intended method of distribution. Promptly after receiving a Takedown Request, the Company shall promptly give written notice of the proposed Takedown Offering to each other Holder, if any, that is eligible to sell Shares pursuant to such effective Shelf Registration and shall offer to include, subject to the terms of this Agreement, any Registrable Shares of such other Holder that are registered in such effective Shelf Registration to the extent so requested by such other Holder in writing within three (3) Business Days after delivery of such notice (which request shall specify the number of Registrable Shares proposed to be included by such Holders in such Takedown Offering).
(a) The Company shall not be obligated to file:
(i) a Demand Registration (A) within 60 days after the effective date of a previous Demand Registration, or (B) within 180 days (or, if determined to be necessary pursuant to the IPO Underwriting Agreement within 214 days) after the effective date of the IPO Registration Statement;
(ii) a Demand Registration unless the Demand Request is for (A) a number of Registrable Shares equal to at least $50 million as of the date of such Demand Request or (B) all of the remaining Registrable Shares held by the Holders; and
(iii) more than two (2) Demand Registrations during any calendar year;
(b) The Company shall not be obligated to file or cause to be declared effectiveeffective any registration statement, or assist the Holders in connection with any Takedown Offering pursuant to a Shelf Registration that has been previously filed and declared effective pursuant to a Demand Registration, during any period in which:
(i) any other registration statement (other than on Form S-4 or Form S-8 promulgated under the Securities Act or any successor forms thereto) (A) pursuant to which Primary Shares are to be sold has been filed within the prior 90 days and not withdrawn or (B) has been declared effective and pursuant to which Primary Shares were sold within the prior 90 days, or
(ii) the Company has determined in good faith that the disclosure requirements of a registration statement (including in connection with a “Demand Registration Statement”proposed Takedown Offering) relating would require the disclosure of material non-public information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, such filing to all of be delayed until the Registrable Securities date that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to is 90 days after the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter receipt of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and Demand Request; provided, that the Exercising Holder thatCompany may only so delay the filing or effectiveness of a registration statement, in its reasonable opinion, or the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities assistance with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in a Takedown Offering, pursuant to this Section 2(b).2.1(b)(ii) on one occasion during any twelve month period; and
(c) Each of With respect to a Demand Registration, the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, Company may include in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2such registration any Primary Shares or Other Shares; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes the board of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement directors of the SECCompany has determined in writing that the Company needs to raise common equity capital for certain specific purposes; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after a managing underwriter in respect of any proposed underwritten offering to be made pursuant to such Demand Registration Statement requested (including any Takedown Offering) advises the Company in good faith in writing that in its opinion the inclusion of all Registrable Shares, Primary Shares and Other Shares proposed to be included in such proposed underwritten offering would adversely affect the successful marketing (including pricing) of all such securities, then the number of Registrable Shares, Primary Shares and Other Shares proposed to be included in such proposed underwritten offering shall be included in the following order:
(i) First, the Registrable Shares held by all Selling Holders, pro rata based upon the number of Registrable Shares owned by each such Selling Holder at the time of such registration;
(ii) Second, the Primary Shares; and
(iii) Third, the Other Shares.
2.3. The Holder or Holders submitting a Demand Request or Takedown Request may specify in such Demand Request or Takedown Request that the proposed registration (or that any Takedown Offering) cover an underwritten offering. Upon such election, such Holder shall select one or more nationally recognized investment banks to act as the managing underwriters and shall select any additional investment banks to be used in connection with such offering, provided that such selection shall be subject to the consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Company shall, together with the Selling Holders, enter into a customary underwriting agreement with such underwriters.
2.4. A Demand Registration may be rescinded by written notice to the Company by the Selling Holders holding a majority of the Registrable Shares to be included in such registration under the following circumstances:
(i) If such Demand Registration is rescinded prior to the date of the initial filing of the related registration statement, such rescinded Demand Registration shall not count as a Demand Registration initiated pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, for purposes of Section 2.2(a); and
(ii) If such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement rescinded after the date of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due initial filing of the related registration statement but prior to the actions or omissions to act of CRICits effective date, such rescinded Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included count as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested a registration statement initiated pursuant to this Section 2 for purposes of Section 2.1(a) if the Selling Holders (x) have reimbursed the Company for all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Company in connection with such rescinded Demand Registration or (y)
(1) reasonably believed that the registration statement contained an untrue statement of material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements made therein not misleading, (2) notified the Company of such fact and requested that the Company correct such alleged misstatement or omission and (3) the Company has refused to correct such alleged misstatement or omission.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Liberty Mutual Agency Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days If at any time after the date hereof and upon receipt first anniversary of the Closing or after a written request from Change of Control (as defined in the Warrant), a Holder Shelf Registration Statement is not effective (such Holder, together with its Affiliatessubject to any permitted postponement pursuant to Section 2.03), the “Exercising Holder”) requesting Majority Holders may request in writing that CRIC the Company effect a the registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities 1933 Act covering of any or all or part of the Registrable SecuritiesSecurities held by such requesting Holders, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt disposition of such written requestRegistrable Securities. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Company shall prepare and (within ninety (90) days after such request has been given) file with the SEC a registration statement with respect to (x) all Registrable Securities included in such request and (y) all Registrable Securities included in any request delivered by the Requesting Holders pursuant to Section 2.02(f), and thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a effect the registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all under the 1933 Act and applicable state securities laws of the such Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition stated in such request; provided that the Company shall not be obligated to effect any such registration pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) if (i) within thirty (30) days of receipt of a written request from the Requesting Holders, the Company gives notice to the Requesting Holders that the Company intends to effect an offering of the Registrable Securities so registered.
Company's securities for the Company's account and has taken substantial steps (bincluding, but not limited to, selecting a managing underwriter or placement agent for such offering) If and is proceeding with reasonable diligence to effect such offering (provided that in such case, the Demand Registration relates Company shall, subject to an underwritten Section 2.04(c), use its reasonable best efforts to include in the registration relating to such public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of all Registrable Securities requested to be included by any Holder pursuant to Section 2.04(c) and, in the Demand Registration (including securities event Section 2.04(c) applies to be sold by CRIC or any other security holdersuch registration, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the registration a number of such Registrable Securities that is equal to at least 25% of the Exercising Holder proposes to registershares of Common Stock (on an as-converted basis, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock to be included in such registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which ) that the Company is inconsistent with registering pursuant to such registration) or (ii) the Requesting Holders propose to sell less than all Registrable Securities then held by them pursuant to such registration statement and the estimated aggregate price to the public of such Registrable Securities is less than Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000).
(b) The Majority Holders may collectively exercise their rights of priority provided in under this Section 2(b)2.02 on not more than three occasions.
(c) Each The Holders shall not have the right to require the filing of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities a registration statement pursuant to this Section 2; provided, 2.02 while any registration statement that a registration requested has been filed pursuant to this Section 2 2.02 has yet to become effective or within six months following the effectiveness of any registration statement on Form S-1 that was filed pursuant to this Section 2.02.
(d) A registration pursuant to this Section 2.02 shall not be deemed to have been effected (and, therefore, rights of a Requesting Holder shall be deemed not to have been exercised for purposes of this Section 2(cparagraph (a) unless above) (i) if it has been declared effective by the SECnot become effective, (ii) if after it has remained become effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction (or other order or requirement the use of the SEC; provided, however, that prospectus contained in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the such registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven is (7A) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due for any reason other than a misrepresentation or an omission by any Holder or underwriter or (B) delayed, withdrawn, suspended or terminated and, in each case, as a result thereof, the Registrable Securities requested to be registered cannot be completely distributed in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the related registration statement (until such time as the Registrable Securities requested to be registered may be completely distributed in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the related registration statement) or (iii) if the conditions to closing specified in any purchase agreement or underwriting agreement containing customary terms for secondary offerings by selling securityholders entered into by the Company in connection with such registration are not satisfied or waived other than because of some act or omission by any Holder or underwriter.
(e) In the event that any registration pursuant to Section 2.02(a) shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be registered shall select the lead underwriter or underwriters (which selection or selections shall be subject to the actions or omissions to act approval of CRICthe Company, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and which approval shall not be included unreasonably withheld), as one well as counsel for the Holders, with respect to such registration. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the Company shall have sole discretion with respect to the selection of underwriters for any registration pursuant to Section 2.04 that involves an underwritten offering.
(f) Upon receipt of a written request from the Initial Requesting Holders pursuant to the first sentence of Section 2.02(a), the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such request. Each other Holder may, by written notice to the Company to be delivered within ten (10) days of the Demand Registrations which may delivery of the Company's notice, request the inclusion in such registration of any Registrable Securities held by such other Holder. The Company shall promptly after the expiration of such 10-day period notify each Requesting Holder of (i) the identity of the other Requesting Holders and (ii) the number of Registrable Securities requested to be requested included therein by each Requesting Holder. In the event that the Initial Requesting Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwriting, the right of any Holder to include all or any portion of 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 all of any portion of their Registrable Securities through such underwriting shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form (for secondary sales by selling stockholders) with the underwriter or underwriters selected pursuant to this Section 22.02(e).
(g) The Company shall have the right to cause the registration of additional equity securities for sale for the account of any Person that is not a Holder (including the Company and any directors, officers or employees of the Company (such additional equity securities, the "ADDITIONAL EQUITY SECURITIES")) in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by the Requesting Holders; provided that if such registration is to be an underwritten registration and such Requesting Holders are advised in writing (with a copy to the Company) by a nationally recognized investment banking firm selected pursuant to paragraph (e) above that, in such firm's good faith view, all or a part of the equity securities to be included in such registration (including any Additional Equity Securities) cannot be sold and the inclusion of all or part of the equity securities that would otherwise be included in such registration would be likely to have an adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the offering and sale of the equity securities to be included in such registration, then the Company shall exclude from such registration such Additional Equity Securities or part thereof, to the nearest extent possible on a pro rata basis, in which case the Company shall include in such registration:
(i) first, up to the full number of Registrable Securities and
(ii) second, up to the full number of any other Additional Equity Securities, if any, in excess of the Registrable Securities to be sold in such offering which, in the good faith view of such investment banking firm, can be so sold without so adversely affecting such offering in the manner described above. In the event that the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in a registration statement that will not include any Additional Equity Securities by the Requesting Holders exceeds the number which, in the good faith view of such investment banking firm, can be sold without adversely affecting the price, timing, distribution or sale of securities in the offering, the number shall be allocated pro rata among all of the Requesting Holders on the basis of the relative number of Registrable Securities then held by each such Requesting Holder (with any number in excess of a Requesting Holder's request reallocated among the remaining Requesting Holders in a like manner).
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Samples: Stockholder Agreement (Visteon Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon Upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under "Registration Request"), delivered not earlier than 180 days after the Securities Act covering all or part date of the Registrable Securitiesclosing of the initial public offering by the Company of the Common Stock, and which notice shall specify from Holders holding at least 33 1/3% of the aggregate of the number of Shares of Registrable Securities Stock then outstanding (assuming for which registration is requested purposes of such calculation the conversion of all outstanding shares of Preferred Stock), the Company shall (i) promptly give written notice of the Registration Request to all non-requesting Holders and (ii) prepare and file with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofCommission, CRIC shall use within 60 days after its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectiveRegistration Request, a registration statement (for the purpose of effecting a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the sale of all Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) Stock by each of the Holders which submitted such Registration Request and any other Holder who requests to have such Holder's Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be Stock included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold such registration statement within 10 days after receipt of notice by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising such Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SECRegistration Request; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall Company will not be required to prepare effect the Registration of Registrable Stock unless the Registrable Stock is offered at an aggregate offering price of not less than $5,000,000. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect such Registration as soon as practicable (including, without limitation, the execution of an undertaking to file post- effective amendments and file appropriate qualification under applicable state securities laws). In the event such Registration Request is delivered on or before the first anniversary of the closing of the Company's initial public offering of the Common Stock, any offering effected pursuant to the Registration related to such Registration Request shall be an underwritten offering. In the event such Registration Request is delivered after the first anniversary of the closing of the Company's initial public offering of the Common Stock and the Company is eligible to register such Registrable Stock on a continuous basis under Rule 415 of the Securities Act by filing a Registration Statement on Form S-3, the Company shall, at the request of requesting Holders, effect such Registration on a Registration Statement on Form S-3 pursuant to Rule 415. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such Registration continuously effective until the earlier of (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month periodthe second anniversary of the date hereof, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested on which all Registrable Stock have been sold pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless such registration statement or Rule 144 and (iii) the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any date on which all of the Registrable Securities of the Stock held by such Holder included may be sold in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a any consecutive three month period of at least that specified in Section 5(a)accordance with Rule 144; provided, however, that if after the Company shall not be obligated to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement requested that is not effected under Rule 415 for a period in excess of 90 days; provided, further, that the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any such Registration, qualification or compliance pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effectivein any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to (x) 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 Demand Registration Statement jurisdiction or (y) qualify as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction in which the Company is interfered with not then qualified. Notwithstanding the 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) for a period of not more than 120 days during any one-year period ending on December 31, if the Company furnishes to the Holders a certificate signed by an executive officer or any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement director of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due Company stating that, in the good faith judgment of the Company, it would be detrimental to the actions Company and its stockholders to file such registration statement or omissions amendment thereto at such time (or continue sales under a filed registration statement) and therefore the Company has elected to act defer the filing of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall registration statement (or suspend sales under a filed registration statement).
(b) The Company is not be included as one of the Demand required to effect more than two (2) Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days At any time after the date hereof and upon first (1st) anniversary of the First Closing Date (as defined in the Private Placement Agreement), after receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) Selling Shareholder requesting that CRIC Ivanhoe effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts toIvanhoe shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 4 below) after receipt of such written request, 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 of the Registrable Securities that CRIC Ivanhoe has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC Ivanhoe and the Exercising Holder Selling Shareholder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC Ivanhoe or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the within an acceptable price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” )range, then CRIC Ivanhoe shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, Registration first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder Selling Shareholder proposes to register, and thirdsecond, any securities CRIC proposes Ivanhoe proposed to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registrationregister. CRIC Ivanhoe shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each Any Demand Registration Statement may be required by Selling Shareholder to be on Form F-10 (or any successor form) under the Securities Act (a “Shelf Registration Statement”) relating to the offer and sale by Selling Shareholder of any or all of the ERegistrable Securities at any time and from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis in accordance with Canadian shelf prospectus offering procedures, through such method or methods of distribution as Selling Shareholder shall select (the “Shelf Registration”), provided, that Selling Shareholder shall be entitled to request no more than two (2) underwritten public offerings pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement in any twelve-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, month period.
(d) Selling Shareholder shall be entitled to an aggregate of three five (35) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that (i) no more than one (1) such registration shall be a Shelf Registration pursuant to Section 2(c), (ii) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c2(d) unless (ix) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (iiy) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) ), and (iiiz) 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; provided, however, that in SEC and (iii) the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness aggregate sales price of the Registrable Securities proposed to be included in any such registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.equal or exceed US$35,000,000. Back to Contents
(de) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC Ivanhoe shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one two (12) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty ninety (18090) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days At any time after the date hereof and upon August 12, 2012, after receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) Selling Shareholder requesting that CRIC the Company effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part at least 250,000 shares of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts tothe Company shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event no later than forty-five (45) days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 4 below) after receipt of such written request, 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 of the Registrable Securities that CRIC the Company has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC the Company and the Exercising Holder Selling Shareholder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC the Company or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the within an acceptable price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” )range, then CRIC the Company shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, Registration first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder Selling Shareholder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities securities of any Non-Exercising Holder other selling security holders who have exercised any “piggyback” registration rights, in an amount that together with the securities the Selling Shareholder proposes to register, shall not exceed the “Maximum Number of Securities” (as defined below), such amount to be allocated among such other selling security holders on a pro rata basis (based on the number of securities of the Company held by each such other selling security holder), and third, any securities CRIC proposes the Company proposed to register and any in an amount that together with the securities with respect to which any other the initiating security holder has requested registrationand the other selling security holders propose to register, shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. CRIC The Company shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, Selling Shareholder shall be entitled to an aggregate of three two (32) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements Statement in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) 120 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (a) Following If, at any time after the date that is one hundred and eighty earlier of (180i) 180 days after the date hereof consummation of the Qualified IPO and upon receipt (ii) the expiration of the Applicable Lock-Up Period, SciQuest Holdings receives a written request from a Holder holder or holders who in the aggregate hold more than 30% of the outstanding Registrable Securities (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising HolderInitiating Holders”) requesting that CRIC SciQuest Holdings effect a registration under the Securities Act of all or a portion of such Initiating Holders’ Registrable Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof, then SciQuest Holdings will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (each such request by the Initiating Holders, a “Demand Registration”) under at least 15 days prior to the Securities Act covering all or part anticipated filing date of the Registrable Securitiesregistration statement relating to such Demand Registration to each other Holder (the “Non-Requesting Holder”). Upon SciQuest Holdings’ giving such notice of a Demand Registration, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and SciQuest Holdings will use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectiveeffect, a as expeditiously as possible, the registration statement under the Securities Act of:
(a “Demand Registration Statement”i) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC SciQuest Holdings has been so requested to register for saleby the Initiating Holders, then held by the Initiating Holders, and
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 5.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as that requested to be registered by the Initiating Holders which any Non-Requesting Holder entitled to request SciQuest Holdings to effect a Company Registration pursuant to Section 5.02 have requested SciQuest Holdings to register by written request received by SciQuest Holdings within 15 days after the receipt by the Holders of such written notice of a Demand Registration given by SciQuest Holdings, all to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofthereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered, provided that in no event will SciQuest Holdings be required to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 5.01:
(A) Unless the aggregate gross proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Common Shares requested to be included in such Demand Registration equal or exceed $30,000,000 (before deduction of underwriters’ commissions, discounts, costs and expenses);
(B) After SciQuest Holdings has initiated two such Demand Registrations (counting for these purposes only registrations which have been declared or ordered effective and pursuant to which securities have been sold and Demand Registrations that have been revoked and considered to be Demand Registrations pursuant to Section 5.01(b) hereof);
(C) During the 180 day period commencing with the effective date of a first registration statement filed by SciQuest Holdings covering a Qualified IPO of any of its securities to the general public;
(D) During the period starting with the date 60 days prior to SciQuest Holdings’ good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 180 days after the effective date of, a registration statement for such Demand Registration, provided, that SciQuest Holdings delivers notice to the Holders within 30 days of any registration request of its intent to file such registration statement; or
(E) If the Initiating Holders propose to dispose of shares of Registrable Securities which may be immediately registered on Form S-3 pursuant to a request made under Section 5.03 hereof.
(b) If At any time prior to the Demand Registration relates effective date of the registration statement relating to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up the Initiating Holders may revoke such request for the Demand Registration, without liability to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina other Holders, in each caseby providing a written notice to SciQuest Holdings revoking such request. A request, collectivelyso revoked, shall will be entitled considered to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that be a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) Demand Registration unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement revocation arose out of the SEC; provided, however, that fault of SciQuest Holdings (in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only case SciQuest Holdings will be made prior obligated to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked request), or (ii) the Initiating Holders reimburse SciQuest Holdings for all Registration Expenses of such revoked request.
(c) SciQuest Holdings will be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration within seven (7Registration, regardless of whether it is effected, except as provided in Section 5.01(b)(ii) days of written request therefor by CRICabove.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall will not be deemed to have been effected occurred
(i) unless the Demand Registration Statement registration statement relating thereto (iA) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (iiB) has remained effective for a period of at least 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Holders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that specified in Section 5(a); providedsuch registration statement will not be considered a Demand Registration if, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement registration statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 5.01 becomes effective, (x) such Demand Registration Statement registration statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due and (y) less than 75% of the Registrable Securities included in such registration statement has been sold thereunder, or
(ii) if the 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 Initiating Holders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(e) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing underwriter advises SciQuest Holdings and the Initiating Holders that, in its view, the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including any securities that SciQuest Holdings 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, including the price at which such shares can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size”), SciQuest Holdings will include in such registration, in the following priority, up to the actions or omissions Maximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to act be registered by the Initiating Holders and any of CRICtheir Permitted Transferees (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Persons on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be registered),
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by any Non-Requesting Holder and any of its Permitted Transferees (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Persons on the basis of the relative number of Shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration), and
(iii) third, any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any other Persons (including SciQuest Holdings), with such priorities among them as SciQuest Holdings will determine.
(f) Upon written notice to each Holder requesting registration of its Registrable Securities under this Section 5.01, SciQuest Holdings may postpone effecting a Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 25.01 on two occasions during any period of 12 consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days individually or 120 days in the aggregate (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) an investment banking firm of recognized national standing advises SciQuest Holdings and the Initiating Holders in writing that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of SciQuest Holdings the preparation of which had then been commenced or (ii) SciQuest Holdings is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice such investment banking firm believes would not be in the best interests of SciQuest Holdings.
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Samples: Shareholder Agreement (Sciquest Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following Commencing upon expiration of the date that is one hundred and eighty Lock-Up Period, Holders holding at least fifty percent (18050%) days after of the date hereof and upon receipt of then outstanding Registrable Securities (the “Requesting Holders”) may make a written request from (a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising HolderDemand Notice”) requesting that CRIC effect for registration under the Securities Act on Form S-3 (or a registration successor form or, if Form S-3 or such successor form is not available for use by the Company, on such other form as the Commission may prescribe) covering an offering of an amount of Registrable Securities not less than the lesser of (i) Registrable Securities having an estimated aggregate offering price of at least $6 million (as determined as of the trading day immediately prior to the date of the Demand Notice pursuant to Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act) or (ii) all Registrable Securities then outstanding (a “Demand Registration”) under ); provided that the Securities Act covering all Company shall not be obligated to effect more than one Demand Registration in any 12-month period from the date of a Demand Notice or part more than an aggregate of two Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2(a). Subject to the Registrable Securitiesforegoing, and which notice shall specify upon receipt of a Demand Notice, the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall Company will use its reasonable best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, to file such registration statement within 45 days after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC Demand Notice and use its reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effectiveeffective by the Commission as promptly as practicable after the filing thereof. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to notify any other Holders of Registrable Securities who did not provide the Demand Notice within 20 days following receipt thereof. A registration will not count as a Demand Registration until the registration statement (a “filed pursuant to such Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested declared effective by the Commission and remains effective for the period specified in Section 4(b). The Requesting Holders shall have the right to register for sale, review the registration statement to the extent required be filed pursuant to permit the disposition (in accordance this Section 2 before it is filed with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registeredCommission.
(b) If the Requesting Holders so elect, the offering of such Registrable Securities pursuant to a Demand Registration relates to shall be in the form of an underwritten public offering and the offering. The Requesting Holders shall select a nationally recognized investment banking firm or firms to manage any such underwritten offering; provided that such managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to underwriters must be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up satisfactory to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)Company.
(c) Each If at the time of receipt of a Demand Notice by the Company the Company is eligible to register an offering of securities to be made on a delayed or continuous basis on Form S-3 (or a successor form) pursuant to Rule 415 (or a successor rule) under the Securities Act, if so requested by the Requesting Holders in the Demand Notice and subject to Section 2(a), the Company shall effect the Demand Registration to which such Demand Notice relates by preparing and filing a “shelf” registration statement on Form S-3 covering the resale by the Requesting Holders of the E-House Registrable Securities included in such registration statement.
(d) Neither the Company or any of its security holders (other than the Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, with respect to their Registrable Securities) shall be entitled to an aggregate include any of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that the Company’s securities in a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes statement initiated as a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness under Section 2(a) without the consent of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICRequesting Holders.
(de) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained hereinin this Agreement, CRIC the Company’s obligation under Section 2(a) to file a registration statement, or cause such registration statement to become and remain effective, shall be suspended, at the option of the Company, for a period not be required to prepare and file exceed 90 days in any 12-month period if the Company determines in its good faith judgment that (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelvethere exists at the time material non-month periodpublic information relating to the Company that it deems inadvisable to disclose publicly, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following an event has occurred or a condition exists that results in a registration statement’s misstating or omitting to state a material fact. In the date event such material non-public information is later disclosed, or the registration statement no longer misstates or omits to state a material fact, the Company shall promptly notify the Holders of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of and the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (iiCompany’s obligations under Section 2(a) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2reinstated.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Gulf Island Fabrication Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following At any time after the completion of an Initial Public Offering, any Holder or group of Holders may request in writing (“Demand Registration Request”) that the Company effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act (each, a “Demand Registration”). The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective, as promptly as practicable and no later than sixty (60) days after it receives such request; provided, however, that the Company will not be required to file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 4(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 commissions) of at least $50 million, disregarding any Registrable Securities subject to clause (B) below;
(B) with respect to any Registrable Securities requested to be registered that are already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement and such Registration Statement may be utilized for the offer and sale of such Registrable Securities requested to be registered;
(C) during the period starting with the date thirty (30) days prior to a good faith estimate, with the approval of a simple majority of the Board, of the date of filing of, and ending on the date ninety (90) days after the Effective Date of, a Company-initiated Registration Statement, provided that the Company is employing commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective;
(D) for a period of up to ninety (90) days after the date of a Demand Notice for registration pursuant to this Section 4 if, at the time of such request (i) the Company is engaged, or has fixed plans with the approval of a simple majority of the Board to engage, within ninety (90) days of the time of such Demand Notice, in a firm commitment underwritten public offering of Reorganized PCHI Common Shares in which Holders of Registrable Securities may include their Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 7 or (ii) the Company is currently engaged in a self-tender or exchange offer and the filing of a Registration Statement would cause a violation of the Exchange Act; and
(E) if a registration statement filed by the Company shall have previously been initially declared effective by the Commission within the one hundred and eighty (180) days after preceding the date hereof and upon receipt of such Demand Registration Request is made or if an Underwritten Offering constituting a written request “takedown” from a Holder Shelf Registration Statement shall have been previously made within the one hundred eighty (180) days preceding the date such Holder, together with its AffiliatesDemand Registration Request. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting Company shall not be obligated to effect more than six such Demand Registrations; provided, however that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under Registration shall not be considered made for purposes hereof unless the Securities Act covering all or part requested Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission for more than 75% of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number full amount of Registrable Securities for which registration is has been requested (subject to any reduction under Section 5(c) hereof). For the avoidance of doubt, the filing of the Initial Shelf Registration Statement shall not consitute a Demand Registration for any purpose hereunder.
(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 method or methods means of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with distribution. If at the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “time the Demand Registration Statement”) relating Request is made the Company appears, based on public information available to all such Holder or Holders, eligible to use Form S-3 for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities Securities, the Holder or Holders making such request may request that CRIC has been so requested the registration be in the form of a Shelf Registration Statement (for the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall not be under the obligation to register for salefile 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 4(a) hereof by amending (to the extent required to permitted by applicable law and the rules and regulations of the Commission) any registration statement previously filed by the Company under the Securities Act and not yet declared effective by the Commission, so that such amended registration statement will permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereofdisposition specified as aforesaid) of all of the Registrable Securities for which a Demand Registration Request has been properly made under this Section 4. 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, that the 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.
(bd) If the Within five (5) Business Days after receiving a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and Request, the managing underwriter Company shall give written notice of such proposed public offering advises CRIC request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the Exercising Holder thatprovisions of Section 5(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in its reasonable opinionsuch registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within ten (10) Business 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 number offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)manner so requested.
(ce) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled The Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to keep a Registration Statement that has become effective as contemplated by this Section 2; provided4 continuously effective, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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 SECCommission:
(A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement, but in no event later than two hundred and seventy (270) days from the Effective Date of such Registration Statement; and
(B) in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due Commission relating to any Shelf Registration Statement, if any Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement remain unsold, the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, period during which such Demand 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 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 sole expense option of CRIC 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 be included include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registrations which may Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) the requested registration that has been revoked will be requested deemed to have been effected for purposes of Section 4(a) (for the avoidance of doubt, “or” as used in this clause is exclusive).
(g) If a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 24 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 hereof, provided that (x) (i) the number of securities included in such underwritten “takedown” shall equal 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 in such “takedown” shall have an anticipated aggregate offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of at least $50 million; or (y) the number of securities included in such “takedown” represent all of the Registrable Securities outstanding at the time of such “takedown.”
(h) A Demand Registration may also be in the form of an Underwritten Offering, in the manner and subject to the conditions described in Section 5 hereof, provided that (x) (i) the number of securities included in such underwritten Demand Registration shall equal at least twenty-five percent (25%) of all Registrable Securities at such time and (ii) the Registrable Securities requested to be sold by the Holders in such underwritten Demand Registration shall have an anticipated aggregate offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of at least 50 million; or (y) the number of securities included in such underwritten Demand Registration represent all of the Registrable Securities outstanding at the time of such underwritten Demand Registration.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Party City Holdco Inc.)
Demand Registration. (ai) Following Any Holder or group of Holders that holds Registrable Securities (the “Initiating Holder”) that it desires to sell shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Partnership (a “Demand Notice”), to require the Partnership to, pursuant to the terms of and subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement registering the offering and sale of the number and type of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in the Demand Notice in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Demand Notice (the “Demand Registration”). The Partnership shall have the right to elect that any Demand Registration be made pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement.
(ii) Within two (2) Trading Days of the receipt of the Demand Notice, the Partnership shall give written notice of such Demand Notice to all Holders eligible to participate in the Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) (the “Demand Eligible Holders”) and shall, subject to the limitations of this Section 2(a), file a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities that the Demand Eligible Holders shall in writing request (such request to be given to the Partnership within three (3) Business Days of receipt of such notice of the Demand Notice given by the Partnership pursuant to this Section 2(a)(ii)) to be included in such Demand Registration as promptly as practicable as directed by the Initiating Holder in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Demand Notice and use all commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective under the Securities Act and remain effective under the Securities Act for not less than six (6) months following the Effective Date or such shorter period when all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold (the “Effectiveness Period”); provided, however, that the Partnership shall not be required to effect the registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2(a) unless at least an aggregate of 2,500,000 Registrable Securities (as adjusted to reflect splits, combinations, dividends and recapitalizations) are offered or the Registrable Securities are offered at an aggregate proposed offering price of not less than $50 million.
(iii) Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, the Partnership is not obligated hereunder to effect more than (A) one (1) Demand Registration on Form S-1 (or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act) in any twelve (12) month period; provided, that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Partnership shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration on Form S-1 (or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act) that is not requested by a Holder; and (B) two (2) Demand Registrations on Form S-3 (or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act) in any twelve (12) month period.
(iv) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2(a), the Partnership shall not be required to effect a registration or file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2(a): (A) during the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to a good faith estimate, with the approval of a simple majority of the Board of Directors of Enbridge Management, of the date of filing of, and ending on a date ninety (90) days after the effective date of, a Partnership-initiated registration; provided that the Partnership is actively employing commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; (B) for a period of up to ninety (90) days after the date of a Demand Notice for registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) if at the time of such request (1) the Partnership is engaged, or has fixed plans with the approval of a simple majority of the Board of Directors of Enbridge Management to engage, within ninety (90) days of the time of such Demand Notice, in a firm commitment underwritten public offering of Class A Common Units in which the Holders of Registrable Securities include Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2(b), or (2) the Partnership is currently engaged in a self-tender or exchange offer and the filing of a Registration Statement would cause a violation of the Exchange Act; or (C) for a period of up to ninety (90) days, if (1) Enbridge Management determines that a postponement is in the best interest of the Partnership and its Limited Partners generally due to a pending transaction or (2) Enbridge Management determines that a postponement is in the best interest of the Partnership due to an investigation or other event (any such period, a “Suspension Period”); provided, however, that in no event shall the Partnership postpone or defer any Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2(a)(iv) and/or Section 7(f) for more than an aggregate of one hundred and eighty (180) days after in any twelve (12) month period.
(v) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2(a), if (A) the date hereof Demand Eligible Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by a Demand Registration by means of an underwriting and upon receipt (B) the managing underwriter advises the Partnership that the inclusion of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Demand Eligible Holders’ Registrable SecuritiesSecurities in the subject Registration Statement would have a material adverse effect on the timing or success of the offering, then the Partnership shall so advise all Demand Eligible Holders of Registrable Securities that would otherwise be underwritten pursuant hereto, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and that may be included in the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC underwriting shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt be allocated to the Demand Eligible Holders of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, on a pro rata basis based on the number of Registrable Securities requested held by all such Demand Eligible Holders (including the Initiating Holders). Any Registrable Securities excluded or withdrawn from such underwriting shall be withdrawn from the registration.
(vi) The Partnership may include in any such Demand Registration other Partnership Securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person; provided that if the managing underwriter for the offering determines that the number of Partnership Securities proposed to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold offered in such offering without having would have a material adverse effect on the timing or success of such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities to be sold by the Exercising Holder proposes Demand Eligible Holders shall be included in such registration before any Partnership Securities proposed to registerbe sold for the account of the Partnership or any other Person.
(vii) Subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, second, the Partnership shall effect any Demand Registration on Form S-3 (except if the Partnership is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holderson Form S-3, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then case such Demand Registration shall count as having been be effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with on another appropriate form for such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything purpose pursuant to the contrary contained hereinSecurities Act) and if the Partnership becomes, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) is at the time of its receipt of a Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month periodNotice, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless a WKSI, the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective for any offer and sale of Registrable Securities through a firm commitment underwriting shall be effected pursuant to an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, which shall be on Form S-3 or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act and any of (if available to the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(aPartnership); provided, however, that if after at any time a Registration Statement on Form S-3 is effective and a Holder provides written notice to the Partnership that it intends to effect an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities included on such Registration Statement, the Partnership will amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place.
(viii) Without limiting Section 3, in connection with any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 2 becomes effective2(a)(viii), the Partnership shall, (A) promptly prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed (1) such additional forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents, as may be necessary or advisable to register or qualify the securities subject to such Demand Registration, including under the securities laws of such states as the Demand Eligible Holders shall reasonably request; provided, however, that no such qualification shall be required in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, the Partnership would become subject to general service of process or to taxation or qualification to do business in such jurisdiction solely as a result of registration and (2) such forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents as may be necessary to apply for listing or to list the Registrable Securities subject to such Demand Registration on the Trading Market and (B) do any and all other acts and things that may be necessary or appropriate or reasonably requested by the Demand Eligible Holders to enable such Holders to consummate a public sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof.
(ix) In the event a Holder transfers Registrable Securities included on a Registration Statement is interfered and such Registrable Securities remain Registrable Securities following such transfer, at the request of such Holder, the Partnership shall amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such transferee to offer and sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement.
(x) The Partnership shall use commercially reasonable efforts to remain eligible to use Form S-3, including by timely filing all reports with by any stop order, injunction or the Commission and meeting the other order or requirement requirements of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Exchange Act.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Enbridge Energy Partners Lp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days If, at any time after the date hereof and upon receipt of Corporation has filed any registration statement under the Securities Act or the Securities Exchange Act, except with respect to registration statements filed on Form S-8 or any successor form, the Corporation receives a written request from by ACAS, its successors or assigns (each, a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Demanding Holder”) requesting that CRIC to effect a the registration under the Securities Act of shares of Registrable Securities of the Corporation (a “Demand Registration”) ), the Corporation shall follow the procedures described in this Section. Thereupon, the Corporation shall, as expeditiously as possible, use its best reasonable efforts to effect the registration on a form of general use under the Securities Act covering of the shares it has been requested to register in such initial request and in any response to such notice given to the Corporation within twenty (20) days after the Corporation’s giving of such notice; provided, however, that the Corporation shall not be required to effect a Demand Registration if more than two Demand Registrations have been undertaken. The Corporation may not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section during the first 180 days after the effective date of any registration statement filed by the Corporation under Section 8.1 if the Demand Holders have been afforded the opportunity to register in such registration all or part a majority of the their Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number . The Corporation may include in any registration under this Section any other shares of Registrable Securities (including issued and outstanding shares of stock as to which the holders thereof have contracted with the Corporation for which “piggyback” registration is requested and rights) so long as the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt inclusion in such registration of such written requestshares will not, file in the opinion of the managing underwriter of the shares of the stockholder or stockholders first demanding registration (if the offering is underwritten), interfere with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (successful marketing in accordance with the intended method of sale or methods other disposition of distribution thereof) of all the Registrable Securities so registeredstock sought to be registered by such demanding stockholder or stockholders pursuant to this Section.
(b) If In addition to the Demand Registration relates registration rights provided in Section 8.1 and 8.2(a) above, if at any time the Corporation is eligible to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter use Commission Form S-3 (or any successor form) for registration of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder thatsecondary sales of Registrable Securities, in its reasonable opinion, the number any single Stockholder of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration holding two percent (including securities to be sold by CRIC 2%) or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each more of the E-House Holders and Common Stock, on a Fully Diluted Basis, may request in writing that the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations Corporation register shares of Registrable Securities on such form or any successor form. Upon receipt of such request, the Corporation will promptly notify all such holders of Registrable Securities in writing of the receipt of such request and each such holder may elect (by written notice sent to the Corporation within thirty (30) days of receipt of the Corporation’s notice) to have its Registrable Securities included in such registration pursuant to this Section 2; provided8.2. Thereupon, that a the Corporation will, as soon as practicable, use its best efforts to effect the registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes on Form S-3 of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of all Registrable Securities pursuant that the Corporation has so been requested to register by such holders for sale. The Corporation will use its best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of any such registration is not subject statement and to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior qualify and maintain its qualification for eligibility to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then use Form S-3 for such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC purposes. The Corporation shall not be required to prepare and file (i) effect more than one two (12) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested registrations pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 28.2.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days If at any time after the six month anniversary date hereof and upon receipt of this Agreement, Micron shall receive from TI a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”Request") that Micron register on Form S-3 under the Securities Act covering all (or part if such form is not available, any registration statement form then available to Micron) Registrable Securities equal to at least two percent (2%) of the Voting Securities of Micron outstanding on the date of such Demand Request, then Micron shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registrable Securities specified in such Demand Request (the "Demand Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, ") to be registered as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable so as to permit the offering and sale thereof and, in connection therewith, shall prepare and file with the SEC as soon as practicable after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectiveDemand Request, a registration statement (a “"Demand Registration Statement”") relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of effect such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in each such Demand Request shall: (i) specify the event the Exercising Holder revokes a number of Demand Registration request Registrable Securities intended to be offered and sold by TI pursuant thereto (which revocation may only number of Demand Registrable Securities shall not be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness less than two percent (2%) of the registration statementVoting Securities of Micron outstanding on the date of such Demand Request); (ii) then express the present intention of TI to offer or cause the offering of such Demand Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless Statement, (iii) describe the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with nature or method of distribution of such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything Registrable Securities pursuant to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any such Demand Registration Statement within one hundred (including, in particular, whether TI plans to effect such distribution by means of an underwritten offering); and eighty (180iv) days following contain the undertaking of TI to provide all such information and materials and take all such actions as may be required in order to permit Micron to comply with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder, and to obtain any desired acceleration of the effective date of effectiveness of any other such Demand Registration Statement.
(eb) A The procedures to be followed by Micron and TI, and the respective rights and obligations of Micron and TI, with respect to the preparation, filing and effectiveness of Demand Registration requested Statements and the distribution of Demand Registrable Securities pursuant to Demand Registration Statements under this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified 4.1 are set forth in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 24.4 hereof.
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Samples: Securities Rights and Restrictions Agreement (Texas Instruments Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days If at any time after the date hereof and upon receipt of March 31, 1999, Micron shall receive from Intel a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”"DEMAND REQUEST") that Micron register on Form S-3 under the Securities Act covering all (or part if such form is not available, any registration statement form then available to Micron) Registrable Securities equal to at least the lesser of two percent (2%) of the Registrable SecuritiesVoting Securities outstanding on the date of such Demand Request and securities having an aggregate market value of in excess of $100 million on such date, and which notice then Micron shall specify use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, specified in such Demand Request (THE "DEMAND REGISTRABLE SECURITIES") to be registered as soon as reasonably practicablepracticable so as to permit the offering and sale thereof and, in connection therewith, shall prepare and file with the SEC as soon as practicable after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectiveDemand Request, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”"DEMAND REGISTRATION STATEMENT") relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of effect such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in each such Demand Request shall: (i) specify the event the Exercising Holder revokes a number of Demand Registration request Registrable Securities intended to be offered and sold by Intel pursuant thereto (which revocation may only number of Demand Registrable Securities shall not be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration less than the lesser of effectiveness two percent (2%) of the registration statementRegistrable Securities outstanding on the date of such Demand Request and securities having an aggregate market value of in excess of $100 million on such date); (ii) then express the present intention of Intel to offer or cause the offering of such Demand Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless Statement, (iii) describe the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with nature or method of distribution of such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything Registrable Securities pursuant to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any such Demand Registration Statement within one hundred (including, in particular, whether Intel plans to effect such distribution by means of an underwritten offering or other method); and eighty (180iv) days following contain the undertaking of Intel to provide all such information and materials and take all such actions as may be required in order to permit Micron to comply with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder, and to obtain any desired acceleration of the effective date of effectiveness of any other such Demand Registration Statement.
(eb) A The procedures to be followed by Micron and Intel, and the respective rights and obligations of Micron and Intel, with respect to the preparation, filing and effectiveness of Demand Registration requested Statements and the distribution of Demand Registrable Securities pursuant to Demand Registration Statements under this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified 4.1 are set forth in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 24.4 hereof.
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Samples: Securities Rights and Restrictions Agreement (Micron Technology Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred At any time from and eighty (180) days after the date hereof Effective Date and upon subject to the other provisions of this Section 2, after receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”"INITIATING DEMAND HOLDER") requesting that CRIC the Company effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”"DEMAND REGISTRATION") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable SecuritiesSecurities held by such Holder, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and specifies the intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after the Company will promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 3 hereof, may elect (by written requestnotice sent to the Company within 20 days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned Company's notice) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 2, and such Holder will specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon the Company will promptly file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effectiveeffective as soon as practicable, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”"DEMAND REGISTRATION STATEMENT") relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC 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 of distribution thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If ; provided, however, that the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered by all Participating Demand Holders will have an aggregate value of at least $2,000,000, based on the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made.
(b) The Company following a demand request from an Initiating Demand Holder will use its best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, such registration (including, without limitation, the execution and undertaking to file post-effective amendments, appropriate qualifications under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under 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 the Registrable Securities of any Holder or Holders joining in such request.
(i) If the Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Company as a part of their request. The right of any Holder to registration pursuant to this Section 2 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.
(ii) The Company shall (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the managing underwriter. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, if the managing underwriter advises the Holders in writing that market factors require a limitation of the number of shares to be underwritten, then the Company shall so advise all Holders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities that may be included in the Demand Registration (including securities registration and underwriting shall be allocated among all Holders requesting inclusion in the registration in proportion, as nearly as practicable, to the respective amounts of Registrable Securities originally requested by such Holders to be sold included in the registration statement. No Registrable Securities excluded from the underwriting by CRIC or reason of the managing underwriter's marketing limitation shall be included in such registration.
(iii) If any other security holderHolder of Registrable Securities disapproves of the terms of the underwriting, including any Holders other than such person may elect to withdraw therefrom by written notice to the Exercising Holder (such HoldersCompany, the “Non-Exercising managing underwriter and the other Holders”) exceeds . The Registrable Securities and/or other securities so withdrawn shall also be withdrawn from registration; provided, however, that if, by the largest withdrawal of such Registrable Securities, a greater number of securities which reasonably can Registrable Securities held by other Holders may be sold included in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including registration (up to the price at which such securities can be sold (maximum of any limitation imposed by the “Maximum Offering Size” underwriters), then CRIC the Company shall include in such Demand Registration, up offer to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the all Holders who have included Registrable Securities in the Exercising Holder proposes registration the right to register, second, the include additional Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with in the rights of priority provided same proportion used in determining the underwriter limitation in this Section 2(b).
(cd) Each The Stockholder together with all Holders who are assignees or transferees of the E-House Holders and Stockholder, or assignees or transferees of an assignee or transferee of the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall Stockholder will collectively be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested . Shelf Registrations pursuant to this Section 2 shall 4 hereof will not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities be Demand Registrations pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIChereto.
(de) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall the Company will not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements Statement under this Agreement in any twelvesix-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any Registration Statement (other than a Shelf Registration StatementStatement or a Registration on Form S-8, Form S-4, or equivalent forms).
(ef) A Demand Registration requested Rxxxxxxxxxxx xequested pursuant to this Section 2 shall 2(a) hereof will not be deemed to have been effected unless effective with respect to any Participating Demand Holder that is not able to register and sell at least 90 percent of the amount of Registrable Securities requested to be included on behalf of such Holder in such registration.
(g) A Participating Demand Holder may withdraw its request with respect to a Demand Registration at any time prior to the effective date of the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto by providing to the Company written notice. Any such withdrawn Demand Registration will be counted with respect to such Holder for purposes of Section 2(d) hereof as a completed Demand Registration, unless such withdrawal was the result of a change in market conditions or in the business, assets, operations or condition (ifinancial or otherwise) has become effective under that could adversely affect the Securities Act and any amount or the price of the Registrable Securities of the Holder to be included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Registration.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Technical Olympic Usa Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following After the date that is one hundred Restricted Period, Cinven on behalf of the Holders shall have the right, on not more than three occasions in the aggregate and eighty no more frequently than once during any consecutive twelve-month period, to require the Company to register for offer and sale under the Securities Act (180such offer and sale to occur no earlier than February 1, 2016) days all or a portion of the Registrable Securities then outstanding, subject to the restrictions set forth herein. As promptly as practicable after the date hereof and upon receipt of Company receives a written request notice from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration Cinven (a “Demand RegistrationNotice”) demanding that the Company register for offer and sale under the Securities Act covering all Registrable Securities consisting as to each Registration of either (A) Registrable Securities having a fair market value of at least $125 million or part (B) at least 20% of the Registrable Securities, and which notice then, subject to Section 2(b), the Company shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall (i) use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to file as promptly as reasonably practicable with the Commission, and in any event no later than 20 calendar days following receipt of the Demand Notice, a Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of the Applicable Securities on such form as the Company may reasonably deem appropriate and, thereafter, (ii) if applicable, after the filing of an initial version of a Registration Statement, use reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand effective under the Securities Act as promptly as reasonably practicable after the date of filing of such Registration Statement”) relating to all . No Demand Notice may be given if it is within six months of the closing of an offering effected under another registration that included any of such Holder’s Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested Securities. Subject to register for saleSection 3(b), the Company shall use reasonable efforts to the extent required keep each Registration Statement continuously effective in order to permit the disposition Prospectus forming a part thereof to be usable by the Holders for resales of Applicable Securities for an Effectiveness Period ending on the earlier of (in accordance with i) 90 days from the intended method or methods Effective Time of distribution thereofsuch Registration Statement and (ii) such time as all of such securities have been disposed of by the Registrable Securities so registeredHolders.
(b) If The Company shall have the right to postpone (or, if necessary or advisable, withdraw) the filing, or delay the effectiveness, of a Registration Statement, or fail to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective or not amend or supplement the Registration Statement or included Prospectus or file or amend a Prospectus, if (i) the Company determines based upon the advice of counsel that it would be advisable to disclose in any offering document a financing, acquisition or other corporate transaction or other material information, and the Company shall have determined in good faith that such disclosure would be materially detrimental to the best interests of the Company and its shareholders, (ii) any offering documents require amendment or supplement to comply with the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and the Rules and Regulations, provided that such postponement shall be limited to the period of time reasonably required for the Company to make such amendment or supplement, or (iii) the Company has contractually agreed to a blackout in connection with a primary distribution; provided that no one such postponement shall exceed 90 days in any six month period and all such postponements shall not exceed 180 days in any twelve month period; and provided further that in the event of any such postponement the Effectiveness Period shall be extended by an amount of time equal to the period of any such postponement. The Company shall promptly notify Cinven on behalf of the Holders of any postponement pursuant to this Section 3(b). In making such determination to initiate a postponement, the Company shall not be required to consult with or obtain the consent of any Holder, Cinven or any other Person, and any such determination shall be in the sole discretion of the Company.
(c) In connection with an underwritten offering (whether pursuant to a Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and or a Shelf Offering), if the managing underwriter or underwriters advise the Company that in its or their opinion the number of Applicable Securities requested by the Holders to be registered exceeds the number which can be sold in such proposed public offering, the Company shall include in such offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder number of Applicable Securities that, in the opinion of such managing underwriter or underwriters, can be sold.
(d) The Company may include in any underwritten Shelf Offering or Registration requested pursuant to Section 3(a) hereof other securities for sale for its reasonable opinionown account or for the account of another Person, subject to the following sentence. In connection with an underwritten offering, if the managing underwriter or underwriters advise the Company that in its or their opinion the number of Registrable Applicable Securities requested by the Holders and the securities requested for the account of the Company or another Person to be registered exceeds the number which can be sold in such offering, the Company shall include in such offering the number of Applicable Securities that, in the opinion of such managing underwriter or underwriters, can be sold as follows: (i) first, the total number of Applicable Securities requested to be included in such offering by the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”and (ii) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes securities requested to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with be included by the rights Company for its own account or for the account of priority provided in this Section 2(b)another Person.
(ce) Each Cinven on behalf of the E-House Holders and shall have the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled right to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of withdraw Registrable Securities from a Shelf Offering or to withdraw any request for Registration pursuant to this Section 23(a) hereof at any time; provided, provided that a registration requested such revoked Demand Notice or Shelf Take-Down Notice shall (unless such revocation is due to any Registration Statement becoming unavailable pursuant to this a stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or otherwise through no fault of the Holders) count as one Registration pursuant to a Demand Notice, or Shelf Offering, as applicable, for the purpose of the limitations in 2(d) and Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c3(a) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SECwithdrawal is made following the occurrence of a Material Adverse Change not known to Cinven at the time of the Demand Notice or Shelf Take-Down Notice, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in withdrawal is made pursuant to Section 5(a) and 3(b), or (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction Holders have paid or other order or requirement reimbursed the Company for all of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request reasonable out-of-pocket fees and expenses (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration including fees of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses outside counsel and accountants and other expenses incurred in connection with such revoked Demand Registration) incurred by the Company in the preparation, filing and processing of the withdrawn Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICor Shelf Offering.
(df) Notwithstanding anything to In the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand event that any Shelf Offering or Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 3 shall not involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, one co-lead managing underwriter shall be deemed selected by the Company and shall be reasonably acceptable to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under Holders participating therein, and the Securities Act other co-lead managing underwriter shall be selected by the Holders participating therein and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company, and any additional co-managing underwriters shall be selected by the Company; provided that if the Company elects to include any securities in such underwritten offering pursuant to Section 3(d), all of the Registrable Securities underwriters of the Holder included offering shall be selected solely by the Company and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Holders participating therein.
(g) Where any Registration Statement, Prospectus or supplement or amendment thereto is required to be filed by the Company under Section 2 or 3 hereof, the Company in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for its sole discretion may elect to file a period of corresponding Canadian Prospectus in the applicable form with the applicable Canadian Commission in at least that specified one province of Canada in Section 5(a)accordance with Canadian Securities Laws solely to the extent required for the purposes of MJDS qualification if such qualification is available under applicable law, in which case the Company will effect Registration in the United States by way of a registration statement on Form F-10 or on such other form as is utilized under MJDS from time to time; provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement at the time of the SEC applicable Registration, the Company is ineligible to effect a registration statement in the United States on Form F-10 or other governmental agency under another applicable MJDS form, the Company shall effect the Registration in the United States on such form or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement forms as shall be at available to enable the sole expense Holders to sell the Registrable Securities in compliance with United States securities laws. Where any Canadian Prospectus is filed with any Canadian Commission in connection with an offering or Registrable Securities, the Company shall, from time to time, supplement, amend and renew such Canadian Prospectus if required by Canadian Securities Laws. Any registration of CRIC or qualification of securities that occurs concurrently in Canada and the United States shall not be included counted as one a single registration for the purposes of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Agreement.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Cinven Capital Management (V) General Partner LTD)
Demand Registration. (a) Following Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, if the Company receives at any time after the date that is one hundred and eighty six (1806) days months after the date hereof and upon receipt of Effective Time (as defined in the Merger Agreement), a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting Majority Holders that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering Company register all or part of the Registrable SecuritiesSecurities then outstanding and held by the Holders of Registrable Securities (a "DEMAND REQUEST"), and which then the Company shall, within ten (10) days after receipt of such Demand Request, give written notice of such request ("DEMAND REQUEST NOTICE") to all Holders. Each Demand Request Notice shall (x) specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and that the Holders intend to sell or dispose of, (y) state the intended method or methods of distribution thereofsale or disposition of such Registrable Securities and (z) specify the expected price range (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) acceptable to the Majority Holders to be received for such Registrable Securities.
(b) The Company shall file, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after no later than forty-five (45) days following receipt of such written request, file with a Demand Request (the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective"DEMAND FILING DATE"), a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Statement covering such Registrable Securities that CRIC which the Company has been so requested to register by the Majority Holders and other Holders who request, within fifteen (15) days of the mailing of the Demand Request Notice, that the Company register their Registrable Securities, providing for sale, the registration under the Securities Act of such Registrable Securities to the extent required necessary to permit the disposition (of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include specified in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to registerRequest, and third, any securities CRIC proposes use its commercially reasonable efforts to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with have such Registration Statement declared effective by the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b)SEC within one hundred fifty (150) days after the Demand Filing Date.
(c) Each The Company may delay making a filing of a Registration Statement in connection with a Demand Request or taking action in connection therewith by not more than ninety (90) days if the Company provides a written certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the E-House Holders Company to the Holders, prior to the time it would otherwise have been required to file such Registration Statement or take such action pursuant to this SECTION 2.9, stating that the Board has determined in good faith that the filing of such Registration Statement would be seriously detrimental to the Company or would otherwise materially adversely affect a financing, acquisition, disposition, merger or other material transaction (collectively, a "VALID BUSINESS REASON") and that it is therefore essential to defer the filing of the Registration Statement; provided, however, that such right to delay a Demand Request shall be exercised by the Company not more than once in any twelve (12)-month period and the Sina Company shall only have the right to delay a Demand Request so long as such Valid Business Reason exists, and during such time, the Company may not file a Registration Statement for securities to be issued and sold for its own account or for that of anyone other than the Holders, in each case, collectively, .
(d) The Company shall only be entitled obligated to an aggregate of three effect one (31) registrations Demand Request pursuant to this SECTION 2.9.
(e) The Majority Holders shall have the right to cancel a proposed registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, SECTION 2.9 when the request for cancellation is based upon material adverse information relating to the Company that is different from the information known to the Majority Holders at the time of the Demand Request. Such cancellation of a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall be made in writing and shall not be deemed counted as a Demand Request.
(f) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, none of the Holders shall have been effected for purposes of any rights under this Section 2(c) unless SECTION 2.9 and the Majority Holders shall not be entitled to exercise the rights under this SECTION 2.9, unless: (i) it has none of the Registrable Securities (and no sale or resale of any Registrable Securities) shall have been declared effective included in or covered by the SEC, Private Placement Registration Statement; and (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) Company determines that the offering sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such be included in the registration is statement to be filed under this SECTION 2.9 cannot subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement be accomplished under Rule 144 of the SEC; providedSecurities Act. For the avoidance of doubt, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness none of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration Holders shall count as having been effected unless have any rights under this SECTION 2.9 and the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC Majority Holders shall not be required entitled to prepare and file exercise any such rights, if (i) more than one any of the Registrable Securities (1and/or any sale or resale thereof) Demand shall have been included in or covered by the Private Placement Registration Statements in any twelve-month periodStatement, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 Company shall not be deemed to have been effected unless determined that the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any sale of the Registrable Securities can be accomplished under Rule 144 of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Securities Act.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Ironclad Performance Wear Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following Any Investor may request, in writing (a “Demand Request”), that the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after Company effect the date hereof and upon receipt registration under the Securities Act of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with all or part of its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration or their Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Demand Request will be effective hereunder unless the proposed Registrable Securities to be sold by the Holders requesting the Demand Registration (the “Requesting Holders,” which term shall include parties deemed “Requesting Holders” pursuant to Section 4.01(f) under hereof) represent, in the Securities Act covering all or part aggregate, more than 35% of the total number of Registrable Securities, and which notice Securities held by all Holders.
(b) Each Demand Request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which proposed to be sold. Subject to Section 4.01(g), the Company shall file a registration is requested statement under the Securities Act to effect the Demand Registration as promptly as possible and in any event within 90 days after receiving a Demand Request (the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC “Required Filing Date”) and shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best all commercially reasonable efforts to cause the same to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SECSEC (or, (iiif eligible, to become automatically effective) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to as promptly as practicable after such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SECfiling; provided, however, that in the event Company need effect only two (2) Demand Registrations pursuant to Demand Requests made by Holders of Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 4.01(a); provided, further, that if any Registrable Securities requested to be registered pursuant to a Demand Request are excluded from the Exercising Holder revokes applicable Demand Registration pursuant to Section 4.01(e) below, the Holders shall have the right, with respect to each such exclusion, to request one additional Demand Registration.
(c) A registration will not count as a Demand Registration request until it has become effective (unless the Requesting Holders withdraw all their Registrable Securities and the Company has performed its obligations hereunder in all material respects, in which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then case such demand will count as a Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays Requesting Holders pay all Registration Expenses Expenses, as hereinafter defined, in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(awithdrawn registration); provided, however, that if if, after any Demand Registration Statement requested it has become effective, an offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement a registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due court, such registration will be deemed not to have been effected and will not count as a Demand Registration.
(d) Requesting Holders can request a “firm commitment” underwritten offering. If a Demand Registration is a “firm commitment” underwritten offering, the Requesting Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be registered in a Demand Registration shall select the investment banking firm or firms to manage the underwritten offering, provided that such selection shall be subject to the actions consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. No Person may participate in any registration pursuant to Section 4.01(a) unless such Person (i) agrees to sell such Person’s Registrable Securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements described above and (ii) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements; provided, however, that no such Person shall be required to make any representations or omissions warranties in connection with any such registration other than representations and warranties as to act (A) such Person’s ownership of CRIChis or its Registrable Securities to be transferred free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances, (B) such Person’s power and authority to effect such transfer and (C) such matters pertaining to compliance with securities laws as may be reasonably requested; provided, further, however, that the obligation of such Person to indemnify pursuant to any such underwriting arrangements shall be several, not joint and several, among such Persons selling Registrable Securities, and the liability of each such Person will be in proportion thereto, and provided, further, that such liability will be limited to the net amount received by such Person from the sale of his or its Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration.
(e) No securities to be sold for the account of any Person (including the Company) other than a Requesting Holder shall be included in a Demand Registration to the extent that the managing underwriter or underwriters shall advise the Company or the Requesting Holders in writing that the inclusion of such securities will materially and adversely affect the price or success of the offering (a “Material Adverse Effect”). Furthermore, in the event the managing underwriter or underwriters shall advise the Company or the Requesting Holders that even after exclusion of all securities of other Persons pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence, the amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such Demand Registration Statement by Requesting Holders is sufficiently large to cause a Material Adverse Effect, the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Holders to be included in such Demand Registration shall equal the number of shares which the Company is so advised can be sold in such offering without a Material Adverse Effect and such shares shall be allocated pro rata among the Requesting Holders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by each such Requesting Holder.
(f) Upon receipt of any Demand Request, the Company shall promptly (but in any event within 10 days) give written notice of such proposed Demand Registration to all other Investors, who shall have the right, exercisable by written notice to the Company within 20 days of their receipt of the Company’s notice, to elect to include in such Demand Registration such portion of their Registrable Securities as they may request. All Holders requesting to have their Registrable Securities included in a Demand Registration in accordance with the preceding sentence shall be deemed to be “Requesting Holders” for purposes of this Section 4.01(f).
(g) The Company may defer the filing (but not the preparation) of a registration statement required by Section 4.01(a) until a date not later than 90 days after the Required Filing Date (or, if longer, 90 days after the effective date of the registration statement contemplated by clause (ii) below) if (i) at the sole expense time the Company receives the Demand Request, the Company or any of CRIC and shall its Subsidiaries are engaged in confidential negotiations or other confidential business activities, disclosure of which would be required in such registration statement (but would not be included 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 Demand Request, the Board had determined to effect a registered underwritten public offering of the Demand Registrations which may be requested Company’s Securities for 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 24.01(g) 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, in the case of a deferral pursuant to clause (ii) of the preceding sentence, the proposed registration for the Company’s account is abandoned. In order to defer the filing of a registration statement pursuant to this Section 4.01(g), the Company shall promptly (but in any event within ten days), upon determining to seek such deferral, deliver to each Requesting Holder a certificate signed by an executive officer of the Company stating that the Company is deferring such filing pursuant to this Section 4.01(g) and a general statement of the reason for such deferral and an approximation of the anticipated delay. Within 20 days after receiving such certificate, the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities held by the Requesting Holders and for which registration was previously requested may withdraw such Demand Request by giving notice to the Company; if withdrawn, the Demand Request shall be deemed not to have been made for all purposes of this Agreement. The Company may defer the filing of a particular registration statement pursuant to this Section 4.01(g) only once.
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Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred At any time from and eighty (180) after 180 days after following the date hereof and upon subject to Section 2(c) hereof, after receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC Company effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”") under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and Securities which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and specifies the intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof, CRIC Company shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 3 hereof may elect (by written requestnotice sent to Company within ten (10) Business Days from the date of such Holder's receipt of the aforementioned Company's notice) to have all or part of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in such registration thereof pursuant to this Section 2, and such Holder shall specify in such notice the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder elects to include in such registration. Thereupon Company shall, as expeditiously as is possible, 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 the Registrable Securities that CRIC which 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 of distribution thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered, provided; however, that the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered be at least $100,000,000 or include all Registrable Securities which remain outstanding at such time. With respect to any Registrable Securities that are Convertible Notes, the value of such Convertible Notes shall be based on the aggregate principal amount of the Convertible Notes to be so registered. With respect to any Registrable Securities that are Class A Common Stock, the value of such Class A Common Stock shall be based on the closing trading price of the Class A Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made.
(b) If the majority of the Holders in a Demand Registration relates relating to an underwritten a public offering so request that the offering shall be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the manner set forth in Section 12 below and the such managing underwriter of such proposed public offering Demand Registration advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder Company in writing that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other such offering is greater than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest total number or amount of securities Securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such offering, including Securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the price at which such securities can be sold marketability thereof (the “"Maximum Offering Size” Number of Securities"), then CRIC Company shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, Registration the Registrable Securities that the Exercising Holder proposes Participating Demand Holders have requested to registerbe 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, secondthe number of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated among all the Participating Demand Holders on a pro rata basis. If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, Company may include in such Registration any other Securities of Company and other Securities held by other security holders of Company, on a pro rata basis if necessary, in an amount which together with the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC included in such Demand Registration shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with exceed the rights Maximum Number of priority provided in this Section 2(b)Securities.
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three four (34) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested . Each Shelf Registration pursuant to this Section 2 4 hereof shall be deemed one (1) Demand Registration pursuant hereto. A Shelf Registration for the Underlying Shares that is requested as part of a Demand Registration for the Notes, shall not constitute, or be deemed to have been effected for purposes of be, a separate Demand Registration under this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC2.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one two (12) Demand Registration Statements under this Agreement and the Equity Registration Rights Agreement in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any Registration Statement (other than a Shelf Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become or any registration statement effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Equity Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2Rights Agreement.
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Samples: Notes Registration Rights Agreement (Metromedia Fiber Network Inc)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days Any time after the date hereof of this Agreement one or more Securityholders with an aggregate Ownership Percentage of least 30% (the “Demand Ownership Threshold”) (provided that after the Company’s initial Public Offering (the “IPO”), such Demand Ownership Threshold shall decrease to 15%) may request that the Company file a Registration Statement to effect the registration and upon receipt sale under the Securities Act, including a Public Offering, of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities held by such requesting party or parties on Form S-1 or any successor thereto (a written request from “Long-Form Registration”) or, if available, a Holder Form S-3 or any successor thereto (such Holdera “Short-Form Registration” and, together with its Affiliateseach Long-Form Registration and Shelf Registration (as defined below), the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”); provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to effect (i) under more than three (3) such Demand Registrations and underwritten Shelf Takedowns, taken together, in any 12-month period in the aggregate for all requesting Securityholders and (ii) any Demand Registration with respect to which the requesting Securityholder (or requesting Securityholders, as the case may be) proposes to sell Registrable Securities Act covering all or part in such Demand Registration at an anticipated aggregate offering price (calculated based upon the market price of the Registrable Securities on the date on which the Company receives the written request for such Demand Registration) to the public of less than $10.0 million unless such Demand Registration includes all of the then-outstanding Registrable Securities.
(b) Such request for a Demand Registration shall be made by giving written notice to the Company (a “Demand Registration Notice”), and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities required to be included in the Demand Registration and whether or not such Demand Registration will involve a Public Offering. Upon receipt of any Demand Registration Notice, the Company shall promptly (but in no event later than ten (10) days following receipt thereof) give written notice to all Securityholders holding Registrable Securities of receipt of such Demand Registration Notice (a “Company Demand Registration Notice”) and, subject to the provisions of Section 6, shall include in such Demand Registration all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for which registration is inclusion therein within ten (10) Business Days after sending the Company Demand Registration Notice.
(c) The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to prepare and file with (or confidentially submit to) the Commission, within forty-five (45) days after receipt of the Demand Registration Notice, a Registration Statement on Form S-1 or, if applicable, Form S-3 covering all Registrable Securities the requesting Securityholders and other Securityholders have requested be included in such Demand Registration and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effectiveeffective and to commence the Public Offering, a if applicable, as promptly as practicable. Demand Registrations shall be Short-Form Registrations whenever the Company is permitted to use any applicable short form registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all under the rules and regulations of the Securities Act, unless the underwriters, if any, in their reasonable discretion, determine that the use of a Long-Form Registration is necessary in order for the successful offering of such Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) Securities. The Registration Statement may include Common Stock of the Registrable Securities so registeredCompany to be sold by the Company for its own account.
(bd) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinionis requested by Securityholders, the number initial requesting Securityholders that beneficially own a majority of the Registrable Securities (on an as converted to Common Stock basis) initially requested to be included in the Demand Registration shall (including securities i) select the investment banking firm or firms to act as the managing underwriter or underwriters in connection with such Public Offering and (ii) if the Common Stock is not then listed on any National Securities Exchange, select the National Securities Exchange the Common Stock is to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than listed upon. Notwithstanding the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and thirdforegoing, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities investment banking firm selected pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not 2(d) will be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement the reasonable approval of the SEC; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRICCompany.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any of the Registrable Securities of the Holder included in such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pioneer Energy Services Corp)
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of A Holder or Holders may make a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “"Demand Registration”Request") for registration under the Securities Act covering of all or part of its Registrable Securities (a "Demand Registration"); provided that the Company shall not be obligated (i) to effect a demand Registration for the registration of fewer than 1,000,000 Registrable Shares or, if the number of Registrable Shares held by the Holders is less than 1,000,000, all of the Registrable SecuritiesShares then held by the Holders, and which notice shall (ii) to effect more than one Demand Registration in any six-month period or (iii) to effect a Demand Registration on more than three occasions. Such request will specify the number of shares of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested proposed to be sold and will also specify the intended method or methods of distribution disposition thereof. Subject to Section 2.2, CRIC the Company shall use its best efforts to, file a registration statement with respect to the Demand Registration as soon as reasonably practicable, practicable thereafter and in any event within 60 days after receipt of receiving a Demand Request (such written request, file with 60th day being referred to herein as the SEC "Required Filing Date") and shall use its best efforts to cause the same to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of effective by the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registeredCommission as promptly as practicable after such filing.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter Holders of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number a majority of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, secondbe registered pursuant to a Demand Registration so elect, the offering of such Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes pursuant to registersuch Demand Registration shall be in the form of a "firm commitment" underwritten offering (which may be divided into separate U.S. and international offerings, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register which shall together constitute one and only one Demand Registration). Such Holders shall select the managing Underwriters and any securities with respect additional investment bankers and managers to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent be used in connection with the rights offering; provided that such managing Underwriters and additional investment bankers must be reasonably satisfactory to the Company (it being acknowledged and agreed by the Company that each of priority provided in this Section 2(bXxxxxx, Read & Co. Inc. and Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. are acceptable for such purposes).
(c) Each If the Holders of a majority of the E-House Holders and Registrable Securities to be registered pursuant to a Demand Registration so elect, the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, registration shall be entitled a "shelf registration" pursuant to an aggregate Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a "Shelf Registration"), which the Company shall maintain effective for a period of up to three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities years; provided, however, that for so long as such Shelf Registration shall be effective, no Holder may request a Demand Registration pursuant to this Agreement. The Holders may demand registration pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that 2.1(c) on no more than one occasion.
(d) A registration will not count as a Demand Registration unless a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2(c) unless (i) it statement with respect thereto has been declared effective by the SECCommission and remains effective in compliance with, (ii) it has remained effective for and subject to, the period set forth in provisions of Section 5(a) 3.1 hereof and (iii) 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; provided, however, that in the event the Exercising Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to CRIC requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) then such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Exercising Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within seven (7) days of written request therefor by CRIC.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, CRIC shall not be required to prepare and file (i) more than one (1) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
(e) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected unless the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto (i) has become effective under the Securities Act and any with respect to the disposition of the all Registrable Securities of the Holder included in covered by such Demand Registration Statement have actually been sold thereunder and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least that specified in Section 5(a); provided, however, that if after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 2 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to the actions or omissions to act of CRIC, such Demand Registration Statement shall be at the sole expense of CRIC and shall not be included as one of the Demand Registrations which may be requested pursuant to this Section 2registration statement.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (General Cable Corp /De/)