Common use of Demand Registration Clause in Contracts

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

Appears in 4 contracts

Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Parkway, Inc.), Stockholders Agreement (Parkway, Inc.), Voting Agreement (Parkway Properties Inc)

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Demand Registration. (ai) Subject to If one or more Holders that own an aggregate of 51% or more of the provisions hereof, Registrable Securities then outstanding (the “Demanding Holders”) shall at any time on or after make a written request to the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Company, the Holders Company shall cause there to be filed with the Commission a registration statement meeting the requirements of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”), and each Demanding Holder shall be entitled to have included therein (subject to Section 2.7) by delivering a written all or such number of such Demanding Holder’s Registered Shares, as the Demanding Holder shall report in writing; provided, however, that no request therefor may be made pursuant to this Section 2.1 if within six (6) months prior to the Company (i) specifying date of such request a Demand Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall have been declared effective by the Commission. Any request made pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall be addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Company, and shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersregistered, the intended methods of disposition thereof and that the request is for a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1(i). (ii) specifying whether The Company shall be entitled to postpone for up to one hundred twenty (120) days the intended method filing of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder any Demand Registration statement otherwise required to be included prepared and filed pursuant to this Section 2.1, if the Board determines, in its good faith reasonable judgment (with the concurrence of the managing underwriter, if any), that such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after registration and the receipt Transfer or Registrable Securities contemplated thereby would materially interfere with, or require premature disclosure of, any financing, acquisition or reorganization involving the Company or any of its wholly owned subsidiaries and the Company promptly gives the Demanding Holders notice of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerdetermination; provided, however, that (ithe Company shall not have postponed pursuant to this Section 2.1(ii) the Holders filing of any other Demand Registration statement otherwise required to be prepared and filed pursuant to this Section 2.1 during the 24 month period ended on the date of the relevant request pursuant to Section 2.1(i). (iii) Whenever the Company shall not have received a demand pursuant to Section 2.1(i) to effect the registration of any Registrable Shares, the Company shall promptly give written notice of such proposed registration to all Holders. Any such Holder may, within twenty (20) days after receipt of such notice, request in writing that all of such Holder’s Registrable Shares, or any portion thereof designated by such Holder, be included in the registration. 2.2. On or after the date of this Agreement each Substantial Holder that shall make a written request to the Company (the “Initiating Substantial Holder”), shall be entitled to have all or any number of such Initiating Substantial Holder’s Registrable Securities included in a registration with the Commission in accordance with the Securities Act for an offering on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a “Shelf Registration”). Any request made pursuant to this Section 2.2 shall be addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Company, and shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be registered, the intended methods of disposition thereof and that the request is for a Shelf Registration pursuant to this Section 2.2. 2.3. Following receipt of a request for a Demand Registration or a Shelf Registration, the Company shall: (i) File the registration statement with the Commission as promptly as practicable, and shall use the Company’s best efforts to have the registration declared effective under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable the Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000Act as soon as reasonably practicable, in each instance giving due regard to the need to prepare current financial statements, conduct due diligence and complete other actions that are reasonably necessary to effect a registered public offering. (ii) Use the Holders will not be entitled Company’s best efforts to require keep the Company relevant registration statement Continuously Effective (x) if a Demand Registration, for up to effect more than three two hundred seventy (3270) days or until such earlier date as of which all the Registrable Securities under the Demand Registrations Registration statement shall have been disposed of in the aggregate under this Agreementmanner described in the Registration Statement, and (iiiy) if a Shelf Registration, for three years. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if for any reason the effectiveness of a registration pursuant to this Section 2 is suspended or, in the case of a Demand Registration, postponed as permitted by Section 2.1(ii), the foregoing period shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of such suspension or postponement. 2.4. The Company will not shall be obligated to effect no more than three Demand Registrations and such number of Shelf Registrations as may be necessary to provide each and every Substantial Holder with the right to request one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering Shelf Registration. For purposes of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such casepreceding sentence, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval registration shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as (i) unless a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement statement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it thereto has become effective, (iii) if after such Registration Statement registration statement has become effective, such registration or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission or any other governmental agency or administrative agencycourt for any reason not attributable to the Selling Holders and such interference is not thereafter eliminated, or (iii) if any court prevents the conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement, if any, entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied or otherwise limits waived, other than by reason of a failure on the sale part of the Selling Holders. If the Company shall have complied with its obligations under this Agreement, a right to demand a registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall be deemed to have been satisfied (i) if a Demand Registration, upon the earlier of (x) the date as of which all of the Registrable Securities included therein shall have been disposed of pursuant to the registrationRegistration Statement, and (y) the date as of which such Demand Registration shall have been Continuously Effective for a period of two hundred seventy (270) days, and (ii) if a Shelf Registration, upon the effective date of a Shelf Registration, provided no stop order or similar order, or proceedings for such an order, is thereafter entered or initiated. 2.5. A registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall be on Form S-3 and permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities in each accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition specified in the request pursuant to Section 2.1(i) or Section 2.2, respectively. The Company agrees to file all reports required to be filed by the Company with the Commission in a timely manner so as to remain eligible or become eligible, as the case less may be, and thereafter to maintain its eligibility, for the use of Form S-3. If the Company is not eligible at any time after the date hereof to use Form S-3, in order to fulfill its obligations under Section 2(i) the Company shall file a Registration Statement on Form S-1 or other appropriate form and not later than all five (5) business days after the Company first meets the registration eligibility and transaction requirements for the use of Form S-3 for registration of the offer and sale by the Investors, the Company shall file a Registration Statement on Form S-3 with respect to the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder on Form S-1 or Holders other form filed pursuant to Section 2(i) (and include in such Registration Statement on Form S-3 the information required by Rule 429 under the Securities Act) or convert the Registration StatementStatement on Form S-1 or other form, whichever is applicable, filed pursuant to Section 2(i) to a Form S-3 pursuant to Rule 429 under the Securities Act and cause such Registration Statement (or such amendment) to be declared effective no later than ninety (ii90) if, in days after the case date of an Underwritten Offeringfiling of such Registration Statement (or amendment). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company fails shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to provide Full Cooperation, then such meet the requirements of Form S-3 for so long as any Registrable Securities remain outstanding and under no circumstances shall the Company be obligated to file a Registration State on any form other than Form S-3 to fulfill ist obligations under Section 2.2. 2.6. If any registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso pursuant to Section 4.2(a2 involves an underwritten offering (whether on a “firm”, “best efforts” or “all reasonable efforts” basis or otherwise), or an agented offering, the Majority Selling Holders, or the Initiating Substantial Holder, as the case may be, shall have the right to select the underwriter or underwriters and manager or managers to administer such underwritten offering or the placement agent or agents for such agented offering; provided, however, that each Person so selected shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company. 2.7. If (i) Whenever the Company shall effect a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to 2 in connection with an underwritten offering by one or more Selling Holders of Registrable Securities: (i) if such Selling Holders have been effected as requested the inclusion therein of more than one class of Registrable Securities, and the Underwriters’ Representative or Agent advises each such Selling Holder in writing that, in its opinion, the inclusion of more than one class of Registrable Securities would adversely affect such offering, the Demanding Holders holding at least a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders majority of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue proposed to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d)sold therein by them, each Holder shall decide which class of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to included therein in such offering and the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registrationrelated registration, provided that such registration nonetheless and the other class shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause be excluded; and (ii) if the Underwriters’ Representative or Agent advises each such Selling Holder in writing that, in its opinion, the amount of securities requested to be included in such offering (whether by Selling Holders or others) exceeds the amount which can be sold in such offering within a price range acceptable to the Majority Selling Holders, securities shall be included in such offering and the related registration, to the extent of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)amount which can be sold within such price range, and on a pro rata basis among all Selling Holders.

Appears in 4 contracts

Samples: Investment Agreement (Gleacher & Company, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Gleacher & Company, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (First Albany Companies Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 days after six month anniversary of the Closing Date consummation by the Company of the IPO, if the Company shall receive a written request from either or both Sponsors holding outstanding Registrable Securities for itself and its respective Co-Invest Vehicles (as defined in the Merger Agreement)such requesting Persons, the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require “Requesting Shareholders”) that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of such Requesting Shareholders’ Registrable Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof, then the Company shall promptly give notice of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor at least ten (10) days prior to the Company (i) specifying anticipated filing date of the number of Registrable Securities Registration Statement relating to be included in such registration by such Holder or HoldersDemand Registration to the other Sponsor, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)if applicable, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandany other Shareholder that holds Registrable Securities, the Company and thereupon shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its reasonable best efforts to effect such effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and of: (i) all Registrable Securities for which the Requesting Shareholders have requested registration under this Section 4.01, and (ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 4.01(d), all other Registrable Securities that any other governmental requirements Shareholders that hold Registrable Securities (all such Shareholders, together with the Requesting Shareholders, the “Registering Shareholders”) have requested the Company to register by request received by the Company within five (5) Business Days after any non-initiating Sponsor received the Company’s notice of the Demand Registration, or regulationsany other Shareholder pursuant to and in accordance with Section 4.02, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered; provided that no Person may participate in any Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 4.01(a) unless such Person agrees to sell their Registrable Securities to the Company has been so requested underwriters selected as provided in Section 4.05(f) on the same terms and conditions as apply to registerthe Requesting Shareholders; provided, howeverfurther, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to no such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder Registering Shareholders shall be required to make any representations and warranties toor warranties, or agreements withprovide any indemnity, in connection with any underwriter in a such registration other than customary representationsrepresentations and warranties (or indemnities with respect thereto) as to (i) such Person’s ownership of his, warranties her or its Registrable Securities to be transferred free and agreements clear of all liens, claims, and encumbrances, (ii) such Person’s power and authority to effect such transfer, and (iii) such matters pertaining to compliance with securities laws by such Registering Shareholders as may be reasonably requested; provided, further, 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 Holder such Person will be in respect of any indemnificationproportion thereto; provided, contribution or other obligation of further, that such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) shall liability will 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to received by such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) Person from the disposition sale of the his, her or its Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder registration; provided, further, that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the number of Registrable Securities that a Shareholder may participate request to include in any a Demand Registration (including pursuant to Section 4.02) cannot exceed the number of Registrable Securities, determined by multiplying the aggregate number of Registrable Securities held by such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees Shareholder by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of Registrable Securities that the Requesting Shareholder proposes to sell its in such Demand Registration and the denominator of which is the total number of Registrable Securities on held by such Requesting Shareholder prior to such Demand Registration, and provided, further, that 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by aggregate gross proceeds expected to be received from the SEC, at least 75% sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included all Registering Shareholders in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or are at least $25,000,000. (iib) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at At any time prior to the commencement effective date of marketing the Registration Statement relating to such registration, a majority of the Requesting Shareholders (measured by the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold by all Requesting Shareholders and not by the number of Requesting Shareholders) may revoke such request without liability to any of the other Registering Shareholders, by providing a notice to the Company revoking such request. The decision as to whether to consummate and as to the terms of any Demand Registration shall be made by a majority of the Requesting Shareholders (measured by the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold by all Requesting Shareholders and not by the number of Requesting Shareholders) in their sole and absolute discretion. (c) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with each Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected; provided that such registration nonetheless holders of Registrable Securities shall count pay all underwriting discounts, selling commissions and share transfer taxes applicable to the sale of their respective Registrable Securities, but fees and disbursements of their respective counsel shall be borne and paid by the Company as a Registration Expense. (d) If a Demand Registration for purposes involves a Public Offering and the managing underwriter advises the Company and the Requesting Shareholders that, in its view, the number of clause Registrable Securities that the Registering Shareholders and the Company propose to include in such registration exceeds the largest number of Registrable Securities that can be sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such Registrable Securities can be sold (ii) of the proviso “Demand Maximum Offering Size”), the Company shall include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to Section 4.2(a).the Demand Maximum Offering Size:

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Shareholder Agreement (Avista Capital Partners III GP, L.P.), Shareholders Agreement (Osmotica Pharmaceuticals PLC), Shareholder Agreement (Osmotica Pharmaceuticals PLC)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 days after expiration of the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Restricted Period, the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities Sellers Representative may, on one occasion only, request registration under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerheld by him; provided, however, that (i) the Holders no such registration request shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for be permitted to be made at any time when all Registrable Securities having then held by and issuable to the Founders may be sold under Rule 144 during any ninety (90) day period and the certificates evidencing such Registrable Securities bear no legends restricting the transfer thereof or may be issued or re-issued without such legends (and, to the extent such securities are issued in global form, bear an anticipated aggregate unrestricted CUSIP number or may be issued or re-issued bearing an unrestricted CUSIP number); provided further, however, that no such registration request shall be permitted to be made in connection with an underwritten offering price of less than $5,000,000in which the Registrable Securities would be sold to an underwriter or underwriters for reoffering to the public; and provided further, (ii) however, that no such registration request shall be permitted to be made at any time after the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than Parent has effected one (1) Demand registration pursuant to this Section 13.21. Within ten (10) days after receipt of such a registration request, the Parent shall give written notice of such requested registration to all other holders of Registrable Securities for whom the Parent has current contact information and shall include in such registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to which the Parent has received written requests for inclusion therein within twenty (20) days after the transmission of the Parent’s notice. Within sixty (60) days after the receipt of such a request, the Parent shall prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Registration in any six Statement on Form S-3 (6or, if Form S-3 is not then available to the Parent, then on (i) month period. Form S-1 or (bii) The offering such other form of registration statement as is then available to effect a registration for resale of the Registrable Securities pursuant Securities) (the “Registration Statement”) and thereafter shall use its reasonable best efforts to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 cause 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 Statement to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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 agreementbecome effective. The Company Founders’ request(s) for registration shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by specify the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the approximate number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by registered, the anticipated per share price range for such offering and the intended method of distribution. As used in this Section 13.21, the term “Founders” shall mean and include only (i) each of the Founders that then holds Registrable Securities, (ii) any bank or other institutional lender to any Founder to which such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Founder collaterally assigns its rights under this Section 13.21 that (w) then holds Registrable Securities held and (x) agrees to become bound by the Holders shall be included provisions of this Agreement in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registrationaccordance with Section 13.21(k), and the Company has complied in all material respects with (iii) any transferee or assignee thereof to which any such bank or other institutional lender assigns its obligations rights under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, and that if, after it has become effective, (iy) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of then holds Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant and (z) agrees to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered become bound by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences provisions of this Agreement in accordance with Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a13.21(k).

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Samples: Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (FVA Ventures, Inc.), Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (FVA Ventures, Inc.), Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (Blyth Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the earlier of (i) five (5) years from the date that is 180 of this Agreement and (ii) one hundred eighty (180) days after the Closing Date (as defined in initial public offering of the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right Company’s Common Stock pursuant to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities an effective registration under the Securities Act Act, the holders (a “Demand Registration”excluding the Key Holder) by delivering a written request therefor to of at least fifty percent (50%) of the Registrable Securities then outstanding (excluding Key Holder Registrable Securities) may notify the Company that they intend to offer or cause to be offered for public sale at least fifty percent (i50%) specifying of the Registrable Securities then outstanding (excluding Key Holder Registrable Securities) or any lesser number of Registrable Securities (excluding Key Holder Registrable Securities) if the anticipated aggregate sale price, net of underwriting discounts and commissions, if any, would exceed $10,000,000. Upon receipt of such request, the Company shall promptly deliver notice of such request to all Stockholders holding Registrable Securities who shall then have thirty (30) days to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. If the request for registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to contemplates an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandunderwritten public offering, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom state such in the request for written notice and in such event the right of any Person to participate in such registration has not been received shall be conditioned upon such Person’s participation in such underwritten public offering and (y) the inclusion of such Person’s Registrable Securities in the underwritten public offering to the extent provided herein. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to expeditiously effect (but in any event no later than thirty (30) days after such request) the registration of all Registrable Securities whose holders request participation in such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of Act, but only to the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerextent provided for in this Agreement; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated required to effect or participate (aregistration pursuant to a request under this Section 2(a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings times for the holders of the Registrable Securities as a group. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no request may be made under this Section 2(a) within ninety (90) days after the effective date of a registration statement filed by the Company covering a firm commitment underwritten public offering in any twelve (12which the holders of Registrable Securities shall have been entitled to join pursuant to Section 4 and in which there shall have been effectively registered all Registrable Securities as to which registration shall have been requested. A registration will not count as a requested registration under this Section 2(a) month periodunless and until the registration statement relating to such registration has been declared effective by the Commission; provided, however, that a majority in interest of the participating holders of Registrable Securities may request, in writing, that the Company withdraw a registration statement which has been filed under this Section 2(a) but has not yet been declared effective, and a majority in interest of such holders may thereafter request the Company to reinstate such registration statement, if permitted under the Securities Act, or to file another registration statement, in accordance with the procedures set forth herein and without reduction in the number of demand registrations permitted under this Section 2(a). (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior If a requested registration involves an underwritten public offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, and the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company underwriter of such offering determines in good faith that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed sought to be offered should be limited due to market conditions, then the number of securities to be included in such registration exceeds underwritten public offering shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter; provided, that the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then securities to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) first, persons not having any contractual or other right to include such securities in the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and registration statement, (ii) second, 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 the registration statement, (iii) third, securities to be registered by the Company will be obligated and required pursuant to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of registration statement, (iv) fourth, Registrable Securities of holders who did not make the original request for registration and, if necessary, (v) fifth, Registrable Securities of holders who requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities pursuant to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis Section 2(a). If there is a reduction of the number of Registrable Securities requested pursuant to clauses (iv) or (v), such reduction shall be included therein by each such Holder. No shares made on a pro rata basis (based upon the aggregate number of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by such holders). (c) With respect to a request for registration pursuant to Section 2(a) which is for an underwritten public offering, the Holders managing underwriter shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of chosen by the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included sold in such registrationoffering, and subject only to the consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Company has complied in all material respects with may not cause any other registration of securities for sale for its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has own account (other than a registration effected solely to implement an employee benefit plan) to become effective, effective within one hundred twenty (i120) such Registration Statement or days following the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject effective date of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested required pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)2.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined The Company may include in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Demand Registration Registrable Securities shall have for the right to require account of the Demanding Holders and shares of Common Stock for the account of the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws shareholders exercising contractual piggy-back registration rights or other shareholders, on the same terms and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of conditions as the Registrable Securities that are included therein for the Company has been so requested to registeraccount of the Demanding Holders; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate if the managing underwriter(s) of any underwritten offering that is the Underwritten Offering, provided that subject of such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) Demand Registration have informed the Company shall (together with in writing that in their opinion the Holders proposing to distribute their total number of securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities with that 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part ofDemanding Holders, the Company and any other shareholders intend to and for include in such offering exceeds the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also number that can be made sold in such offering within a price range acceptable to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall be required to make any representations and warranties to, or agreements with, any underwriter in of a registration other than customary representations, warranties and agreements and (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition majority of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant requested to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees to sell its Registrable Securities on the basis provided in such underwriting agreement and completes and executes all questionnairesbe included therein, powers of attorney, indemnities and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting agreement. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate then (ax) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed Registrable Securities to be offered for the account of any stockholders, other than the Demanding Holders, shall be reduced (to zero, if necessary) pro rata in proportion to the respective number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered by such shareholders; and (y) thereafter, if necessary, the number of Registrable Securities to be offered for the account of the Company shall be reduced (to zero, if necessary), to the extent necessary to reduce the total number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds offering to the Underwriters’ Maximum Numbernumber of Registrable Securities, then if any, recommended by such managing underwriter(s) (i) and if the Company shall so advise all Holders number of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering offered for the account of shareholders other than the Demanding Holders and (ii) for the account of the Company will be obligated has been reduced to zero, and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein in such offering by each such Holder. No shares the Demanding Holders exceeds the number of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held recommended by such managing underwriter(s), then the number of Registrable Securities to be offered for the account of the Demanding Holders shall be included reduced pro rata in a Demand Registration without proportion to the prior written consent respective number of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration registered by the Holders are included in such registration, Demanding Holders); and (ii) if the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, offering that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop ordersuch Demand Registration is not underwritten, injunction or only Demanding Holders, and no other order or requirement of party (including the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agencyCompany), or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the shall be permitted to include Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) unless the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Demanding Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect owning a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 majority of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including Demand Registration consent in writing to the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences inclusion of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of such Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)therein.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Revolving Credit Loan Agreement (Thomas Group Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Thomas Group Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Thomas Group Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Date, the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable lawLaw. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws Laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a3.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 3.9 of this Agreement; provided, that that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Numbermaximum number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Numbermaximum number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a3.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 3.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 3.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 3.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d3.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a3.2(a).

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Samples: Voting Agreement (Cousins Properties Inc), Stockholders Agreement (Cousins Properties Inc), Voting Agreement (Parkway Properties Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to Except as provided in Section 2.2(b) below, upon the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), written request of the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act owning not less than ten percent (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations10%) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been effect pursuant to this Agreement the registration of the resale of the Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (which request shall specify the Registrable Securities so requested to registerbe registered by each such Holder, the Proposed Amounts thereof and the intended method of disposition by such Holders), the Company will, as expeditiously as reasonably possible, use its best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the resale of the Proposed Amount of Registrable Securities, for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such request; provided, however, however that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations if in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering good faith judgment of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form Board of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval Directors of the Company, which approval shall not such registration would be unreasonably withheld or delayed detrimental to the Company and the Board of Directors of the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company to defer the filing of such registration statement at such time, and (ii) the Company shall (together with furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by an executive officer of the Holders proposing Company that the Board of Directors of the Company has made such a determination and that it is, therefore, necessary to distribute their securities through defer the filing of such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities with registration statement, then the managing underwriter(s) proposing to distribute their securities through such Underwritten Offering, which underwriting agreement Company shall have indemnification provisions the right to defer such filing for the period during which such registration would be detrimental, provided that the Company may not defer the filing for a period of more than 120 days after receipt of the request of such Holders. The Company shall be entitled to include in substantially any registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 2.2: (A) securities of the form as set forth in Section 4.9 Company held by any other security holder of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties byCompany, and the other agreements on the part of(B) in an underwritten public offering, securities of the Company to be sold by the Company for its own account, except as and for to the benefit extent that (x) in the opinion of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit managing underwriter (if such method of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder disposition shall be required to make any representations and warranties toan underwritten public offering), or agreements with, any underwriter in a registration other than customary representations, warranties and agreements and (iii) such inclusion would adversely affect the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition marketing of the Registrable Securities disposed of to be sold by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate Holders or (y) in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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 reasonable opinion of such underwriting agreement. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf Holders owning a majority of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders Proposed Amount of Registrable Securities to be included in (if such Underwritten Offering and (ii) method of disposition is not an underwritten public offering), such inclusion would adversely affect the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, price at which such Registrable Securities may be sold pursuant to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis plan of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretodistribution; provided, however, that if, after such registration statement has been filed, the managing underwriter believes that the inclusion of all securities requested to be included in the proposed underwritten public offering would adversely affect the marketing of the Registrable Securities or, in the case of a distribution that is not an underwritten public offering, if such Holders owning a majority of the Proposed Amount of Registrable Securities reasonably believe that the inclusion of all securities requested to be included in such registration statement would adversely affect the price at which the Registrable Securities may be sold pursuant to the plan of distribution, then the aggregate amount of securities to be offered by the Company and such other security holders of the Company shall be reduced so as to permit the offering of all Registrable Securities requested by all the Holders of the entire Proposed Amount of Registrable Securities without such adverse effects. (b) The Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any registration requested by the Holders pursuant to Section 2.2(a) hereof (i) after the Company has effected two (2) such registrations pursuant to this Agreement and each such registration has been declared or ordered effective, (ii) for a period of two (2) years after the Company has effected one such registration pursuant to Section 2.2(a) hereof and such registration has been declared or ordered effective, such two year period to commence on the date the registration statement was declared or ordered effective or (iii) at any time after the second anniversary of the expiration date of the Warrants. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2.2 shall not be deemed to have been effected (i) unless it has become effective, provided that a registration that does not become effective after the Company has filed a registration statement with respect thereto by reason of the refusal of Holders owning a majority of the Proposed Amount to proceed shall be deemed to have been effected by the Company unless the Holders shall have elected to pay all Company Registration Expenses in connection with such registration, (iii) if after it has become effective such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agency, court for any reason other than a misrepresentation or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered an omission by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration StatementHolders, or (iiiii) if, if the conditions to closing specified in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration will be deemed are not to have been effected for purposes satisfied other than by reason of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration some wrongful act or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution omission, or act or omission in bad faith, by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Holders.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (General Electric Capital Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Hi Rise Recycling Systems Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Hi Rise Recycling Systems Inc)

Demand Registration. (ai) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or From and after the date that is 180 days six months after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Date, the Holders of a majority at least 55% of the Registrable Securities shall have the right then outstanding (excluding any Shelf Shares) may notify Parent in writing that such Holders desire for Parent to require the Company cause up to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of such notifying Holders' Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether registered for sale to the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable lawpublic under the Act. As soon as practicable after the Upon receipt of such demandwritten request, the Company shall (x) Parent will promptly notify in writing all other Holders of Registrable Securities of such request, which Holders shall within twenty days following such notice from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts Parent notify Parent in writing whether such persons desire to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) have up to all of the Registrable Securities held by each of them included in such offering. Parent will, promptly following the expiration of such twenty day period, prepare and file subject to the provisions of this Section 10.02, and use its best efforts to prosecute to effectiveness, an appropriate filing with the SEC of a registration statement covering such Registrable Securities and the proposed sale or distribution thereof under the Act. (ii) thereto or (B) would materially adversely affect the business or prospects of Parent in view of the disclosures that may be required thereby of information about the Company has been so requested to registerbusiness, assets, liabilities or operations of Parent theretofore disclosed; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make filing of a request for a Demand Registration under registration statement, or any supplement or amendment thereto, by Parent may be deferred pursuant to this Section 4.2(a10.02(c) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price no longer than 180 days (but only once in every twelve month period) after the delivery of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and such demand notice. (iii) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 10.02(c) to the Company will contrary: (A) Parent shall not be obligated required to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering the registration of the Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 10.02(c) more than one time; and (B) Parent shall not be required to effect any such Demand Registration may registration unless at least $1 million of Registrable Securities are to be sold in such registration (with such amount being determined based on the market price of the Parent Common Stock on the date of the initiating Holder(s) request). If any registration pursuant to this Section 10.02(c) is in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such caseoffering, (i) Parent will select and obtain the Company may designate investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers that will administer the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offeringoffering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate which investment bankers must offer terms which are reasonably competitive in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed marketplace for similar size companies and (ii) the Company similar offerings. Parent shall (together with the all Holders proposing to distribute their securities Registrable Securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in agreement, containing usual and customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities terms, with the managing underwriter(s) proposing underwriter selected for such underwriting. If any holder of Registrable Securities disapproves of the terms of the underwriting, such person may elect to distribute their securities through such Underwritten Offering, which underwriting agreement shall have indemnification provisions in substantially the form as set forth in Section 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, withdraw therefrom by written notice to Parent and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) managing underwriter. The Registrable Securities so withdrawn shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) withdrawn from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holdersregistration. (civ) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(sIf any registration statement under this Section 10.02(c) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number is not declared effective (except as a result of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum NumberHolders withdrawing Registrable Securities), then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such may request an additional registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securitiesunder this Section 10.02(c). (dv) A registration will not be deemed No registrations effected under this Section 10.02(c) shall relieve Parent of its obligations to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registrationeffect any registrations under, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registrationterms of, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a10.02(d).

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Merger Agreement (Smith Jack T), Merger Agreement (Palmer J N Family Partnership), Merger Agreement (Ladin William E Jr)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereoflimitations contained in Section 2(b), at any time on or after the date that is 180 days three months after the Closing Date (as defined the “Rights Effective Date”), Primary Holders may request by written notice delivered to the Company (a “Demand Notice”) that the Company register under the Securities Act all or any portion of the Registrable Securities then held by such Primary Holders, for sale in the Merger Agreementmanner specified in such notice (including, but not limited to, an underwritten public offering) (a “Demand Registration”). In each such case, the Holders of a majority Demand Notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the proposed manner of disposition of such securities. (b) The Company shall have use its best efforts to file with the right SEC within thirty (30) days after the Company’s receipt of a Demand Notice a registration statement for the public offering and sale, in accordance with the method of disposition specified by Primary Holders, of the number of Registrable Securities specified in such notice, and thereafter use its commercially reasonable efforts to require cause such registration statement to become effective within sixty (60) days after its filing. Such registration statement may be on Form S-3 or another appropriate form that the Company is eligible to use and that is reasonably acceptable to the managing underwriter, if any; provided that if the Company is a WKSI, an automatic shelf registration on Form S-3 will, at the request of Primary Holders, cover an unspecified number of shares of Common Stock to be sold by the Company and Holders and the Company shall file such a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part shelf registration statement within fifteen (15) days after receipt of their respective a request by the Primary Holders therefor; provided further that if requested at least fifteen (15) days prior to the Rights Effective Date, the Company shall file such a shelf registration statement on the Rights Effective Date. (c) The Company shall not have any obligation hereunder to register any Registrable Securities under Section 2(a)(ii) unless it shall have received a request from Primary Holders to register at least ten percent (10%) of the aggregate amount of Registrable Securities held by all of the Primary Holders as of the date of such request. (d) If the Company is required to use its best efforts to register Registrable Securities in a registration initiated upon the demand of Primary Holders pursuant to Section 2(a)(ii) of this Agreement and the Approved Underwriters, if any, for such offering advise that the inclusion of all securities sought to be registered pursuant to Section 2 hereof may interfere with an orderly sale and distribution of or may materially adversely affect the price of such offering, then the Company will include in such offering, first, the aggregate number of Registrable Securities that are participating in such offering pursuant to Sections 2(a)(ii) or 3(a), allocated pro rata among the Registrable Securities based on the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by each such Holder on the date that the Demand Notice is received by the Company which the Approved Underwriters, if any, advise will not likely have such effect, and second, all other securities requested or proposed to be included in such registration (including shares of Common Stock to be sold for the account of the Company). (e) Upon the demand of Primary Holders pursuant to Section 2(a)(ii) made at any time and from time to time, the Company will facilitate in the manner described in this Agreement a “takedown” of shares of Common Stock off of an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 pursuant to Rule 415 of the Securities Act (a “Demand RegistrationShelf Takedown) by delivering a written request therefor ), including, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 2(b), an underwritten Shelf Takedown. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such Primary Holders may not demand a Shelf Takedown for an offering that will result in the imposition of a lockup on the Company and the Primary Holders unless the shares requested to be sold by the Primary Holders in such takedown have an aggregate market value (ibased on the most recent closing price of the Common Stock at the time of the demand) specifying the number of at least $10 million. (f) If any Demand Registration of Registrable Securities to be included is in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method form of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandunderwritten public offering, the Company Primary Holders shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom select and obtain one or more investment banking firms of national or regional reputation to act as the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky managing underwriter or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) underwriters of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registeroffering; provided, however, that such firm or firms shall, in any case, also be approved by the Company, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned. An investment banking firm or firms selected pursuant to this Section 2(a)(vi) shall be referred to as the “Approved Underwriter” herein. (ig) Upon the demand of Holders, the Company will file and seek the effectiveness of a post-effective amendment to an existing shelf registration statement on Form S-3 in order to register up to the number of shares previously taken down off of such shelf by such Holders shall and not make yet “reloaded” onto such shelf registration statement. The Holders and the Company will consult and coordinate with each other in order to accomplish such replenishments from time to time in a request for sensible manner. 2.2 The obligations of the Company to effect, or to take any action to effect, a Demand Registration under or an underwritten Shelf Takedown shall be limited as follows: (a) In connection with the provisions of this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,0002, (ii) the Primary Holders will not be entitled to may require the Company to effect no more than three (3) Demand Registrations or underwritten Shelf Takedowns in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any 365 day period during the six (6) month year period commencing on the Rights Effective Date. After the expiration of the such period, the Company shall no longer have any obligation to file Demand Registrations at the request of the Primary Holders. (b) The offering For the avoidance of doubt, until the six (6) year anniversary of the Rights Effective Date, there shall be no limit on the number of non-underwritten Shelf Takedowns that Primary Holders may request (but after such date, Primary Holders shall no longer have the right to make any such requests), and, to the extent that Registrable Securities are not covered by an effective shelf registration on Form S-3, the Primary Holders shall be entitled to demand that the Company effect such a shelf-registration, notwithstanding the limits set forth in this Section 2(b) and no such demand for a shelf registration statement shall count against the limits set forth in this Section 2(b). 2.3 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company shall have the right to defer or suspend the filing or effectiveness of a registration statement relating to any registration requested under Section 2(a) for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 90 days if a prior registration statement of the Company for an underwritten, public offering by the Company of its securities was declared effective by the SEC less than 120 days prior to the anticipated effective date of the requested registration. 2.4 No registration of Registrable Securities under this Section 2 shall relieve the Company of its obligation (if any) to effect registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders3. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Lightyear Fund Ii Lp), Merger Agreement (Vantagesouth Bancshares, Inc.), Merger Agreement (YADKIN FINANCIAL Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, If at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Lockup Date, the Holders of Company shall receive a majority of Registrable Securities shall have written request from the right to require Investor that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities specified in such written request (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) ), specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined belowinformation set forth under Section 6.4(i), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, then the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such effect, as expeditiously as reasonably practicable, subject to the restrictions in Section 6.1(e), the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsof the Registrable Securities for which the Investor has requested registration under this Section 6.1, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered, provided, that the Company has been so requested shall not be required to register; provided, however, that effect (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) such Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed period and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings such Demand Registrations in any twelve (12) month period, and total. (b) At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Investor may revoke such Demand Registration request by providing a notice to the Company revoking such request, provided, that such Demand Registration shall count as having been effected for purposes of the proviso to Section 6.1(a) above unless the Investor pays all Registration Expenses in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required connection with such revoked Demand Registration within thirty (30) days of written request therefor by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the HoldersCompany. (c) IfFor any Public Offering relating to a Demand Registration, the Company shall select, with the consent of the Investor (not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), the lead underwriter and any additional underwriters in connection with an Underwritten the offering. In connection with any Public Offering, the Company shall enter into customary agreements (including an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take all other actions as are reasonably required in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities in any such Public Offering. (d) If a Demand Registration involves an underwritten Public Offering and the managing underwriter(s) advise advises the Company that and the Investor that, in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Numberview, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein in such registration by each such Holder. No shares the Investor, the Company and for the account of Common Stock held by any Person other than Persons exceeds the largest number of Registrable Securities held that can be sold without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such Registrable Securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size”), the Company shall include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size: (i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be registered in the Demand Registration by the Holders Investor; and (ii) second, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company or any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any other Persons, with such priorities among them as the Company shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securitiesdetermine. (de) A Upon notice to the Investor, the Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 6.1 on up to two (2) occasions during any three hundred and sixty-five (365) consecutive day period for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding ninety (90) days in the aggregate (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) the Company shall determine in good faith, based on advice from independent investment bankers, 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) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the Company believes in good faith would not be in the best interests of the Company. If the Company so postpones effecting a registration, the Investor will be entitled to withdraw its registration request and, if such request is withdrawn, such registration request will not count for purposes of the limitation set forth in the proviso to Section 6.1(a). (f) Notwithstanding any provision in this Section 6.1 or elsewhere in this Agreement, no provision relating to the registration of Registrable Securities shall be deemed construed as permitting the Investor to have effect a Transfer of securities that is otherwise prohibited by the terms of this Agreement or any other agreement between the Investor and the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. (g) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Demand Registration shall count as having been effected as a for purposes of the proviso to Section 6.1(a) (and the Company shall pay or reimburse all Registration Expenses pursuant to Section 6.5) if (i) the registration statement relating to such request is not declared effective within one hundred and eighty (180) days of the date such registration statement is first filed with the SEC and the Investor revokes such Demand Registration unless prior to such registration statement being declared effective, (ii) prior to the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, sale of at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the applicable registration relating to such request, such registration is adversely affected by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agencycourt for any reason and the Company fails to have such stop order, injunction or other order or requirement removed, withdrawn or resolved to the Investor’s reasonable satisfaction within thirty (30) days of the date of such order, or if (iii) the conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement or purchase agreement entered into in connection with the registration relating to such request are not satisfied (other than as a result of a material default or breach thereunder by the Investor). (h) Upon written request of the Investor following the Lockup Date, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to qualify for registration on and to promptly file, Form S-3 or any court prevents comparable or otherwise limits successor form or forms or any similar short-form registration (“Short-Form Registration”), and such Short-Form Registration will be a “shelf” registration statement providing for the registration, and the sale on a continuous or delayed basis, of the Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415. Upon filing a Short-Form Registration, the registrationCompany will, if applicable, use its commercially reasonable efforts to: (i) cause such Short-Form Registration to be declared effective, and (ii) keep such Short-Form Registration effective with the SEC at all times and re-file such Short-Form Registration upon its expiration. The Company shall cooperate in each case less than all any shelf take-down by amending or supplementing the prospectus statement related to such Short-Form Registration as may be requested by the Investor or any transferees or as otherwise required, until the Investor or any transferees who would require such registration to effect a sale of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of no longer hold the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then or until the time specified in Section 6.14 hereof. The Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand will pay all Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included Expenses incurred in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or connection with any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Short-Form Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

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Samples: Stock Purchase Agreement (China Investment Corp), Stockholder Agreement (China Investment Corp), Stockholder Agreement (Aes Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject One or more Requesting Shareholders shall be entitled to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders make a written request of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file (a Registration Statement registering “Demand”) for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration under the Securities Act of an amount of Registrable Securities that, in the aggregate taking into account all of the Requesting Shareholders, equals or is greater than the Registrable Amount (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor and thereupon the Company will, subject to the Company (i) specifying the number terms of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersthis Agreement, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued as promptly as practicable under the Securities Act of: (i) the offer and any other governmental requirements or regulations) sale of the Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) register by the Holders shall not make a request Requesting Shareholders for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price disposition in accordance with the intended method of less than $5,000,000, disposition stated in such Demand; (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require all other Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and register pursuant to Section 2.1(b); and (iii) all equity securities of the Company will not which the Company may elect to register in connection with any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2.1; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Shares, if any, to be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodso registered. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Each Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, shall specify: (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein registered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, if then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Shareholder (or Requesting Shareholders). Within five (5) business days after receipt of a Demand, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand to all other Shareholders, if any. Subject to Section 2.1(h), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Demand all Registrable Securities held 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 mailed. Such written request shall comply with the Holders requirements of a Demand as set forth in this Section 2.1(b). (c) Demand Registrations shall be included in on (i) if option (ii) and (iii) below are not available, Form S-1 or any similar long-form registration (“Long-Form Registration”), (ii) if option (iii) below is not available, Form S-3 or any similar short form registration, if such short form registration is then available to the Company, or (iii) Form S-3ASR if the Company is, at the time a Demand is made, a Well-Known Seasoned Issuer (a Demand Registration without under each of clauses (ii) and (iii), a “Short-Form Registration”), in each case, in compliance with the prior written consent Securities Act and in the form of registration statements that the holders Company has customarily prepared and filed with the SEC for issuances of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securitiesits Shares. The Company shall not be required to effect more than two Long-Form Registrations per fiscal year. (d) Effective Demand Registration. A registration will Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected as effected: (i) unless a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating registration statement with respect thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% SEC and remains effective in compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act and the laws of any U.S. state or other jurisdiction applicable to the disposition of Registrable Securities requested covered by such registration statement until such time as all of such Registrable Securities shall have been disposed of in accordance with such registration statement or there shall cease to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that any Registrable Securities; (ii) if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other Governmental Entities or court for any reason other governmental or administrative agency, or if than a violation of applicable law solely by any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, Selling Shareholder and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or has not thereafter become effective; (iiiii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the conditions to closing specified in an underwriting agreement applicable to the Company fails are not satisfied or waived other than by reason of any breach or failure by any Selling Shareholder; or (iv) if the Company effects a postponement, declares a Suspension Period or similarly delays the exercise of rights under this Agreement pursuant to provide Full Cooperationthe terms in the paragraph below or the terms of this Agreement generally. Notwithstanding the foregoing, then such registration will the Company shall not be deemed not obligated to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) maintain the effectiveness of a registration requested Long-Form Registration, filed pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration Registration, for a period longer than 75 days or (ii) effect any Demand Registration (A) within six (6) months of the effective date of a registration requested statement with respect to a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering in which all Piggyback Sellers were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to this Section 4.2 does 2.2 (and at least 50% of the number of Registrable Securities requested by such Piggyback Sellers to be included in such Demand Registration were included), (B) within three (3) months of the effective date of a registration statement with respect to any other Demand Registration, (C) within 90 days from the date on which a Marketed Underwritten Offering was priced or (D) if, in the reasonable judgment of the Board, it is not remain continuously effective until fortyfeasible for the Company to proceed with the Demand Registration because of the unavailability of audited or other required financial statements or financial information, provided that the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain such financial statements or financial information as promptly as practicable. In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Shareholders) the filing or the effectiveness of a registration statement for any Demand Registration (but no more than twice in any period of twelve (12) consecutive months and in no event for more than an aggregate of one-hundred twenty (120) days in any three-hundred sixty-five (45365) days after consecutive day period) if the commencement Board determines in its reasonable judgment that the filing or effectiveness of the distribution by registration statement relating to such Demand Registration would cause the Holders disclosure of the Registrable Securities covered by such registrationmaterial, then non-public information that the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect has a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d)bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registrationprovided, provided however, that such registration nonetheless postponement shall count terminate at such time that such information is no longer material, non-public information or the Company no longer has a bona fide business purpose for preserving such information as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)confidential.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Apollo Management Holdings GP, LLC), Transaction Agreement (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require If the Company to file shall receive a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities written request by THL that the Company effect the registration under the Securities Act (of all or a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to portion of the Company (i) THL Entities' Registrable Securities, and specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)thereof, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (xa "THL Demand Registration") promptly notify all Holders from whom at least five days prior to the request for anticipated filing date of the registration has not been received statement relating to such THL Demand Registration to the Non-THL Shareholders and (y) thereupon will use reasonable its best efforts to effect such effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsof: (i) of the Registrable Securities that of the THL Entities which the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, and (ii) subject to the Holders will not be entitled restrictions set forth in Section 5.2, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as that to require which THL's request relates for which an effective Piggyback Registration (as such term is defined in Section 5.2) request has been made; provided, that subject to Section 5.1(d) hereof, the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will shall not be obligated to effect more than six THL Demand Registrations. In no event will the Company be required to effect more than one (1) THL Demand Registration in within any six (6) four-month period. (b) The offering Promptly after the expiration of the Registrable Securities pursuant 2-day period referred to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i5.2(a) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part ofhereof, the Company to and for will notify all the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed Shareholders to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then THL Demand Registration (ithe "Holders") of the Company shall so advise all other Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holdertherein. No shares of Common Stock held by THL may, at any Person other than Registrable Securities held by time prior to the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent effective date of the holders of a majority in interest registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request, without liability to any of the Registrable Securitiesother Holders, by providing a written notice to the Company revoking such request, in which case such request, so revoked, shall not be considered a THL Demand Registration. (c) The Company will pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any THL Demand Registration. (d) A registration will requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration (i) unless the Registration Statement registration statement relating thereto (A) has been declared become effective by under the SEC, Securities Act and (B) has remained effective for a period of at least 75% 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretoregistration have actually been sold thereunder); provided, however, that if, if after it has become effective, any registration statement requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 becomes effective (ix) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration statement is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case (y) less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 75% of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances registration statement has been sold thereunder, such registration statement shall not including be considered a THL Demand Registration, or (ii) if the events described Maximum Offering Size (as defined below) is reduced in accordance with Section 5.1(e) such that less than 66 2/3% of the immediately two preceding sentences Registrable Securities of this Section 4.2(d)the THL Entities sought to be included in such registration are included. (e) If a THL Demand Registration involves an Underwritten Public Offering and the managing underwriter shall advise the Company and THL that, each Holder in its view, (i) the number of shares of Registrable Securities shall requested to be permitted voluntarily included in such registration (including any securities which the Company proposes to be included which are not Registrable Securities) or (ii) the inclusion of some or all of the shares of Registrable Securities owned by the Holders, in any such case, exceeds the largest number of shares which 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"), the Company will include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size: (A) first, all Registrable Securities requested by THL to be registered and all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by any other Holder pursuant to an effective Piggyback Registration request (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among the THL Entities and such Holders on the basis of the relative number of Registrable Securities held by such Shareholder); and (B) second, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company. provided, however, that in such case, any Holder may elect to withdraw all or any part of its such Holder's Registrable Securities from the registration. (f) Upon written notice to THL, the Company may postpone effecting a Demand Registration at registration pursuant to this Section 5.1 on one occasion during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time prior to specified in the commencement notice but not exceeding 90 days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) an investment banking firm of marketing recognized national standing shall advise the Company and THL in writing that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes securities of clause the Company the preparation of which had then been commenced or (ii) the Company has a bona fide business reason for determining that it is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the Company believes, in its reasonable judgment, would not be in the best interests of the proviso Company. (g) After the Company has effected two Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 4.2(a5.1 of Common Stock, the Institutional Shareholders, upon request of such Institutional Shareholders owning a majority of the Shares acquired by such Institutional Shareholders on the Closing Date, may request that the Company register shares of Registrable Securities then owned by such Institutional Shareholders (an "Institutional Shareholder Demand Registration"). In no event will the Company be required to effect more than one such Institutional Shareholder Demand Registration. The provisions of this Article 5 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any such Institutional Shareholder Demand Registration. (h) After the Transfer of Shares of Common Stock representing more than 20% of the Shares collectively owned by the Equity Investors of the Initial Ownership on a Fully Diluted basis owned by such Equity Investors, the Primary Executives may request that the Company register Shares which are Registrable Securities then owned by them (a "Primary Executive Demand Registration"). In no event will the Company be required to effect more than three such Primary Executive Demand Registrations. The provisions of this Article 5 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any such Primary Executive Demand Registration; provided, that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (i) no Primary Executive Demand Registrations may be made during the six month period following the Effective Time or within six months after the effective date any other registration statement (other than registration statement on From S-4 or S-8 or similar form), and (ii) the Company must use its best efforts to effect such Primary Executive Demand Registration as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 120 days following the date of the demand.

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Samples: Investors' Agreement (Fisher Scientific International Inc), Investors' Agreement (Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Inc /Ny/)

Demand Registration. (ai) Subject to the provisions hereof, at Request for Registration. At any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)time, the Holders of a majority Purchased Shares representing not less than 25% of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities (or any lesser amount if the request relates to all remaining Registrable Securities) (the "Demand Party") may make two written requests for registration under the Act of their Registrable Securities (a "Demand Registration"); provided, that no transferee of the Investors or of any such transferee shall have be permitted to request a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) unless the right to require make such a request was specifically transferred by the Company Investors (or any transferee) to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written such transferee. Any such request therefor to the Company (i) specifying shall specify the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether sold and will also specify the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)thereof, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required method of disposition to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, Company if it is other than a firm commitment underwritten public offering (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) withheld). Subject to the other provisions of this Section 2(a), the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation give written notice of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) shall be limited registration request within 10 days after the receipt thereof 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 all other such disclosure document or other document or report, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf Holders. Within 15 days after receipt of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in notice by any eventHolder, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate request in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees to sell writing that 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds (whether or not such Registrable Securities are of the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (isame series or class as the Registrable Securities that were the subject of the original demand) and the Company shall so advise all Holders of include in the Demand Registration the Registrable Securities of any such Holder requested to be included in so included. Each such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities requested proposed to be included therein by each sold and the intended method of disposition thereof, such Holder. No shares method of Common Stock held by any Person disposition to be subject to the approval of the Company if it is other than Registrable Securities held by a firm commitment underwritten public offering (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld). Upon a demand, the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities.Company will: (dx) A registration will not be deemed prepare and file within 30 days after a request has been made and use its reasonable best efforts to have been effected cause to become effective as promptly as reasonably commercially practicable (but in any event use its reasonable best efforts to cause to become effective within 90 days of such demand) a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% in respect of all the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the which Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretorequest for inclusion therein; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, and (iy) keep such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five for the shorter of (45A) 90 days after the commencement and (B) such period of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 time as all of the Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement have been sold thereunder (the shorter of (A) or (B), the "Effectiveness Period"); provided, that if such demand occurs during a Black Out Period (as defined below) or other period (not to exceed 180 days) during which the Company is prohibited or restricted from issuing or selling securities pursuant to any underwriting or purchase agreement relating to an underwritten Rule 144A offering or registered public offering of securities (a "Lock Up Period"), the Company shall notify the Demand Party of the basis therefore and shall not be required to notify the Holders of such demand or file such Registration Statement prior to the end of the Black Out Period or Lock Up Period, as the case may be, in which event, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective no later than the later of (A) 150 days after the original demand and (B) 90 days after the end of the Black Out Period or Lock Up Period, as the case may be; and provided, further, that the Company may postpone the filing of any Registration Statement (and, in the case of a Pending Event Suspension Period only, suspend the effectiveness of any registration, suspend the use of any Prospectus and shall not be required to amend or supplement the Registration Statement, any related Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference (other than an effective Registration Statement being used in an underwritten offering)) (A) for a period not to exceed an aggregate of 90 days (a "Pending Event Suspension Period") in the event that (1) an event or circumstance occurs and is continuing that has not been publicly disclosed and, if not disclosed in the Registration Statement, any related Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference as then amended or supplemented would, in the Company's good faith reasonable judgment, result in the Registration Statement, any related Prospectus or any such document containing an untrue statement of a material fact or omitting to state a material fact required to be stated therein, or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (2) in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board"), after consultation with its outside securities counsel, the Company has a bona fide business purpose for not then disclosing the existence of such event or circumstance or (B) in the event that the Company, for its own account or the account of others, has pending or is currently engaged in the process of and proposes to register shares of Common Stock for sale in an underwritten public offering on Form X-0, X-0 or S-3, their successor forms or any other form under the Securities Act appropriate for a public offering of such securities (other than a registration on Form S-8), for a period not to exceed 60 days after the consummation of such public offering (a "Pending Registration Suspension Period" and, together with a Pending Event Suspension Period, a "Black Out Period"); provided, further, that the Effectiveness Period shall be extended by the number of days in any Black Out Period occurring during the Effectiveness Period. In circumstances not including the events described in event of the immediately two preceding sentences occurrence of this Section 4.2(d)any Black Out Period or Lock Up Period, each Holder the Company will promptly notify the Holders of Registrable Securities thereof in writing. If the Company shall be permitted voluntarily postpone the filing of a Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Securities requesting registration thereof shall have the right to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior the request for registration by giving written notice to the commencement Company within 30 days after receipt of marketing notice of postponement from the Company and, in the event of such Demand Registrationwithdrawal, provided that such registration nonetheless request shall count as a Demand Registration not be counted for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso requests permitted to be made under this Section 4.2(a2(a). The Company shall not be permitted to assert more than one Black Out Period in any consecutive 180-day period.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Aprisma Management Technologies Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Cabletron Systems Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject At any time prior to such time as the rights under this Section 2 terminate with respect to a Holder as provided in Section 2(e) hereof, upon written notice from such Holder in the manner set forth herein requesting that the Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of any or all of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder, which notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition of such Registrable Securities, the Company shall use its best efforts to effect, in the manner set forth in Section 5, the registration under the Securities Act of such Registrable Securities for disposition in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such request (including in an offering on a delayed or continuous basis under Rule 415 (or any successor rule to similar effect) promulgated under the Securities Act, if (x) the Company is then eligible to register such Registrable Securities on Form S-3 (or a successor form) for such offering and (y) the Company consents to such an offering (except that no consent of the Company will be required if the contemplated offering on a delayed or continuous basis under Rule 415 is the offering of Registrable Securities upon the exercise, exchange or conversion of Exchangeable Securities as contemplated by Section 6 hereof)), provided that: (i) if, within 5 business days of receipt of a registration request pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Holder or Holders making such request are advised in writing that the Company has in good faith commenced the preparation of a registration statement for an underwritten public offering prior to receipt of the notice requesting registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) and the managing underwriter of the proposed offering has determined that in such firm's good faith opinion, a registration at the time and on the terms requested would materially and adversely affect the offering that is contemplated by the Company, the Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) (a "Transactional Deferral") until the earliest of (A) the abandonment of such offering by the Company, (B) 60 days after receipt by the Holder or Holders requesting registration of the managing underwriter's written opinion referred to above in this clause (i), unless the registration statement for such offering has become effective and such offering has commenced on or prior to such 60th day, and (C) if the registration statement for such offering has become effective and such offering has commenced on or prior to such 60th day, the day on which the restrictions on the Holders contained in Section 10 hereof lapse, provided, however, that the Company shall not be permitted to delay a requested registration in reliance on this clause (i) more than once in any 12-month period; (ii) if, while a registration request is pending pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Company determines, following consultation with and receiving advice from its legal counsel, that the filing of a registration statement would require the disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential and the disclosure of which the Company determines reasonably and in good faith would have a material adverse effect on the Company, the Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earlier of (A) the date upon which such material information is otherwise disclosed to the provisions hereof, at any time on public or after the date that is 180 ceases to be material and (B) 90 days after the Closing Date Company makes such determination; (as defined iii) the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2: (A) prior to the first anniversary of the closing of the Public Offering, (B) within a period of 365 calendar days after the effective date of any other registration statement of the Company demanded pursuant to this Section 2(a), or (C) if such registration request is for a number of Registrable Securities having a Fair Market Value on the 3 4 business day immediately preceding the date of such registration request of less than $50,000,000.00; and (iv) the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2: (A) in the Merger Agreement)case of a registration request by Zapaxx xx any Permitted Transferee that has acquired, in the Holders of transaction in which it became a Permitted Transferee, at least a majority of the then issued and outstanding Voting Stock, on more than three occasions after such time as Zapaxx xx such Permitted Transferee, as the case may be, owns less than a majority of the voting power of the outstanding capital stock of the Company (it being acknowledged that so long as Zapaxx xx such Permitted Transferee owns a majority of the voting power of the outstanding capital stock of the Company, there shall be no limit to the number of occasions on which Zapaxx xx such Permitted Transferee may exercise such rights other than as expressly set forth herein), or (B) in the case of a Holder other than Zapaxx xx a Permitted Transferee described in clause (A) above, on more than the number of occasions permitted such Holder in accordance with Section 11 hereof. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary: (i) a registration requested by a Holder pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected (and, therefore, not requested for purposes of Section 2(a)), (A) unless the registration statement filed in connection therewith has become effective, (B) if after such registration statement has become effective, it becomes subject to any stop order, or there is issued an injunction or other order or decree of the SEC or other governmental agency or court for any reason other than a misrepresentation or an omission by such Holder, which injunction, order or decree prohibits or otherwise materially and adversely affects the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities so registered prior to the completion of the distribution thereof in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the registration statement or (C) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied by reason of some act, misrepresentation or omission by the Company and are not waived by the purchasers or underwriters; and (ii) nothing herein shall modify a Holder's obligation to pay Registration Expenses, in accordance with Section 4 hereof, that are incurred in connection with any withdrawn registration requested by such Holder. (c) In the event that any registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, Holders owning at least 50.1% of the Fair Market Value of the Registrable Securities to be registered in connection with such offering shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor designate an underwriter reasonably satisfactory to the Company as the lead managing underwriter of such underwritten offering, and the Company shall have the right to designate one underwriter reasonably satisfactory to such Holders as a co-manager of such underwritten offering. (id) specifying The Company shall have the number right to cause the registration of additional securities for sale for the account of any person (including the Company) in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by any Holder pursuant to Section 2(a) only to the extent the managing underwriter or other independent marketing agent for such offering (if any) determines that, in its opinion, the additional securities proposed to be sold will not materially and adversely affect the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities to be included registered in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition then contemplated by such Holder. The rights of a Holder to cause the registration of additional Registrable Securities held by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method in any registration of disposition thereof is Registrable Securities requested by another Holder pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iiiSection 2(a) containing all information about such Holder required to shall be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after governed by the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) agreement of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this with respect thereto as provided in Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period11(a). (be) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) file a registration requested statement relating to a registration request by a Holder pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected 2 from and after such time as a Demand Registration such Holder first owns Registrable Securities representing (assuming for this purpose the conversion, exchange or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement exercise of all Registrable Securities then owned by 5 such Holder that are convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Voting Stock of the distribution by the Holders Company) less than 10% of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 issued and outstanding Voting Stock of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Company.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Zap Com Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Zap Com Corp)

Demand Registration. (ai) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 days six months after the Closing Date date hereof , if one or more Holders that own an aggregate of 51% or more of the Registrable Securities then outstanding shall make a written request to the Company (as defined in the Merger Agreement"Demanding Holders"), the Holders Company shall cause there to be filed with the Commission a registration statement meeting the requirements of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a "Demand Registration"), and each Demanding Holder shall be entitled to have included therein (subject to Section 2.7) by delivering a written all or such number of such Demanding Holder's Registered Shares, as the Demanding Holder shall report in writing; provided, however, that no request therefor may be made pursuant to this Section 2.1 if within nine (9) months prior to the Company (i) specifying date of such request a Demand Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall have been declared effective by the Commission. Any request made pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall be addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Company, and shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersregistered, the intended methods of disposition thereof and that the request is for a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1(i). (ii) specifying whether The Company shall be entitled to postpone for up to ninety (90) days the intended method filing of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder any Demand Registration statement otherwise required to be included prepared and filed pursuant to this Section 2.1, if the Board determines, in its good faith reasonable judgment (with the concurrence of the managing underwriter, if any), that such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after registration and the receipt Transfer of Registrable Securities contemplated thereby would materially interfere with, or require premature disclosure of, any financing, acquisition or reorganization involving the Company or any of its wholly owned subsidiaries and the Company promptly gives the Demanding Holders notice of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerdetermination; provided, however, that (ithe Company shall not have postponed pursuant to this Section 2.1(ii) the Holders filing of any other Demand Registration statement otherwise required to be prepared and filed pursuant to this Section 2.1 during the twelve (12) month period ended on the date of the relevant request pursuant to Section 2.1(i). (iii) Whenever the Company shall not have received a demand pursuant to Section 2.1(i) to effect the registration of any Registrable Shares, the Company shall promptly give written notice of such proposed registration to all other Holders. Any such Holder may, within twenty (20) days after receipt of such notice, request in writing that all of such Holder's Registrable Shares, or any portion thereof designated by such Holder, be included in the registration. 2.2. On or after the date of this Agreement each Substantial Holder that shall make a written request to the Company (the "Initiating Substantial Holder"), shall be entitled to have all or any number of such Initiating Substantial Holder's Registrable Securities included in a registration with the Commission in accordance with the Securities Act for an offering on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a "Shelf Registration"). Any request made pursuant to this Section 2.2 shall be addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Company, and shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be registered, the intended methods of disposition thereof and that the request is for a Shelf Registration pursuant to this Section 2.2. 2.3. Following receipt of a request for a Demand Registration or a Shelf Registration, the Company shall: (i) File the registration statement with the Commission as promptly as practicable, and shall use the Company's best efforts to have the registration declared effective under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable the Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000Act as soon as reasonably practicable, in each instance giving due regard to the need to prepare current financial statements, conduct due diligence and complete other actions that are reasonably necessary to effect a registered public offering. (ii) Use the Holders will not be entitled Company's best efforts to require keep the Company relevant registration statement Continuously Effective (x) if a Demand Registration, for up to effect more than ninety (90) days or until such earlier date as of which all the Registrable Securities under the Demand Registration statement shall have been disposed of in the manner described in the Registration Statement, and (y) if a Shelf Registration, for three (3) Demand Registrations years. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if for any reason the effectiveness of a registration pursuant to this Section 2 is suspended or, in the case of a Demand Registration, postponed as permitted by Section 2.1(ii), the foregoing period shall be extended by the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the number of days of such suspension or postponement. 2.4. The Company will not shall be obligated to effect no more than four Demand Registrations and such number of Shelf Registrations as may be necessary to provide each and every Substantial Holder with the right to request one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering Shelf Registration. For purposes of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such casepreceding sentence, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval registration shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as (i) unless a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement statement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it thereto has become effective, (iii) if after such Registration Statement registration statement has become effective, such registration or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission or any other governmental agency or administrative agencycourt for any reason not attributable to the Selling Holders and such interference is not thereafter eliminated, or (iii) if any court prevents the conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement, if any, entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied or otherwise limits waived, other than by reason of a failure on the sale part of the Registrable Securities Selling Holders. If the Company shall have complied with its obligations under this Agreement, a right to demand a registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall be deemed to have been satisfied (i) if a Demand Registration, upon the registration, and in each case less than earlier of (x) the date as of which all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders included therein shall have been disposed of pursuant to the Registration Statement, or and (y) the date as of which such Demand Registration shall have been Continuously Effective for a period of ninety (90) days, and (ii) ifif a Shelf Registration, in upon the case effective date of a Shelf Registration, provided no stop order or similar order, or proceedings for such an Underwritten Offeringorder, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such is thereafter entered or initiated. 2.5. A registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not 2 shall be on such appropriate registration form of the Commission as shall (i) be selected by the Company and be reasonably acceptable to have been effected the Majority Selling Holders, or by the Initiating Substantial Holder, as a Demand Registration or the case may be, and (ii) permit the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders disposition of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then in accordance with the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration intended method or methods of disposition specified in the request pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this 2.1(i) or Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).2.2

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Sonera Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Voicestream Wireless Holding Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, If at any time on or after the date Partnership shall receive a written request (a “Demand Notice”) from the Demand Committee that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in Partnership effect the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities specified in the Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor ), specifying the information set forth under Section 2.5(j), then the Partnership shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as expeditiously as reasonably practicable, subject to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included restrictions in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined belowSection 2.2(d), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsof the Registrable Securities for which the Demand Committee has requested registration under this Section 2.2, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodregistered. (b) The offering At any time prior to the effective date of the Registrable Securities pursuant registration statement relating to such registration, the Demand Committee may revoke such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate request by providing a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject notice to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through Partnership revoking such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder request. The Partnership shall be required to make liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any representations and warranties to, or agreements with, any underwriter in a registration other than customary representations, warranties and agreements and (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the HoldersDemand Registration. (c) IfIf a Demand Registration involves an underwritten Public Offering and the managing underwriter advises the Partnership and the Demand Committee that, in connection with an Underwritten Offeringits view, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed units of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ largest number of units that can be sold without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such units can be sold (the “Maximum NumberOffering Size”), then the Partnership shall include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size: (i) the Company shall so advise first, all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held registered in the Demand Registration by the Holders Demand Committee (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, in such proportions as shall be included in a determined by the Demand Registration without Committee); (ii) second, any securities proposed to be registered by the prior written consent Partnership or any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any other persons, with such priorities among them as the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable SecuritiesPartnership shall determine. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant Upon notice to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten OfferingDemand Committee, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) Partnership may postpone effecting a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed 2.2 on up to three occasions during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not to have exceeding 120 days in the aggregate (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) the General Partner shall determine in good faith that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Partnership the preparation of which had then been effected as a Demand Registration commenced or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does Partnership is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the General Partner believes in good faith would not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after be in the commencement best interests of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Partnership.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Blackstone Group L.P.), Registration Rights Agreement (Blackstone Group L.P.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, If at any time on or after following the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)IPO, the Holders of Company shall receive a majority of Registrable Securities shall have written request (a “Demand Notice”) from the right to require Equity Committee that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities specified in the Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) ), specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)thereof, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, then the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such effect, as expeditiously as reasonably practicable, subject to the restrictions in Section 2.2(d), the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsof the Registrable Securities for which the Equity Committee has requested registration under this Section 2.2, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities that so to be registered. Notwithstanding the Company has been so requested to register; providedforegoing, however, that (i) the Holders Equity Committee shall not make a request for a be entitled to ten Demand Registration under Registrations pursuant to this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,0002.2, (ii) the Holders will not Equity Committee shall be entitled to require the Company to effect no more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreementone demand registration during any six-month period, and (iii) the Company will shall not be obligated to effect more than one (1) make a Demand Registration with respect to the Equity Committee in any six the event that a Fifth Anniversary Registration or Piggyback Registration (6as defined below) month periodhad been available to the Equity Committee within the 180 days preceding the date of the Demand Notice. (b) The offering At any time prior to the effective date of the Registrable Securities pursuant registration statement relating to such registration, the Equity Committee may revoke such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate request by providing a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 notice to the Company by or on behalf of revoking such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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 agreementrequest. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the HoldersDemand Registration. (c) IfIf a Demand Registration involves an underwritten Public Offering and the managing underwriter advises the Company and the Equity Committee that, in connection with an Underwritten Offeringits view, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ 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 NumberOffering Size”), then the Company shall include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size: (i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be registered in the Demand Registration by the Equity Committee (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among the Covered Persons whose Registrable Securities are included in the Demand Registration on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each); (ii) second, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company or any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any other persons, with such priorities among them as the Company shall determine. (d) Upon notice to the Demand Requesting Covered Person, the Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 2.2 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 extended or renewed), if (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders determine in good faith that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of Registrable Securities to be included in securities of such Underwritten Offering and company the preparation of which had then been commenced or (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by notice the Holders thereof to Company believes in good faith would not be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis best interests of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable SecuritiesCompany. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Evercore Partners Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Evercore Partners Inc.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, The Company hereby agrees that at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after one year from the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require Purchaser may request that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale effect the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") of all or part of their respective Registrable Securities the Purchased Securities, and thereupon will, as expeditiously as possible, use its best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Purchased Securities that which the Company has been so requested to registerregister by the Purchaser, all to the extent requisite to permit the disposition of the Purchased Securities so to be registered; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated required to effect or participate (afile any such registration statement under this Section 9(a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by unless the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten anticipated aggregate gross offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holdersprice is at least $2,000,000. (ci) If, The Company shall pay all of the expenses in connection with an Underwritten Offeringthe registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 3(a), except for underwriting discounts and commissions and transfer taxes, including, but not limited to the managing underwriter(s) advise reasonable attorneys fees of one counsel selected by the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such Purchaser, which shall not exceed $1,000 per effective registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and statement. (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration requested pursuant to this Section 9(a) will not be deemed to have been effected as unless a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating registration statement with respect thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretobecome effective; provided, however, that if, within 180 days after it has become effective, (i) the offering of the Purchased Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") or any other governmental agency or administrative agencycourt, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause effected. (iiiii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a requested registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not 9(a) involves an underwritten offering and the managing underwriter advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the number which can be reasonably sold in such offering, the Company will include in such registration first, securities offered by the Company, second, the Purchased Securities which have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested to be registered pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement 9(a), third, an amount of securities of the distribution by Company which the Holders Company is including in such registration statement pursuant to any incidental ("piggyback") registration rights, and fourth, the amount of other securities ("Other Securities") of the Registrable Securities covered Company held by all other security holders which, in the good faith opinion of such registrationmanaging underwriter, then can be sold without causing a material adverse effect on the offering. (iv) The Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration register Purchased Securities pursuant to this Section 4.2 9(a) only once provided that if the number of Purchased Securities requested by the Purchaser to be included in a Registration Statement requested by the Purchaser pursuant to Section 9 (a) is cut back, the Purchaser shall have the right, no earlier than one year following effectiveness of the Registrable first demand registration, to request a second Registration Statement to register the Purchased Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)so registered.

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Samples: Stock Purchase Agreement (Insurance Services Office Inc), Stock Purchase Agreement (Nam Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after following the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the of this Agreement and upon written notice from a Holder or Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act at least twenty percent (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations20%) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested (without giving effect to register; provided, however, that (iany limitation on exercise or conversion) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate manner set forth in Section 11(h) hereof requesting that Company effect the registration under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in Securities Act of any six (6) month period. (b) The offering or all of the Registrable Securities pursuant held by such Holder as described in Section 2(b) (which notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition of such Registrable Securities), Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to such Demand Registration may be effect, in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 manner set forth in Section 4.9 5, the registration under the Securities Act of such Registrable Securities for disposition in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such request; provided that: (i) if, prior to receipt of a registration request pursuant to this Section 2(a), Company had commenced a financing plan and held or identified a date to hold a formal “all hands” meeting with outside advisors, including an underwriter if such financing plan is an underwritten offering, and, in the good faith business judgment of Company’s underwriter (or outside advisors, if no underwriter), a registration at the time and on the terms requested could materially and adversely affect or interfere with such financing plan of Company or its subsidiaries (a “Transaction Blackout”), Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earliest of (A) the abandonment of such offering or (B) sixty (60) days after the termination of such offering; provided that Company shall only be permitted to delay a requested registration under this Section 2(a), whether in reliance on this subsection (i) or on subsection (ii) below, twice during the term of this Agreement. (ii) if, while a registration request is pending pursuant to this Section 2(a), Company has determined in good faith that (A) the filing of a registration statement could jeopardize or delay any contemplated material transaction other than a financing plan involving Company or would require the disclosure of material information that Company had a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; providedor (B) Company then is unable to comply with SEC requirements applicable to the requested registration (notwithstanding its reasonable best efforts to so comply), Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earlier of (A) the date upon which such contemplated transaction is completed or abandoned or such material information is otherwise disclosed to the public or ceases to be material or Company reasonably is able to so comply with applicable SEC requirements, as the case may be, and (B) thirty (30) days after Company makes such good-faith determination; provided that Company shall only be permitted to delay a requested registration under this Section 2(a), whether in reliance on this subsection (ii) or on subsection (i) above, twice during the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit term of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 this Agreement. (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) file more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings registration statements under the Securities Act relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2(a) and shall not be obligated in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in event if such a registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that request is for a number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to which have an aggregate market value less than $1 million. If such a request shall be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Numberfor an underwritten offering, such Registrable Securities to a request must be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the for a number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares which have an aggregate market value of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securitiesat least $5 million. (db) A Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, a registration will requested by a Holder pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective (and, therefore, not requested for purposes of Section 2(a)): (A) if it is withdrawn by the SECrequesting Holder based upon material adverse information relating to Company that is (x) different from the information known to the Holder or Holders requesting registration at the time of their request for registration, or (y) promptly disclosed by Company to the Holder at least 75% the time of their request for registration; (B) if, when effective, it includes fewer than ninety (90%) percent of the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in which were the registration by subject matter of the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretorequest; provided, however, that if, (C) if after it has become effective, (i) effective such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agencycourt for any reason other than a misrepresentation or an omission by such Holder and, as a result thereof, less than ninety (90%) percent of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered can be completely distributed in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the related registration statement. (c) In the event that any registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, Company shall have the right to designate the underwriter or underwriters, including the lead managing underwriter of such underwritten offering, subject to the reasonable approval of the Holders. (d) Holders other than the Holder initiating the demand pursuant to Section 2(a) and holders of other registrable securities with the right to participate in a Company registration statement shall have the right to include their shares of Registrable Securities or other registrable securities, as the case may be, in any registration pursuant to Section 2(a). In connection with those registrations in which multiple Holders or holders of other registrable securities with the right to participate in such registration (“Piggy-back Rights Holders”) participate, in the event the facilitating broker/dealer or, in an underwritten offering, the lead managing underwriter advises that marketing factors require a limitation on the number of shares to be sold, the number of shares to be included in the sale or underwriting and registration shall be allocated pro rata among the Holders and the holders seeking registration pursuant to piggy-back registration rights otherwise granted by Company on the basis of the estimated proceeds from the sale of the securities covered by such registration. (e) Company shall have the right to cause the registration of additional securities for sale for the account of Company in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by a Holder pursuant to Section 2(a) which involves an underwritten offering; provided that Company shall not have the right to cause the registration of such additional securities if any court prevents or otherwise limits such Holder is advised in writing (with a copy to Company) by the lead managing underwriter designated pursuant to Section 2(c) that, in such firm’s good faith opinion, registration of such securities in addition to those securities included pursuant to Sections 2(a)-(d) hereof would materially adversely affect the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered contemplated by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Holder.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (RS Properties I LLC), Registration Rights Agreement (Sands Brothers Venture Capital Ii LLLC)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 one hundred eighty (180) days after the Closing Date effective date of the registration statement for the IPO of the Company’s Common Stock, either Investor (as defined the “Initiating Holder”) may notify the Company that it intends to offer or cause to be offered for public sale all or any portion of its Registrable Securities in the Merger Agreement)manner specified in such request. Upon receipt of such request, the Holders Company shall promptly deliver notice of a majority such request to all other holders of Registrable Securities who shall then have ten (10) days to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. If the request for registration contemplates an underwritten public offering, the Company shall state such in the written notice and in such event the right of any Person to require participate in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Person’s participation in such underwritten public offering and the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part inclusion of their respective such Person’s Registrable Securities in the underwritten public offering to the extent provided herein. The Company will use reasonable best efforts to expeditiously effect (but in any event no later than ninety (90) days after such request) the registration of all Registrable Securities whose holders request participation in such registration under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor Act, but only to the extent provided for in this Agreement; provided however, that the Company shall not be required to effect registration pursuant to a request under this Section 2 (i1) specifying more than three (3) times for each Investor, or (2) if the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such registration are expected to have an aggregate sale price (net underwriting discounts and commissions, if any) less than $50,000,000. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no request may be made under this Section 2 within one hundred twenty (120) days after the effective date of a registration statement filed by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method Company covering a firm commitment underwritten public offering in which the holders of disposition thereof is Registrable Securities shall have been entitled to join pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (Section 4 and in which there shall have been effectively registered all Registrable Securities as defined below), to which registration shall have been requested. A registration will not count as a requested registration under this Section 2(a) unless and (iii) containing all information about until the registration statement relating to such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under declared effective by the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerCommission; provided, provided however, that (i) the Holders shall not make participating Investors holding a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for majority of the Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, being registered by all participating Investors (a “Participating Majority”) or (ii) the Holders will Initiating Holder, only to the extent no such Investor holds a majority of the Registrable Securities being registered by all participating Investors, may request, in writing, that the Company withdraw a registration statement which has been filed under this Section 2(a) but has not be entitled to require yet been declared effective, and a Participating Majority (or Initiating Holder, as applicable) may thereafter request the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations reinstate such registration statement, if permitted under the Securities Act, or to request that the Company file another registration statement, in accordance with the procedures set forth herein and without reduction in the aggregate number of demand registrations permitted under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodSection 2(a). (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of If a requested registration involves an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate and the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) shall be limited to losses arising out of or based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made offering determines 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company good faith that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed sought to be offered should be limited due to market conditions, then the number of securities to be included in such registration exceeds underwritten public offering shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter; provided, that the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then shares to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) persons not having any contractual or other right to include such securities in the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and registration statement, (ii) 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 the registration statement, (iii) securities to be registered by the Company will be obligated and required pursuant to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of registration statement, (iv) Registrable Securities requested by of the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum NumberManagement Stockholders, such and (vi) Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among of the Holders thereof on the basis Investors. If there is a reduction of the number of Registrable Securities requested pursuant to clauses (v) or (vi), such reduction shall be included therein by each such Holder. No shares made on a pro rata basis (based upon the aggregate number of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securitiessuch holders). (dc) A With respect to a request for registration will not pursuant to Section 2(a) which is for an underwritten public offering, the managing underwriter shall be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective chosen by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration Participating Majority or (ii) the registration requested pursuant Initiating Holder, only to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders extent no such Investor holds a majority of the Registrable Securities covered being registered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to all participating Investors (which approval will not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all unreasonably withheld or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(adelayed).

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Intapp, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Intapp, Inc.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 days after expiration of the Closing Date (as defined transfer restrictions contained in the Merger AgreementSection 2.1(a), so long as the Holders Shareholders, collectively, Own at least 5.0% of the Voting Power of the Company, any Shareholder (a majority "Requesting Shareholder") shall be entitled to make a written request of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file (a Registration Statement registering "Demand") for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration under the Securities Act of an amount of Registrable Securities that, when taken together with the amounts of Registrable Securities requested to be registered under the Securities Act by such Requesting Shareholder's Affiliates, equals or is greater than the Registrable Amount (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying based on the number of Registrable Securities to be included in outstanding on the date such registration by such Holder or Holders, Demand is made) (iia "Demand Registration") specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, thereupon the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom will, subject to the request for registration has not been received and (y) terms of this Agreement, use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsof: (i) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) register by the Holders shall not make a request Requesting Shareholders for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price disposition in accordance with the intended method of less than $5,000,000, disposition stated in such Demand; (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require all other Registrable Securities that the Company has been requested to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and register pursuant to Section 5.1(b); and (iii) all Common Shares that the Company will not may elect to register in connection with any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 5.1, but subject to Section 5.1(g); all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Common Shares, if any, to be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodso registered. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such A Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, shall specify: (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein 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 Shareholder (or Requesting Shareholders). Subject to Section 5.1(g), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Demand all Registrable Securities held by with respect to which the Holders Company has received a written request for inclusion therein within ten (10) days after the initial Demand. (c) The Shareholders, collectively, shall be included in a entitled to an aggregate of six (6) Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable SecuritiesRegistrations. (d) A registration will Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected and shall not count as a Demand Registration (i) unless the Registration Statement relating a registration statement with respect thereto has been declared become effective by the SEC, and has remained effective for a period of at least 75% of the sixty (60) days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registrationDemand Registration have actually been sold thereunder), and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that (ii) if, after it has become effective, (i) such Demand Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission or any other governmental agency or administrative agencycourt for any reason, (iii) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or if underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such Demand Registration are not satisfied as a consequence of any court prevents act or otherwise limits omission by the sale Company or (iv) the number of Registrable Securities requested for inclusion is materially reduced pursuant to Section 5.1(g). (e) Demand Registrations shall be on such appropriate registration form of the Commission as shall be selected by the Company. (f) The Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Shareholders) for up to an aggregate of ninety (90) days during any period of twelve (12) consecutive months the filing or the effectiveness of a registration statement for any Demand Registration 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 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 pursuant held by the Requesting Shareholder(s) shall have the right to the registration, and withdraw such Demand in each case less accordance with Section 5.3. (g) The Company shall not include any securities other than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) Registration, except with the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement written consent of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by Shareholders participating in such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 that hold a majority of the Registrable Securities included in such registrationDemand Registration. In circumstances If, in connection with a Demand Registration, any managing underwriter (or, if such Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, a nationally recognized independent investment bank selected by the Company) advises the Company, in writing, that, in its opinion, the inclusion of all of the securities, including securities of the events described 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 can be sold without such adverse effect as follows and in the immediately two preceding sentences following order of this Section 4.2(d)priority: (i) first, each Holder up to the number of Registrable Securities shall requested to be permitted voluntarily included in such Demand Registration by the Shareholders, which, in the opinion of the underwriter can be sold without adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, pro rata among such Shareholders requesting such Demand Registration on the basis of the number of such securities requested to withdraw be included by such Shareholders and such Shareholders that are Piggyback Sellers; (ii) second, securities the 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 any part of its Registrable Securities from such other method determined by the Company. (h) Any time that a Demand Registration at any time prior 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 commencement of marketing offering of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Registrable Securities.

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Samples: Shareholder Agreement (Aircastle LTD), Shareholder Agreement (Aircastle LTD)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject Upon notice to the provisions hereofCompany from one or more Shareholders holding Restricted Shares having an aggregate fair market value of at least U.S.$15 million (based upon the then-prevailing market price for the Shares on the Nasdaq National Market or other principal securities market on which the Shares are listed or, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreementabsence of any such listing, as determined in good faith by the Board), such Shareholders (the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities "Requesting Shareholders") shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act request (a "Demand Registration”Request") by delivering in writing a written request therefor to the Company registration of such Restricted Shares. Each Demand Request shall (i) specifying specify the number of Registrable Securities Restricted Shares which each Requesting Shareholder intends to be included in such registration by such Holder sell or Holdersdispose of, and (ii) specifying whether state the intended method or methods by which the Requesting Shareholder intends to sell or dispose of disposition thereof is such Restricted Shares. Upon receipt of a Demand Request pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandthis Section 2.1, the Company shall (as requested) (i) cause to be filed, within the later of (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom 90 days of the request for registration has not been received date of delivery to the Company of the Demand Request and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under 180 days after the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) effectiveness of the Registrable Securities that most recently filed registration statement by the Company, a registration statement covering such Restricted Shares which the Company has been so requested to register, providing for the registration under the Securities Act of such Restricted Shares to the extent necessary to permit the disposition of such Restricted Shares so to be registered in accordance with the intended method of distribution specified in such Demand Request; provided, however, that the Company may delay making such filing or taking such action by not more than ninety (i90) days in any 12-month period if the Holders shall Company, prior to the time it would otherwise have been required to file such registration statement or take such action (but not make including the preparation of the registration statement), determines in good faith that the filing of such registration statement or the taking of such action would require the disclosure of material, non-public information that, in the reasonable judgment of the Board, would be detrimental to the Company if so disclosed (and a request delay would be likely to reduce the detrimental effect of such disclosure or obviate the need for such disclosure to be made, or would otherwise adversely affect a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000financing, acquisition, disposition, merger or other material transaction), (ii) shall use its best efforts to have such registration statement declared effective by the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this AgreementCommission as soon as practicable thereafter, and (iii) refrain from filing any other registration statements with respect to any other securities of the Company will not until such date which is 180 days following effectiveness of the registration statement filed in response to the Demand Request; provided, however, that notwithstanding this clause (iii), each of Carlyle/Carlton and Hicks Muse shall be obligated permitted to effect more than make at least one (1) Demand Registration demand in any six (612-monxx xxriod, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 2.1(c) month periodhereof. The underwriter shall be selected by the Requesting Shareholders and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company for any registration pursuant to this Section 2.1. (b) The offering In the event that the Company is required to file a registration statement covering any Restricted Shares of the Registrable Securities any Requesting Shareholders pursuant to Section 2.1(a) above, the Company shall be permitted to include newly-issued securities ("Piggyback Securities") in such Demand Registration may registration. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the managing underwriter of such proposed registration determines and advises in writing that the inclusion of all Piggyback Securities proposed to be included in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such casewould interfere with the successful marketing of the Requesting Shareholders' Restricted Shares, (i) then the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably permitted to include any Piggyback Securities in excess of the amount, if any, of Piggyback Securities which the managing underwriter of such underwritten offering shall reasonably and in good faith agree in writing to include in such offering in excess of any amount to be registered for the Requesting Shareholders. The Piggyback Securities that are excluded from the underwritten public offering pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be withheld or delayed and (ii) from the market by the Company shall (together with for a period, not to exceed 180 days from the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through closing of such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities with underwritten public offering, that the managing underwriter(sunderwriter determines is necessary in order to effect such underwritten public offering. (c) 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated required to effect or participate comply with more than eight Demand Requests, such that the Shareholders will have the following Demand Requests: (i) Carlyle/Carlton shall have three such Demand Requests; (ii) Hicks Muse shall have three such Demand Requests; (iii) the El Sitio Foxxxxxs shall have, in the aggregate, two such Demand Requests. A request for registration shall not count as a Demand Request until (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, Commission and (b) the Shareholder making the demand for registration is able to sell at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Hicks Thomas O), Registration Rights Agreement (1945 Carlton Investments LLC)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after six (6) month anniversary of the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Purchase Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a4.1(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Public Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company Holders of a majority of the shares of Registrable Stock to be sold in the Underwritten Offering may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed Offering and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) 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 4.9 5.8 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the of Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holderssecurities. (c) If, in connection with a Demand Registration in the form of an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise give written advice to the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the an Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration and that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum NumberNumber prior to the inclusion of other securities that have been requested to be so included by any other person, and such Registrable Securities to shall be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a4.1(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 4.1 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 4.1 does not remain continuously effective until the earlier of forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registrationregistration or the completion of such distribution, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 4.1 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d4.1(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a4.1(a).

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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (AV Homes, Inc.), Securities Purchase Agreement (AV Homes, Inc.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereofconditions of this Section 2.1, at any time on or after the date if FS receives a written request from JL that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to FS file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration statement under the Securities Act covering the registration of all or a part of its Registrable Securities, then FS shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities that it has requested to be registered (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written such request therefor to the Company (i) specifying include the number of Registrable Securities sought to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether and the intended method or methods of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined belowdistribution of such Registrable Securities), subject to and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandterms, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received conditions, procedures, and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations limitations contained in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration . JL may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement effective date of marketing the registration statement relating to a requested registration under this Section 2.1 revoke its request by providing written notice to FS, in which case the Registration Expenses will be borne in accordance with Section 2.4. (b) FS shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2.1: (i) after FS has effected one registration pursuant to this Section 2.1, provided, however, that a registration shall not count as having been effected unless and until it has become effective, and unless and until JL shall have had the opportunity to register and sell 100% of such Demand Registrationits Registrable Securities initially requested to be registered pursuant thereto, provided except that such a registration nonetheless the request for which has been revoked by JL shall count as a Demand Registration having been effected unless the revocation is based upon material adverse information concerning the business or financial condition of FS of which JL was not aware at the time of its request for purposes of clause registration; (ii) during the period starting with the date of filing of, and ending on the proviso date 90 days following the effective date of, a registration statement pertaining to any underwritten public offering in which JL was given the opportunity to participate pursuant to Section 4.2(a)2.2; provided that FS uses commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; or (iii) during any period when FS is not eligible to use Form S-3 to register the Registrable Securities.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (National Patent Development Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Five Star Products Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject After the consummation of an IPO or at such time prior to the provisions hereofconsummation of an IPO as is permitted by Section 10.3 with respect to a given Shareholder, at any time on or after upon a Shareholder's written request specifying the date that is 180 days after intended manner of disposition (including the Closing Date number of shares of Vail Equity to be sold) (as defined in the Merger Agreementa "Demand Notice"), Vail will use its best efforts to prepare and file with the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file SEC, as expeditiously as possible, a Registration Statement registering on an available form for sale all or part which Vail then qualifies (but not including by means of their respective Registrable Securities a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor Act), which legal counsel for Vail deems appropriate and which is available for the sale of Vail Equity to permit an underwritten public offering of some or all of the Company (i) specifying the number shares of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration Vail Equity then held by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), Shareholder and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable its best efforts to effect cause such registration statement to become effective (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a "Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodRegistration"). (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such A Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as occurred until it has become effective under the Securities Act (unless a Shareholder delivers a Demand Notice and subsequently withdraws the Demand Notice, in which case such Demand Registration will be deemed to have occurred unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective such Shareholder agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses associated with such registration actually incurred by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretoVail); provided, however, that if, after it a Demand Registration has become effective, (i) the offering of Vail Equity pursuant to such Demand Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of prohibited by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agencya court, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective such Demand Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause occurred (ii) unless such prohibition on the sale of the proviso Vail Equity is based on actions or omissions of such Shareholder, in which case such Demand Registration will be deemed to have occurred unless such Shareholder agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses associated with such registration actually incurred by Vail). (c) Vail shall only be obligated to effect one Demand Registration per Shareholder in any twelve month period under this Section 4.2(a). If 5.1; provided, however, that Vail will not be required to register the Vail Equity pursuant to a Demand Notice under this Section 5.1 if at such time (i) the shares of Vail Equity which a registration requested Shareholder is requesting to be registered pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not 5.1 constitute less than 6.0% (or, if less, all of the shares of Vail Equity owned by such Shareholder) of the outstanding Vail Securities so requested to have been effected as a Demand Registration be registered or (ii) such Demand Notice is given within six (6) months after the effective date of any other registration requested of any Vail Securities under the Securities Act. (d) The managing underwriter will be selected by the Shareholder requesting registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 does 5.1 (the "Requesting Shareholder"); provided, however, that such underwriter shall be subject to the approval of Vail, which approval shall not remain continuously effective until fortybe unreasonably withheld. In the event there is one or more co-five (45) days after managers, the commencement first such co-manager shall be selected by Vail, provided that such co-manager shall be subject to the approval of the distribution Requesting Shareholder, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, and all other co-managers will be selected by the Holders Requesting Shareholder. (e) In connection with a Demand Registration, both the Shareholder not requesting the Demand Registration (the "Non-Requesting Shareholder") and Vail may elect to include additional shares of Vail Securities in such offering on the Registrable same terms and conditions as the Vail Equity to be sold by the Requesting Shareholder; provided, however, that if the managing underwriter(s) advises the Requesting Shareholder, the Non-Requesting Shareholder and Vail that, in its judgment, the number of shares proposed to be included in such offering exceeds the largest number of Vail Securities covered by which can be sold without having an adverse effect on such registrationoffering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the "Marketable Number"), then the Company shall continue total number of shares to be obligated included in such offering shall be limited as follows: (i) first, all the shares of Vail Equity that the Requesting Shareholder and the Non-Requesting Shareholder propose to effect a Demand Registration pursuant sell up to this Section 4.2 the Marketable Number, allocated pro rata between the Requesting Shareholder and the Non-Requesting Shareholder on the basis of the Registrable relative number of Vail Securities that the Requesting Shareholder and the Non-Requesting Shareholder have proposed to be included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause and (ii) second, all the shares of Vail Securities that Vail proposes to sell, which does not exceed the proviso difference, if any, between the Marketable Number and that number of shares which the Requesting Shareholder and the Non-Requesting Shareholder have included pursuant to Section 4.2(a)clauses (i) and (ii) above.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Shareholder Agreement (Ralcorp Holdings Inc), Shareholder Agreement (Vail Resorts Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject If the Company has exercised the 2010 Consideration Substitute Right pursuant to Clause 7.1.2 of the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Option Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right Company shall, in accordance with Article IV below and subject to require the Company to Section 2.8 below, either (i) file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration statement under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor with the Commission to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued register under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) that number of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) determines represents the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that maximum number of Registrable Securities requested by that will be issued as the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration StatementSettlement Amount, or (ii) iffile with the Commission a prospectus supplement (the “Prospectus Supplement”) to an existing shelf registration statement on Form S-3 which is at the time currently effective (the “Form S-3”) to register such number of Registrable Securities, but, in each case, only to the extent that the Shareholders have complied with their obligations under Sections 2.6 and 6.1 below (a “Registration”). Subject to Section 2.8 below, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registrable Securities to be registered for resale by the Shareholders under the Securities Act on the Required Registration Date. For purposes of this Agreement, the “Required Registration Date” means (x) June 1, 2010, in the event that the Shareholders do not advise the Company that they intend to distribute the Registrable Securities by means of an underwriting in accordance with Section 2.3, (y) June 8, 2010, in the event that the Shareholders advise the Company that they intend to distribute the Registrable Securities by means of an underwriting in accordance with Section 2.3 and (z) in the case of an Underwritten Offeringthe issuance of Deferred Shares, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause dates that are (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (iiA) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days 16th day after the commencement issuance of such Deferred Shares, in the distribution event that the Shareholders do not advise the Company that they intend to distribute such Registrable Securities by means of an underwriting in accordance with Section 2.3 and (B) the Holders 23rd day after the issuance of such Deferred Shares, in the event that the Shareholders advise the Company that they intend to distribute such Registrable Securities by means of an underwriting in accordance with Section 2.3; provided however, that such Required Registration Date shall be extended by one day for each day the Shareholders have not complied with their obligations under Sections 2.6 and 6.1 below and provided further that if the Shareholders have advised the Company that they intend to distribute Registrable Securities by means of an underwriting, and if the Registrable Securities covered by such registrationhave not been registered in connection therewith under the Securites Act prior to 7:00 a.m. (NY time) on June 8, 2009 (or the 23rd day after the issuance of the Deferred Shares, as the case may be) for any reason whatsoever, then notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement which requires CEDC to take action or assist or cooperate in respect of an underwritten offering, CEDC shall be entitled to file the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to Statement or Prospectus Supplement contemplated by the first sentence of this Section 4.2 2.1 as if such request for an underwritten offering had not been made. It is understood and agreed that the sole remedy of the Shareholders with respect to a failure to file or cause the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including to be registered under the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all Act on or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Required Registration for purposes of clause (ii) Date is set forth in Clause 7.2 of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Option Agreement.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Central European Distribution Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Central European Distribution Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time and from time to time on or after the date that is 180 days and/or after the Closing Date Date, each Holder shall severally have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to Parent (as defined in the Merger Agreementa “Demand Notice”), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require Parent to, pursuant to the Company terms of and subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement registering for the offering and sale all or part of their respective the number and type of Registrable Securities under on the Securities Act terms and conditions specified in the Demand Notice, which may include sales on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying ). The Demand Notice must set forth the number of Registrable Securities that the Initiating Holder intends to include in such Demand Registration and the intended methods of disposition thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event shall Parent be required to effectuate a Demand Registration unless the Registrable Securities of the Holders to be included therein after compliance with Section 2.1(b) have an aggregate value of at least $200 million based on the VWAP (the “Minimum Amount”) as of the date of the Demand Notice; provided, however, that the Minimum Amount shall not apply in the event that, as the result of Cut Back Shares being removed from such Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2.1(a), the Registrable Securities of the Holders to be included therein after compliance with Section 2.1(b) have an aggregate value of less than $200 million. If at any time the Commission takes the position that some or all of the Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is a Registration Statement filed pursuant to an Underwritten Offering a Demand Registration must be removed from such Registration Statement (as defined below)such portion of the Registrable Securities, and (iiithe “Cut Back Shares”) containing in order for all information about of the Registrable Securities in such Holder required Registration Statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration to be eligible to be made on a delayed or continuous basis under the provisions of Rule 415 or for the Initiating Holder to not be named as an “underwriter” in such Registration Statement, then if the Initiating Holder so elects, Parent shall remove the Cut Back Shares from such Registration Statement. Any Cut Back Shares so removed pursuant to this Section 2.1(a) shall be allocated among the Holders including Registrable Securities for resale on such Registration Statement on a pro rata basis. Further, a Demand Registration shall not constitute a Demand Registration of the Initiating Holder for purposes of Section 2.1(c) if, as a result of the cutback provisions in this Section 2.1(a) or Registrable Securities of Holders other than the Initiating Holder included in such Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2.1(b), there is included in the Demand Registration less than the lesser of (x) Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holder having a VWAP measured on the effective date of the related Registration Statement of $200 million and (y) two-thirds of the number of Registrable Securities the Initiating Holder set forth in the applicable Demand Notice. (b) Within five Business Days (or if the Registration Statement will be a Shelf Registration Statement, within two Business Days) after the receipt of the Demand Notice, Parent shall give written notice of such Demand Notice to all Holders and, within 30 days after receipt of the Demand Notice (except if Parent is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case, within 90 days thereof), shall, subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, file a Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt terms and conditions of such demandthe Demand Notice, the Company which Registration Statement shall (x) promptly notify cover all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a in writing request for a to be included in the Demand Registration under (such request to be given to Parent within three Business Days (or if the Registration Statement will be a Shelf Registration Statement, within one Business Day) after receipt of notice of the Demand Notice given by Parent pursuant to this Section 4.2(a) for 2.1(b)). Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become and remain effective (including using reasonable best efforts to file a Registration Statement including Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price included on any previous Registration Statement that ceases to be effective, which, for the avoidance of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval doubt shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into considered an underwriting agreement in customary form additional Demand Registration for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to Section 2.1(c)) under the Securities Act until all such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees securities registered for resale thereunder cease to sell its be 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders“Effectiveness Period”). (c) IfSubject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, Parent is not obligated hereunder to effect (A) a Demand Registration within 90 days after the closing of any Underwritten Offering (or such shorter time as Parent may notify the Holders in writing) (any such time period, a “No Demand Period”), (B) more than a total of four Demand Registrations in the aggregate; provided, that notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in connection with an Underwritten Offeringno event shall Parent be required to effect more than two Demand Registrations within a given calendar year, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (iiC) the Company will be obligated and required a subsequent Demand Registration pursuant to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis a Demand Notice if a Registration Statement covering all of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders Initiating Holder shall have become and remains effective under the Securities Act and is sufficient to permit offers and sales 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. No Demand Registration shall be included deemed to have occurred for purposes of this Section 2.1(c) if the Registration Statement relating thereto does not become effective or is not maintained effective for its entire Effectiveness Period, in a which case the Initiating Holder shall be entitled to an additional Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securitieslieu thereof. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SECHolder (and, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registrationif applicable, and the Company has complied in Carlyle) may withdraw all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale portion of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the its Registrable Securities included in a Demand Registration from such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement effectiveness of marketing the applicable Registration Statement. Upon receipt of a notice from the Initiating Holder that the Initiating Holder is withdrawing all of its Registrable Securities from the Demand Registration or a notice from a Holder (and, if applicable, Carlyle) to the effect that the Holder (and, if applicable, Carlyle) is withdrawing an amount of its Registrable Securities such that the remaining amount of Registrable Securities to be included in the Demand Registration is below the Minimum Amount, Parent may cease all efforts to secure effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement, unless one or more Holders other than the withdrawing Holder(s) shall promptly request Parent in writing to include additional Registrable Securities in the Demand Registration such that amount of Registrable Shares to be included in the Demand Registration satisfies the Minimum Amount (a “Requisite Holder Substitution”). In the absence of a Requisite Holder Substitution, such registration nonetheless shall be deemed a Demand Registration with respect to the Initiating Holder for purposes of Section 2.1(c) unless (A) the Initiating Holder shall have paid or reimbursed Parent for its pro rata share of all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred by Parent in connection with the withdrawn registration of such Registrable Securities (based on the number of securities the Initiating Holder sought to register, as compared to the total number of securities included in such Demand Registration) or (B) the withdrawal is made following the occurrence of a Material Adverse Change or pursuant to Parent’s request for suspension pursuant to Section 3.15. (e) Parent may include in any such Demand Registration other Parent Securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person, subject to Section 2.3(c). (f) Subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, Parent shall effect any Demand Registration on such appropriate registration form of the Commission (A) as shall be selected by Parent and (B) subject to applicable law and the requirements of the Commission, as shall permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition specified in the Demand Notice; provided that, subject to Section 3.15, (X) if the Registration Statement is on Form S-1, Parent shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission (provided that Form S-1 is then available for sales on a delayed or continuous basis under the provisions of Rule 415 in respect of such Demand Registration), provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as and (Y) if Parent becomes, and is at the time of its receipt of a Demand Notice eligible to use Form S-3, the Demand Registration for purposes any offering and selling of clause Registrable Securities shall be registered on Form S-3 or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act (iiif available to Parent) and (Z) if at the time of its receipt of a Demand Notice, Parent is a WKSI, the Demand Registration for any offering and selling of Registrable Securities shall be registered on an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act (if available to Parent). If at any time a Registration Statement on Form S-3 is effective and a Holder provides written notice to Parent that it intends to effect an offering of all or part of the proviso Registrable Securities included on such Registration Statement, Parent will amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place. (g) Without limiting Article III, in connection with any Demand Registration pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 4.2(a)2.1, Parent 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 jurisdictions as the Holders shall reasonably request; provided, however, that no such qualification shall be required in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, Parent 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 reasonably necessary or appropriate or reasonably requested by the Holders to enable the Holders to consummate a public sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof. (h) In the event a Holder transfers Registrable Securities included on a Registration Statement and such Registrable Securities remain Registrable Securities following such transfer, at the request of such Holder, Parent 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; provided that in no event shall Parent be required to file a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement unless (A) such Registration Statement includes only Registrable Securities held by the Holder, Affiliates of the Holder or transferees of the Holder or (B) Parent has received written consent therefor from a Person for whom Registrable Securities have been registered on (but not yet sold under) such Registration Statement, other than the Holder, Affiliates of the Holder or transferees of the Holder.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Chesapeake Energy Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (WildHorse Resource Development Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject Provided that the Company does not have the Registration Statement filed pursuant to the provisions hereofSection 2 effective and usable to such Holder or group of Holders requesting a Demand Registration under this Section 3, at any time on Holder or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined group of Holders holding, in the Merger Agreement)aggregate, thirty-five percent (35%) or more of the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities then issued and outstanding (the “Outstanding Amount”) shall have the right right, by written notice given to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand RegistrationNotice) by delivering a written ), to request therefor to the Company to register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by such Holder(s); provided, however, that the Registrable Securities requested to be registered constitute at least thirty-five percent (35%) of the Outstanding Amount. Each request for a Demand Registration shall be in writing and shall specify the approximate aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered (which aggregate number of Registrable Securities must either (i) specifying have a value equal to at least $15,000,000 based on the closing price of such securities on the last trading day prior to the date of such request or, in the case no closing price is available, at the anticipated price offered to the public or (ii) equal the total number of Registrable Securities held by a Holders with respect to any Holder. In no event shall the Company be obligated to effectuate more than two (2) Demand Registrations in any 12-month period. A registration shall not count as a Demand Registration until it has become effective. In no event shall Shelf Registrations (and any other filing made pursuant to Section 2 hereof) or Shelf Takedowns be deemed to constitute Demand Registrations. (b) Upon receipt of a Demand Notice, the Company shall promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days from the date of receipt of such Demand Notice), notify all other Holders, if any, of the receipt of such Demand Notice and allow them the opportunity to include Registrable Securities held by them in the proposed registration by submitting their own Demand Notice. In connection with any Demand Registration in which more than one Holder participates, in the event that such Demand Registration, including any Shelf Takedown thereunder, involves an underwritten offering and the managing underwriter or underwriters participating in such offering advise in writing the Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such offering that the total number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by offering exceeds the amount that can be sold in (or during the time of) such offering without delaying or jeopardizing the success of such offering (including the price per share of the Registrable Securities to be sold), then the Registrable Securities to be offered shall be distributed amongst the participating Holders according to each Holder’s overall percentage of ownership in the Company. In the event of such a pro-rata distribution, to the extent that any Holder (or Holders) has not submitted a Demand Notice, or withdraws from the underwriting, then those Shares that would have been allocated pro-rata to the non-participating Holder if they had participated shall be distributed amongst the participating Holders, pro rata according to each participating Holder’s overall percentage of ownership in the Company. (iic) specifying whether The Company, within thirty (30) days of the date on which the Company receives a Demand Notice given by Holders in accordance with Section 3(a), shall file with the SEC, and the Company shall thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a Registration Statement on the appropriate form for the registration and sale, in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)distribution, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included of the total number of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration”). Any Demand Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after may, at the receipt request of such demandthe Holders submitting the Demand Notice, the be a Shelf Registration. (d) The Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect keep each Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3 continuously effective and usable for the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby (i) in the case of a Registration that is not a Shelf Registration, for a period of one hundred twenty (120) days from the date on which the SEC declares such registration Registration Statement effective and (includingii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, without limitationfor a period of three (3) years from the date on which the SEC declares such Registration Statement effective, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws in either case (x) until such earlier date as all of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement, and appropriate compliance (y) as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 3. The time period for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all Delay Periods and all Interruption Periods occurring with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act respect to such Registration and such period and any other governmental requirements or regulationsextension thereof is hereinafter referred to as the “Effectiveness Period”. If any Registrable Securities remain issued and outstanding after thirty (30) full months following the initial effective date of a Shelf Registration filed pursuant to this Section 3, upon the request of Holder(s) of at least ten percent (10%) of the Registrable Securities then issued and outstanding, the Company shall, within thirty (30) days of such request, file a new Shelf Registration and shall thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practical, such new Shelf Registration. (e) The Company shall be entitled to postpone the filing of any Registration Statement otherwise required to be prepared and filed by the Company pursuant to this Section 3, or suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3, for a reasonable period of time, if the Board of Directors of the Company determines in the Board of Directors’ reasonable good faith judgment that the registration and distribution of the Registrable Securities covered or to be covered by such Registration Statement would (i) materially interfere with any pending material financing, acquisition, disposition, or corporate reorganization involving the Company has been so requested or any of its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (ii) require premature disclosure thereof, or (iii) be seriously detrimental to registerthe Company and its stockholders, which such determination shall be made by a majority of the members then serving on the Company’s Board of Directors, and promptly gives the Holders written notice of such determination, containing a general statement of the reasons for such postponement and an approximation of the period of the anticipated delay; provided, however, that (i) the Holders aggregate number of days included in all delay periods during any consecutive twelve (12) months shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(aexceed the aggregate of (x) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, forty-five (ii45) days minus (y) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three number of days occurring during all Interruption Periods during such consecutive twelve (312) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed months and (ii) a period of at least ninety (90) days shall elapse between the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings termination 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, any delay period or Interruption Period and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit commencement of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offeringimmediately succeeding delay period. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) If the Company shall so advise all postpone the filing of a Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) registered shall have the Company will be obligated and required right to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested withdraw the request for registration by giving written notice from the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested that were to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and registered to the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until within forty-five (45) days after the commencement receipt of the distribution by notice of postponement or, if earlier, the termination of such delay period (and, in the event of such withdrawal, such request shall not be counted for purposes of determining the number of requests for registration to which the Holders of Registrable Securities are entitled pursuant to this Section 3). The Company shall not be entitled to initiate or continue a delay period unless it shall (A) concurrently prohibit sales by all other security holders under registration statements covering securities held by such other security holders and (B) in accordance with the Company’s policies from time to time in effect, forbid purchases and sales in the open market by directors and executive officers of the Company. (f) The Company shall not include any securities (whether for its own account or otherwise) that are not Registrable Securities in any Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3 without the prior written consent of the Holders of a majority in number of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then Registration Statement. Any such securities so included shall be subject to the Company shall continue cut-back provisions of Section 3(a)(ii). (g) Holders of a majority in number of the Registrable Securities to be obligated to effect included in a Demand Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d)3 may, each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement effective date of marketing of the Registration Statement relating to such Registration, revoke such request (a “Demand Request”) by providing a written notice to the Company revoking such request. Any such Demand RegistrationRequest so withdrawn, provided that prior to filing a Registration Statement pursuant to such registration nonetheless Demand Request with the SEC, shall count as a Demand Registration not be counted for purposes of clause determining the number of requests for registration to which the Holders of Registrable Securities are entitled pursuant to this Section 3. Any such Demand Request so withdrawn after filing the Registration Statement pursuant to the Demand Request to which such Registration Statement relates with the SEC shall not be counted for purposes of determining the number of requests for registration to which the Holders of Registrable Securities are entitled pursuant to this Section 3 if the Holders of Registrable Securities who revoked such request reimburse the Company for all its out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the preparation, filing and processing of the Registration Statement; provided, however, that, if such revocation was based on (i) the Company’s failure to comply in any material respect with its obligations hereunder or (ii) the institution by the Company of a Delay Period or the proviso to Section 4.2(a)occurrence of any Interruption Period, such reimbursement shall not be required.

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Samples: Merger Agreement (S1 Corp /De/), Merger Agreement (Fundtech LTD)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 days after expiration of the Closing Date (as defined transfer restrictions contained in the Merger AgreementSection 2.1(a), so long as the Holders Shareholders, collectively, Own at least 5.0% of the Voting Power of the Company, any Shareholder (a majority “Requesting Shareholder”) shall be entitled to make a written request of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file (a Registration Statement registering “Demand”) for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration under the Securities Act of an amount of Registrable Securities that, when taken together with the amounts of Registrable Securities requested to be registered under the Securities Act by such Requesting Shareholder’s Affiliates, equals or is greater than the Registrable Amount (based on the number of Registrable Securities outstanding on the date such Demand is made) (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor and thereupon the Company will, subject to the Company (i) specifying the number terms of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersthis Agreement, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsof: (i) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) register by the Holders shall not make a request Requesting Shareholders for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price disposition in accordance with the intended method of less than $5,000,000, disposition stated in such Demand; (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require all other Registrable Securities that the Company has been requested to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and register pursuant to Section 5.1(b); and (iii) all Common Shares that the Company will not may elect to register in connection with any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 5.1, but subject to Section 5.1(g); all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Common Shares, if any, to be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodso registered. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such A Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, shall specify: (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein 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 Shareholder (or Requesting Shareholders). Subject to Section 5.1(g), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Demand all Registrable Securities held by with respect to which the Holders Company has received a written request for inclusion therein within ten (10) days after the initial Demand. (c) The Shareholders, collectively, shall be included in a entitled to an aggregate of six (6) Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable SecuritiesRegistrations. (d) A registration will Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected and shall not count as a Demand Registration (i) unless the Registration Statement relating a registration statement with respect thereto has been declared become effective by the SEC, and has remained effective for a period of at least 75% of the sixty (60) days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registrationDemand Registration have actually been sold thereunder), and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that (ii) if, after it has become effective, (i) such Demand Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission or any other governmental agency or administrative agencycourt for any reason, (iii) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or if underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such Demand Registration are not satisfied as a consequence of any court prevents act or otherwise limits omission by the sale Company or (iv) the number of Registrable Securities requested for inclusion is materially reduced pursuant to Section 5.1(g). (e) Demand Registrations shall be on such appropriate registration form of the Commission as shall be selected by the Company. (f) The Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Shareholders) for up to an aggregate of ninety (90) days during any period of twelve (12) consecutive months the filing or the effectiveness of a registration statement for any Demand Registration 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 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 pursuant held by the Requesting Shareholder(s) shall have the right to the registration, and withdraw such Demand in each case less accordance with Section 5.3. (g) The Company shall not include any securities other than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) Registration, except with the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement written consent of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by Shareholders participating in such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 that hold a majority of the Registrable Securities included in such registrationDemand Registration. In circumstances If, in connection with a Demand Registration, any managing underwriter (or, if such Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, a nationally recognized independent investment bank selected by the Company) advises the Company, in writing, that, in its opinion, the inclusion of all of the securities, including securities of the events described 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 can be sold without such adverse effect as follows and in the immediately two preceding sentences following order of this Section 4.2(d)priority: (i) first, each Holder up to the number of Registrable Securities shall requested to be permitted voluntarily included in such Demand Registration by the Shareholders, which, in the opinion of the underwriter can be sold without adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, pro rata among such Shareholders requesting such Demand Registration on the basis of the number of such securities requested to withdraw be included by such Shareholders and such Shareholders that are Piggyback Sellers; (ii) second, securities the 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 any part of its Registrable Securities from such other method determined by the Company. (h) Any time that a Demand Registration at any time prior 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 commencement of marketing offering of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Registrable Securities.

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Samples: Shareholder Agreement (Marubeni Corp /Fi), Shareholder Agreement (Marubeni Corp /Fi)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereofIf, on or at any time on after the Effectiveness Date there is no currently effective Shelf Registration Statement, then at any time thereafter, upon written notice (a “Demand”) from a Holder or Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securities (collectively, the “Demand Holder”) requesting that the Company effect the registration under the 1933 Act of any or all of the Registrable Securities held by the Demand Holder, which notice shall specify the amount and intended method or methods of disposition of such Registrable Securities, including pursuant to a shelf registration statement utilizing Rule 415 (a “Shelf Registration”), the Company shall, within five days after receiving the Demand, give written notice (the “Request Notice”) of such registration request to all other Holders, except if all the Registrable Securities are held by a single Holder, no Request Notice shall be required, and thereupon will, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 2.02(c), as promptly as possible (and in any event no later than 30 days after the date that is 180 days after of the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger AgreementDemand), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued cause to be declared effective under the Securities 1933 Act, a Registration Statement to effect the registration under the 1933 Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsof (i) of the such Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) register by the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration Holder under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, the Demand and (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) register by written request to the Company will not by the Holders within ten days after the giving of the Request Notice (which request shall specify the amount and intended method or methods of disposition of such Registrable Securities), all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method(s) thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities and such other securities so to be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodregistered. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities A registration requested pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 this Section 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration 2.02 will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto unless: (i) it has been declared effective by the SECSEC or has otherwise become effective under the 1933 Act and remains effective for not less than 180 days, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registrationor, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) if such Registration Statement relates to an underwritten offering, such longer period as, in the opinion of counsel for the underwriter or underwriters is required by law for the related offer, delivery of a Prospectus in connection with the sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is by an underwriter or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, dealer; or (ii) if, in it has been filed with the case of an Underwritten Offering, SEC but abandoned or withdrawn at the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) request of the proviso Demand Holder prior to Section 4.2(a). If effectiveness, other than an abandonment or withdrawal requested because of: (iA) the stock price of the Common Stock falling 15% or more since the delivery of a request for registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected 2.02, (B) a material adverse change in the Company’s and the Subsidiaries’ financial condition, business, assets, results of operations financial condition, taken as a whole, or (D) the discovery of materially adverse, non-public information concerning the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. (c) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary: (i) if the filing of a Registration Statement in respect of a Demand would require the Company to make an Adverse Disclosure, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Holders, delay the filing of such Registration Statement for the shortest period of time determined in good faith by the Company to be necessary for such purpose; provided that the Company shall not be permitted to do so (A) more than two times during any twenty-four month period, (B) for a period not exceeding 40 days on any one occasion or (C) for a period exceeding 60 days in any 12 month period. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders of the expiration of any period during which it exercised its rights under this Section 2.02(c)(i); (ii) the registration requested Company shall not be obligated to file a Registration Statement in respect of a Demand (A) on more than two occasions or (B) within a period of one (1) month after the effective date of any other Registration Statement of the Company demanded pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five 2.02; (45iii) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily may elect to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration registration pursuant to this Section 2.02 at any time time, and if all such Holders do so, the Company shall cease its efforts to secure registration; and (iv) all Demand registrations pursuant to this Section 2.02 shall be on Form S−3, except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case such registration shall be on another appropriate form, reasonably acceptable to the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities, and as shall permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method of distribution or methods of distribution specified in the applicable Demand Holder’s requests for such registration. (d) Nothing in this Agreement shall limit the right of any Holder to request the registration of the Registrable Securities issuable upon exercise of the Warrants by such Holder (subject to such exercise occurring prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) completion of the proviso sale of the underlying Registrable Securities prior to Section 4.2(asuch registration), notwithstanding the fact that at the time of the request such Holder Warrants are not Registrable Securities.

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Samples: Investor Rights Agreement (Tianwei New Energy Holdings Co., LTD), Investor Rights Agreement (Hoku Scientific Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or Commencing ninety (90) days after the date that is 180 days after the of Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Investor Agreement), the any Requesting Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering may make a written request therefor to the Company (ispecifying that it is being made pursuant to this Section 2) specifying that the number Company file a registration statement under the 1933 Act (or a similar document pursuant to any other statute then in effect corresponding to the 0000 Xxx) covering the registration of Registrable Securities to be included in Stock. In such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandevent, the Company shall (x) promptly within ten (10) days thereafter notify in writing all other Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received of Registrable Stock of such request, and (y) use reasonable its best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued cause to be registered under the Securities 1933 Act all Registrable Stock that the Requesting Holders and any such other governmental requirements or regulationsHolders have, within forty-five (45) of the Registrable Securities that days after the Company has been so given such notice, requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodregistered. (b) The offering of If the Requesting Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form Stock covered by their request by means of an underwritten public offering offering, they shall so advise the Company as a part of their request pursuant to Section 2(a) above, and the Company shall include such information in the written notice referred to in clause (an “Underwritten Offering”)x) of Section 2(a) above. In such caseevent, (i) the Company may designate Holder's right to include its Registrable Stock in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder's participation in such underwritten offering and the managing underwriter(s) inclusion of such Holder's Registrable Stock in the underwritten offering to the extent provided in this Section 2. All Holders proposing to distribute Registrable Stock through such underwritten offering shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters. Such underwriter or underwriters shall be selected by a majority in interest of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Requesting Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of and shall be approved by the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreementwithheld; provided, that (i) all of the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) such underwriters shall also be made to and for the benefit of such Holders and that any or all of the Holders proposing conditions precedent to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offeringobligations of such underwriters under such underwriting agreement shall be conditions precedent to the obligations of such Holders; and provided further, (ii) that no Holder shall be required to make any representations and or warranties to, to or agreements with, any underwriter in a registration with the Company or the underwriters other than customary representations, warranties and or agreements and (iii) regarding such Holder, the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation Registrable Stock of such Holder arising under and such underwriting agreement (a) shall be limited to losses arising out Holder's intended method of distribution and any other representation required by law 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holdersunderwriter. (c) IfNotwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2 to the contrary, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, if the managing underwriter(s) advise underwriter of an underwritten offering of the Company Registrable Stock requested to be registered pursuant to this Section 2 advises the Requesting Holders in writing that in its or their reasonable opinion marketing factors require a limitation of the number of securities proposed shares to be included in such registration exceeds underwritten, the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company Requesting Holders shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to Stock that would otherwise be underwritten pursuant hereto, and the number of shares of Registrable Stock that may be included in such Underwritten Offering and underwritten offering shall be allocated among all such Holders, including the Requesting Holders, in proportion (iias nearly as practicable) to the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number amount of Registrable Securities Stock requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration by each Holder at the time of filing the registration statement; provided, that does not exceed in the event of such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis limitation of the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested Stock to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by underwritten, the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent entitled to an additional demand registration pursuant to this Section 2. If any Holder of Registrable Stock disapproves of the holders of a majority in interest terms of the Registrable Securitiesunderwriting, such Holder may elect to withdraw by written notice to the Company, the managing underwriter and the Requesting Holders. The securities so withdrawn shall also be withdrawn from registration. (d) A Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the Company shall not be required to effect a registration will pursuant to this Section 2 during the period starting with the fourteenth (14th) day immediately preceding the date of an anticipated filing by the Company of, and ending on a date ninety (90) days following the effective date of, a registration statement pertaining to a public offering of securities for the account of the Company; provided, that the Company shall actively employ in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; and provided further, that the Company's estimate of the date of filing such registration statement shall be made in good faith. (e) The Company shall be obligated to effect and pay for a total of only one (1) registration pursuant to this Section 2, unless increased pursuant to Section 2(c) hereof; provided, that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration for purposes of this Section 2(e), unless the Registration Statement relating thereto (i) it has been declared effective by the SECCommission, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such (ii) if it is a shelf registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effectiveremained effective for the period set forth in Section 3(b), (iiii) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution offering of Registrable Securities thereunder Stock pursuant to such registration is or becomes the not subject of to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission (other than any such action prompted by any act or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale omission of the Holders), and (iv) no limitation of the number of shares of Registrable Securities Stock to be underwritten has been required pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (iiSection 2(c) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)hereof.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Innopet Brands Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Innopet Brands Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any Any time on or after the date that is earlier of (i) December 31, 2018 and (ii) 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)a Qualified IPO, the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require an Investor Majority may notify the Company in writing that they intend to file a Registration Statement registering offer or cause to be offered for public sale all or part any portion of their respective Registrable Securities under in the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to manner specified in such request. Upon receipt of such request, the Company (i) specifying the number shall promptly deliver notice of such request to all Investors holding Registrable Securities who shall then have thirty (30) days to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. If the request for registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to contemplates an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandunderwritten public offering, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom state such in the request for written notice and in such event the right of any Person to participate in such registration has not been received shall be conditioned upon such Person’s participation in such underwritten public offering and (y) the inclusion of such Person’s Registrable Securities in the underwritten public offering to the extent provided herein. The Company will use reasonable its best efforts to effect expeditiously file a Form S-1 covering all Registrable Securities whose holders request participation in such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of Act, but only to the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerextent provided for in this Agreement; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated required to effect or participate (a) pay for registration pursuant to a request under this Section 2 more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings times. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no request may be made under this Section 2 within ninety (90) days after the effective date of a registration statement filed by the Company covering a firm commitment underwritten public offering in any twelve which the holders of Registrable Securities shall have been entitled to join pursuant to Section 4 and in which there shall have been effectively registered all Registrable Securities as to which registration shall have been requested. A registration will not count as a requested registration under this Section 2(a) unless and until the registration statement relating to such registration has been declared effective by the Commission at the request of the initiating shareholders; provided, however, that the holders that participate in such registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) and hold at least sixty percent (1260%) month periodof Registrable Securities (the “Withdrawing Holders”) may request, in writing, that the Company withdraw a registration statement which has been filed under this Section 2(a) but has not yet been declared effective, and the Withdrawing Holders may thereafter request the Company to reinstate such registration statement, if permitted under the Securities Act, or to file another registration statement, in accordance with the procedures set forth herein and without reduction in the number of demand registrations permitted under this Section 2(a). (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior If a requested registration involves an underwritten public offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, and the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company underwriter of such offering determines in good faith that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed sought to be offered should be limited due to market conditions, then the number of securities to be included in such registration exceeds underwritten public offering shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter; provided, however, that the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then shares to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) persons not having any contractual or other right to include such securities in the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and registration statement, (ii) 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 the registration statement, (iii) securities to be registered by the Company will be obligated and required pursuant to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of registration statement, (iv) Registrable Securities of holders who did not make the original request for registration and (v) Registrable Securities of holders who requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities pursuant to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis Section 2(a). If there is a reduction of the number of Registrable Securities requested pursuant to clauses (iv) or (v), such reduction shall be included therein by each such Holder. No shares made on a pro rata basis (based upon the aggregate number of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by such holders). (c) With respect to a request for registration pursuant to Section 2(a) which is for an underwritten public offering, the Holders managing underwriter shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of chosen by the holders of a majority two-thirds (2/3) in interest of the Registrable Securities. Securities to be sold in such offering (d) A registration which approval will not be deemed unreasonably withheld or delayed). The Company may not cause any other registration of securities for sale for its own account (other than a registration effected solely to have been effected as implement an employee benefit plan or a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% transaction to which Rule 145 of the Registrable Securities requested Act is applicable) to be included in become effective within one hundred twenty (120) days following the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject effective date of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested required pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)2.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c) and Section 3.04 hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days and from time to time after the Closing Date (as defined Date, in the Merger Agreementevent that any Holder holds Registrable Securities that are not registered for resale on a delayed or continuous basis, any Holder that holds at least five percent (5.0%) of the Registrable Securities (such holder, the “Demanding Holder”), the Holders of may make a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a written demand for Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective such Registrable Securities under on a Registration Statement, which written demand shall describe the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number amount and type of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required securities to be included in such Registration Statement and the intended method(s) of distribution thereof (such written demand a “Demand Registration”). The Company shall, promptly following the Company’s receipt of a Demand Registration, notify, in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt writing, all other Holders of Registrable Securities 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 Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration (each such Holder that includes all or a portion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in such Registration, a “Requesting Holder”) shall so notify the Company, in writing, within five (5) days after the receipt by the Holder of the notice from the Company. For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent a Requesting Holder also separately possesses Demand Registration rights pursuant to this Section 2.02, but is not the Holder who exercises such Demand Registration rights, the exercise by such Requesting Holder of its rights pursuant to the foregoing sentence shall not count as the exercise by it of one of its Demand Registration rights. Upon receipt by the Company of any such written notification from a Requesting Holder(s) to the Company, subject to Section 2.03(b) below, such Requesting Holder(s) shall be entitled to have their Registrable Securities included in a Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration and the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such registration file a Shelf as soon thereafter as practicable, but not more than thirty (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under 30) days following the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) Company’s receipt of the Demand Registration, for Registration of all Registrable Securities that requested by the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Demanding Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the and Requesting Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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 agreementRegistration. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (ai) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required Registrations pursuant to a Demand Registration initiated by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) IfSponsor, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required more than two (2) Registrations pursuant to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested a Demand Registration initiated by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person (other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in Sponsor) or (iii) more than four (4) Registrations pursuant to a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included aggregate, in such registrationeach case, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretoany 12-month period; provided, however, that if, after it a Registration shall not be counted for such purposes unless a Registration Statement that may be available at such time has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Abacus Life, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (East Resources Acquisition Co)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require If the Company shall be requested in writing by Holder to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities effect the registration under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor of any of the Registration Stock, the Company, subject to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included limitations set forth in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined belowsubsection 3(b), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As shall effect as soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandrequest, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been all Registration Stock which Holder so requested requests to register; provided, however, that be registered. (i) If Holder intends to distribute the Holders Registration Stock covered by its request by means of an underwriting, it shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require so advise the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering as a part of the Registrable Securities its request made pursuant to such Demand Registration may this subsection 3(a). The managing underwriter will be in selected by Holder and shall be reasonably acceptable to the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”)Company. In such caseevent, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company Holder shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwritingCompany as provided in subsection 4(e)) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities with the managing underwriter(sunderwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting. (ii) proposing to distribute their securities through such Underwritten OfferingNotwithstanding the foregoing, which underwriting agreement shall have indemnification provisions the Company may include in substantially a registration requested under this subsection 3(a) any additional authorized shares of the form as set forth in Section 4.9 of this AgreementCommon Stock, whether or not issued, for sale by the Company or for sale by others; provided, however, that such shares shall not be included to the extent that the managing underwriter chosen in accordance with subsection (i) above concludes in good faith that the representations and warranties byinclusion of such shares will interfere with the successful marketing of the shares of Registration Stock to be included therein. (iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company shall furnish to Holder a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, it would be detrimental for such registration statement to be filed or would require the Company to make public disclosure of information the premature disclosure of which would have an adverse effect on the Company, and it is therefore beneficial to the other agreements on Company to defer the part offiling of such registration statement (or the intended sale of Registration Stock pursuant to a then effective registration statement), the Company shall have the right to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made defer taking action with respect to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall be required to make any representations and warranties tosuch filing, or agreements withrequire Holder to refrain from selling Registration Stock, any underwriter in as the case may be, for a registration other period of not more than customary representations, warranties and agreements and one hundred twenty (iii120) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and days. (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect effect, or participate to take any action to effect, any registration pursuant to this Section 3: (ai) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings After the Company has effected one registration pursuant to this Section 3 in any the previous twelve (12) month period, months and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and has been declared or ordered effective; or (ii) During the Company will be obligated and required period beginning on a date thirty (30) days prior to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis Company's good faith estimate of the number date of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registrationfiling of, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, ending on a date one hundred eighty (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45180) days after the commencement effective date of, a registration of Common Stock or other securities of the distribution by Company under the Holders Act in connection with a public offering of such securities (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to participants in a stock option or other employee benefits plan of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then Company); provided that the Company shall continue is actively employing in good faith reasonable efforts to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that cause such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso statement to Section 4.2(a)become effective.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Axiom Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Securicor Telesciences Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject After the consummation of an IPO or at such time prior to the provisions hereofconsummation of an IPO as is permitted by Section 10.3 with respect to a given Shareholder, at any time on or after upon a Shareholder's written request specifying the date that is 180 days after intended manner of disposition (including the Closing Date number of shares of Vail Equity to be sold) (as defined in the Merger Agreementa "Demand Notice"), Vail will use its best efforts to prepare and file with the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file SEC, as expeditiously as possible, a Registration Statement registering on an available form for sale all or part which Vail then qualifies (but not including by means of their respective Registrable Securities a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor Act), which legal counsel for Vail deems appropriate and which is available for the sale of Vail Equity to permit an underwritten public offering of some or all of the Company (i) specifying the number shares of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration Vail Equity then held by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), Shareholder and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable its best efforts to effect cause such registration statement to become effective (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a "Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodRegistration"). (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such A Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as occurred until it has become effective under the Securities Act (unless a Shareholder delivers a Demand Notice and subsequently withdraws the Demand Notice, in which case such Demand Registration will be deemed to have occurred unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective such Shareholder agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses associated with such registration actually incurred by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretoVail); provided, however, that if, after it a Demand Registration has become effective, (i) the offering of Vail Equity pursuant to such Demand Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of prohibited by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agencya court, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective such Demand Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause occurred (ii) unless such prohibition on the sale of the proviso Vail Equity is based on actions or omissions of such Shareholder, in which case such Demand Registration will be deemed to have occurred unless such Shareholder agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses associated with such registration actually incurred by Vail). (c) Vail shall only be obligated to effect one Demand Registration per Shareholder in any twelve month period under this Section 4.2(a). If 5.1; provided, however, that Vail will not be required to register the Vail Equity pursuant to a Demand Notice under this Section 5.1 if at such time (i) the shares of Vail Equity which a registration requested Shareholder is requesting to be registered pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not 5.1 constitute less than 6.0% (or, if less, all of the shares of Vail Equity owned by such Shareholder) of the outstanding Vail Securities so requested to have been effected as a Demand Registration be registered or (ii) such Demand Notice is given within six (6) months after the effective date of any other registration requested of any Vail Securities under the Securities Act. (d) The managing underwriter will be selected by the Shareholder requesting registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 does 5.1 (the "Requesting Shareholder"); provided, however, that such underwriter shall be subject to the approval of Vail, which approval shall not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registrationunreasonably withheld. In circumstances not including the events described in event there is one or more co-managers, the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities first such co-manager shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registrationselected by Vail, provided that such registration nonetheless co-manager shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) be subject to the approval of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Requesting Shareholder, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, and all other co-managers will be selected by the Requesting Shareholder.

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Samples: Shareholder Agreement (Ralcorp Holdings Inc /Mo), Shareholder Agreement (Ralcorp Holdings Inc /Mo)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at i. At any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)and from time to time, the Holders BDI may make a written demand for one underwritten registration of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective its Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (any such registration, a “Demand Registration” and the registration statement relating thereto, a “Demand Registration Statement”). Any demand for a Demand Registration shall specify the number of shares of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold and the intended method(s) of distribution thereof. The Issuer will notify all other Investors who are holders of Registrable Securities of the demand, and each such other Investor who wishes to include all or a portion of such Investor’s Registrable Securities in the Demand Registration (each such holder including shares of Registrable Securities in such registration, a “Demanding Holder”) shall so notify the Issuer within fifteen (15) days after the receipt by delivering such holder of the notice from the Issuer. Upon any such request, the Issuer will use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as promptly as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities which the Issuer has been so requested to register, subject to Sections 2(a) (iii), 3(a)(iv), 3(a)(v) and 6(c). All Demanding Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting shall complete and execute all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements (with the Underwriter or Underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Issuer (in the case of an offering in which the Issuer does not intend to offer any of its capital stock for sale, with the consent of BDI, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld)) and other documents reasonably required under the terms of the applicable underwriting arrangements and shall take such other actions as are reasonably required in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities included in such underwriting. ii. A registration will count as a written Demand Registration if (A) the Registration Statement is filed with the Commission with respect to such Demand Registration and has been declared effective, (B) the Registration Statement is withdrawn after filing at the request therefor of a majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders or (C) the Registration Statement is withdrawn prior to filing at the Company request of majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders and the Demanding Holders fail to reimburse the Issuer for the Registration Expenses incurred by the Issuer in connection therewith within 30 days of receipt of a reasonably detailed invoice therefor; provided, however, that if, after such Registration Statement has been declared effective, the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Demand Registration is interfered with by any stop order or injunction of the Commission or any other governmental agency or court, the Registration Statement with respect to such Demand Registration will be deemed not to have been declared effective, unless and until, (i) specifying such stop order or injunction is removed, rescinded or otherwise terminated, and (ii) a majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders thereafter elect to continue the offering; provided, further, that the Issuer shall not be obligated to file a second Registration Statement until a Registration Statement that has been filed is counted as a Demand Registration or is terminated. iii. If in the sole discretion of the managing Underwriter or Underwriters the registration of all, or part of, the Registrable Securities which BDI and any other Investors requested to be included would adversely affect such public offering, then the Issuer shall be required to include in the underwriting only that number of Registrable Securities, if any, which the managing Underwriter or Underwriters believe may be sold without causing such adverse effect. If the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement underwriting in accordance with applicable lawthe foregoing is less than the total number of shares which BDI and such other Investors have requested to be included, then BDI and such other Investors shall participate in the underwriting pro rata based upon their total ownership of Registrable Securities. As soon Any such limitation shall be imposed in such manner so as practicable after to avoid any diminution in the receipt number of such demandshares the Issuer may register for sale by giving first priority for the shares to be registered for issuance and sale by the Issuer and the Underwriter, and by giving second priority for the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom shares to be registered for sale by BDI and the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) Investors. iv. If BDI disapproves of the terms of any underwriting or is not entitled to include all of its Registrable Securities that in such underwritten offering, BDI may elect to withdraw from such offering by giving written notice to the Company has been so requested Issuer and the Underwriter or Underwriters of its request to register; provided, however, that (i) withdraw prior to the Holders shall not make filing of the Registration Statement. If BDI withdraws from a request for proposed offering relating to a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will because it is not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering include all of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by due to the Company on its own behalf or on behalf inclusion of securities to be sold for the account of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full CooperationIssuer, then such registration will be deemed shall not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected count as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant Registration. No other withdrawal by an Investor from a proposed offering relating to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that cause such registration nonetheless shall not to count as a Demand Registration except for purposes a Registration Statement that is withdrawn prior to filing at the request of clause (ii) majority-in-interest of the proviso Demanding Holders and as to Section 4.2(a)which the Demanding Holders reimburse the Issuer for the Registration Expenses incurred by the Issuer in connection therewith within 30 days of receipt of a reasonably detailed invoice therefore.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Comstock Homebuilding Companies, Inc.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Restricted Term, the Holders Investor and any Permitted Transferee of the Investor (each a “Holder”) holding, collectively, a majority of the Registrable Securities then outstanding shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective the Shares held by or issuable to them (collectively, the “Registrable Securities Securities”) under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an underwritten public offering of Ordinary Shares by the Company (an “Underwritten Offering (as defined belowOffering”), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable lawLaw. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the The Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws Laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerregister as soon as practicable (and in any case by the applicable Filing Date); provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a2.1(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the 25,000,000. The Holders will not shall be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three two (32) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The If the offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of is an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate shall select the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the CompanyHolders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be sold in the Underwritten Offering, which such approval shall not to be unreasonably withheld withheld, conditioned or delayed delayed, and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 prospectusProspectus, final prospectusProspectus, summary prospectusProspectus, 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with a Demand Registration in the form of an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise give written advice to the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion of the number of securities proposed to be included in which such registration exceeds should, in the opinion of the managing underwriter(s) of such registration, in light of marketing factors, be limited (an “Underwriters’ Maximum Number”), then the Company shall (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that registration (a) first, the number of Registrable Securities securities requested to be included therein by holder(s) of Company securities having contractual rights to include Company securities in such registration (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided under the Investors’ Rights Agreement, dated as of August 14, 2015, by and between the Company and the investors party thereto (the “Prior Rights Holders”)) with priority over the Holders thereof with respect to such registration, and (b) second, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such by all Holders of Registrable Securities to be allocated included in such Underwritten Offering, pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in , and on a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of pari passu basis with the holders of a majority in interest contractual registration rights provided under the Share Purchase Agreement by and between the Company and C.P. Pharmaceuticals International C.V. dated as of May 6, 2016 (the Registrable Securities“Pfizer Holders”). (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least seventy five percent (75% %) of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registrationregistration (each, an “Interference”), which Interference does not result from any act or omission of any Holder whose Registrable Securities are registered pursuant to such Registration Statement and is not cured within forty five (45) days thereof, and (ii) in each case less than all seventy five percent (75%) of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) the last sentence of the proviso to Section 4.2(a2.1(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 2.1 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 2.1 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement completion of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 2.1 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d2.1(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) the last sentence of the proviso to Section 4.2(a2.1(a).

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Samples: Investor Agreement (Wave Life Sciences Ltd.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after during the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Registration -------------------- Period, the Holders holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require Restricted Shares may request the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities register under the Securities Act (all or a “Demand Registration”) portion of the Restricted Shares held by delivering a written request therefor them for sale in the manner specified in such notice; provided, that the reasonably -------- anticipated aggregate net proceeds to the Company sellers from such public offering would exceed (iA) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to $30 million at any time when such Restricted Shares could not be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is sold pursuant to an Underwritten Offering Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act or (as defined below)B) $50 million at any time when such Restricted Shares could be sold pursuant to Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to no request may be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable made under this Section 1.02 within 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 Restricted Shares shall have been entitled to join pursuant to Sections 1.01 or 1.03 and in which there shall have been effectively registered all Restricted Shares as to which registration shall have been requested. (b) Following receipt of such demandany notice under Section 1.02(a), the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders holders of Restricted Shares from whom the request for registration such notice has not been received and (y) shall use reasonable its best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued register under the Securities Act Act, for public sale in accordance with the method of disposition specified in such notice from requesting holders, the number of Restricted Shares specified in such notice (and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that in all notices received by the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) from other holders within 20 days after the Holders giving of such notice by the Company). If such method of disposition shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering, the holders of a majority of the Restricted Shares to be sold in such offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) underwriter of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offeringoffering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed delayed. The Company shall be obligated to register Restricted Shares pursuant to Section 1.02(a) on one occasion only and pursuant to Section 1.02(b), subject to Section 1.03(b), on one occasion only, provided, however, -------- ------- that such obligations shall be deemed satisfied only when a registration statement covering all Restricted Shares specified in notices received as aforesaid, for sale in accordance with the method of disposition specified by the requesting holders, shall have become effective and, if such method of disposition is a firm commitment underwritten public offering, all such shares shall have been sold pursuant thereto unless (i) any such registration statement does not become effective due to the withdrawal thereof by or on the request of the holders of 66-2/3% of the Restricted Shares to be registered or (ii) the Company shall (together with reason all Restricted Shares specified in notices pursuant to this Section 1.02 are not registered is due to a limitation on the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings registration of equity securities with shares by the managing underwriter(sunderwriter (which limitation shall be applied pro rata) 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit no more than 50% of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit Restricted Shares so specified are not registered as a result of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through limitation imposed by such managing underwriter or the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect voluntary withdrawal of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) shares from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required registration by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holdersholder thereof. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the The Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required entitled to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number any registration statement referred to in this Section 1.02, for sale in accordance with the method of Registrable Securities requested disposition specified by the Holders thereof requesting holders, Common Stock to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant Company for its own account, except as and to the Registration Statement, or (ii) ifextent that, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) opinion of the proviso to Section 4.2(amanaging underwriter (if such method of disposition shall be an underwritten public offering). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) , such inclusion would adversely affect the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement marketing of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue Restricted Shares to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)sold.

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Samples: Disposition Agreement (Crown Castle International Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Restricted Term, the Holders Investor and any Permitted Transferee of the Investor (each a “Holder”) holding, collectively, a majority of the Registrable Securities then outstanding shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective the Shares held by or issuable to them (collectively, the “Registrable Securities Securities”) under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an underwritten public offering of Ordinary Shares by the Company (an “Underwritten Offering (as defined belowOffering”), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable lawLaw. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the The Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws Laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerregister as soon as practicable (and in any case by the applicable Filing Date); provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a2.1(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the 25,000,000. The Holders will not shall be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three two (32) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The If the offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of is an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate shall select the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the CompanyHolders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be sold in the Underwritten Offering, which such approval shall not to be unreasonably withheld withheld, conditioned or delayed delayed, and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 prospectusProspectus, final prospectusProspectus, summary prospectusProspectus, 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with a Demand Registration in the form of an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise give written advice to the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion of the number of securities proposed to be included in which such registration exceeds should, in the opinion of the managing underwriter(s) of such registration, in light of marketing factors, be limited (an “Underwriters’ Maximum Number”), then the Company shall (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that registration the number of Registrable Securities securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such by all Holders of Registrable Securities to be allocated included in such Underwritten Offering, pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by , and, subject to the Holders shall be included conditions set forth in Section 2.8 hereto, on a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of pari passu basis with the holders of a majority in interest contractual registration rights provided under (i) the Investor Agreement, dated as of April 2, 2018, by and between the Registrable SecuritiesCompany and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (the “Takeda Holders”) and (ii) the Share Purchase Agreement by and between the Company and C.P. Pharmaceuticals International C.V. dated as of May 6, 2016 (the “Pfizer Holders”). (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least seventy five percent (75% %) of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registrationregistration (each, an “Interference”), which Interference does not result from any act or omission of any Holder whose Registrable Securities are registered pursuant to such Registration Statement and is not cured within forty five (45) days thereof, and (ii) in each case less than all seventy five percent (75%) of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) the last sentence of the proviso to Section 4.2(a2.1(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 2.1 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 2.1 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement completion of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 2.1 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d2.1(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) the last sentence of the proviso to Section 4.2(a2.1(a).

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Samples: Investor Agreement (Wave Life Sciences Ltd.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or From and after the date that is 180 days six months after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger date of this Agreement), a majority of the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have (the right to require "Majority Noteholders") may request in writing that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or part of their respective the Registrable Securities owned by the Majority Noteholders. Upon receipt of such written request, and subject to the limitations set forth herein, the Company will file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as promptly as practicable, and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to become effective, a registration statement on Form X-0, X-0 or S-3 under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to registering the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), offering and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) sale of the Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to register, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method thereof as set forth in such written request) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered; provided, however, that (i) the Holders Company shall not make be -------- obligated to file a registration statement relating to any registration request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled 9.3 with respect to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodregistration under this Section 9.3(a). (b) The offering Company shall be entitled to postpone for a reasonable period of time (not to exceed 60 days (or, in the case of clause (A) below, 60 days after effectiveness of the Registrable Securities proposed registration statement), which may not thereafter be extended) the filing of any registration statement otherwise required to be prepared and filed by it pursuant to this Section 9.3(b) if, at the time it receives a request for such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such caseregistration, (iA) the Company may designate is conducting or has taken definitive steps to conduct an offering of any class of its securities and the Company is advised in writing by the investment banker, managing underwriter(s) of underwriter or financial advisor engaged by the Underwritten Offering, provided Company to advise the Company thereon that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate offering would be affected materially and adversely by the registration so demanded, (B) the Company is in the Underwritten Offering, subject possession of material information that has not been disclosed to the approval public and the Board of Directors of the Company, which approval shall in the reasonable exercise of its discretion, has determined that it is advisable not be unreasonably withheld to disclose such information in the registration statement, or delayed and (iiC) the Board of Directors of the Company shall determine in good faith that such offering will materially interfere with a pending or contemplated merger, sale of assets, recapitalization or other similar corporate action of the Company, and in each such case the Company shall have furnished to Majority Noteholders an Officers' Certificate confirming the applicability of clause (together with A), (B), or (C), as the case may be. After such period of postponement the Company shall effect such registration as promptly as practicable without further request from the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities with the managing underwriter(s) proposing to distribute their securities through such Underwritten OfferingNotes, which underwriting agreement shall have indemnification provisions in substantially the form as set forth in Section 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required request has been withdrawn by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the HoldersMajority Noteholders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, It is agreed and understood that the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested right conferred by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to 9.3 may be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)exercised only once.

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Samples: Note Purchase Agreement (Tokheim Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject In the event that following the period the Holder is prohibited from selling the Registrable Securities by the provisions of the underwriting agreement relating to the provisions hereofInitial Public Offering, at any time on Holder or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date Holders (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority i) desire to sell shares of Registrable Securities shall have owned by such Holder or Holders and (ii) an exemption from registration under the right Securities Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, including, without limitation, Rule 144 (or any successor rules or regulation thereto), is not available to require enable the Holder or Holders to dispose of the number of shares of Registrable Securities it desires to sell at the time and in the manner it desires to do so, then upon the written request of any Holder or Holders requesting that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or part of their respective such Holder's or Holders' Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) and specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant thereof, but subject to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)the limitations set forth herein, the Company will promptly give written notice of such requested registration to all other Holders of Registrable Securities, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance the Company shall file with applicable law. As soon the Commission as promptly as practicable after the receipt of sending such demandnotice, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable its best efforts to effect such cause to become effective, a registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued statement under the Securities Act registering the offering and any other governmental requirements or regulationssale of: (i) of the Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to registerregister by such Holder or Holders; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, and (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require all other Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) register by any other Holder thereof by written request given to the Company will not be obligated within 15 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 effect more than one the extent necessary to permit the disposition (1in accordance with the intended method thereof as aforesaid) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant so to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreementregistered; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect file a registration statement relating to any registration request under this Section 2(a) (A) unless the aggregate requests by the Holder or participate Holders for such registration cover not less than 5.0% of the outstanding Common Stock, (aB) with respect to more than two an aggregate of 3 registrations (2which shall be increased to an unlimited number of registrations if such additional registrations are effected on Form S-3 or any successor similar short-form registration statement) Underwritten Offerings in under this Section 2(a), (C) within a period of 180 days after the effective date of any twelve other registration statement relating to any registration request under this Section 2(a), or (12D) month periodif with respect thereto, the managing underwriter, the Commission, the Securities Act or the rules and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by regulations thereunder, or the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering form on which the registration statement is to be filed, would require the conduct of an audit other than the regular audit conducted by the Company on at the end of its own behalf or on behalf fiscal year, in which case the filing may be delayed until the completion of such regular audit (unless the Holders requesting such registration agree to pay the expenses of the Holders. (c) If, Company in connection with such an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person audit other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(aregular audit).

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Provantage Health Services Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date date hereof (or such earlier date (i) as defined in would permit the Merger 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 of the IPO Underwriting Agreement), any Person that is a Stockholder (a “Requesting Stockholder”) on the Holders date a Demand is made shall be entitled to make a written request of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file (a Registration Statement registering “Demand”) for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration under the Securities Act of a number of Registrable Securities that, when taken together with the number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered under the Securities Act by such Requesting Stockholder’s Affiliates, equals or is greater than the Registrable Amount (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor and thereupon the Company will, subject to the Company (i) specifying the number terms of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersthis Agreement, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsof: (i) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerregister by the Requesting Stockholders for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand, which may be an Underwritten Offering; (ii) all other Registrable Securities that the Company has been requested to register by the Registering Stockholder pursuant to Section 4.1(b); (iii) all shares of Common Stock that the Company may elect to register in connection with any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 4.1, but subject to Section 4.1(f); providedand (iv) all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Common Stock, howeverif any, that to be so registered. (b) A Demand shall specify: (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for aggregate number of Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000requested to be registered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, extent then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Stockholder (or Requesting Stockholders). Within five days after receipt of a Demand, the Company will not be obligated shall give written notice of such Demand to effect more than one (1) any other Persons that on the date a Demand is delivered to the Company is a Stockholder. Subject to Section 4.1(f), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by such Demand all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received a written request for inclusion therein within five days after such notice by the Company has been given. Such written request shall comply with the requirements of a Demand as set forth in any six (6) month periodthis Section 4.1(b). (bc) The offering Each Stockholder shall be entitled to an unlimited number of Demand Registrations until such time as the Stockholders, together, Beneficially Own less than a Registrable Amount. (d) Demand Registrations shall be on such registration form of the Commission for which the Company is eligible as shall be selected by the Requesting Stockholders whose shares represent a majority of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) that the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offeringhas been requested to register, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offeringincluding, subject to the approval of extent permissible, an automatically effective registration statement or an existing effective registration statement filed by the Company with the Commission, and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and . (iie) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate any Demand Registration (aA) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any within three months of a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(sin which all Stockholders were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to Section 4.2 (subject to Section 4.1(f)) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf and provided that at least 50% of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof such Stockholders to be included in such Demand Registration were included) or (B) within three months of any other Underwritten Offering pursuant to Section 4.3(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 60 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 90 days in the aggregate, in any period of 12 consecutive months) if the Board determines in good faith and in its reasonable judgment that does not exceed the filing or effectiveness of the registration statement relating to such Underwriters’ Maximum NumberDemand Registration would cause the disclosure of material, such non-public 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 4.4. (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 (or, if such Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, a nationally recognized investment bank engaged in connection with such Demand Registration) advises the Company, that, in its opinion, the inclusion of all of the securities, including securities of the Company that are not Registrable Securities, sought to be allocated pro rata among registered in connection with such Demand Registration would adversely affect the Holders thereof on marketability of the basis 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 therein in such Demand Registration by each the Stockholders, which, in the opinion of the underwriter can be sold without adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, pro rata among such Holder. No shares Stockholders requesting such Demand Registration on the basis of Common Stock the number of such securities held by any Person such Stockholders and such Stockholders that are Piggyback Sellers; (ii) second, securities the Company proposes to sell; and (iii) third, all other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent securities of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities Company duly requested to be included in such registration statement, pro rata on the registration basis of the number of such other securities requested to be included or such other method determined by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement Company. (g) Any investment bank(s) that will serve as an underwriter with respect thereto; providedto such Demand Registration or, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) if such Demand Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of not an Underwritten Offering, any investment bank engaged in connection therewith, shall be selected (i) by FIG LLC, for so long as a majority of the Common Stock of the Company fails to provide Full Cooperationis owned by the Initial Stockholder, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause its Permitted Transferees and any Fortress Affiliate Stockholder, and thereafter (ii) of by the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If Stockholder participating in such Demand Registration that holds (itogether with its Permitted Transferees) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement number of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences Demand Registration constituting a plurality of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of all Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of included in such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc.)

Demand Registration. (ai) Subject to the provisions hereofterms and conditions of this Agreement, at any time on or and from time to time after the date that is 180 90 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)date hereof, the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right upon written notice to require the Company to file (a Registration Statement registering for sale all “Demand Notice”) delivered by one or part of their respective Registrable Securities under more Qualified Holders requesting that the Securities Act Company effect the registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act (other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or Form S-8 or any similar or successor form under the Securities Act) of any or all of the Registrable Securities held by delivering a written request therefor such Qualified Holder(s) which offering is expected to yield aggregate gross proceeds of at least $25 million or, if the expected gross proceeds of the sale of all remaining Registrable Securities is less than $25 million, then such registration shall include all remaining Registrable Securities, the Company shall promptly (ibut in any event, not later than five Business Days following the Company’s receipt of such Demand Notice) specifying the number give written notice of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandDemand Notice to all other Holders that, to its knowledge, hold Registrable Securities (each, a “Demand Eligible Holder”). The Company shall promptly file the appropriate Registration Statement (the “Demand Registration Statement”) and use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, at the earliest practicable date, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsunder the applicable state securities laws of (A) of the Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to register; providedregister by the Qualified Holder(s) in the Demand Notice, however, that (iB) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for all other Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (iithe same class or series as those requested to be registered by the Qualified Holder(s) the Holders will not be entitled to require which the Company has been requested to effect more than three register by the Demand Eligible Holders by written request (3the “Demand Eligible Holder Request”) Demand Registrations in given to the aggregate under this AgreementCompany within five Business Days after the giving of such written notice by the Company, and (iiiC) any Registrable Securities to be offered and sold by the Company will not be obligated Company, in each case subject to effect more than one Section 2(b)(ii), all to the extent required to permit the disposition (1in accordance with the intended methods of disposition) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such be so registered. The Holders’ rights to request a Demand Registration may set forth in this Section 2(b) shall not be in exercisable at any time if the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, Company (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s(x) is not in violation of the Underwritten Offeringits obligations to file a Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) or (y) has a currently effective Shelf Registration Statement covering all Registrable Securities in accordance with Section 2(a), provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has otherwise complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Agreement.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Amplify Energy Corp.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to (i) HEI shall have the provisions hereofright, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined not more than four occasions in the Merger Agreement)aggregate, and no more frequently than once during any six-month period, and (ii) the Holders of Minority Stockholders as a majority of Registrable Securities group shall have the right (though such right need not be jointly exercised by the Minority Stockholders), on not more than two occasions in the aggregate (it being understood and agreed that two or more Minority Stockholders may make joint Demands hereunder or any Minority Stockholder may join in a Demand made by any other Minority Stockholder, and any such joint Demand or joining in of a Demand shall be deemed to be a single Demand for all purposes hereof), and no more frequently than once during any six-month period, to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering register for offer and sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”"Demand") all or a portion of the Registrable Securities held by delivering a written request therefor such Stockholder, subject to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities restrictions set forth herein; provided that no Stockholder shall be entitled to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. make a Demand As soon promptly as practicable after the receipt Company receives from a Stockholder (the "Demanding Stockholder") a notice pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) (a "Demand Notice"), a copy of such demandwhich shall have also been delivered to each other Minority Stockholder at the same time as to the Company, demanding that the Company register for offer and sale under the Securities Act Registrable Securities, subject to Section 4.1(b), the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (yi) use all reasonable best efforts to effect file as promptly as reasonably practicable with the 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 determines, 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, (includingii) after the filing of an initial version of the Registration Statement, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued use reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) as promptly as practicable after the date of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerfiling of such Registration Statement; provided, however, that no Demanding Stockholder shall be entitled to be named as a selling securityholder in the Registration Statement or to use the Prospectus forming a part thereof for resales of Registrable Securities unless such Demanding Stockholder has made an Election. Subject to Section 4.1(b), the Company shall use reasonable efforts to keep each Registration Statement continuously effective in order to permit the Prospectus forming a part thereof to be usable by such Demanding Stockholder for resales of Registrable Securities for an Effectiveness Period ending on the earlier of (i) 30 days from the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Effective Time of such Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, Statement and (ii) such time as all of such securities have been disposed of by the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodselling securityholders. (b) The offering 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 Registrable Securities pursuant Registration Statement or included Prospectus, if the Company determines based upon the advice of counsel that it would be advisable to such Demand Registration may be not disclose in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such caseRegistration Statement a planned or proposed financing, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offeringacquisition or other corporate transaction or other material information, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with have determined in good faith that such disclosure is not in the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings best interests 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) its stockholders; provided that no one such postponement shall also be made to exceed 90 days in any six-month period and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of all such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) postponements shall not exceed 180 days in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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 agreementaggregate. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in advise the Demanding Stockholder of any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holderssuch determination as promptly as practicable after such determination. (c) If, in In connection with an Underwritten Offeringunderwritten offering, if the managing underwriter(s) underwriter or underwriters advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed Applicable Securities subject to a Demand exceeds the number which can be included sold in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Numberoffering, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that Registration the number of Registrable Applicable Securities requested by that, in the Holders thereof to opinion of such managing underwriter or underwriters, can be included sold in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Numberoffering (provided that, such Registrable in the event of a joint Demand, the Applicable Securities to included shall be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof Demanding Stockholders on the basis of the relative number of Registrable Applicable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto Demanding Stockholder has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Visn Management Corp)

Demand Registration. From and after the earlier of (ax) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or date that is one calendar year after the date hereof, (y) the occurrence of a Seller Breach, and (z) the date that is 180 days the Purchaser no longer owns 5% of the outstanding Common Stock, in each case after receipt of a written request from the Closing Date Holders owning 50% of the Registrable Securities of each class requesting that the Company effect the registration of all or a portion of the Registrable Securities and specifying the intended method or methods of disposition thereof (as defined in the Merger Agreementa "Holder Notice"), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersshall, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof as expeditiously as is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)possible, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its reasonable best efforts to effect such the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued for sale under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the all shares of Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to registerregister by such Holders, all to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of such Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that (i) the Holders Company shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated required to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in registration of any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may this Section 2(a) except as otherwise expressly provided herein. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, however, the rights granted to the Purchaser and the Holders pursuant to this Agreement including, without limitation, this Section 2(a), shall be in irrevocably terminated upon the form occurrence of an underwritten a Purchaser Breach. 5 If the managing underwriter of a proposed public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in writing that, in its or their reasonable opinion opinion, the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% distribution of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration concurrently with the securities being registered by the Holders are included in Company or such registration, other registering security holders would materially and adversely affect the distribution of such securities by the Company has complied in or such registering security holders, then the Company may require all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretoselling security holders (other than the Company) to reduce the amount of securities each intended to distribute through such offering on a pro rata basis; provided, however, that ifif the Company requires such reduction, and if Holders requesting such registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) are unable to include in such registration Registable Securities that they requested be included in such registration in the related Holder Notice that constitute Substantial Market Value Securities, due to such pro rata reduction (the Registrable Securities that such Holder so requested to be included in such registration that were not included in such registration due to such pro rata reduction being referred to herein as the "Reduction Shares", and the registration in which such reduction occurred being referred to herein as a "Failed Registration"), then subject to the other provisions hereof applicable to a demand registration the Holders of the Reduction Shares shall have the right, exercisable commencing on the day that is two calendar months after it has become effectivethe termination of the Registration Period relating to the Failed Registration by written notice sent to the Company by Holders of 50% of the Reduction Shares (a "Repurchase/Register Notice"), to require the Company to elect (at the Company's option) to either register the Reduction Shares otherwise pursuant to this Section 2(a) or, if the foregoing offer to sell or resulting sale is then lawful, to repurchase the Reduction Shares at the higher of (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of price per share for which Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are were actually sold by in the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration StatementFailed Registration, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, Market Price on the date the Repurchase/Register Notice is sent to the Company fails to provide Full Cooperationin compliance with this Agreement; provided, then such registration will however, that the Holders shall not be deemed not hereby or thereby to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of made any offer to sell to the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 Company that does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then comply with applicable law and the Company shall continue not be entitled or deemed to be obligated entitled to effect repurchase such Reduction Shares or to be offered the right to or solicit the right to repurchase such Reduction Shares or deemed to have bid for such Reduction Shares hereby or thereby if such repurchase, offer, or bid would violate any applicable securities law; and provided further, however, that any such repurchase shall otherwise comply with the procedures applicable to the Company's right to repurchase securities upon the occurrence of a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 Purchaser Breach set forth in Article VIII of the Registrable Securities included in Stock Purchase Agreement, to the extent that such registrationprocedures do not conflict with the provisions hereof, without requirement for the occurrence of a Purchaser Breach. In circumstances The Company shall respond to such Repurchase/Register Notice by written notice to the Purchaser within 30 business days after its receipt of the Repurchase/ Register Notice (an "Election Notice"), which Election Notice shall set forth whether the Company desires to so register such Reduction Shares or to repurchase such Reduction Shares; provided, however, that the Company shall be deemed to have elected to register such Reduction Shares if it does not including give such notice within such 30 business day period. If the events described Company so elects to repurchase such Reduction Shares, and if the Market Price requires an agreement of the Company and such holders as to the fair market value of such Reduction Shares, the consummation of such repurchase shall not be required to be consummated until as 6 soon as practicable after such fair market value has been determined as set forth in the immediately two preceding sentences definition of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Market Price set forth herein.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Crown Northcorp Inc)

Demand Registration. On not more than two occasions prior to ------------------- December 31, 2001, if Du Pont (ai) Subject to requests in writing (a "Registration Request") that CEI register the provisions hereof, at any time on sale or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities other distribution under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (a “Demand Registration”the "Securities Act") by delivering a written of any of the Registrable Securities (which request therefor to the Company (i) specifying shall specify the number of Registrable Securities intended to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersoffered and sold), (ii) specifying whether expresses Du Pont's present intent to offer such Registrable Securities for distribution, (iii) describes the intended nature or method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)the proposed offer and sale thereof, and (iiiiv) containing undertakes to provide all such information about and materials relating to Du Pont and to take all such Holder action as may be required of Du Pont in order to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance permit CEI to comply with all applicable law. As soon as practicable after requirements of the receipt Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") and to obtain acceleration of such demandthe effective date of the registration statement therefor, the Company CEI shall (x) promptly notify use all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under cause the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities so specified in such request to be registered as soon as reasonably practicable so as to permit the sale or other distribution by Du Pont of the Registrable Securities specified in the Registration Request, and shall in connection therewith prepare and file on an appropriate form, as CEI shall reasonably determine, a registration statement under the Securities Act to effect such registration. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained herein, CEI shall not be required to file any registration statement pursuant to such Demand Registration may be this section 1.1 (a) in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, following circumstances: (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offeringif, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offeringreasonable judgment of Rheinbraun or CEI, subject a registration at the time and on the terms requested would materially adversely affect any financing by CEI that had been contemplated by Rheinbraun or CEI prior to the approval of the Companynotice by Du Pont requesting registration, which approval CEI shall not be unreasonably withheld required to commence using its best efforts to effect a registration pursuant to this section until the earliest of (1) 90 days after the completion of such financing, (2) the termination of any "black out" period required by the underwriters, initial purchasers or delayed and placement agents, if any, in connection with such financing or (3) promptly after abandonment of such financing; (ii) if, while a Registration Request is pending pursuant to this section, Rheinbraun or CEI determines in good faith, based on the Company shall (together advice of counsel, that proceeding with the Holders proposing registration would require the disclosure of material information that Rheinbraun or CEI has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, or CEI is unable to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities comply with the managing underwriter(s) proposing to distribute their securities through such Underwritten OfferingCommission requirements, which underwriting agreement CEI shall have indemnification provisions in substantially the form as set forth in Section 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall not be required to make any representations and warranties to, effect such pending registration statement until the earlier of (1) the date upon which such material information is disclosed to the public or agreements with, any underwriter in a registration other than customary representations, warranties and agreements and ceases to be material or (2) 120 days after the date CEI makes such determination; and (iii) if Rheinbraun and CEI shall not have received undertakings reasonably satisfactory to them from any underwriter or underwriters to indemnify and hold them harmless, each of their directors and officers, and every other controlling person of them, from and against any and all loss, damage, liability, cost or expense to which they, any director or officer of them, or every other controlling person of them may become subject under the liability of each Holder in respect Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, damages, liabilities, costs or expenses (A) are caused by any untrue or alleged untrue statement of any indemnificationmaterial fact contained in the registration statement or prospectus included therein, contribution as amended or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement supplemented, or (aB) shall be limited to losses arising arise out of or are based upon an the omission or the alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, in each case to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was so 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect underwriter or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holdersunderwriters. (civ) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(sThe right of Du Pont to exercise registration rights pursuant to section 1.1(a) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case condition that the first Registration Request of Du Pont shall be for not less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder 20,000 Class A Shares (or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(aequivalent).

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Samples: Shareholders' Agreement (Consol Energy Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date Date, any Avista Holder or PGS may request, in writing (as defined in the Merger Agreementa “Demand Request”), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or part of its or their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act Shares (a “Demand Registration”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Demand Request will be effective hereunder unless the Registrable Shares proposed to be sold by the Holder or Holders requesting the Demand Registration (the “Requesting Holders,” which term shall include parties deemed “Requesting Holders” pursuant to Section 2.1(g) hereof) represent, in the aggregate, more than 25% of the total number of Registrable Shares held by delivering a written request therefor to all Avista Holders or PGS, as the Company case may be. (ib) specifying Each Demand Request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities Shares proposed to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether sold and the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to of the Registrable Shares (including an Underwritten Offering (as defined belowpursuant to Section 2.1(d) or a Shelf Registration pursuant to Section 2.1(f), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required ). Subject to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandSection 2.1(h), the Company shall file the Demand Registration within 90 days after receiving a Demand Request (xthe “Required Filing Date”) promptly notify and shall use all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use commercially reasonable best efforts to effect cause the same to be declared effective by the SEC as promptly as practicable after such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerfiling; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to effect (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three four (34) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in Requests made by the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Avista Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall more than four (together with the Holders proposing 4) Demand Registrations pursuant to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities with the managing underwriter(s) proposing Demand Requests made by PGS, each pursuant to distribute their securities through such Underwritten Offering, which underwriting agreement shall have indemnification provisions in substantially the form as set forth in Section 4.9 of this Agreement2.1(a); provided, further, that (iif any Registrable Shares requested to be registered pursuant to a Demand Request are excluded from the applicable Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2.1(e) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part ofbelow, the Company applicable Holders shall each have the right, with respect to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made each such exclusion, to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holdersrequest one additional Demand Registration. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected count as a Demand Registration until it has become effective (unless the Requesting Holders withdraw all their Registrable Shares and the Company has performed its obligations hereunder in all material respects, in which case such demand will count as a Demand Registration unless the Requesting Holders pay all Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SECExpenses, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included as hereinafter defined, in the registration by the Holders are included in connection with such withdrawn registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto); provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution an offering of Registrable Securities thereunder Shares pursuant to a registration is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agencycourt, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected and will not count as a Demand Registration. (d) The Requesting Holders may provide in the Demand Request that the offering of Registrable Shares pursuant to a Demand Registration shall be in the form of a “firm commitment” underwritten offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). The Requesting Holders of a majority of the Registrable Shares 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 consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. No Person may participate in any registration pursuant to Section 2.1(a) unless such Person (i) agrees to sell such Person’s Registrable Shares 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 warranties in connection with any such registration other than representations and warranties as to (A) such Person’s ownership of his or its Registrable Shares 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 Shares, and the liability of each such Person will be in proportion to the number of Registrable Shares included in such Demand Registration, 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 Shares 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 for an Underwritten Offering unless the managing underwriter or underwriters shall advise the Company or the Requesting Holders in writing that the inclusion of such securities will not materially and adversely affect the price or success of the Underwritten 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 Shares proposed to be included in such Demand Registration by Requesting Holders is sufficiently large to cause a Material Adverse Effect, the Registrable Shares 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 Shares owned by each such Requesting Holder. (f) The Requesting Holders may provide in the Demand Request that the offering of Registrable Shares pursuant to a Demand Registration shall be in the form of a “shelf offering” under the Securities Act to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act, or any similar rule that may be adopted by the SEC (such offering, a “Shelf Offering”). The Shelf Offering shall be on Form S-1 (or on Form S-3 or any similar successor form, if the Company is eligible to utilize such Form to register its shares). Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Shelf Offering to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof and shall use its best efforts to keep such Shelf Offering continuously effective under the Securities Act until all Registrable Shares covered by such Shelf Offering have been sold or may be sold at one time pursuant to Rule 144 as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Avista Holders or the affected PGS Holders, as the case may be. (g) Upon receipt of any Demand Request (including a Demand Request pursuant to Section 2.1(i)), the Company shall promptly (but in any event within 10 days) give written notice of such proposed Demand Registration to all other Holders (which notice shall include the number of Registrable Shares of the Requesting Holder proposed to be included in the Demand Registration and a description of the proposed disposition of such Registrable Shares), 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 (including a Shelf Funded Repurchase pursuant to Section 2.1(i)) such portion of their Registrable Shares as they may request. All Holders requesting to have all or any part of 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 Agreement. (h) The Company may defer the filing (but not the preparation) of a registration statement required by Section 2.1(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 time the Company receives the Demand Request, 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 the Company and its stockholders or (ii) prior to receiving the Demand Request, 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 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 2.1(h) 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 proviso preceding sentence, the proposed registration for the Company’s account is abandoned. In order to Section 4.2(a). If (i) defer the filing of a registration requested statement pursuant to this Section 4.2 2.1(h), 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 2.1(h) 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 Shares 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 effected as made for all purposes of this Agreement. The Company may defer the filing of a Demand Registration or (ii) the particular registration requested statement pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five 2.1(h) only once. (45i) days after the commencement In lieu of any of the distribution by Demand Registrations and if the Company has established a “shelf offering” of newly issued shares of Common Stock (the “Company Shelf Shares”) under the Securities Act to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 on Form S-3 (the “Company Shelf”), each of the Avista Holders and PGS may issue a Demand Request for the Company to sell Company Shelf Shares and use the proceeds from such sale to purchase all or any portion of the Registrable Securities covered Shares held by such registrationRequesting Holder (the “Shelf Funded Repurchase”) at a price equal to the price at which the Company Shelf Shares were sold less any underwriting discounts and commissions. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, then the Company shall continue use its best efforts to keep such Company Shelf continuously effective under the Securities Act until all Registrable Shares included in the applicable Demand Request have been purchased by the Company or may be obligated to effect a Demand Registration sold at one time pursuant to this Section 4.2 of Rule 144 as determined by the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior counsel to the commencement of marketing of Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such Demand Registrationeffect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent and the affected Avista Holders or PGS, as the case may be. The Company will not be responsible for any fees or expenses incurred by the Avista Holders or PGS in connection with the Shelf Funded Repurchase other than as provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to in Section 4.2(a)2.7 hereto.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Geokinetics Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to Commencing on the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)applicable Initial Registration Date, the Holders of DLJ Entities may make a majority of Registrable Securities shall have written request (any such requesting Person, a "SELLING INVESTOR") that the right to require Issuer effect the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration under the Securities Act of all or a portion of such Selling Investor's applicable Registerable Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof. The Issuer will promptly give written notice of such requested registration (a “Demand Registration”"DEMAND REGISTRATION") by delivering a written request therefor at least thirty (30) days prior to the Company anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the other Investors and thereupon will use its best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act of: (i) specifying the number Registerable Securities which the Issuer has been so requested to register by the Selling Investor, then held by the Selling Investor; (ii) subject to Section 5.2, all other Securities of Registrable the same type as the Registerable Securities sought to be registered by the Selling Investor which any other Investor entitled to request the Issuer to effect an Incidental Registration (as such term is defined in Section 5.2) pursuant to Section 5.2 (all such Investors, together with the Selling Investors, the "HOLDERS") has requested the Issuer to register by written request received by the Issuer within fifteen (15) days after the receipt by such other Investors of such written notice given by the Issuer; and (iii) shares of Common Stock desired to be registered by the Issuer as approved pursuant to Section 2.4 hereof, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof as aforesaid) of the Registerable Securities so to be registered; provided that, subject to Section 5.1(c) hereof, the Issuer shall not be obligated to effect, pursuant to this Section 5.1(a), (A) more than one Demand Registration during any six-month period, (B) more than four Demand Registrations in connection with the registration of the Senior Preferred Stock (which registration may also relate to Warrants to be offered in connection with such Senior Preferred Stock), (C) more than four Demand Registrations in connection with the registration of the Junior Preferred Stock (which registration may also relate to Warrants to be offered in connection with such Junior Preferred Stock), (D) more than four Demand Registrations in connection with the registration of the Warrants (which registration may also relate to the Senior Preferred Stock and/or the Junior Preferred Stock to be offered in connection with such Warrants), and (E) more than two Demand Registrations in connection with the registration of any other Registerable Securities. If Warrants are sold in connection with a registered or Rule 144A sale of the Senior Preferred Stock or the Junior Preferred Stock, the Issuer shall (not earlier than the time the Issuer registers the Senior Preferred Stock or the Junior Preferred Stock (or exchange securities in the case of a Rule 144A offering)) file a shelf registration statement relating to all the Common Stock underlying such Warrants; provided that any holder of Warrants seeking to offer, purchase or sell any of the Common Stock underlying such Warrants will first notify the Issuer and allow the Issuer to prepare an appropriate prospectus supplement to be used in such transaction, and that the Issuer's obligation to prepare such a prospectus supplement (and accordingly the ability of the holder to effect such offer, purchase or sale) will be subject to customary deferral provisions; and provided further that in no event shall the Issuer be entitled to postpone or suspend the preparation and filing of such prospectus supplement for a period exceeding ninety (90) days. The Issuer shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration with respect to shares of Common Stock unless the Common Stock requested to be included in such registration Demand Registration has, in the reasonable judgment of the Board of Directors exercised in good faith, a fair market value of at least (1) $25,000,000 if such Demand Registration would constitute an Initial Public Offering; provided that if the estimated proceeds from the sale of all the Common Stock to be sold by the Selling Investor is less than such Holder amount and the DLJ Entities and Orkla have requested the Issuer to register all of the Registerable Securities owned by them consisting of Warrants and/or Warrant Shares and/or Common Stock, then the Selling Investor may require the Issuer to issue, or Holdersan Other Investor to sell, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock in connection with the Initial Public Offering to result in aggregate proceeds of at least $25,000,000 or (ii2) specifying whether in all other cases, $15,000,000. Promptly after the intended method expiration of disposition thereof is pursuant the 15-day period referred to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)in Section 5.1(a)(ii) hereof, and (iii) containing the Issuer will notify all information about such Holder required the Holders to be included in the Demand Registration of the other Holders and the number of shares of Registerable Securities requested to be included therein. The Selling Investors requesting a registration under this Section 5.1(a)(ii) may, at any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of registration, revoke such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (includingrequest, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and liability to any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that other Holders, by providing a written notice to the Company has been Issuer revoking such request, in which case such request, so requested to register; providedrevoked, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for be treated as a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) unless the Holders will not be entitled to require Selling Investors who requested such registration pay the Company to effect more than Registration Expenses or the Selling Investors requesting registration shall have on three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodprior occasions revoked registration requests. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten OfferingIssuer will, subject to the approval of the CompanySection 5.1(a), which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together pay all Registration Expenses in connection with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the HoldersDemand Registration. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration effected, subject to Section 5.1(a), unless the Registration Statement registration statement relating thereto (i) has been declared become effective by under the SEC, Securities Act and (ii) has remained effective for a period of at least 75% 270 days (or such shorter period in which all Registerable Securities of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, registration have actually been sold thereunder); provided that if after any registration statement requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 becomes effective and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration statement is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) less than 85% of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Registerable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d)registration statement has been sold thereunder, each Holder of Registrable Securities such registration statement shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part at the sole expense of its Registrable Securities from the Issuer and shall not be considered a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

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Samples: Investors Agreement (Nebco Evans Holding Co)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date date hereof (or such earlier date (i) as defined 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 by the underwriters of the lock-up provisions in the Merger IPO Underwriting Agreement), the any Holder or Holders shall be entitled to make a written request of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file (a Registration Statement registering “Demand”) for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration under the Securities Act of a number of Registrable Securities that in the aggregate equals or is greater than the Minimum Registration Amount (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor and thereupon the Company will, subject to the Company (i) specifying the number terms of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersthis Agreement, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsof: (i) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerregister by the Holder or Holders for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand, which may be an Underwritten Offering; providedand (ii) all other Ordinary Shares that the Company may elect to register in connection with any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 4.1, however, that but subject to Section 4.1(f). (b) A Demand shall specify: (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for aggregate number of Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000requested to be registered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, extent then known and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one identity of the Holder (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodor Holders). (bc) The offering Each Holder shall be entitled to an unlimited number of Demand Registrations until such time as the Holders, together, Beneficially Own less than the Minimum Registration Amount. (d) Demand Registrations shall be on such registration form of the Commission for which the Company is eligible as shall be selected by the requesting Holder whose shares represent a majority of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) that the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offeringhas been requested to register, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offeringincluding, subject to the approval of extent permissible, an automatically effective registration statement or an existing effective registration statement filed by the Company with the Commission, and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and . (iie) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate any Demand Registration (aA) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any within three months of a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf which all of the Holders. Holders were given the opportunity to exercise “piggyback” rights pursuant to Section 4.2 (csubject to Section 4.1(f) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, and provided that at least 50% of the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the such Holders thereof to be included in such Demand Registration were included) or (B) within three months of any other Underwritten Offering pursuant to Section 4.1(a) and Section 4.3(f). In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Holders) for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 45 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 90 days in the aggregate, in any twelve-month period) if the Board determines in good faith and in its reasonable judgment that does the filing or effectiveness of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration would cause the disclosure of (i) material, non-public information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, (ii) a significant business opportunity (including a potential acquisition or disposition of assets (other than in the ordinary course of business) or any merger, consolidation, share exchange, tender offer or other similar transaction) available to the Company which the Board reasonably determines to be significantly disadvantageous for the Company to disclose or (iii) any other event or condition of similar significance to the Company that the Board reasonably determines to be significantly disadvantageous for the Company to disclose and which the Company is not exceed otherwise required to disclose at such Underwriters’ Maximum Numbertime (each of the conditions in (i), (ii) and (iii), a “Disadvantageous Condition”), and the Company shall furnish to the Initial Shareholder a notice stating that the Company is deferring such registration pursuant to this Section 4.1(e) and an approximation of the anticipated duration of the delay. In the event of a postponement by the Company of the filing or effectiveness of a registration statement for a Demand Registration due to a Disadvantageous Condition, the Holder(s) shall have the right to withdraw such Demand in accordance with Section 4.4. (f) The Company shall not include any securities other than Registrable Securities in a Demand Registration, except with the written consent of the Holders 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 (or, if such Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, a nationally recognized investment bank engaged in connection with such Demand Registration) advises the Company, that, in its opinion, the inclusion of all of the securities, including securities of the Company that are not Registrable Securities, sought to be allocated pro rata among registered in connection with such Demand Registration would adversely affect the Holders thereof on marketability of the basis 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 therein in such Demand Registration by each the Holders, which, in the opinion of the underwriter, can be sold without adversely affecting the marketability of the offering pro rata among such Holder. No shares Holders requesting such Demand Registration on the basis of Common Stock the number of such securities held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by such Holders; and (ii) second, securities the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable SecuritiesCompany proposes to sell. (dg) A registration Any investment bank(s) that will not be deemed serve as an underwriter with respect to have been effected as a such Demand Registration unless the or, if such Demand Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of not an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperationany investment bank engaged in connection therewith, then such registration will shall be deemed not to have been effected for purposes selected by Holders holding a plurality of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the all Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Demand.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Shareholders Agreement (Hanson Building Products LTD)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereofArticle III, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days six (6) month anniversary of the Company’s initial Public Offering after the Closing Date Effective Date, (as defined in i) any Holder of at least 10% of the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have then outstanding or (ii) the right GSAM Investors or their Affiliates, so long as they Beneficially Own at least one-third of the Registrable Securities Beneficially Owned by the GSAM Investors on the Effective Date, may request in writing (specifying that such request is being made pursuant to require this Section 2.01(a) and the intended method or methods of disposition thereof) that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale registration statement (or corresponding successor document) under the Securities Act, of all or part of its or their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to ). Thereafter, the Company (i) specifying the number shall promptly notify all other Holders in writing of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandrequest, and each such Holder in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 2.02 may elect (by written notice sent to the Company shall within ten (x10) promptly notify all Holders Business Days from whom the request for registration has not been received and (ydate of the aforementioned notice) to have Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration thereof pursuant to this Section 2.01(a). Thereupon the Company shall, as expeditiously as is reasonably possible, use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the all shares of Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to registerregister by such Holders for sale, all to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that (i) the Holders Company shall not make be required to effect a request for registration of Registrable Securities on a Demand Registration under Form S-1 or other “long-form” registration pursuant to this Section 4.2(a2.01(a) for unless the Registrable Securities having requested by all Holders to be registered have an anticipated aggregate public offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in before any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from of not less than Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000); and further provided, however, the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated required to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in registrations on Form S-1 or other “long form” registration of any twelve Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2.01(a). There shall be no aggregate limit on short-form registrations on Form S-3 or any successor form so long as the anticipated aggregate public offering price (12before any underwriting discounts and commissions) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included registered on each such short-form registration is not less than Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000). Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.04, all expenses of such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will registration shall be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested borne by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable SecuritiesCompany. (db) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected count as a Demand Registration until the applicable registration statement has become effective (unless the requesting Holder withdraws all of its Registrable Securities and the Company has performed its obligations hereunder in all material respects, in which case such demand will count as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included requesting Holder pays all registration expenses in the registration by the Holders are included in connection with such withdrawn registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto); provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, an offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to a registration is either (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement action of the SEC Commission or any other governmental agency or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale (other than because of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all a violation of the Registrable Securities covered applicable law by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, a Holder) or (iiy) ifwithdrawn because of any development affecting the Company, in the either case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperationbefore being in effect for more than 90 days, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed and will not to have been effected count as a Demand Registration or unless at least ninety percent (ii90%) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included thereon have been sold or otherwise disposed of. (c) If the managing underwriter of a Demand Registration shall advise the Company in such registration. In circumstances not including writing that, in its opinion, the events described inclusion of all of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the immediately two preceding sentences Demand Registration would materially and adversely affect the distribution of this Section 4.2(d)a smaller amount of such Registrable Securities, each Holder then all selling Holders shall reduce the amount of Registrable Securities each intended to distribute through such offering on a pro-rata basis such that the Registrable Securities to be included in the Demand Registration shall be permitted voluntarily reduced to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)smaller amount.

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Samples: Restructuring Agreement (Ener1 Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) On or prior to each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. Each Registration Statement filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e)) and shall contain (unless otherwise directed by at least 85% in interest of the Holders or to make any disclosure contained therein not misleading) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such Holder’s express prior written consent. Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger terms of this Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities Company shall have the right use its reasonable best efforts to require the Company to file cause a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement (a “Demand Registration”i) have been sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by delivering a written request therefor the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (ithe “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall notify the Holders via e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement as promptly as practicable, and shall, if requested, provide the Holders with copies of the final Prospectus to be used in connection with the sale or other disposition of the securities covered thereby. (b) specifying Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its reasonable best efforts to file an amendment or amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e); and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to payment of liquidated damages with respect to filing on Form S-3 or other appropriate form; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Securities Act Rules Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission to maximize the number of Registrable Securities to be registered), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows: (i) First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, other than Registrable Securities; and (ii) specifying whether Second, the intended method Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Warrant Shares (applied, in the case that some Warrant Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of disposition thereof is pursuant unregistered Warrant Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a reduction hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days’ prior written notice along with the calculations as to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Xxxxxx’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, then the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly thereafter as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended. (d) If: (i) the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Lead Investors the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause as of the Filing Date (i)), (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five (5) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified in writing by the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review, (iii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date of the Initial Registration Statement or (iv) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities (other than during an Allowed Delay), for more than fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of twenty (20) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clauses (i) and (iii), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, and for purpose of clause (iv) the date on which such fifteen (15) or twenty (20) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to the product of 2.0% multiplied by the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. As soon as practicable The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to a Holder under this Agreement shall be 12.0% of the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven Trading Days after the receipt date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. The parties agree that notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in the Purchase Agreement, no liquidated damages shall be payable (i) if as of the relevant Event Date, the Registrable Securities may be sold by the Holders without volume or manner of sale restrictions under Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and reasonably acceptable to the Holder and the Company’s transfer agent, if any, (ii) to a Holder with respect to an Event caused by any action of such demandHolder or failure of such Holder to take any action that such Xxxxxx is required to take hereunder, or (iii) to a Holder in the event it is unable to lawfully sell any of its Registrable Securities because of possession of material non-public information. (e) If Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (xi) promptly notify all Holders from whom register the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) resale of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the on another appropriate form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall (together with maintain the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit effectiveness of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall be required to make any representations and warranties to, or agreements with, any underwriter Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a registration other than customary representations, warranties and agreements and (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or Statement on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required has been declared effective by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the HoldersCommission. (cf) IfNotwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise no event shall the Company that in its be permitted to name any Holder or their reasonable opinion the number affiliate of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by a Holder as any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration underwriter without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securitiessuch Holder. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of Upon written notice from a majority Holder of Registrable Securities shall have in the right to require manner set forth in Section 11(g) hereof requesting that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale effect the registration under the Securities Act of any or all or part of their respective the Registrable Securities held by such Holder, which notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition of such Registrable Securities, the Company will use its best efforts to effect (at the earliest practicable date) the registration under the Securities Act of such Registrable Securities for disposition in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such request (including, but not limited to, an offering on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 (or any successor rule to similar effect) promulgated under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”"Rule 415 Offering") by delivering a written request therefor to if the Company is then eligible to register such Registrable Securities on Form S-3 (or a successor form)), except that: (i) specifying if, after the number Primary AMR Ownership Reduction, upon receipt of Registrable Securities a registration request pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Company is advised in writing setting forth specific reasons (with a copy to the person requesting registration pursuant to this Section 2(a)), by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm selected by the Company that, in such firm's opinion, a registration at the time and on the terms requested would materially and adversely affect any underwritten public equity financing by the Company that had been contemplated by the Company prior to receipt of notice requesting registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) and that had been planned to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt completed within 90 days of such demandnotice (a "Transaction Blackout"), the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earliest to occur of (A) the abandonment of such registration financing, (includingB) 90 days after the completion of such financing, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky (C) the termination of any "hold back" or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under "lock up" period obtained by the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsunderwriter(s) of the Registrable Securities that selected by the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that from any person in connection with such financing or (iD) 165 days after receipt by the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price Holder requesting registration of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering written notice of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall Transaction Blackout (together with the Holders proposing copy of the investment banking firm opinion referred to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement above in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that subsection (i)) (the representations written notice of such Transaction Blackout and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit a copy of the underwriter(s) shall also investment banking firm opinion must be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 given to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities requesting registration pursuant to be included in this Section 2(a) within 15 days of receipt of such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or request); (ii) if, in after the case of an Underwritten OfferingPrimary AMR Ownership Reduction, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) while a registration requested request is pending pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected 2(a), the general counsel of the Company determines in good faith that (A) the filing of a registration statement would require the disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as a Demand Registration confidential or (iiB) the registration requested pursuant Company then is unable to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registrationcomply with SEC requirements, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).be

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Sabre Group Holdings Inc)

Demand Registration. Rights (a) Subject to the provisions hereoflimitations set out in Section 4.1(b) and the Intercap Lock- up Agreements, upon the written request (the “Demand Notice”) of an Intercap Shareholder (each an “Intercap Demanding Shareholder”), made at any time on and from time to time as long as the Intercap Shareholders, as a group, own, control or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined direct, directly or indirectly, in the Merger Agreementaggregate, at least 10% of the then-outstanding Shares, the Company will, subject to Applicable Securities Laws, Applicable U.S. Securities Laws and applicable stock exchange requirements, use reasonable commercial efforts to file one or more Registration Statements or prospectus supplements under any existing Registration Statement, if an offering shall be made contemporaneously in the United States, and take such other steps as may be reasonably necessary to facilitate an offering in Canada and the United States, if applicable, of all or any portion of the Shares held by the Intercap Demanding Shareholder and, in the Intercap Demanding Shareholder’s sole discretion but subject to Section 4.14, Shares held by any of the Released Shareholders that such Released Shareholders wish to Distribute and described in the Demand Notice (the “Qualifying Shares”), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right plus any other Shares to require the Company be included in such Distribution pursuant to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act Section 4.1(g) (a “Demand Registration”). The Company and the Intercap Demanding Shareholder shall cooperate in a timely manner in connection with such disposition and the procedures in Schedule A of this Agreement shall apply. (b) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined belowNotwithstanding Section 4.1(a), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts be obliged to effect such registration a Demand Registration: (includingi) if, without limitationwithin any twelve-month period, 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) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested already effected two (2) Demand Registrations pursuant to register; providedSection 4.1(a). For the purposes of this Subsection, however, that (i) the Holders a Demand Registration shall not make be considered as having been effected until (a) a receipt has been issued by, or deemed to be issued by, the applicable Canadian Securities Regulatory Authorities for a final prospectus pursuant to which the Qualifying Shares are to be Distributed, or (b) a prospectus supplement in connection with a base shelf prospectus is filed pursuant to which the Qualified Shares are to be Distributed. However, if an Intercap Demanding Shareholder withdraws or does not pursue a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(aafter (A) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, filing a preliminary prospectus pursuant to which the Qualifying Shares are to be Distributed or (iiB) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form entering into of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld enforceable bought deal letter or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting or agency agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise Demand Registration (provided that at such time the Company that is in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied compliance in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement Agreement), then such Demand Registration shall be deemed to be effected. (ii) within 90 days after the date of completion of a previous Demand Registration; (iii) during the period starting 14 calendar days prior to and ending upon the expiry of any black-out periods applicable to the Company, except as may be otherwise agreed by the Company and the underwriters managing such offering; (iv) that is a Demand Registration in respect of Shares that would reasonably be expected to result in gross proceeds of less than $10 million; (v) in a jurisdiction outside any of the provinces and territories of Canada or the United States (unless otherwise agreed among the Company, the underwriters managing such offering and the Intercap Demanding Shareholder); or (vi) in the event that the Board (with respect thereto; providedIntercap Directors abstaining) determines in its good faith judgement that there is a Valid Business Reason (as defined below) and that it is, howevertherefore, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such in the best interests of the Company to defer the filing of a Prospectus and/or a Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or prospectus supplement under any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the existing Registration Statement, or (ii) ifif applicable, at such time, in which case the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration Company’s obligations under this Section 4.1 will be deemed deferred for a period of not to have been effected for purposes more than 90 calendar days from the date of clause (ii) receipt of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Demand Notice; provided that such right of deferral may not be exercised more than once in any one (1) year period. If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) For the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences purposes of this Section 4.2(d4.1(b)(vi), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).“Valid

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Samples: Side Letter to the Investor Rights Agreement (Docebo Inc.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Initial Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Date, the Holders Purchaser and any assignee of the Purchaser pursuant to Section 10.6 of this Agreement (each a majority of Registrable Securities “Holder”) shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective the Conversion Shares held by or issuable to them (including Conversion Shares that may be issued in respect of PIK Interest) (collectively, the “Registrable Securities Securities”) under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)Offering, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all any Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a8.1(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be sold in the Underwritten Offering may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed Offering and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with a Demand Registration in the form of an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise give written advice to the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the an Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration and that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum NumberNumber prior to the inclusion of other securities that have been requested to be so included by any other person, and such Registrable Securities to shall be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperationfull cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a8.1(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 8.1 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 8.1 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement completion of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 8.1 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d8.1(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a8.1(a).

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Samples: Securities Purchase Agreement (Unilife Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject At any time subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date limitations of paragraphs (as defined in the Merger Agreement)c) and (d) of this Section 7.2, the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require Investor may by written notice request that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale register under the Securities Act all or part of their respective such Investor's Registrable Securities in accordance with such Investor's intended methods of distribution as specified in such notice. (b) Upon receipt of any notice of a request for registration pursuant to paragraph (a) above (a "Demand Registration"), the Company will proceed expeditiously to prepare and file a registration statement on the appropriate form to permit the sale or transfer of the Registrable Securities requested to be included by the Investor. (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration under this Section 7.2 if counsel to the Company renders an opinion to the effect that registration under the Securities Act is not required for the proposed transfer of Registrable Securities, (a “Demand Registration”ii) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company shall not be required to effect more than two registrations pursuant to this Section 7.2, (iiii) specifying the number Company shall not be required to file any registration statement pursuant to this Section 7.2 prior to nine (9) months after the Company's Initial Public Offering and (iv) the Company shall not be required to file a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration under this Section 7.2 if the amount of Registrable Securities to be included in sold pursuant to such registration by is less than $7,500,000 in market value at the time the request for such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether registration is made to the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable lawCompany. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandIn addition, the Company shall may defer the filing of a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration if (xl) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for Company has filed, or is about to file, a registration statement relating to the offering of or (2) has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts undertaken or is about to effect such undertake without a registration statement the offering of (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky a so-called private investment in public equity securities or other state securities laws "PIPES" offering and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued an offering pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act ("Rule 144")) any of the Company's securities (a "Company Offering"), and the managing underwriter (or placement agent, initial purchaser or other entity serving in a similar capacity) of the Company Offering in its sole discretion is of the opinion that the filing of a registration statement with respect to such Demand Registration could be expected to adversely affect the Company Offering, including, without limitation, the price at which the securities to be offered in the Company Offering may be sold; provided, that the -------- Company shall use reasonable efforts to file its proposed registration statement, if applicable, and to commence and complete the Company Offering in a diligent manner and, in any other governmental requirements event, the Company shall not defer the filing of a registration statement relating to the Demand Registration for more than 120 days from the completion of the Company Offering. Furthermore, the Company may defer the filing of a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration for up to 120 days after the request for registration is made if the Board determines in good faith that such registration would adversely affect or regulationsotherwise interfere with a proposed or pending transaction by the Company, including, without limitation, a material financing or a corporate reorganization, or during any period of time in which the Company is in possession of material inside information concerning the Company or its securities, which information the Company determines in good faith is not ripe for disclosure. The Company shall not be required to undergo or pay for any special audit to effect any registration statement under this Section 7.2, and if such a special audit would be required in order to file or effect a registration statement hereunder, the Company shall be entitled to delay the filing or effectiveness of such registration statement until a reasonable period of time following the completion of the next audit scheduled in the ordinary course of the Company's activities; provided, that the Company shall not be -------- entitled to further defer the filing or effectiveness of such registration statement if the Investor agrees in writing to pay for the cost of any such special audit. (d) A registration will not count as a registration under paragraph (a) of this Section 7.2, until it has become effective; provided, that if the -------- Investor shall cause or request the Company to withdraw any such registration statement, the Investor may thereafter request the Company to reinstate such registration statement, if permitted under the Securities Act, or to file another Demand Registration, in accordance with the procedures set forth herein, only upon agreeing in writing to reimburse the Company for all expenses whatsoever over and above those expenses which the Company would have incurred had such Demand Registration not been initiated. The Company shall use its best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of any registration statement relating to a Demand Registration until the earlier to occur of (x) 120 days after the effective date of such registration statement and (y) the date on which all of the Registrable Securities that the Company has registered thereunder have been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodsold. (be) The If the Investor so notifies the Company, the offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such any Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such caseoffering, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided it being understood that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall have no obligation under this Agreement to cause such offering to be underwritten. (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwritingf) enter into an underwriting agreement If a Demand Registration is in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreementan underwritten offering, the Company shall select and use reasonable efforts to retain the investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers that will administer the offering; provided, that (i) the representations such investment bankers and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also managers -------- must be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 reasonably satisfactory to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the HoldersInvestor. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

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Samples: Series B Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (Catalytica Combustion Systems Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject In addition to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Section 10.01, the Majority Holders of as a majority of Registrable Securities group, shall have the right (though such right need not be jointly exercised by the Holders of the Certificates), on not more than one occasion in the aggregate (except as provided in clause (d) below) (it being understood and agreed that two or more Holders of Certificates may make a joint Demand hereunder or any Holder of Certificates may join in a Demand made by any other Holder of Certificates, and any such joint Demand or joining in of a Demand shall be deemed to be a single Demand for all purposes hereof), and no more than once during any six-month period, to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering register for offer and sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”"Demand") all or a portion of the Certificate Shares held, or represented by delivering a written request therefor Certificates held by such Holders, subject to the Company (i) specifying restrictions set forth herein; provided that no Holders of Certificates shall be entitled to make a Demand hereunder unless the number aggregate offering price of Registrable Securities the securities to be included offered in such registration by Demand (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) exceeds the amounts set forth below depending on the time such Holder or HoldersDemand is exercised, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. follows: As soon promptly as practicable after the receipt Company receives from a Holder of such demandCertificates (together with any other Holder who elects to participate in the registration requested under the Demand, the "Demanding Holder") a notice pursuant to this Section 10.02(a) (a "Demand Notice"), a copy of which shall have also been delivered to each of the other Holders of Certificates at the same time as to the Company, demanding that the Company register for offer and sale under the Securities Act Certificate Shares, subject to Section 10.02(b), the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (yi) use all reasonable best efforts to effect file as promptly as reasonably practicable with the Commission a Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of the Applicable Securities on such registration form as the Company may reasonably deem appropriate (includingprovided that the Company shall not, without limitationunless the Company otherwise determines, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky be obligated to register any securities on a "shelf" Registration Statement or other state otherwise to register securities laws for offer or sale on a continuous or delayed basis and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued the Company actually maintains such "shelf" Registration Statement effective) and, thereafter, (ii) after the filing of an initial version of the Registration Statement, use reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) as promptly as practicable after the date of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerfiling of such Registration Statement; provided, however, that no Demanding Holder shall be entitled to be named as a selling securityholder in the Registration Statement or to use the Prospectus forming a part thereof for resales of Certificate Shares unless such Demanding Holder has made an Election. Subject to Section 10.02(b), the Company shall use reasonable efforts to keep each Registration Statement continuously effective in order to permit the Prospectus forming a part thereof to be usable by such Demanding Holder or Holders for resales of Certificate Shares for an Effectiveness Period ending on the earlier of (i) 30 days from the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Effective Time of such Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, Statement and (ii) such time as all of such Certificate Shares have been disposed of by the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodselling Holders. (b) The offering 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 Registrable Securities pursuant Registration Statement or included Prospectus, if the Company determines based upon the advice of counsel that it would be advisable to such Demand Registration may be not disclose in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such caseRegistration Statement a planned or proposed financing, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offeringacquisition or other corporate transaction or other material information, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with have determined in good faith that such disclosure is not in the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings best interests 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) its stockholders; provided that no one such postponement shall also be made to exceed 90 days in any six-month period and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of all such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) postponements shall not exceed 180 days in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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 agreementaggregate. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf advise each of the HoldersDemanding Holders in writing of any such determination as promptly as practicable after such determination. (c) If, in In connection with an Underwritten Offeringunderwritten offering, if the managing underwriter(s) underwriter or underwriters advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed Applicable Securities subject to a Demand exceeds the number which can be included sold in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Numberoffering, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that Registration the number of Registrable Applicable Securities requested by that, in the Holders thereof to opinion of such managing underwriter or underwriters, can be included sold in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Numberoffering (provided that, such Registrable in the event of a joint Demand, the Applicable Securities to included shall be allocated pro rata among the Demanding Holders thereof on the basis of the relative number of Registrable Applicable Securities each such Demanding Holder has requested to be included therein by each in such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable SecuritiesRegistration). (d) The Company may include in any Registration requested pursuant to Section 10.02(a) hereof other securities for sale for its own account or for the account of another Person, subject to the provisions of 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 Applicable Securities requested by the Demanding Holders, together with other securities for sale for the account of the Company or any other Person, to be registered exceeds the number which can be sold in such offering, the Company shall include in such Registration the number of Applicable Securities and other securities that, in the opinion of such managing underwriter or underwriters, can be sold in such offering as follows: (i) first, shares requested to be included in such underwritten offering by any securityholder of the Company other than the Holder (each an "Other Registering Stockholder") possessing contractual rights to have its shares included in such offering prior to the Applicable Securities, on the date hereof, (ii) second, the Applicable Securities requested to be registered by the Demanding Holder and (iii) third, any other securities requested to be included in such Registration. In the event that 20% or more of the Certificate Shares requested by the Holders to be included in such Demand initiated by the Holders are excluded therefrom and securities held by other security holders (other than the Holders) are included in such Demand, the Holders shall be entitled to exercise an additional Demand in accordance with this Section 10.02. (e) A registration will not Demanding Holder shall have the right to withdraw any Demand (i) prior to the time the Registration Statement in respect of such Demand has been declared effective, (ii) upon the issuance by the Commission or any other governmental agency of a stop order, injunction or other order which interferes with such Registration, (iii) upon the Company's availing itself of Section 10.02(b), or (iv) if such Demanding Holder is prevented pursuant to Section 10.02(c) or (d) from selling all of the Applicable Securities it requested to be registered. Notwithstanding such request to withdraw the Demand, the Registration requested by such Demanding Holder shall nonetheless be deemed to have been effected as a (and, therefore, requested) for purposes of Section 10.02(a) hereof if such Demanding Holder withdraws any Demand Registration unless (A) pursuant to clause (i) of the Registration Statement relating preceding sentence after the Commission filing fee is paid with respect thereto has been declared effective by or (B) pursuant to clause (iv) of the SEC, preceding sentence in circumstances where at least 7550% of the Registrable Applicable Securities requested to be included in such Registration by such Demanding Holder could have been included, and in each case, (x) the Company has not availed itself of Section 10.02(b) with respect to such Registration request or (y) the Company has availed itself of Section 10.02(b) and the withdrawal request is not made within 10 days after the termination of the suspension period occasioned by the Company's exercise of its rights under Section 10.02(b). If a Demanding Holder withdraws a Demand but the Company nevertheless determines to complete, within 30 days after such withdrawal, the Registration so requested as to securities other than the Applicable Securities, such Demanding Holder shall be entitled to participate in such Registration pursuant to Section 10.03, but in such case the Intended Offering Notice shall be required to be given to such Demanding Holder at least five (5) consecutive Business Days immediately prior to the anticipated filing date of the Registration Statement, or if such Registration Statement has already been filed, within 10 consecutive Business Days immediately following after receipt of the request to withdraw Demand from such Demanding Holder and such Demanding Holder shall be required to give the Piggy-back Notice no later than three (3) consecutive Business Days immediately after the Company's delivery of such Intended Offering Notice. (f) In the event that any Registration pursuant to this Section 10.02 shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, one co-lead managing underwriter shall be selected by the Company and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Demanding Holder, and the other co-lead underwriter shall be selected by such Demanding Holder and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company, provided that, in the event of a joint Demand, the other co-lead underwriter shall be selected by a majority in interest (by reference to the number of Applicable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (iiRegistration) of the proviso Demanding Holders, and shall be reasonably acceptable to Section 4.2(a)the Company. If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until fortyAny additional co-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution managing underwriters shall be selected by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registrationCompany. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).37

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Samples: Contingent Appreciation Certificate Agreement (Crown Media Holdings Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 days after first anniversary of the Closing Date consummation of the Merger, the Holder(s) of Shares representing a "Majority" (as defined in the Merger Agreementhereinafter defined), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities such securities shall have the right (which right is in addition to require the Piggyback Registration rights provided for under Section 1 hereof), exercisable by written notice to the Company, which may be given ten (10) months from the date hereof (a "Demand Registration Request"), to have the Company prepare and file with the Commission, at the sole expense of the Company (except as hereinafter provided), in respect of up to file the aggregate number of Shares held by the Holders having an aggregate value based upon the average bid and ask price for the five (5) trading days proceeding the effective date of the registration statement equal to $2,500,000 (the "Demand Shares"), a Registration Statement registering for so as to permit a public offering and sale all of the Demand Shares; provided however, that the Company is then eligible to register the Demand Shares on Form S-3 (or part successor form) and, if the Holder intends to distribute the Demand Shares by means of their respective Registrable Securities under an underwriting, then the Securities Act (a “Holder shall so notify the Company in the Demand Registration”) Registration Request. The underwriter shall be selected by delivering a written request therefor the Holder and be reasonably acceptable to the Company. The Company (i) specifying and other stockholders may, at the number Company's sole discretion, have other shares of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be Company's common stock included in such Registration Statement Statement, provided that in accordance with applicable lawthe event that an underwriter requires a limitation in the total number of shares in the offering for marketing purposes, then only the shares of the Company proposed to be offered by the Company and such other stockholders shall be cutback, and the Holder's Demand Shares shall not be subject to such cut-back. As soon as practicable after the receipt For purposes of such demandthis Agreement, the Company term "Majority" in reference to the Holders shall mean in excess of sixty-five percent (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations65%) of the Registrable Securities then outstanding Shares held by Holders that have not been resold to the Company has been so requested public pursuant to register; provided, however, that (i) a registration statement filed with the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration Commission under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodAct. (b) The offering Company will use reasonable efforts to file the Registration Statement as expeditiously as reasonably possible, but in no event later than 60 days following receipt of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be Request; provided that nothing herein shall require the Company to undergo an audit, other than in the form ordinary course of an underwritten public offering business; and provided further that no Registration Statement shall become effective before the one (an “Underwritten Offering”)1) year anniversary of the consummation of the Merger. In connection with any underwritten Demand Registration Request and subject to Section 3(c) hereof, the Company will enter into any underwriting agreement reasonably necessary to effect such caseoffering, provided such underwriting agreement (i) is with an underwriter selected by the Holder and reasonably acceptable to the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an contains customary underwriting agreement in customary form provisions for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holdersselling stockholders. (c) IfNotwithstanding any provision of this Section 2 to the contrary, in connection with an Underwritten Offeringif, at the time a Demand Registration Request is given to the Company under Section 2 hereof, the managing underwriter(s) advise Company is negotiating a merger, consolidation, acquisition or sale of all or substantially all of its assets or a similar transaction and if in the Company that in its opinion of counsel to the Company, the Registration Statement would be required to include information concerning such transactions or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds parties thereto which is not reasonably available at the Underwriters’ Maximum Numbertime, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders promptly inform the holders of Registrable Securities the Demand Shares by written notice of such circumstances (a "Postponement Notice") and, at the Company's election to be included set forth in such Underwritten Offering the Postponement Notice, the filing of the Registration Statement may be postponed for one (and (iinot more than one) period not to exceed 180 days from the date on which the Demand Registration Request is given to the Company will be obligated and required under this Section 2 (notwithstanding any provisions herein to include the contrary); provided that in the event of such Underwritten Offering only that number postponement, the Holder may withdraw the Demand Registration Request during the 90 day period following the date on which the Notice of Registrable Securities requested Postponement was given by the Holders thereof Company, and thereafter the Holder will continue to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities entitled to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested Request pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected 2 until such time as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or no longer possesses any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Shares.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Rt Industries Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the earlier of (i) three (3) years from the date that is hereof and (ii) 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in initial public offering of the Merger Agreement)Company’s Common Stock pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act, the Holders holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities shall have the right to require may notify the Company that they intend to file a Registration Statement registering offer or cause to be offered for public sale all or part any portion of their respective Registrable Securities under in the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to manner specified in such request. Upon receipt of such request, the Company (i) specifying the number shall promptly deliver notice of such request to all Investors holding Registrable Securities who shall then have thirty (30) days to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. If the request for registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to contemplates an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandunderwritten public offering, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom state such in the request for registration has not been received written notice and (y) use reasonable best efforts in such event the right of any Person to effect participate in such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations conditioned upon such Person’s participation in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter including entering into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities with the managing underwriter(sunderwriter selected in accordance with Section 2(c) proposing below and the inclusion of such Person’s Registrable Securities in the underwritten public offering to distribute their securities through the extent provided herein. The Company will use its best efforts to expeditiously effect the registration of all Registrable Securities whose holders request participation in such Underwritten Offeringregistration under the Securities Act, which underwriting agreement shall have indemnification provisions but only to the extent provided for in substantially the form as set forth in Section 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to effect registration pursuant to a request under this Section 2 (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and more than two times within any twelve (12) month period for the benefit holders of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten OfferingRegistrable Securities as a group, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) unless the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition aggregate anticipated sales price of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant proposed to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate be sold in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees to sell its Registrable Securities on offering is at least $5,000,000, (iii) if 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. The Company shall furnish to such holders requesting a registration statement pursuant to this Section 2(a), a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board stating that, in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company and upon the advice of securities law counsel reasonably acceptable to the Investors, it would be seriously detrimental to the Company and it shareholders for such registration statement to be effected at such time, in which event the Company shall have the right to defer such filing for a period of not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two ninety (290) Underwritten Offerings days after receipt of the request of the initiating shareholders; provided, however, that such right to delay a request shall be exercised by the Company not more than once in any twelve (12) month period, and (biv) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by if the underwriter(sinitiating shareholders propose to dispose of shares of Registrable Securities that may be immediately registered on Form S-3 pursuant to a request made pursuant to Section 3 below. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no request may be made under this Section 2 within ninety (90) in any prior underwritten offering conducted days after the effective date of a registration statement filed by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf 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 registration will not count as a requested registration under this section 2(a) unless and until the registration statement relating to such registration has been declared effective by the Commission at the request of the Holdersinitiating shareholders; provided, however, that a majority in interest of the participating holders of Registrable Securities may request, in writing, that the Company withdraw a registration statement which has been filed under this Section 2(a) but has not yet been declared effective, and a majority in interest of such holders may thereafter request the Company to reinstate such registration statement, if permitted under the Securities Act, or to file another registration statement, in accordance with the procedures set forth herein and without reduction in the number of demand registrations permitted under this Section 2(a). (cb) If, in connection with If a requested registration involves an Underwritten Offering, underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company underwriter of such offering determines in good faith that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed sought to be offered should be limited due to market conditions, then the number of securities to be included in such registration exceeds underwritten public offering shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter; provided, that the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then shares to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) persons not having any contractual or other right to include such securities in the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and registration statement, (ii) 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 the registration statement, (iii) securities to be registered by the Company will be obligated and required pursuant to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of registration statement, (iv) Registrable Securities of holders who did not make the original request for registration and, if necessary, (v) Registrable Securities of holders who requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities pursuant to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis Section 2(a). If there is a reduction of the number of Registrable Securities requested pursuant to clauses (iv) or (v), such reduction shall be included therein by each such Holder. No shares made on a pro rata basis (based upon the aggregate number of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by such holders). (c) With respect to a request for registration pursuant to Section 2(a) which is for an underwritten public offering, the Holders managing underwriter shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of chosen by the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included sold in such registrationoffering (which approval will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), and provided that such underwriter shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company. The Company has complied in all material respects with may not cause any other registration of securities for sale for its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has own account (other than a registration effected solely to implement an employee benefit plan or a transaction to which Rule 145 of the Securities Act is applicable) to become effective, effective within one hundred twenty (i120) such Registration Statement or days following the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject effective date of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested required pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)2.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Lumber Liquidators, Inc.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders After receipt of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require written request from one or more Holders requesting that the Company to file effect a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the New Registrable Securities which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under Section 4 hereof, may elect (by delivering a written request therefor notice sent to the Company within ten (i10) specifying Business Days from the number 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 to be included in such registration by thereof pursuant to this Section 3, and such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether shall specify in such notice the intended method number of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about New Registrable Securities that such Holder required elects to be included include in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable lawregistration. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandThereupon, the Company shall shall, as expeditiously as is possible, but in any event no later than thirty (x30) promptly notify all Holders from whom the days (excluding any days which occur during a permitted Blackout Period under Section 6 below) after receipt of a written request for registration has not been received a Demand Registration, file with the SEC and (y) use its reasonable best efforts to effect such cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsa “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all shares of the New Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerregister by such Holders (“Participating Demand Holders”) for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the New Registrable Securities so registered; provided, however, that the aggregate value of the New Registrable Securities requested to be registered (i) be at least $10,000,000, based on the Holders shall not make a request for a closing trading price of the Common Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, Statement is made or (ii) be at least 20% of the Holders will not be entitled to require New Registrable Securities initially issuable upon exercise of the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodWarrants. (b) The offering If the majority-in-interest of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Participating Demand Holders in a Demand Registration may relating to a public offering requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter selected in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 manner set forth in Section 4.9 14 below and such managing underwriter of this Agreement; providedsuch Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the “Maximum Number of Securities”), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that (i) the representations and warranties by, Participating Demand Holders and the other agreements 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 part ofnumber of Registrable Securities held by each Participating Demand Holder and participating Old Piggy-Back Holder). If the amount of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities, the Company to and for the benefit may include in such Demand Registration any other securities of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to Company and for the benefit other securities held by other security holders of the Holders proposing Company as the Company may in its discretion determine or be obligated to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 reportallow, in reliance upon and in conformity an amount, which together with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees to sell its Registrable Securities on the basis provided included in such underwriting agreement and completes and executes all questionnairesDemand Registration, powers of attorney, indemnities and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting agreement. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by exceed the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf Maximum Number of the HoldersSecurities. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included entitled to an aggregate of two (2) 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 that a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will requested pursuant to this Section 3 shall not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration for purposes of this Section 3(c) unless the Registration Statement relating thereto (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 7(a), (iii) Holders of the New Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registrationregistration have not, prior to the filing of the relevant Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn sufficient shares from such registration such that the remaining Holders requesting registration would not have been able to request registration under the provisions of Section 3, and (iv) the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution offering of New Registrable Securities thereunder pursuant to such registration is or becomes the not subject of to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or (other than any other governmental or administrative agencysuch stop order, injunction, or if any court prevents other order or otherwise limits the sale 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 pursuant held by participating Old Piggy-Back Holders, the Participating Demand Holders are not able to the registration, register and in each case less than all sell at least two-thirds of the New Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant requested to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, be included in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperationa Demand Registration, then such registration will Demand Registration shall not be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) counted as one of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested two Demands for Registration provided for pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed 3(c). (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to have been effected as a prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration or Statements in any twelve-month period, (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within 180 days following the date of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement or (iii) any Demand Registration Statement within 90 days following the date of effectiveness of any other registration requested statement filed pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement Old Registration Agreement or with respect to the sale of the distribution Common Stock by the Holders Company (or such longer period of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue time as may be specified in an underwriting agreement relating to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(astatement).

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Pac-West Telecomm Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 days after second anniversary of the IPO Closing Date (as defined in Date, if the Merger Agreement)Holder shall make a written request to the Company, the Holders Company shall cause to be filed with the Commission a registration statement meeting the requirements of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a "Demand Registration”) by delivering a "), and the Holder shall be entitled to have included therein all or such number of Holder's Registrable Securities, as the Holder shall request in writing; provided, -------- however, that the fair market value of the Holder's Registrable Securities to be ------- included in such registration shall not be less than $50.0 million as of the date of such written request therefor (unless such Registrable Securities represent all of the Holder's Registrable Securities); and provided further, however, that no ---------------- ------- request may be made pursuant to this Section 2.1 if within six (6) months prior to the date of such request a Demand Registration statement pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall have been declared effective by the Commission. Any request made pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall be addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Company (i) specifying or if there is no such officer, the President), and shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersregistered, (ii) specifying whether the intended method methods of disposition thereof and that the request is for a Demand Registration pursuant to an Underwritten Offering this Section 2.1(a). (as defined below), and b) The Company shall be entitled to postpone for up to sixty (iii60) containing all information about such Holder days the filing of any Demand Registration statement otherwise required to be included in such prepared and filed pursuant to this Section 2.1 (or delay seeking effectiveness of a Registration Statement which has been filed), if the Board determines, in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after its good faith reasonable judgment, that such registration would materially interfere with, or require premature and seriously detrimental disclosure of, any material financing, acquisition or reorganization or other material matter involving the receipt Company or any of its subsidiaries and the Company promptly gives the Holder notice of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerdetermination; provided, however, that (ithe Company -------- ------- shall not have postponed pursuant to this Section 2.1(b) the Holders shall not make filing of any other Demand 2.2 Following receipt of a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000Registration, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company shall: (a) File the registration statement with the Commission as promptly as practicable, and, subject to Section 2.1(b), shall use the Company's reasonable efforts to have the registration statement declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as reasonably practicable, in each instance giving due regard to the need to prepare current financial statements, conduct due diligence and complete other actions that are reasonably necessary to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period.a registered public offering; and (b) The offering Use the Company's reasonable efforts to keep the relevant registration statement Continuously Effective for up to ninety (90) days or until such earlier date as of which all the Registrable Securities under the Demand Registration statement shall have been disposed of in the manner described in the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if for any reason the effectiveness of a registration pursuant to this Section 2 is suspended or filing of the Registration Statement or seeking effectiveness thereof is postponed as permitted by Section 2.1(b), the foregoing period shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of such Demand Registration may suspension or postponement. 2.3 A registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall be in the on such appropriate registration form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval Commission as shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 selected by the Company and in conformity with written information furnished be reasonably acceptable to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed in accordance with the intended method or methods of by such Holder disposition specified in the request pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in Section 2.1(a). 2.4 If any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees registration pursuant 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior this Section 2 involves an underwritten offering conducted by (whether on a "firm commitment," "best efforts" or "all reasonable efforts" basis or otherwise), or an agented offering, the Company on its own behalf Holder shall have the right to select the underwriter or on behalf of underwriters and manager or managers to administer such underwritten offering or the Holdersplacement agent or agents for such agented offering; provided, however, that each Person so -------- ------- selected shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of 2.5 No securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by (including without limitation shares to be sold for the Holders Company's account) shall be included in a Demand Registration any registration pursuant to this Section 2 without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable SecuritiesHolder. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Timberland Growth Corp)

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Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Date, the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable lawLaw. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws Laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a3.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 3.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any Table of Contents event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Numbermaximum number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Numbermaximum number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a3.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 3.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 3.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 3.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d3.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a3.2(a).

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Samples: Merger Agreement (Parkway Properties Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereofSection 1(b) and Section 3 below, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after hereof if at the Closing Date time Investor (as defined or the successors and permitted assigns of Investor, who for purposes of this Exhibit B shall be deemed to be included within the term "Investor") shall hold of record collectively at least 500,000 shares of unregistered NRC Stock, Investor (or, if there are one or more permitted assignees of Investor, persons holding a majority, in the Merger Agreement)aggregate, of the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities Purchase Shares and NRC Shares acquired by Investor under the April 15 Agreements) shall have the right to require cause NRC to effect a registration under the Company to file a Registration Statement registering 1933 Act of such Purchase Shares and such NRC Shares for sale an underwritten public offering of all or part of their respective such Purchase Shares and such NRC Shares (the Purchase Shares and such NRC Shares being (collectively referred to as "Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”Securities") by delivering written notice of its demand to cause NRC to effect such a written request therefor registration to the Company (i) NRC, specifying the number of shares of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder and the intended method of distribution thereof (the "Demand Registration Request"). NRC shall, as expeditiously as possible under the circumstances, use its best efforts to effect the registration under the 1933 Act and to effect any notification, registration or Holders, (ii) specifying whether qualification under any applicable state securities law of the Registrable Securities which NRC has been so requested to register in the Demand Registration Request for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included stated in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, Request (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will except that NRC shall not be obligated to effect more than one (1list any of its securities on any additional stock exchange or register or comply with any laws, rules or regulations of any foreign government or agency) and all to the extent necessary to permit the sale or other disposition by Investor of Registrable Securities to be so registered in accordance with the method of distribution set forth in the Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodRequest. (b) The offering demand registration rights granted in Section 1(a) above shall only be exercised concurrently with, and not in addition to, the exercise by Investor of the Registrable Securities demand registration rights granted to Investor by NRC pursuant to such Demand Registration may be the April 15 Agreements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Exhibit B or in the form of an underwritten public offering April 15 Agreements (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(sincluding Section 1(b)(i) of Exhibit C to each of the Underwritten OfferingApril 15 Agreements), provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter Investor shall have the right to participate exercise its demand registration rights under this Section 1 (and under Section 1 of each of the April 15 Agreements) on two occasions in the Underwritten Offeringaggregate, subject to the approval of the Companyfollowing limitations: (i) Investor must wait at least six (6) months between exercising its demand registration rights, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form each Demand Registration Request by Investor must be for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit at least 25% of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit shares of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 Common Stock then owned by Investor which were originally purchased pursuant to the Company by April 15 Agreements or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not this Agreement in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holdersaggregate. (c) IfSubject to Section 3 below, NRC may elect to include in connection with an Underwritten Offeringany registration statement and offering made pursuant to this Section 1 authorized unissued NRC Shares or NRC Shares held by NRC as treasury shares; provided, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed such NRC Shares shall be permitted to be included in such registration exceeds only to the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) extent that it is pursuant to and subject to the Company shall so advise all Holders terms of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested underwriting agreement or arrangements entered into by the Holders thereof to be included in such Investor exercising the demand registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations rights granted under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)1.

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Samples: Stock Purchase and Sale Agreement (Mil Investments S A)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject One or more Requesting Shareholders shall be entitled to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders make a written request of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file (a Registration Statement registering “Demand”) for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration under the Securities Act of an amount of Registrable Securities that, in the aggregate taking into account all of the Requesting Shareholders, equals or is greater than the Registrable Amount (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor and thereupon the Company will, subject to the Company (i) specifying the number terms of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersthis Agreement, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect such the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued as promptly as practicable under the Securities Act of: (i) the offer and any other governmental requirements or regulations) sale of the Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) register by the Holders shall not make a request Requesting Shareholders for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price disposition in accordance with the intended method of less than $5,000,000, disposition stated in such Demand; (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require all other Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and register pursuant to Section 2.1(b); and (iii) all equity securities of the Company will not which the Company may elect to register in connection with any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2.1; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional Shares, if any, to be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodso registered. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Each Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, shall specify: (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein registered in such Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, if then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Shareholder (or Requesting Shareholders). Within five (5) business days after receipt of a Demand, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand to all other Shareholders, if any. Subject to Section 2.1(h), the Company shall include in the Demand Registration covered by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Demand all Registrable Securities held 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 mailed. Such written request shall comply with the Holders requirements of a Demand as set forth in this Section 2.1(b). (c) Demand Registrations shall be included in on (i) if option (ii) and (iii) below are not available, Form S-1 or any similar long-form registration (“Long-Form Registration”), (ii) if option (iii) below is not available, Form S-3 or any similar short form registration, if such short form registration is then available to the Company, or (iii) Form S-3ASR if the Company is, at the time a Demand is made, a Well-Known Seasoned Issuer (a Demand Registration without under each of clauses (ii) and (iii), a “Short-Form Registration”), in each case, in compliance with the prior written consent Securities Act and in the form of registration statements that the holders Company has customarily prepared and filed with the SEC for issuances of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securitiesits Shares. The Company shall not be required to effect more than two Long-Form Registrations per fiscal year. (d) Effective Demand Registration. A registration will Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected as effected: (i) unless a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating registration statement with respect thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% SEC and remains effective in compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act and the laws of any U.S. state or other jurisdiction applicable to the disposition of Registrable Securities requested covered by such registration statement until such time as all of such Registrable Securities shall have been disposed of in accordance with such registration statement or there shall cease to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that any Registrable Securities; (ii) if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other Governmental Entities or court for any reason other governmental or administrative agency, or if than a violation of applicable law solely by any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, Selling Shareholder and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or has not thereafter become effective; (iiiii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the conditions to closing specified in an underwriting agreement applicable to the Company fails are not satisfied or waived other than by reason of any breach or failure by any Selling Shareholder; or (iv) if the Company effects a postponement, declares a Suspension Period or similarly delays the exercise of rights under this Agreement pursuant to provide Full Cooperationthe terms in the paragraph below or the terms of this Agreement generally. Notwithstanding the foregoing, then such registration will the Company shall not be deemed not obligated to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) maintain the effectiveness of a registration requested Long-Form Registration, filed pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration Registration, for a period longer than 75 days or (ii) effect any Demand Registration (A) within six (6) months of the effective date of a registration requested statement with respect to a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering in which all Piggyback Sellers were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to this Section 4.2 does 2.2 (and at least 50% of the number of Registrable Securities requested by such Piggyback Sellers to be included in such Demand Registration were included), (B) within three (3) months of the effective date of a registration statement with respect to any other Demand Registration, (C) within 90 days from the date on which a Marketed Underwritten Offering was priced or (D) if, in the reasonable judgment of the Board, it is not remain continuously effective until fortyfeasible for the Company to proceed with the Demand Registration because of the unavailability of audited or other required financial statements or financial information, provided that the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain such financial statements or financial information as promptly as practicable. In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to all Shareholders) the filing or the effectiveness of a registration statement for any Demand Registration (but no more than twice in any period of twelve (12) consecutive months and in no event for more than an aggregate of one-hundred twenty (120) days in any three-hundred sixty-five (45365) days after consecutive day period) if the commencement Board determines in its reasonable judgment that the filing or effectiveness of the distribution by registration statement relating to such Demand Registration would cause the Holders disclosure of the Registrable Securities covered by such registrationmaterial, then non-public information that the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect has a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d)bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registrationprovided, provided however, that such registration nonetheless postponement shall count terminate at such time that such information is no longer material, non-public information or the Company no longer has a bona fide business purpose for preserving such information as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)confidential.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Athene Holding LTD)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of Upon written notice from a majority Holder of Registrable Securities shall have in the right to require manner set forth in Section 12(g) hereof requesting that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale effect the registration under the Securities Act of any or all or part of their respective the Registrable Securities held by such Holder, which notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition of such Registrable Securities, the Company will use its best efforts to effect (at the earliest practicable date) the registration under the Securities Act of such Registrable Securities for disposition in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such request (including, but not limited to, an offering on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 (or any successor rule to similar effect) promulgated under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”"Rule 415 Offering") by delivering a written request therefor to if the Company is then eligible to register such Registrable Securities on Form S-3 (or a successor form)), except that: (i) specifying if, after the number Primary EDS Ownership Reduction, upon receipt of Registrable Securities a registration request pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Company is advised in writing setting forth specific reasons (with a copy to the person requesting registration pursuant to this Section 2(a)), by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm selected by the Company that, in such firm's opinion, a registration at the time and on the terms requested would materially and adversely affect any underwritten public equity financing by the Company that had been contemplated by the Company prior to receipt of notice requesting registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) and that had been planned to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt completed within 90 days of such demandnotice (a "Transaction Blackout"), the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earliest to occur of (A) the abandonment of such financing, (B) 90 days after the completion of such financing, (C) the termination of any "hold back" or "lock up" period obtained by the underwriter(s) selected by the Company from any person in connection with such financing or (D) 165 days after receipt by the Holder requesting registration of written notice of such Transaction Blackout (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance together with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) copy of the investment banking firm opinion referred to above in this subsection (i)) (the written notice of such Transaction Blackout and a copy of the investment banking firm opinion must be given to the Holder of Registrable Securities requesting registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) within 10 days of receipt of such the registration request); (ii) if, after the Primary EDS Ownership Reduction, while a registration request is pending pursuant to this Section 2(a), counsel for the Company determines in good faith that (A) the filing of a registration statement would require the disclosure of material information that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential or (iB) the Holders Company then is unable to comply with SEC requirements, the Company shall not make be required to effect a request for a Demand Registration under registration pursuant to this Section 4.2(a2(a) until the earliest to occur of (1) the date upon which such material information is disclosed to the public or ceases to be material or the Company is able to so comply with SEC requirements, as the case may be, or (2) 45 days after counsel for the Company initially makes such good faith determination (such counsel shall make such determination promptly and shall give written notice of such determination to the Holder of Registrable Securities having requesting registration within 5 days of making such determination); (iii) EDS' transferees, collectively, shall have the right to exercise registration rights pursuant to this Section 2 an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000five (5) times (it being acknowledged that EDS' registration rights pursuant to this Section 2 are independent of any rights it transfers to transferees); and (iv) subsequent to the Secondary EDS Ownership Reduction, (ii) EDS shall have the Holders will not be entitled right to require the Company exercise its registration rights pursuant to effect more than this Section 2 an aggregate of three (3) Demand Registrations in times (it being acknowledged that prior to the aggregate under this AgreementSecondary EDS Ownership Reduction, and (iii) there shall be no limit to the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in number of occasions on which EDS or any six (6) month periodof its affiliates may exercise such rights). (b) The offering Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, a registration requested by a Holder of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval this Section 2 shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto (and, therefore, not exercised for purposes of subsection 2(a)), (i) if it has been declared effective by the SECnot become effective, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that (ii) if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agencycourt for any reason other than a misrepresentation or an omission by such Holder and, 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 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 some act or omission by such Holder of Registrable Securities. (c) In the event that any court prevents registration pursuant to this Section 2 (other than subsection (2)(a)(iii)) shall involve, in whole or otherwise limits in part, an underwritten offering, EDS shall have the right to designate an underwriter reasonably satisfactory to the Company as the lead underwriter of such underwritten offering. (d) The Company shall have the right to cause the registration of additional securities for sale for the account of any person (including the Company) in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by EDS pursuant to Section 2(a); except, that the Company shall not have the right to cause the registration of such additional securities if EDS is advised in writing setting forth specific reasons (with a copy to the Company) by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm selected by EDS that, in such firm's opinion, registration of such additional securities would materially and adversely affect the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to then contemplated by EDS. EDS may require that any such additional securities be included in the registration, offering proposed by EDS on the same terms and in each case less than all of conditions as the Registrable Securities covered by that are included therein. (e) After the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by Primary EDS Ownership Reduction, in the event that, at any time after any Rule 415 Offering is declared effective, the general counsel of the Company determines in good faith that the sale of Registrable Securities in such Rule 415 Offering would require disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential or that the Company is unable to comply with SEC requirements, Holders selling Holder or Holders pursuant Registrable Securities in such Rule 415 Offering shall, upon written notice of such good faith determination, suspend sales of such Registrable Securities for a period beginning on the date of receipt of such notice and expiring on the earlier of (i) the date upon which such material information is disclosed to the Registration Statementpublic or ceases to be material or the Company is able to comply with SEC requirements, or as the case may be, and (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) 45 days after the commencement general counsel of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by Company initially makes such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)good faith determination.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Unigraphics Solutions Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require If the Company to file shall receive a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities written request by THL that the Company effect the registration under the Securities Act (of all or a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to portion of the Company (i) THL Entities' Registrable Securities, and specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)thereof, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such requested registration (xa "THL Demand Registration") promptly notify all Holders from whom at least five days prior to the request for anticipated filing date of the registration has not been received statement relating to such THL Demand Registration to the Non-THL Shareholders and (y) thereupon will use reasonable its best efforts to effect such effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsof: (i) of the Registrable Securities that of the THL Entities which the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, and (ii) subject to the Holders will not be entitled restrictions set forth in Section 5.2, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as that to require which THL's request relates for which an effective Piggyback Registration (as such term is defined in Section 5.2) request has been made; provided, that subject to Section 5.1(d) hereof, the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will shall not be obligated to effect more than six THL Demand Registrations. In no event will the Company be required to effect more than one (1) THL Demand Registration in within any six (6) four-month period. (b) The offering Promptly after the expiration of the Registrable Securities pursuant 2-day period referred to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i5.2(a) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part ofhereof, the Company to and for will notify all the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed Shareholders to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then THL Demand Registration (ithe "Holders") of the Company shall so advise all other Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holdertherein. No shares of Common Stock held by THL may, at any Person other than Registrable Securities held by time prior to the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent effective date of the holders of a majority in interest registration statement relating to such registration, revoke such request, without liability to any of the Registrable Securitiesother Holders, by providing a written notice to the Company revoking such request, in which case such request, so revoked, shall not be considered a THL Demand Registration. (c) The Company will pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any THL Demand Registration. (d) A registration will requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration (i) unless the Registration Statement registration statement relating thereto (A) has been declared become effective by under the SEC, Securities Act and (B) has remained effective for a period of at least 75% 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretoregistration have actually been sold thereunder); provided, however, that if, if after it has become effective, any registration statement requested pursuant to this Section 5.1 becomes effective (ix) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration statement is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case (y) less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 75% of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances registration statement has been sold thereunder, such registration statement shall not including be considered a THL Demand Registration, or (ii) if the events described Maximum Offering Size (as defined below) is reduced in accordance with Section 5.1(e) such that less than 66 2/3% of the immediately two preceding sentences Registrable Securities of this Section 4.2(d)the THL Entities sought to be included in such registration are included. (e) If a THL Demand Registration involves an Underwritten Public Offering and the managing underwriter shall advise the Company and THL that, each Holder in its view, (i) the number of shares of Registrable Securities shall requested to be permitted voluntarily included in such registration (including any securities which the Company proposes to be included which are not Registrable Securities) or (ii) the inclusion of some or all of the shares of Registrable Securities owned by the Holders, in any such case, exceeds the largest number of shares which 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"), the Company will include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size: (A) first, all Registrable Securities requested by THL to be registered and all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by any other Holder pursuant to an effective Piggyback Registration request (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among the THL Entities and such Holders on the basis of the relative number of Registrable Securities held by such Share holder); and (B) second, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company. provided, however, that in such case, any Holder may elect to withdraw all or any part of its such Holder's Registrable Securities from the registration. (f) Upon written notice to THL, the Company may postpone effecting a Demand Registration at registration pursuant to this Section 5.1 on one occasion during any period of six consecutive months for a reasonable time prior to specified in the commencement notice but not exceeding 90 days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) an investment banking firm of marketing recognized national standing shall advise the Company and THL in writing that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes securities of clause the Company the preparation of which had then been commenced or (ii) the Company has a bona fide business reason for determining that it is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the Company believes, in its reasonable judgment, would not be in the best interests of the proviso Company. (g) After the Company has effected two Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 4.2(a5.1 of Common Stock, the Institutional Shareholders, upon request of such Institutional Shareholders owning a majority of the Shares acquired by such Institutional Shareholders on the Closing Date, may request that the Company register shares of Registrable Securities then owned by such Institutional Shareholders (an "Institutional Shareholder Demand Registration"). In no event will the Company be required to effect more than one such Institutional Shareholder Demand Registration. The provisions of this Article 5 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any such Institutional Shareholder Demand Registration. (h) After the Transfer of Shares of Common Stock representing more than 20% of the Shares collectively owned by the Equity Investors of the Initial Ownership on a Fully Diluted basis owned by such Equity Investors, the Primary Executives may request that the Company register Shares which are Registrable Securities then owned by them (a "Primary Executive Demand Registration"). In no event will the Company be required to effect more than three such Primary Executive Demand Registrations. The provisions of this Article 5 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any such Primary Executive Demand Registration; provided, that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (i) no Primary Executive Demand Registrations may be made during the six month period following the Effective Time or within six months after the effective date any other registration statement (other than registration statement on From S-4 or S-8 or similar form), and (ii) the Company must use its best efforts to effect such Primary Executive Demand Registration as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 120 days following the date of the demand.

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Samples: Investors' Agreement (Fisher Scientific International Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject In the event that following the period the Holder is prohibited from selling the Registrable Securities by the provisions of the underwriting agreement relating to the provisions hereofInitial Public Offering, at any time on Holder or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date Holders (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority i) desire to sell shares of Registrable Securities shall have owned by such Holder or Holders and (ii) an exemption from registration under the right Securities Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, including, without limitation, Rule 144 (or any successor rules or regulation thereto), is not available to require enable the Holder or Holders to dispose of the number of shares of Registrable Securities it desires to sell at the time and in the manner it desires to do so, then upon the written request of any Holder or Holders requesting that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or part of their respective such Holder's or Holders' Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) and specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant thereof, but subject to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)the limitations set forth herein, the Company will promptly give written notice of such requested registration to all other Holders of Registrable Securities, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance the Company shall file with applicable law. As soon the Commission as promptly as practicable after the receipt of sending such demandnotice, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable its best efforts to effect such cause to become effective, a registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued statement under the Securities Act registering the offering and any other governmental requirements or regulationssale of: (i) of the Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to registerregister by such Holder or Holders; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, and (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require all other Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) register by any other Holder thereof by written request given to the Company will not be obligated within 15 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 effect more than one the extent necessary to permit the disposition (1in accordance with the intended method thereof as aforesaid) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant so to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreementregistered; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect file a registration statement relating to any registration request under this Section 2(a) (A) unless the aggregate requests by the Holder or participate Holders for such registration cover not less than 5.0% of the outstanding Common Stock, (aB) with respect to more than two an aggregate of 3 registrations (2which shall be increased to an unlimited number of registrations if such additional registrations are effected on Form S-3 or any successor similar short-form registration statement) Underwritten Offerings in under this Section 2(a), (C) within a period of 180 days after the effective date of any twelve other registration statement relating to any registration request under this Section 2(a), or (12D) month periodif with respect thereto, the managing underwriter, the Commission, the Securities Act or the rules and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by regulations thereunder, or the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering form on which the registration statement is to be filed, would require the conduct of an audit other than the regular audit conducted by the Company on at the end of its own behalf or on behalf fiscal year, in which case the filing may be delayed until the completion of such regular audit (unless the Holders requesting such registration agree to pay the expenses of the Holders. (c) If, Company in connection with such an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person audit other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(aregular audit).

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Metavante Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereofExcept as provided in Section 2.2(b) below, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after earlier of (i) December 29, 1998 or (ii) the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require completion by the Company of an initial public offering under the Securities Act of any of its securities pursuant to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all registration statement filed on Form S-1 or part any successor form, upon the written request of their respective GECFS that the Company effect pursuant to this Agreement the registration of Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to which requested shall specify the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersregistered, (ii) specifying whether the Proposed amounts thereof and the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined belowby GECFS), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) will, as expeditiously as reasonably possible, use reasonable its best efforts to effect such the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Proposed Amount of Registrable Securities that Securities, for disposition in accordance with the Company has been so requested to registerintended method of disposition stated in such request; providedPROVIDED, howeverHOWEVER, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations if in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering good faith judgment of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form board of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval directors of the Company, which approval shall not such registration would be unreasonably withheld or delayed detrimental to the Company and the board of directors of the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company to defer the filing of such registration statement at such time, and (ii) the Company shall (together with furnish to GECFS a certificated signed by an executive officer of the Holders proposing Company that the board of directors of the Company has made such a determination and that it is, therefore, necessary to distribute their securities through defer the filing of such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities with registration statement, then the managing underwriter(s) proposing to distribute their securities through such Underwritten Offering, which underwriting agreement Company shall have indemnification provisions the right to defer such filing for the period during which such registration would be detrimental, provided that the Company may not defer the filing for a period of more than 180 days after receipt of the request of GECFS in substantially the form as set forth case of an underwritten public offering or for more than 120 days if such method of disposition is not an underwritten public offering. The Company shall be entitled to include in any registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 4.9 2.2: (A) securities of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties byCompany held by any other security holder of the Company, and the other agreements on the part of(B) in an underwritten public offering, securities of the Company to be sold by the Company for its own account, except as and for to the benefit extent that (X) in the written opinion of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offeringmanaging underwriter, (ii) no Holder which shall be required to make any representations and warranties to, or agreements with, any an underwriter in a registration other than customary representations, warranties and agreements and of nationally recognized standing (iii) the liability if such method of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) disposition 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 underwritten public offering), 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 inclusion would materially and in conformity with written information furnished to adversely affect the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition marketing of the Registrable Securities disposed to be sold by GECFS or (Y) in the written opinion of an investment banker of nationally recognized standing jointly selected by GECFS and the Company (if such Holder method of disposition is not an underwritten public offering), such inclusion would materially adversely affect the price at which the Registrable Securities may be sold pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees to sell its Registrable Securities on the basis provided in such underwriting agreement and completes and executes all questionnaires, powers plan of attorney, indemnities and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting agreement. distribution. (b) The Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any registration requested by GECFS pursuant to Section 2.2(a) hereof (i) after the Company has effected two such registrations pursuant to this Agreement and each such registration had been declared or participate ordered effective, (aii) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month periodduring the period starting with the date 30 days prior to the Company's estimate of the date of filing of, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by ending on a date 90 days after the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by effective date of, a Company initiated registration, provided that the Company is using all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective, or (iii) for a period of six months after the Company has effected one such registration pursuant to this Agreement and such registration has been declared or ordered effective, such six month period to commence on its own behalf the date the registration statement was declared or on behalf of the Holdersordered effective. (c) IfNotwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed a registration requested pursuant to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company this Section 2.2 shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration (i) unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, PROVIDED that a registration that does not become effective after the Company has filed a registration statement with respect thereto solely by reason of the refusal of GECFS to proceed shall be deemed to have been effected by the Company at the request of GECFS unless GECFS shall have elected to pay all Company Registration Expenses in connection with such registration, (iii) if after it has become effective such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agency, court for any reason other than a misrepresentation or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered an omission by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration StatementGECFS, or (iiiii) if, if the conditions to closing specified in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration will be deemed are not to have been effected for purposes satisfied other than by reason of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration some wrongful act or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution omission, or act or omission in bad faith, by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)GECFS.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Neff Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) On or prior to each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. Each Registration Statement filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e)) and shall contain (unless otherwise directed by at least 85% in interest of the Holders or to make any disclosure contained therein not misleading) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such Holder’s express prior written consent. Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger terms of this Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities Company shall have the right use its reasonable best efforts to require the Company to file cause a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement (a “Demand Registration”i) have been sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by delivering a written request therefor the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (ithe “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall notify the Holders via e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement as promptly as practicable, and shall, if requested, provide the Holders with copies of the final Prospectus to be used in connection with the sale or other disposition of the securities covered thereby. (b) specifying Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its reasonable best efforts to file an amendment or amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e); and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to payment of liquidated damages with respect to filing on Form S-3 or other appropriate form; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Securities Act Rules Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission to maximize the number of Registrable Securities to be registered), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows: (i) First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, other than Registrable Securities; (ii) specifying whether Second, the intended method Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Warrant Shares (applied, in the case that some Warrant Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined belowunregistered Warrant Shares held by such Holders), and ; and (iii) containing all information about Third, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Shares (applied to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Shares held by such Holders). In the event of a reduction hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder required at least five (5) Trading Days’ prior written notice along with the calculations as to be included in such Xxxxxx’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, then the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly thereafter as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended. (d) If: (i) the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Lead Investor the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause as of the Filing Date (i)), (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five (5) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified in writing by the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review, (iii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date of the Initial Registration Statement or (iv) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities (other than during an Allowed Delay), for more than fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of twenty (20) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clauses (i) and (iii), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, and for purpose of clause (iv) the date on which such fifteen (15) or twenty (20) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to the product of 2.0% multiplied by the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. As soon as practicable The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to a Holder under this Agreement shall be 12.0% of the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven Trading Days after the receipt date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. The parties agree that notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in the Purchase Agreement, no liquidated damages shall be payable (i) if as of the relevant Event Date, the Registrable Securities may be sold by the Holders without volume or manner of sale restrictions under Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and reasonably acceptable to the Holder and the Company’s transfer agent, if any, (ii) to a Holder with respect to an Event caused by any action of such demandHolder or failure of such Holder to take any action that such Xxxxxx is required to take hereunder, or (iii) to a Holder in the event it is unable to lawfully sell any of its Registrable Securities because of possession of material non-public information. (e) If Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (xi) promptly notify all Holders from whom register the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) resale of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the on another appropriate form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall (together with maintain the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit effectiveness of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall be required to make any representations and warranties to, or agreements with, any underwriter Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a registration other than customary representations, warranties and agreements and (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or Statement on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required has been declared effective by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the HoldersCommission. (cf) IfNotwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise no event shall the Company that in its be permitted to name any Holder or their reasonable opinion the number affiliate of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by a Holder as any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration underwriter without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securitiessuch Holder. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc.)

Demand Registration. (ai) Subject to Section 3.2, if the provisions hereof, Holders of at any time on or after least 30% of the date that is 180 days after Registrable Securities make a written request to the Closing Date Company (as defined in the Merger Agreement"Demanding Holders"), the Holders Company shall cause there to be filed with the Commission a registration statement meeting the requirements of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a "Demand Registration"), and each Demanding Holder shall be entitled to have included therein (subject to Section 5.6) by delivering a written all or such number of such Demanding Holder's Registrable Securities, as the Demanding Holder shall request therefor in writing; provided, however, that no request may be made pursuant to this Section 5.1 if within six (6) months prior to the date of such request a registration statement pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall have been declared effective by the Commission. Such Demand Registration shall be effected by the Company (i) specifying by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 of the Securities Act if so requested by the Demanding Holders. Any request made pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall be addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Company, and shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersregistered, the intended methods of disposition thereof and that the request is for a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 5.1(i). The Holders shall be entitled to no more than two (2) Demand Registrations. (ii) specifying whether The Company shall be entitled to postpone for up to ninety (90) days the intended method filing of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder any registration statement otherwise required to be included prepared and filed pursuant to this Section 5.1, if the Board determines, in its good faith reasonable judgment (with the concurrence of the managing underwriter, if any), that such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after registration and the receipt Transfer of Registrable Securities contemplated thereby would materially interfere with, or require premature disclosure of, any financing, acquisition or reorganization involving the Company or any of its wholly owned subsidiaries and the Company promptly gives the Demanding Holders notice of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerdetermination; provided, however, that (i) the Holders Company shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under have postponed pursuant to this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, 5.1 (ii) the Holders will not filing of any other registration statement otherwise required to be entitled prepared and filed pursuant to require this Section 5.1 during the Company twelve (12) month period ended on the date of the relevant request pursuant to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and Section 5.1(i). (iii) Whenever the Company will not be obligated shall have received a demand pursuant to Section 5.1(i) to effect more than one the registration of any Registrable Securities, the Company shall promptly give written notice of such proposed registration to all Holders. Any such Holder may, within twenty (120) Demand Registration days after receipt of such notice, request in writing that all of such Holder's Registrable Securities, or any six (6) month periodportion thereof designated by such Holder, be included in the registration. (biv) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant Subject to such Demand Registration may be Section 5.6, in the form of connection with an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such caseoffering, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offeringand, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to with the approval of the Company, which approval other holders of Common Stock (other than Holders) shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed given the opportunity to include shares of Common Stock in such offering ("Other Included Shares"). 5.2. Following receipt of a request for a Demand Registration, the Company shall: (i) File the registration statement with the Commission as promptly as practicable, and shall use all reasonable efforts to have the registration declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as reasonably practicable, in each instance giving due regard to the need to prepare current financial statements, conduct due diligence and complete other actions that are reasonably necessary to effect a registered public offering. (ii) Use all reasonable efforts to keep the registration statement Continuously Effective for up to two hundred seventy (270) days or until such earlier date as of which all the Registrable Securities under the registration statement shall have been disposed of in the manner described in the Registration Statement, or such earlier time as the Company shall (together with would not have any obligation to include the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement Registrable Securities that have not been disposed of in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities with the managing underwriter(s) proposing to distribute their securities through such Underwritten Offering, which underwriting agreement shall have indemnification provisions manner described in substantially the form as set forth in Section 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall be required to make any representations and warranties to, or agreements with, any underwriter Registration Statement in a registration other than customary representationspursuant to Section 5 or Section 4 or the Registerable Securities are no longer Registerable Securities under the definition of "Registrable Securities." Notwithstanding the foregoing, warranties and agreements and (iii) if for any reason the liability effectiveness of each Holder a registration pursuant to this Section 5 is suspended or, in respect the case of any indemnificationa Demand Registration, contribution or other obligation postponed as permitted by Section 5.1(ii), the foregoing period shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) shall be limited to losses arising out of suspension 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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 agreementpostponement. 5.3. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) no more than a total of two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf Demand Registrations. For purposes of the Holders. (c) Ifpreceding sentence, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as (i) unless a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement statement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it thereto has become effective, (iii) if after such Registration Statement registration statement has become effective, such registration or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission or any other governmental agency or administrative agency, or if court for any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant reason not attributable to the registration, Selling Holders and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statementsuch interference is not thereafter eliminated, or (iiiii) if, if the conditions to closing specified in the case of an Underwritten Offeringunderwriting agreement, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperationif any, then entered into in connection with such registration will be deemed are not to have been effected for purposes satisfied or waived, other than by reason of clause (ii) a failure on the part of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Selling Holders. If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue have complied with its obligations under this Agreement, a right to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 5 shall be deemed to have been satisfied upon the earlier of the date as of which all of the Registrable Securities included therein shall have been disposed of pursuant to the Registration Statement or the date as of which such Demand Registration shall have been Continuously Effective for a period of two hundred seventy (270) days, or such earlier time as the Company would not have any obligation to include the Registrable Securities that have not been disposed of in such registration. In circumstances not including the events manner described in the immediately two preceding sentences Registration Statement in a registration pursuant to Section 5 or Section 4, or the Registerable Securities are no longer Registerable Securities under the definition of "Registrable Securities." Any Demand Registration Statement which, after filing with the Commission is withdrawn by the Holders, shall be deemed to have been effective in determining the number of Demand Registrations the Company is obligated to effect hereunder. 5.4. A registration pursuant to this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities 5 shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part on such appropriate registration form of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior the Commission as shall (i) be selected by the Company and be reasonably acceptable to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause Demanding Holders and (ii) permit the disposition of the proviso Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition specified in the request pursuant to Section 4.2(a5.1(i). 5.5. If any registration pursuant to Section 5 involves an underwritten offering (whether on a "firm," "best efforts" or "all reasonable efforts" basis or otherwise), or an agented offering, the Demanding Holders, shall have the right to select the underwriter or underwriters and manager or managers to administer such underwritten offering or the placement agent or agents for such agented offering; provided, however, that each Person so selected shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company. 5.6. Whenever the Company shall effect a registration pursuant to this Section 5 in connection with an underwritten offering by one or more Selling Holders of Registrable Securities: if the Underwriters' Representative or Agent advises each such Selling Holder in writing that, in its opinion, the amount of securities requested to be included in such offering (whether by Selling Holders or others) exceeds the amount which can be sold in such offering within a price range acceptable to the Demanding Holders, securities shall be included in such offering and the related registration, to the extent of the amount which can be sold within such price range, and on a pro rata basis among all Selling Holders; first for the account of the Demanding Holders, second by all other Selling Holders and third by the Company and other holders with respect to the Other Included Shares.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (National Record Mart Inc /De/)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to (i) HEI shall have the provisions hereofright, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined not more than four occasions in the Merger Agreement)aggregate, and no more frequently than once during any six-month period, and (ii) the Holders of Minority Stockholders as a majority of Registrable Securities group shall have the right (though such right need not be jointly exercised by the Minority Stockholders), on not more than two occasions in the aggregate (it being understood and agreed that two or more Minority Stockholders may make joint Demands hereunder or any Minority Stockholder may join in a Demand made by any other Minority Stockholder, and any such joint Demand or joining in of a Demand shall be deemed to be a single Demand for all purposes hereof), and no more frequently than once during any six-month period, to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering register for offer and sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”"Demand") all or a portion of the Registrable Securities held by delivering a written request therefor such Stockholders, subject to the restrictions set forth herein; provided that no Stockholders shall be entitled to make a Demand hereunder unless the Registrable Securities subject to such Demand represent at least 7% of the aggregate shares of Company Common Stock then issued and outstanding and provided further that HEI shall exercise its Demands under subsection (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities hereof prior to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, exercising any Demand as a Minority Stockholder under (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable lawhereof. As soon promptly as practicable after the receipt Company receives from a Stockholder (the "Demanding Stockholder") a notice pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) (a "Demand Notice"), a copy of such demandwhich shall have also been delivered to each other Minority Stockholder at the same time as to the Company, demanding that the Company register for offer and sale under the Securities Act Registrable Securities, subject to Section 4.1(b), the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (yi) use all reasonable best efforts to effect file as promptly as reasonably practicable with the 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 determines, 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, (includingii) after the filing of an initial version of the Registration Statement, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued use reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) as promptly as practicable after the date of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerfiling of such Registration Statement; provided, however, that no Demanding Stockholder shall be entitled to be named as a selling securityholder in the Registration Statement or to use the Prospectus forming a part thereof for resales of Registrable Securities unless such Demanding Stockholder has made an Election. Subject to Section 4.1(b), the Company shall use reasonable efforts to keep each Registration Statement continuously effective in order to permit the Prospectus forming a part thereof to be usable by such Demanding Stockholder for resales of Registrable Securities for an Effectiveness Period ending on the earlier of (i) 30 days from the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Effective Time of such Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, Statement and (ii) such time as all of such securities have been disposed of by the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodselling securityholders. (b) The offering 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 Registrable Securities pursuant Registration Statement or included Prospectus, if the Company determines based upon the advice of counsel that it would be advisable to such Demand Registration may be not disclose in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such caseRegistration Statement a planned or proposed financing, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offeringacquisition or other corporate transaction or other material information, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with have determined in good faith that such disclosure is not in the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings best interests 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) its stockholders; provided that no one such postponement shall also be made to exceed 90 days in any six-month period and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of all such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) postponements shall not exceed 180 days in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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 agreementaggregate. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in advise the Demanding Stockholder of any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holderssuch determination as promptly as practicable after such determination. (c) If, in In connection with an Underwritten Offeringunderwritten offering, if the managing underwriter(s) underwriter or underwriters advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed Applicable Securities subject to a Demand exceeds the number which can be included sold in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Numberoffering, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that Registration the number of Registrable Applicable Securities requested by that, in the Holders thereof to opinion of such managing underwriter or underwriters, can be included sold in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Numberoffering (provided that, such Registrable in the event of a joint Demand, the Applicable Securities to included shall be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof Demanding Stockholders on the basis of the relative number of Registrable Applicable Securities each such Demanding Stockholder has requested to be included therein by each in such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable SecuritiesRegistration). (d) The Company may include in any registration requested pursuant to Section 4.1(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 offering, if the managing underwriter or underwriters advise the Company that in its or their opinion the number of Applicable Securities requested by the Demanding Stockholder, together with other securities for sale for the account of the Company or any other Person, to be registered exceeds the number which can be sold in such offering, the Company shall include in such Registration the number of Applicable Securities and other securities that, in the opinion of such managing underwriter or underwriters, can be sold in such offering as follows: (i) first, the Applicable Securities requested to be registered by the Demanding Stockholder and (ii) second, any other securities requested to be included in such Registration. (e) A registration will not Demanding Stockholder shall have the right to withdraw any Demand (i) prior to the time the Registration Statement in respect of such Demand has been declared effective, (ii) upon the issuance by the Commission or any other governmental agency of a stop order, injunction or other order which interferes with such Registration, (iii) upon the Company's availing itself of Section 4.1(b), or (iv) if such Demanding Stockholder is prevented pursuant to Section 4.1(c) or (d) from selling all of the Applicable Securities it requested to be registered. Notwithstanding such request to withdraw the Demand, the Registration requested by such Demanding Stockholder shall nonetheless be deemed to have been effected as a (and, therefore, requested) for purposes of Section 4.1(a) hereof if such Demanding Stockholder withdraws any Demand Registration unless (A) pursuant to clause (i) of the Registration Statement relating preceding sentence after the Commission filing fee is paid with respect thereto has been declared effective by or (B) pursuant to clause (iv) of the SEC, preceding sentence in circumstances where at least 7550% of the Registrable Applicable Securities requested to be included in such Registration by such Demanding Stockholder could have been included, and in each case, (x) the Company has not availed itself of Section 4.1(b) with respect to such Registration request or (y) the Company has availed itself of Section 4.1(b) and the withdrawal request is not made within 10 days after the termination of the suspension period occasioned by the Company's exercise of its rights under Section 4.1(b). If a Demanding Stockholder withdraws a Demand but the Company nevertheless determines to complete, within 30 days after such withdrawal, the Registration so requested as to securities other than the Applicable Securities, such Demanding Stockholder shall be entitled to participate in such Registration pursuant to Section 4.2, but in such case the Intended Offering Notice shall be required to be given to such Demanding Stockholder at least five business days prior to the anticipated filing date of the Registration Statement, or if such Registration Statement has already been filed, within 10 business days after receipt of the request to withdraw Demand from such Demanding Stockholder and such Demanding Stockholder shall be required to give the Piggy-back Notice no later than 3 business days after the Company's delivery of such Intended Offering Notice. (f) In the event that any Registration pursuant to this Section 4.1 shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, one co-lead managing underwriter shall be selected by the Company and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Demanding Stockholder, and the other co-lead underwriter shall be selected by the Demanding Stockholder, provided that, in the event of a joint Demand, the other co-lead underwriter shall be selected by a majority in interest (by reference to the number of Applicable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (iiRegistration) of the proviso Demanding Stockholders, and shall be reasonably acceptable to Section 4.2(a)the Company. If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until fortyAny additional co-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution managing underwriters shall be selected by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Company.

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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Crown Media Holdings Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or On and after the date that is 180 days after end of the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Earn Out Period, the Holders of Stockholders’ Representative may in his sole and absolute discretion request in a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require written notice that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration statement under the Securities Act (or a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor similar document pursuant to any other statute then in effect corresponding to the Company (iSecurities Act) specifying covering the number registration of any or all Registrable Securities to Stock held by the Stockholders; provided, that there must be included in such registration Registrable Stock having a minimum value of Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000) (based on the then current market price of such Registrable Stock) or such lesser amount if it constitutes all of the Registrable Stock held by such Holder Shareholders participating in the registration (the “ Registration Threshold ”); provided, that the Registration Threshold shall be increased to Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000) or Holderssuch lesser amount if it constitutes all of the Registrable Stock held by such Shareholders participating in the registration, but in no event less than a minimum value of Five Million Dollars (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below$5,000,000), and if the Company is not eligible to register the sale or other disposition of Registrable Securities on Form S-3 (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable lawor a successor form). As soon as practicable after the Following receipt of such demandany notice under this Section 5.1, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued cause to be registered under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the all Registrable Securities Stock that the Company has been so Stockholders have requested be registered in a manner of disposition reasonably acceptable to register; providedthe Company, howeverincluding but not limited to, that an offering on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 (ior any successor rule) under the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodAct. (b) The offering of If the Company intends to have the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form Stock distributed by means of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval Stockholders shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities with the underwriter or underwriters. If any Stockholder who intends to sell Registrable Securities in the offering disapproves of the terms of the underwriting, such Stockholder may elect to withdraw all its Registrable Stock from the registration by written notice to the Company and the managing underwriter(sunderwriter. The underwriters shall be selected by the Company in its sole discretion. (c) proposing Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to distribute their the contrary, (i) the Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 5.1 during the period starting with the date of filing by the Company of, and ending on a date 120 days following the effective date of, a registration statement pertaining to a public offering of securities through such Underwritten Offeringfor the account of the Company or on behalf of the selling stockholders under any other registration rights agreement which the Stockholders have been entitled to join pursuant to Section 5.2; (ii) if the Board determines in good faith that it is in the best interests of the Company (A) not to disclose the existence of facts surrounding any proposed or pending acquisition, which underwriting agreement shall have indemnification provisions in substantially disposition, strategic alliance or financing transaction or other potential material event involving the form as Company or (B) to suspend the registration rights set forth in herein, the Company may (1) postpone the filing of any registration pursuant to this Section 4.9 5.1 and (2) suspend the rights of this Agreementany Stockholder to make sales pursuant to any registration statement for such a period of time as the Board may determine; provided, that (i) such periods of postponement and suspension may not exceed 120 days in the representations aggregate during any period of 12 consecutive months; and warranties by, and each Stockholder agrees in consideration of the other agreements obligations of the Company set forth herein to maintain any communication by the Company with respect to the postponement or suspension of the any registration pursuant to this Section 5.1 in confidence such that the Company may rely on the part ofsafe harbor provisions of Rule 100(b)(2)(ii) of Regulation FD under the Exchange Act with respect to such communications; provided, further, that in the event the Company shall give such notice, the Company to and for shall extend the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder period during which such registration statement shall be required to make any representations and warranties to, or agreements with, any underwriter maintained effective as provided in a Section 5.3(a) by the number of days by which the Company suspends such registration other than customary representations, warranties and agreements and statement; and (iii) the liability of each Holder Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 5.1 more than one time in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) twelve-month period and shall not be limited obligated to losses arising out of or based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made cause any audit to be undertaken in such Registration Statement, connection with 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 registration that the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall is not otherwise required to undertake at that time in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees to sell connection with 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 obligations under the terms of such underwriting agreement. Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder. (d) The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) and pay for more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month periodthree registrations pursuant to this Section 5.1; provided, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed a registration requested pursuant to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company this Section 5.1 shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration for purposes of this Section 5.1(d) unless the Registration Statement relating thereto (i) it has been declared effective by the SECCommission, at least 75% of (ii) it has remained effective for the Registrable Securities requested to be included period set forth in the registration by the Holders are included in such registrationSection 5.3(a), and (iii) the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution offering of Registrable Securities thereunder Stock pursuant to such registration is or becomes the not subject of to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or Commission (other than any other governmental or administrative agencysuch stop order, injunction, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale other requirement of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all Commission prompted by any act or omission of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder holders of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(aStock).

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Samples: Stockholders' Agreement (Allion Healthcare Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying Request for Registration. Upon the number written request of one or more Holders of not less than 20% of the Registrable Securities to be included in (calculated on an as-converted basis) (the "Requesting Holders") that the Company effect the registration of all or a part of such registration by such Holder or Holders, ' Registrable Securities (ii) specifying whether which request shall specify the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandRegistrable Securities) (a "Demand Registration"), the Company shall will: (x1) promptly notify give written notice of the proposed registration to all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and other Holders; and (y2) as soon as reasonably possible, use its reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, the execution of an undertaking to file post-effective amendments, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act Act) as may be so requested and any other governmental requirements as would permit or regulationsfacilitate the sale and distribution (in accordance with the intended methods as aforesaid) of such Registrable Securities as are specified in such request, together with all or such portion of the Registrable Securities of any Holder or Holders joining in such request as are specified in a written request received by the Company within 15 days after written notice from the Company is given under Section 2(a)(i)(1) above; provided that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under be obligated to effect, or take any action to effect, any such registration pursuant to this Section 4.2(a2(a): (A) for Registrable Securities having an If such registration is prohibited by applicable law; (B) For a period of 30 days before the anticipated aggregate consummation of a public offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require by the Company of its equity securities and 90 days subsequent to effect more than the consummation of such public offering; (C) In any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance, unless the Company is already subject to service in such jurisdiction and except as may be required by the Securities Act or applicable rules or regulations thereunder; (D) After the Company has effected three (3) Demand Registrations in pursuant to this Section 2(a) and such registrations have been declared or ordered effective and the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period.sales of such Registrable Securities shall have closed; (bE) The offering If the Registrable Securities requested by all Holders to be registered pursuant to such request do not constitute at least 20% of the Registrable Securities (calculated on an as-converted basis); (F) Within 90 days after the effective date of a previous Demand Registration or a previous registration under which the Requesting Holders had piggyback rights pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in Section 2(b) hereof wherein the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Requesting Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter were permitted to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties byregister, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SECsold, at least 7550% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included therein; (G) If the Company shall furnish to the Requesting Holders a certificate signed by the President of the Company stating that in the registration by good faith judgment of the Holders are included Board of Directors it would be in such registration, and the best interests of the Company has complied in all to defer such Demand Registration because such registration would jeopardize any other material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretocorporate transaction of the Company or would require the disclosure of material non-public information, then the Company shall have the right to defer filing a registration statement for such Demand Registration for a period not to exceed sixty (60) days from the date of receipt of written request from the Requesting Holders; provided, however, that ifthe Company shall not exercise such right more than once in any (12) twelve-month period. The registration rights set forth in this Section 2 may be assigned, after it has become effectivein whole or in part, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution to any transferee of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than (who shall be bound by all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences obligations of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(aAgreement).

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Samples: Stock Purchase Agreement (Williams Companies Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject For a period of 270 days (plus any additional days during which a registration has been postponed pursuant to the provisions Section 2.1(f) hereof, at any time on or ) from and after the date that is 180 days after one (1) year from the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger date of this Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities Holder shall be entitled to have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act effect one (a “Demand Registration”1) by delivering a written request therefor demand registration on Form S-3 (to the Company (i) specifying extent available to the number of Registrable Securities to Company, or any applicable substitute, replacement or successor form that may be included in such registration adopted by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsSEC) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a then owned of record and beneficially by such Holder. A request for such demand registration (a Demand "Registration under this Section 4.2(aRequest") for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) must be made in writing by the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodHolder. (b) The offering of Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be specified in the form of an underwritten public offering Registration Request to be registered as soon as reasonably practicable so as to permit the sale thereof and, in connection therewith, shall, within thirty (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i30) days after the Holder provides the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offeringwith such notice, provided that such Holders may designate prepare and file a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together registration statement with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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 SEC under the terms of such underwriting agreement. The Company shall not be obligated Securities Act to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holderssuch registration. (c) IfSuch registration statement shall contain such required information pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act and such additional information as deemed necessary by the managing underwriter or, in if there is no managing underwriter, as deemed under the Securities Act to be necessary by the Company. (d) In connection with an Underwritten Offeringthe preparation of the registration statement, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then Holder shall: (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of Specify the number of Registrable Securities requested intended to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held offered and sold by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without Holder; (ii) Express the prior written consent Holder's intention to offer or cause the offering of such shares for distribution; (iii) Describe the nature or method of the holders of a majority proposed offer and sale thereof by the Holder; and (iv) Undertake to provide all such information and materials and take all such action as may be required in interest order to permit the Company to comply with all applicable requirements of the Registrable SecuritiesSEC and to obtain any desired acceleration of the effective date of such registration statement. (de) A registration will not be deemed Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company shall furnish to have been effected as the Holder a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective certificate signed by the SEC, at least 75% a duly authorized officer of the Registrable Securities requested Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company it would be seriously detrimental to the Company for such registration statement to be included in filed on or before the registration by the Holders are included in date such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will filing would be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registrationrequired, then the Company shall continue be entitled to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 postpone the filing of the Registrable Securities included registration statement for up to ninety (90) days; provided, that no period of postponement shall be counted in tolling the 270-day period referred to in Section 2.1(a) above. (f) If a registration has become effective but is withdrawn before completion of the offering contemplated thereby because of adverse business developments at the Company that were not known to the Holder when it requested that the Company initiate such registration. In circumstances registration proceedings, or which developments came into existence subsequent to such request, such registration shall not including count as the events described demand registration referred to in the immediately two preceding sentences first sentence of this Section 4.2(d), each 2.1. (g) If a registration is filed on behalf of the Holder and such registration is withdrawn at the request of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or the Holder for any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration reason other than adverse business developments at any time prior the Company that were not known to the commencement of marketing of such Demand RegistrationHolder, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as the demand registration referred to in the first sentence of this Section 2.1. (h) The Company shall not cause the registration under the Securities Act of any other shares of Common Stock to become effective (other than the registration of an employee stock plan, or registration in connection with any Rule 145 or similar transaction) during the effectiveness of a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)registration requested hereunder.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Electronic Game Card Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject At any time from and after 180 days following the Effective Date and subject to the provisions Sections 2(c) and 2(d) hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders receipt of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have written request from a Holder (the right to require "INITIATING DEMAND HOLDER") requesting that the Company to file effect a Registration Statement registering for sale registration (a "DEMAND REGISTRATION") under the Securities Act covering all or part of their respective the Registrable Securities held by such Holder, which specifies the intended method or methods of disposition thereof, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders in writing of the receipt of such request and each such Holder, in lieu of exercising its rights under the Securities Act Section 3 hereof, may elect (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor notice sent to the Company within twenty (i20) specifying 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 the Company shall, as expeditiously as is reasonably possible, file with the SEC and use commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be included in such declared effective, a registration by such Holder or Holders, statement (iia "DEMAND REGISTRATION STATEMENT") specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant relating (subject to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iiiSection 2(b) containing hereof) to all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to register; register by such Holders ("PARTICIPATING DEMAND HOLDERS") for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods thereof, as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so registered, provided, however, that the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered by all Participating Demand Holders shall be, subject to Section 2(b) below, at least the greater of (a) five percent (5%) of the Class A Stock issued and outstanding on the Effective Date, calculated on an As Converted Basis (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation) as of the date of the Demand Registration Statement, and (b) an aggregate value of $100,000,000, based on the closing trading price of the Class A Stock on the date the demand to file such Demand Registration Statement is made. (b) If the Initiating Demand Holder so requests that the offering be underwritten with a managing underwriter (which shall be selected in the manner set forth in Section 12 below) and such managing underwriter of such Demand Registration advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the number of Securities to be included in such offering is greater than the total number of Securities which can be sold therein without having a material adverse effect on the distribution of such Securities or otherwise having a material adverse effect on the marketability thereof (the "MAXIMUM NUMBER OF SECURITIES"), then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration the Registrable Securities that the Participating Demand Holders have requested to be registered thereunder only to the extent the number of such Registrable Securities does not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. The Company shall include such Registrable Securities in a Demand Registration even if the Maximum Number of Securities is less than the threshold set forth in Section 2(a) above. 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 on a pro rata basis, unless any of the Participating Demand Holders otherwise agree between or among themselves and notifies the Company in writing of such agreement. 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 then other Securities held by other security holders of the Company, on a pro rata basis if necessary, in an amount which together with the Registrable Securities included in such Demand Registration shall not exceed the Maximum Number of Securities. (c) The Shareholders together with all Holders who are assignees or transferees of the Shareholders, or assignees or transferees of an assignee or transferee of the Shareholders shall collectively be entitled to sixteen (16) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2. Each Shelf Registration pursuant to Section 4 hereof shall be deemed one Demand Registration pursuant hereto. (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be required to prepare and file (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration Statement under this Agreement in any six (6) six-month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within ninety (90) days following the date of effectiveness of any Registration Statement (other than a Shelf Registration Statement). (be) The offering of the Registrable Securities A Demand Registration requested pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (iSection 2(a) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval hereof shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed deemed to have been effected with respect to any Participating Demand Holder that is not able to register and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit sell at least 80% of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each on behalf of such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included Holder in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securitiessuch registration. (df) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Participating Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with Holder may withdraw its obligations under this Agreement request with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement effective date of marketing the Demand Registration Statement relating thereto by providing to the Company written notice. Upon any such withdrawal, if the Company determines not to otherwise continue with such Registration Statement for the purpose of registering Class A Stock of the Company, another Holder or another shareholder of the Company, the withdrawing Participating Demand Holder shall be obligated, pro rata with any other withdrawing Participating Demand Holder, to reimburse the Company, within 20 days of the date of the written notice of withdrawal, for all Expenses (as defined in Section 12 below) incurred by the Company, in connection with such withdrawn Demand Registration that would not otherwise have been incurred by the Company. Any such withdrawn Demand Registration shall be counted with respect to such Holder for purposes of Section 2(c) hereof as a completed Demand Registration, provided unless such withdrawal was the result of a change in market conditions that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) would materially adversely effect the amount and/or price of the proviso Registrable Securities to Section 4.2(a)be included in the Demand Registration.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Genuity Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereofterms and conditions hereof (including Section 3.1(a)), at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after following a Qualified IPO or in order to cause a Qualified IPO pursuant to Section 8.04 of the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger LLC Agreement), the Holders ARC and AMH shall each be entitled to make a written request of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company (a “Demand” and upon making a Demand, ARC or AMH, as applicable, to file be a Registration Statement registering “Requesting Investor”) for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration under the Securities Act of an amount of Registrable Securities owned by the ARC Investors or the AMH Investors, as applicable that either (x) equals or is greater than the Registrable Amount, or (y) constitutes all of the Registrable Securities of all of the ARC Investors or AMH Investors, as applicable (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor and thereupon the Company will, subject to the Company (i) specifying the number terms of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holdersthis Agreement, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its reasonable best efforts to effect such the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued as promptly as practicable under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulationsof: (i) of the Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to registerregister by the Requesting Investor for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such Demand; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, and (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require all equity securities of the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) which the Company will not may elect to register in connection with any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2.1, but subject to Section 2.1(g), all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities and the additional securities, if any, to be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodso registered. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Each Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, shall specify: (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each registered in such Holder. No shares Demand Registration, (ii) the intended method of Common Stock held by disposition in connection with such Demand Registration, to the extent then known and (iii) the identity of the Requesting Investor and any Person other than Registrable Securities held by of its Permitted Transferees who are participating in the Holders Demand. (c) ARC shall be included in a entitled to an aggregate of five (5) Demand Registration without the prior written consent Registrations. AMH shall be entitled to an aggregate of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securitiessix (6) Demand Registrations. (d) A registration will Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected and shall not count as a Demand Registration Demand: (i) unless the Registration Statement relating a registration statement with respect thereto has been declared become effective by the SEC, and has remained effective for a period of at least 75% of the ninety (90) days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that Demand Registration have actually been sold thereunder); (ii) if, after it has become effective, such Demand Registration becomes subject, prior to ninety (i90) such Registration Statement or the related offerdays after effectiveness, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other Governmental Authority for any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale reason; (iii) unless at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the number of Registrable Securities pursuant requested to be registered by ARC in any Demand Registration for which ARC is the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement Requesting Investor are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders in such Demand Registration; (iv) if such Demand Registration is withdrawn pursuant to Section 2.3 after the Company exercises its right to postpone the filing or effectiveness of a registration statement pursuant to Section 2.1(f); or (v) if the conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such Demand Registration Statementare not satisfied, other than by reason of any act or omission by such Requesting Investors. (e) Demand Registrations shall be on Form S‑1 or any similar long-form registration, (ii) ifon Form S‑3 or any similar short-form registration (other than a shelf registration), if such a short-form registration is then available to the Company or (iii) on Form S‑3ASR if the Company is, at the time a Demand is made, a Well-Known Seasoned Issuer. (f) The Company shall not be obligated to: (i) subject to the proviso in Section 2.5(a)(ii), maintain the effectiveness of a registration statement under the Securities Act filed pursuant to a Demand Registration for a period longer than ninety (90) days; or (ii) effect any Demand Registration: (A) within six months after the effective date of a registration statement with respect to a “firm commitment” Underwritten Offering in which all Piggyback Sellers were given “piggyback” rights pursuant to Section 2.2 (subject to Section 2.2(b)) and at least fifty percent (50%) of the number of Registrable Securities requested by such Piggyback Seller to be included in such Demand Registration were included; or (B) within four months after the effective date of a registration statement (or prospectus supplement for a Marketed Underwritten Shelf Offering) with respect to any other Demand Registration. In addition, the Company shall be entitled to postpone (upon written notice to the Requesting Investor) 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 and in no event for more than an aggregate of sixty (60) days in any 365 day period) if the Board determines 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 information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential (and such information would not otherwise be required to be publicly disclosed by the Corporation at that time in a periodic report to be filed with or furnished to the SEC under the Exchange Act but for the filing of such Registration Statement) or because of the unavailability of audited or other required financial statements; provided that the Company shall have used and shall use best efforts to make available as soon as possible such financial statements. In the event of a postponement by the Company of the filing or effectiveness of a registration statement for a Demand Registration, the Requesting Investors shall have the right to withdraw such Demand in accordance with Section 2.3. (g) The Company shall not include any securities in a Demand Registration except Registrable Securities held by the Investors, or other securities with the written consent of each of ARC and AMH. If, in connection with a Demand Registration, the case of lead bookrunning underwriters (or, if such Demand Registration is not an Underwritten Offering, a nationally recognized independent investment bank selected by the Company fails and reasonably acceptable to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) Investors holding a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 majority of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances Demand Registration, and whose fees and expenses shall be borne solely by the Company) advise the Company in writing that, in their reasonable opinion, the inclusion of all of the securities, including securities of the Company that are not including Registrable Securities, sought to be registered in connection with such Demand Registration would adversely affect the events described 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 reasonably advised by such underwriters or investment bank can be sold without such adverse effect as follows and in the immediately two preceding sentences following order of this Section 4.2(d)priority: (i) first, each Holder up to the number of Registrable Securities shall requested to be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all included in such Demand Registration by any Investors which, in the opinion of the underwriter or any part investment bank can be sold without adversely affecting the marketability of its the offering, pro rata among such Investors based upon the number of Registrable Securities from initially requested by such Investor (in either a Demand Registration at any time prior or Piggyback Notice) to the commencement of marketing of be included in such Demand Registration, provided that (ii) second, securities the Company proposes to sell for its own account and (iii) third, all other equity securities duly requested to be included in such registration nonetheless shall count as 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, ARC and AMH, acting jointly. (h) Any time that a Demand Registration for purposes involves an Underwritten Offering, (i) the Requesting Investor shall select a nationally-recognized investment banking firm (reasonably acceptable to the Company) to act as a co‑lead bookrunning underwriter with respect to the offering of clause such Registrable Securities, (ii) the Company shall select a nationally-recognized investment banking firm (reasonably acceptable to the Requesting Investor) to act as a co‑lead bookrunning underwriter with respect to the offering of such Registrable Securities and (iii) the Company shall enter into an underwriting agreement that is reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Requesting Investor, with such agreement containing representations, warranties, indemnities and agreements customarily included (but not inconsistent with the covenants and agreements of the proviso Company contained herein) by an issuer of securities similar to the Registrable Securities in underwriting agreements with respect to offerings of securities similar to the Registrable Securities for the account of, or on behalf of, such issuers. (i) In connection with any Underwritten Offering under this Section 4.2(a2.1, (i) the Company shall not be required to include the Registrable Securities of an Investor (other than a Requesting Investor) in the Underwritten Offering unless such Investor accepts the terms of the underwriting (pursuant to the underwriting agreement to be negotiated and entered into as specified in Section 2.1(h)) as reasonably agreed upon between the Company and the underwriters selected by the Company, in accordance with the terms hereof, and (ii) any Requesting Investor shall enter into the underwriting agreement referred to in Section 2.1(h)(iii) above.

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Samples: Transaction Agreement (Apollo Global Management LLC)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or On and after the date that is 180 days after end of the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Earn Out Period, the Holders of Stockholders’ Representative may in his sole and absolute discretion request in a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require written notice that the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration statement under the Securities Act (or a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor similar document pursuant to any other statute then in effect corresponding to the Company (iSecurities Act) specifying covering the number registration of any or all Registrable Securities to Stock held by the Stockholders; provided, that there must be included in such registration Registrable Stock having a minimum value of Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000) (based on the then current market price of such Registrable Stock) or such lesser amount if it constitutes all of the Registrable Stock held by such Holder Shareholders participating in the registration (the “Registration Threshold”); provided, that the Registration Threshold shall be increased to Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000) or Holderssuch lesser amount if it constitutes all of the Registrable Stock held by such Shareholders participating in the registration, but in no event less than a minimum value of Five Million Dollars (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below$5,000,000), and if the Company is not eligible to register the sale or other disposition of Registrable Securities on Form S-3 (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable lawor a successor form). As soon as practicable after the Following receipt of such demandany notice under this Section 5.1, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued cause to be registered under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the all Registrable Securities Stock that the Company has been so Stockholders have requested be registered in a manner of disposition reasonably acceptable to register; providedthe Company, howeverincluding but not limited to, that an offering on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 (ior any successor rule) under the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodAct. (b) The offering of If the Company intends to have the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form Stock distributed by means of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval Stockholders shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities with the underwriter or underwriters. If any Stockholder who intends to sell Registrable Securities in the offering disapproves of the terms of the underwriting, such Stockholder may elect to withdraw all its Registrable Stock from the registration by written notice to the Company and the managing underwriter(sunderwriter. The underwriters shall be selected by the Company in its sole discretion. (c) proposing Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to distribute their the contrary, (i) the Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 5.1 during the period starting with the date of filing by the Company of, and ending on a date 120 days following the effective date of, a registration statement pertaining to a public offering of securities through such Underwritten Offeringfor the account of the Company or on behalf of the selling stockholders under any other registration rights agreement which the Stockholders have been entitled to join pursuant to Section 5.2; (ii) if the Board determines in good faith that it is in the best interests of the Company (A) not to disclose the existence of facts surrounding any proposed or pending acquisition, which underwriting agreement shall have indemnification provisions in substantially disposition, strategic alliance or financing transaction or other potential material event involving the form as Company or (B) to suspend the registration rights set forth in herein, the Company may (1) postpone the filing of any registration pursuant to this Section 4.9 5.1 and (2) suspend the rights of this Agreementany Stockholder to make sales pursuant to any registration statement for such a period of time as the Board may determine; provided, that (i) such periods of postponement and suspension may not exceed 120 days in the representations aggregate during any period of 12 consecutive months; and warranties by, and each Stockholder agrees in consideration of the other agreements obligations of the Company set forth herein to maintain any communication by the Company with respect to the postponement or suspension of the any registration pursuant to this Section 5.1 in confidence such that the Company may rely on the part ofsafe harbor provisions of Rule 100(b)(2)(ii) of Regulation FD under the Exchange Act with respect to such communications; provided, further, that in the event the Company shall give such notice, the Company to and for shall extend the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder period during which such registration statement shall be required to make any representations and warranties to, or agreements with, any underwriter maintained effective as provided in a Section 5.3(a) by the number of days by which the Company suspends such registration other than customary representations, warranties and agreements and statement; and (iii) the liability of each Holder Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 5.1 more than one time in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) twelve-month period and shall not be limited obligated to losses arising out of or based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made cause any audit to be undertaken in such Registration Statement, connection with 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 registration that the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall is not otherwise required to undertake at that time in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees to sell connection with 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 obligations under the terms of such underwriting agreement. Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder. (d) The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) and pay for more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month periodthree registrations pursuant to this Section 5.1; provided, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed a registration requested pursuant to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company this Section 5.1 shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration for purposes of this Section 5.1(d) unless the Registration Statement relating thereto (i) it has been declared effective by the SECCommission, at least 75% of (ii) it has remained effective for the Registrable Securities requested to be included period set forth in the registration by the Holders are included in such registrationSection 5.3(a), and (iii) the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution offering of Registrable Securities thereunder Stock pursuant to such registration is or becomes the not subject of to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or Commission (other than any other governmental or administrative agencysuch stop order, injunction, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale other requirement of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all Commission prompted by any act or omission of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder holders of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(aStock).

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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Allion Healthcare Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after one (1) year anniversary of the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Purchase Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a4.1(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 4.8 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a4.1(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 4.1 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 4.1 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 4.1 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d4.1(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a4.1(a).

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Securities Purchase Agreement (Parkway Properties Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereofSection 2.1, at any from time on or to time after the later to occur of (i) the expiration of the Lock-up Period (as the same may be extended or come back into force as provided in Section 2.1(c)) and (ii) the date that which is 180 days after following the Closing Date (as defined in closing of the Merger Agreement)Initial Public Offering, the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities Shareholder shall have the right to require the Company make four separate written requests (each, a “Demand”) on Lukoil to cause Lukoil to use best efforts to file and cause to be declared effective a Registration Statement registering for sale all on Form F-l or part of their respective Registrable Securities any other appropriate form under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor with respect to the Company Shares; provided that the expected aggregate offering price of the Shares requested to be registered with respect to any Demand is at least the lesser of (i) specifying 25% of the number of Registrable Securities to be included Shareholder’s aggregate Beneficial Ownership interest in such registration by such Holder Lukoil or Holders, (ii) specifying whether $500,000,000. This Section 3.2(a) shall be applicable for so long as the intended method of disposition thereof is Shares cannot be freely transferred pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued Rule 144 under the Securities Act without the imposition of volume, manner of sale and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodholding period limitations. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Any Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 will set forth in Section 4.9 the number of this Agreement; provided, that (i) Shares the representations and warranties by, Shareholder proposes to sell and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit intended method of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation distribution of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holdersshares. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten OfferingIf any offering or sale of Shares by the Shareholder pursuant to a registration statement is not consummated due to any failure by Lukoil to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the managing underwriter(sShareholder shall not be deemed to have made a Demand in accordance with Section 3.2(a) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed with respect to be included in which such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securitiesstatement was filed. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% The selection of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of underwriters for any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested offering pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities 3.2 shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registrationmade by ConocoPhillips, provided that any such underwriters shall be reasonably satisfactory to Lukoil. (e) Lukoil will pay all expenses associated with the registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) and sale of the proviso Shares including without limitation its own legal, accounting, printing and distribution fees and expenses, except for registration fees associated with the Shares and commissions and underwriting discounts payable with respect to Section 4.2(a)the Shares, which shall be paid by the Shareholder.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Shareholder Agreement (Conocophillips)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject Except as provided in Section 2.2(b) below, upon the written request of the Holder, which request shall specify the Registerable Securities so requested to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)be registered by Holder, the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether Proposed Amount thereof and the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandby Holder, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) will, as expeditiously as reasonably possible, use reasonable its best efforts to effect such the registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that resale of the Company has been so requested to registerProposed Amount of Registerable Securities, for disposition in accordance with the intended method of disposition stated in such request; provided, however, however that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations if in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering good faith judgment of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form Board of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval Directors of the Company, which approval shall not such registration would be unreasonably withheld or delayed detrimental to the Company and the Board of Directors of the Company concludes, as a result, that it is in the best interests of the Company to defer the filing of such registration statement at such time, and (ii) the Company shall (together with furnish to the Holders proposing Holder a certificate signed by an executive officer of the Company that the Board of Directors of the Company has made such a determination and that it is, therefore, necessary to distribute their securities through defer the filing of such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings of equity securities with registration statement, then the managing underwriter(s) proposing to distribute their securities through such Underwritten Offering, which underwriting agreement Company shall have indemnification provisions in substantially the form as set forth in Section 4.9 of this Agreement; providedright to defer such filing for the period during which such registration would be detrimental, provided that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and may not defer the filing for the benefit a period of more than 120 days after receipt of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit request of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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 agreementHolder. The Company shall not be obligated entitled to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings include in any twelve registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 2.2: (12A) month periodsecurities of the Company held by any other security holder of the Company, and (bB) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by an underwritten public offering, securities of the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted Company to be sold by the Company on for its own behalf or on behalf account, except as and to the extent that (x) in the opinion of the Holders. managing underwriter (c) Ifif such method of disposition shall be an underwritten public offering), in connection with an Underwritten Offering, such inclusion would adversely affect the managing underwriter(s) advise marketing of the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Registerable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested sold by the Holders thereof to be included Holder or (y) in the reasonable opinion of the Holder (if such registration that does method of disposition is not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Numberan underwritten public offering), such Registrable inclusion would adversely affect the price at which such Registerable Securities may be sold pursuant to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis plan of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretodistribution; provided, however, that if, after such registration statement has been filed, the managing underwriter believes that the inclusion of all securities requested to be included in the proposed underwritten public offering would adversely affect the marketing of the Registerable Securities or, in the case of a distribution that is not an underwritten public offering, if the Holder reasonably believes that the inclusion of all securities requested to be included in such registration statement would adversely affect the price at which the Registerable Securities may be sold pursuant to the plan of distribution, then the aggregate amount of securities to be offered by the Company and such other security holders of the Company shall be reduced so as to permit the offering of all Registerable Securities requested by the Holder without such adverse effects. (b) The Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any registration requested by the Holder pursuant to Section 2.2(a) hereof (i) after the Company has effected two (2) such registrations pursuant to this Agreement and each such registration has been declared or ordered effective, (ii) for a period of two (2) years after the Company has effected one such registration pursuant to Section 2.2(a) hereof and such registration has been declared or ordered effective, such two year period to commence on the date the registration statement was declared or ordered effective or (iii) at any time after the second anniversary of the expiration date of the Warrant. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, a registration requested pursuant to this Section 2.2 shall not be deemed to have been effected (i) unless it has become effective, provided that a registration that does not become effective after the Company has filed a registration statement with respect thereto by reason of the refusal of Holder to proceed shall be deemed to have been effected by the Company unless the Holder shall have elected to pay all Company Registration Expenses in connection with such registration, (iii) if after it has become effective such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agency, court for any reason other than a misrepresentation or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered an omission by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration StatementHolder, or (iiiii) if, if the conditions to closing specified in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration will be deemed are not to have been effected for purposes satisfied other than by reason of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration some wrongful act or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution omission, or act or omission in bad faith, by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Holder.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (General Electric Capital Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject 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 (together with any of their respective Affiliates or Related Funds) that hold, in the aggregate, at least five percent (5%) of the outstanding Common Stock at such time, 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 hereofof the Securities Act (each, at any time on a “Demand Registration”). The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such Holder’s or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and shall have the right use its reasonable best efforts to require 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 registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor pursuant to the Company this Section 5(a): (i) specifying unless the Registrable Securities requested to be sold by the Holders pursuant to such Registration Statement have an anticipated aggregate gross offering price (before deducing underwriting discounts and commissions) of at least $25 million; (ii) 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; or (iii) if the number of Demand Registration Requests previously made pursuant to this Section 5(a) shall equal or exceed three (3) in any twelve (12)-month period; provided, however, that a Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (iii) unless the requested Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission for more than seventy-five percent (75%) of the full amount of Registrable Securities to be included in such for which registration by has been requested. (b) A Demand Registration Request shall specify (i) the then-current name and address of such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares registered, (iii) the total number of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held then beneficially owned by such Holder or Holders, and (iv) the intended means of distribution. (c) The Company may satisfy its obligations under Section 5(a) hereof by amending (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any registration statement previously filed by the Holders shall be included Company under the Securities Act, so that such amended registration statement will permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods of disposition specified as aforesaid) of all of the Registrable Securities for which a Demand Registration without Request has been properly made under Section 5(b) hereof. If the prior written consent Company so amends a previously filed registration statement, it will be deemed to have effected a registration for purposes of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable SecuritiesSection 5(a) hereof. (d) A registration The Company will not be deemed use its reasonable best efforts to have been effected as keep a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto that has been declared become effective as contemplated by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registrationthis Section 5 continuously effective, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the not subject of to any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the SEC or any Commission: (i) in the case of a Registration Statement other governmental or administrative agencythan a Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement; and (ii) in the registrationcase 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 in each case less than (y) the date that all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective such Shelf Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling on Form S-3 shall cease to be Registrable Securities. (e) 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 option of the Holder or Holders who revoke such request, either (i) such Holder or Holders shall reimburse the Company for all of its reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the preparation, filing and processing of the Registration Statement, which out-of-pocket expenses, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such requested registration that has been revoked will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause Section 5(a). (iif) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 4.2 5 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Shelf Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registrationStatement, then upon the demand of one or more Holders, the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect facilitate a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 “takedown” of the 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 included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities underwritten “takedown” shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration equal at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause least five percent (ii5%) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)all outstanding shares of Common Stock at such time.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Parker Drilling Co /De/)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after October 30, 2000 the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to Shareholder may require the Company (pursuant to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities written notice to the Company) to effect the registration under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to of Shares of the Company (a "Demand Registration"). Such request (a "Demand Request") by the Shareholder shall (i) specifying specify the class and number of Registrable Securities Shares which the Shareholder intends to be included in such registration by such Holder sell or Holdersdispose of, and (ii) specifying whether state the intended method or methods by which the Shareholder intends to sell or dispose of disposition such Shares. In connection with any underwritten public offering, the underwriter thereof is pursuant shall be selected by the Company, subject to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)the consent of the Shareholder, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to which shall not be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable lawunreasonably withheld. As soon as practicable after the Upon receipt of such demanda Demand Request, the Company shall (xas requested) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (yi) use reasonable best efforts cause to effect such registration be filed, within seventy-five (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations75) calendar days of the Registrable Securities that date of delivery to the Company of the request, a registration statement covering such Shares which the Company has been so requested to register; , providing for the registration under the Securities Act of such Shares to the extent necessary to permit the disposition of such Shares so to be registered in accordance with the intended method of distribution specified in such request (provided, howeverfurther, that in either case the Company may delay making such filing or taking such action by not more than sixty (i60) calendar days if the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price Company, prior to the time it would otherwise have been required to file such registration statement or take such action, determines in good faith that the filing of less than $5,000,000, (ii) such registration statement or the Holders will not be entitled to taking of such action would require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations disclosure of material nonpublic information that, in the aggregate under this Agreementreasonable judgment of the Company, would be detrimental to the Company if so disclosed (and a delay would be likely to reduce the detrimental effect of such disclosure or obviate the need for such disclosure to be made), or would otherwise adversely affect a financing, acquisition, disposition, merger or other material transaction), and (iii) shall use its best efforts to have such registration statement declared effective by the Company will not be obligated SEC as soon as practicable thereafter. The Shareholder shall have the right to effect more than exercise up to one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holdersright. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Cistron Biotechnology Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to Upon the provisions hereof, written request of any ------------------- Philips Person (provided that such request may be made only with the prior written approval of the Shareholder at any time on that the Shareholder or after the date its Affiliates own any Registrable Securities) requesting that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering effect the registration under the Securities Act, or the listing or other qualification for sale on any European exchange, of all or part of their respective the Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration owned by such Holder or HoldersPhilips Person, (ii) and specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant (including the exchange or market through which such Philips Person intends to an Underwritten Offering (as defined beloweffect such disposition, if applicable), and but subject to the limitations set forth herein, the Company will promptly (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included but in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable no event more than five Business Days after the receipt of such demandrequest) give written notice of such requested registration, listing or other qualification to all other Philips Persons, and the Company shall (x) file with the appropriate authorities, self-regulatory organization or stock exchange, as promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received as practicable after sending such notice, and (y) use reasonable its best efforts to effect such cause to become effective, any necessary registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued statement under the Securities Act or listing particulars or other appropriate documentation under applicable non-U.S. securities laws in order to be effectuate the offering and any other governmental requirements or regulationssale of: (i) of the Registrable Securities that which the Company has been so requested to register, list or otherwise qualify by such Philips Person, and (ii) all other Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to register, list or otherwise qualify by any other Philips Person by written request given to the Company within 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 (including the exchange or market through which it intends to effect such disposition, if applicable)), all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered, listed or otherwise qualified (a "DEMAND REGISTRATION"); provided, howeverthat (W) the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement, listing particulars or other similar document pursuant to this Section 2 on more than an aggregate of two occasions, (X) the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement, listing particulars or other similar document pursuant to this Section 2 unless the aggregate amount of Registrable Securities that any Philips Persons seek to register pursuant to this Section 2 constitutes the lesser of (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for at least 20% of all Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000initially held by Philips Persons, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the Registrable Securities with an aggregate under this Agreement, proposed sales price of at least U.S. $10,000,000 and (iii) all of the Company will remaining Registrable Securities then outstanding, (Y) UPC shall not be obligated to effect more file a registration statement, listing particulars or other similar document pursuant to this Section 2 other than one (1) in the primary market for the Registrable Securities in respect of which the Demand Registration shall be made, if any, and if there is no primary market for such Registrable Securities, UPC shall be obligated to file a registration statement, listing particulars or other similar document pursuant to this Section 2 in the European or U.S. market through which the Philips Person intends to effect the disposition hereunder, and (Z) if, with respect to such requested registration, listing or other qualification, the managing underwriter, the appropriate authorities, self-regulatory organization or stock exchange, the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder, or applicable [non-U.S.] securities laws, would require the conduct of an audit other than the regular audit conducted by the Company at the end of its fiscal year, in which case such registration, listing or other qualification may be delayed until the completion of such regular audit and the filing of such audited financial statements with the appropriate authorities, self-regulatory organization or stock exchange (unless each of the Philips Persons involved in the registration agrees to pay the pro rata share, based on the number of Registrable Securities that such Philips Person has requested be registered, of the Company's expenses in connection with such a special audit). The Company shall not allow any six (6) month periodother Person other than a Philips Person or the Company to include any securities in such Demand Registration. (b) The offering If the Philips Persons requesting a Demand Registration so elects (provided that such election, including the choice of underwriter, may only be made with the prior written approval of the Shareholder at any time the Shareholder or its Affiliates own any Registrable Securities Securities), a Demand Registration pursuant to such Demand Registration may this Section 2 shall be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a through two co-managing underwriter to participate in underwriters which shall be an investment banking firm or firms of established reputation one of which shall be designated by the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through Philips Persons demanding such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, registration designation and the other agreements on of which shall be designated by the part of, Company. If a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2 involves an underwritten offering and the managing underwriter advises the Shareholder and the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 reportwriting that, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any eventits opinion, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed requested to be included in such registration Demand Registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Numbernumber which can be sold in such offering without a significant adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the Registrable Securities to be offered, then the Company will include in such Demand Registration (i) first, 100% of the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities which the Shareholders and its Affiliates requested to be included in such Underwritten Offering Demand Registration (or such lesser number of Registrable Securities which is equal to the number which, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, can be sold) and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that second, any additional number of Registrable Securities requested by which, in the Holders thereof to opinion of the managing underwriter, can be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Numbersold, such Registrable Securities number to be allocated pro rata among all requesting Philips Persons (other than the Holders thereof Shareholder and its Affiliates referred to in clause (i) above) on the basis of the relative number of Registrable Securities then held by each such holder (provided that any shares thereby allocated to any such holder that exceed such holder's request shall be reallocated among the remaining requesting holders of Registrable Securities in like manner). In the event that the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each in such Holder. No shares Demand Registration is less than the number which, in the opinion of Common Stock held by any Person other than the managing underwriter, can be sold, the Company may include in such Demand Registration such number of securities of the Company to be sold on behalf of the Company as, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, can be sold without a significant adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the Registrable Securities held by the Holders to be offered. (c) The Company shall be included entitled to postpone for a reasonable period of time (not to exceed 120 days, which may not thereafter be extended) the filing of any registration statement, listing particulars or other similar documentation otherwise required to be prepared and filed by it pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof if, at the time it receives a request for such registration, listing or other qualifications, the Supervisory Board of the Company determines in good faith that such offering will materially interfere with a pending or contemplated financing, merger, sale of assets, recapitalization or other similar corporate action of the Company, in which case the Company shall have furnished to holders of Registrable Securities requesting such Demand Registration a Managing Director's Certificate to that effect; provided, that the Company shall not exercise the right to postpone any registration, listing or other qualification pursuant to this Section 2(c) more than once in any 12 month period. After such period of postponement the Company shall effect such registration, listing or other qualification as promptly as practicable without the prior written consent of further request from the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities, unless such request has been withdrawn. (d) A registration will Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be deemed obligated to file a registration statement, listing particulars or similar document at the request of any Philips Person if the Company and such Philips Person shall have been received an opinion of counsel reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to such Philips Person and the Company to the effect that (i) the disposition of such Registrable Securities in the manner and upon the same terms and conditions (including pricing terms) proposed by such Philips Person may be effected as a Demand Registration unless without registration, listing or other qualification under statutes, laws, rules and regulations of any governmental authority or self-regulatory organization with authority to supervise or regulate the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by primary market in which the SECCompany's shares are traded; provided, at least 75% of that the Registrable Securities requested so disposed of would be unrestricted with respect to be included resale under such statutes, laws, rules and regulations in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution hands of Registrable Securities thereunder a transferee who is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement not an Affiliate of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Company.

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Samples: Securities Purchase and Conversion Agreement (United International Holdings Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject 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 hold, in the aggregate, at least 5% of the outstanding Registrable Securities, 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 hereofof the Securities Act (each, at any time on a “Demand Registration”). The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such Holder’s or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and shall have the right use its reasonable best efforts to require 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 registering for sale all or part of their respective pursuant to this Section 5(a): (A) unless the Registrable Securities under 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 $25.0 million; (B) if the Registrable Securities Act 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 “Demand Registration”) registration statement filed by delivering a written request therefor to the Company shall 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 has been requested. (b) A Demand Registration Request shall specify (i) specifying the number then-current name and address of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares registered, (iii) the total number of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held then beneficially owned by such Holder or Holders, and (iv) the intended means of distribution. (c) The Company may satisfy its obligations under Section 5(a) hereof by amending (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any registration statement previously filed by the Holders shall be included Company under the Securities Act, so that such amended registration statement will permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods of disposition specified as aforesaid) of all of the Registrable Securities for which a Demand Registration without Request has been properly made under Section 5(b) hereof. If the prior written consent Company so amends 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 holders amended registration statement, as amended pursuant to this Section 5(c) shall be the “the first day of a majority effectiveness” of such Registration Statement for purposes of determining the period during which the Registration Statement is required to be maintained effective in interest of the Registrable Securitiesaccordance with Section 5(e) hereof. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as Within five (5) Business Days after receiving a Demand Registration unless Request, the Company shall give written notice of such request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the provisions of Section 6(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in such registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within 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 relating thereto has been declared effective by that may be utilized for the SEC, at least 75% offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included registered in the registration manner so requested. (e) The Company will use its reasonable efforts to keep a Registration Statement that has become effective as contemplated by the Holders are included in such registrationthis Section 5 continuously effective, and not subject to any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the Company has complied Commission: (A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement, until all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretoRegistrable 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 if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or in the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject event of any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the SEC or Commission relating to any other governmental or administrative agencyShelf Registration Statement, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement remain unsold, the period during which such Shelf Registration Statement shall be required to remain effective will be extended by the number of days during which such stop order, injunction or similar order or requirement is in effect; provided further, however, that if any Shelf Registration Statement was initially declared effective on Form S-3 and, prior to the date determined pursuant to Section 5(e)(B), the Company becomes ineligible to use Form S-3, the period during which such Shelf Registration Statement shall be required to remain effective will be extended by the number of days during which the Company did not have an effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling 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 option of the Holder or Holders who revoke such request, either (i) such Holder or Holders shall reimburse the Company for all of its reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the preparation, filing and processing of the Registration Statement, which out-of-pocket expenses, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such requested registration that has been revoked will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause Section 5(a). (iig) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 4.2 5 is deemed not 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 have been effected as a Demand Registration the conditions described in Section 6 of this Agreement, provided that (i) the number of shares included in such “takedown” shall equal at least ten percent (10%) of all Registrable Securities at such time or (ii) the registration Registrable Securities requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution be sold by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities “takedown” shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause have an anticipated aggregate offering price (iibefore deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)at least $25.0 million.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Harvest Oil & Gas Corp.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject Upon written notice to the provisions hereof, Issuer from one or more Holders at any time on or after the Effective Time (but not later than the date that is 180 two years after the Effective Time) (a "Demand Request") requesting that the Issuer effect the registration under the 1933 Act of any or all of the Registrable Securities held by such requesting Holders, which notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition of such Registrable Securities, the Issuer shall prepare and, within 60 days after the Closing Date such request (as defined or 20 days in the Merger Agreementcase of the first such request), file with the Commission a registration statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective under the 1933 Act for purposes of dispositions in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such request. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary: (i) the Holders of may collectively exercise their rights to request registration under this Section 2.01(a) on not more than three occasions (it being understood that a majority demand with respect to a two-tranche contemporaneous offering of Registrable Securities and related derivative securities shall have the right be deemed to require the Company be only one demand) (each such registration being referred to file herein as a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “"Demand Registration"); (ii) by delivering the Issuer shall not be required to effect a written request therefor to Demand Registration hereunder unless the Company (i) specifying the number aggregate market value of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is registered pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and such Demand Registration is equal to or more than $100 million; (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not be permitted to make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less more than $5,000,000, once in any six-month period; and (iiiv) the method of disposition requested by Holders will in connection with any Demand Registration may not be entitled to require a Rule 415 Offering without the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations Issuer's prior written consent, which consent shall be in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodIssuer's sole discretion. (b) The offering Notwithstanding any other provision of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject this Agreement to the approval of the Companycontrary, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will requested by Holders pursuant to this Section 2.01 shall not be deemed to have been effected as a effected, and, therefore, not requested and the rights of each Holder shall be deemed not to have been exercised for purposes of paragraph (a) above, if such Demand Registration unless has not become effective under the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in 1933 Act or if such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that ifDemand Registration, after it has become effectivebecame effective under the 1933 Act, was not maintained effective under the 1933 Act (i) such Registration Statement other than as a result of the request of Holders, or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission or any other governmental government agency or administrative agencycourt solely on the account of a material misrepresentation or omission of a Holder) for at least 30 days (or such shorter period ending when all the Registrable Securities covered thereby have been disposed of pursuant thereto) and, as a result thereof, the Registrable Securities requested to be registered cannot be distributed in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the related registration statement. (c) The Issuer shall have the right to cause the registration of additional equity securities for sale for the account of the Issuer in the registration of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders pursuant to Section 2.01(a) above; provided that if such Holders are advised in writing (with a copy to the Issuer) by the lead or if any court prevents managing underwriter referred to in Section 2.03(b) that, in such underwriter's good faith view, all or otherwise limits a part of such Registrable Securities and additional equity securities cannot be sold and the inclusion of such Registrable Securities and additional equity securities in such registration would be likely to have an adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities and additional equity securities then contemplated, then Issuer shall be entitled to include in such registration only such number of additional equity securities, if any, which, when added to the Registrable Securities requested by the Holders pursuant to Section 2.01(a) above, would not exceed the registrationnumber of securities that can, and in the good faith view of such underwriter, be sold in such offering without so adversely affecting such offering. (d) Within 10 days after delivery of a Demand Request by a Holder, the Issuer shall provide a written notice to each case less than Holder, advising such Holder of its right to include any or all of the Registrable Securities covered held by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling such Holder or Holders for sale pursuant to the Demand Registration Statement, or (ii) if, and advising such Holder of procedures to enable such Holder to elect to so include Registrable Securities for sale in the case Demand Registration. Any Holder may, within 10 days of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails delivery to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes Holder of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested notice pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not 2.01(d), elect to have been effected as a so include Registrable Securities in the Demand Registration or (ii) by written notice to such effect to the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after Issuer specifying the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder number of Registrable Securities shall desired to be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of so included by such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Holder.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (CVS Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the earlier of (i) five (5) years from the date that is 180 of this Agreement and (ii) one hundred eighty (180) days after the Closing Date (as defined in initial public offering of the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right Company’s Common Stock pursuant to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities an effective registration under the Securities Act Act, the holders of at least fifty percent (a “Demand Registration”50%) by delivering a written request therefor to of the Registrable Securities then outstanding may notify the Company that they intend to offer or cause to be offered for public sale at least fifty percent (i50%) specifying of the Registrable Securities then outstanding (or any lesser number of Registrable Securities if the anticipated aggregate sale price, net of underwriting discounts and commissions, if any, would exceed $10,000,000). Upon receipt of such request, the Company shall promptly deliver notice of such request to all Investors holding Registrable Securities who shall then have thirty (30) days to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. If the request for registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to contemplates an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandunderwritten public offering, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom state such in the request for written notice and in such event the right of any Person to participate in such registration has not been received shall be conditioned upon such Person’s participation in such underwritten public offering and (y) the inclusion of such Person’s Registrable Securities in the underwritten public offering to the extent provided herein. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to expeditiously effect (but in any event no later than thirty (30) days after such request) the registration of all Registrable Securities whose holders request participation in such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of Act, but only to the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerextent provided for in this Agreement; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated required to effect or participate (aregistration pursuant to a request under this Section 2(a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings times for the holders of the Registrable Securities as a group. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no request may be made under this Section 2(a) within ninety (90) days after the effective date of a registration statement filed by the Company covering a firm commitment underwritten public offering in any twelve (12which the holders of Registrable Securities shall have been entitled to join pursuant to Section 4 and in which there shall have been effectively registered all Registrable Securities as to which registration shall have been requested. A registration will not count as a requested registration under this Section 2(a) month periodunless and until the registration statement relating to such registration has been declared effective by the Commission; provided, however, that a majority in interest of the participating holders of Registrable Securities may request, in writing, that the Company withdraw a registration statement which has been filed under this Section 2(a) but has not yet been declared effective, and a majority in interest of such holders may thereafter request the Company to reinstate such registration statement, if permitted under the Securities Act, or to file another registration statement, in accordance with the procedures set forth herein and without reduction in the number of demand registrations permitted under this Section 2(a). (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior If a requested registration involves an underwritten public offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, and the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company underwriter of such offering determines in good faith that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed sought to be offered should be limited due to market conditions, then the number of securities to be included in such registration exceeds underwritten public offering shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter; provided, that the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then securities to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) first, persons not having any contractual or other right to include such securities in the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and registration statement, (ii) second, 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 the registration statement, (iii) third, securities to be registered by the Company will be obligated and required pursuant to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of registration statement, (iv) fourth, Registrable Securities of holders who did not make the original request for registration and, if necessary, (v) fifth, Registrable Securities of holders who requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities pursuant to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis Section 2(a). If there is a reduction of the number of Registrable Securities requested pursuant to clauses (iv) or (v), such reduction shall be included therein by each such Holder. No shares made on a pro rata basis (based upon the aggregate number of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by such holders). (c) With respect to a request for registration pursuant to Section 2(a) which is for an underwritten public offering, the Holders managing underwriter shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of chosen by the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included sold in such registrationoffering, and subject only to the consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Company has complied in all material respects with may not cause any other registration of securities for sale for its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has own account (other than a registration effected solely to implement an employee benefit plan) to become effective, effective within one hundred twenty (i120) such Registration Statement or days following the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject effective date of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested required pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)2.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 publication by the Parent of financial results covering at least 30 days after of post Merger combined operations, upon written notice from the Closing Date Representatives (as defined hereinafter defined) in the Merger Agreement), manner set forth in Section 11(h) hereof requesting that the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have Parent effect the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor of any or all of the Registrable Securities, which notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition of such Registrable Securities, the Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect, in the Company manner set forth in Section 5, the registration under the Securities Act of all of such Registrable Securities for disposition in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such request, provided that: (i) specifying if, within 5 business days of receipt of a registration request pursuant to this Section 2(a), Parent is advised in writing (with a copy to the Holder requesting registration) by the lead underwriter of the proposed offering described below that, in such firm's good faith opinion, a registration at the time and on the terms requested would materially and adversely affect any immediately planned offering of securities by Parent as to which Parent was In Registration prior to receipt of notice requesting registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) (a "Transaction Blackout"), Parent shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earliest of (A) the abandonment of such offering or (B) 120 days after receipt by the Holder requesting registration of the lead underwriter's written opinion referred to above in this subsection (i)); (ii) if, while a registration request is pending pursuant to this Section 2(a), Parent has determined in good faith that the filing of a registration statement would require the disclosure of material non-public information that Parent has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, Parent shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earlier of (1) the date upon which such material information is otherwise disclosed to the public or ceases to be material or Parent is able to so comply with applicable SEC requirements, as the case may be, and (2) 90 days after Parent makes such good-faith determination; (iii) Parent shall not be obligated to file a registration statement relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2: (A) if such registration request is for a number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price then market value of less than $5,000,000, 150 million or (iiB) more than 36 months have elapsed since the Holders will not be entitled to require Effective Time; (iv) at least four months have elapsed since the Company to effect last request made by the Representatives on behalf of any Holders; and (v) no more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate demands under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not Section 2 shall be obligated required to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodbe honored. (b) The offering Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, contrary: (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or requested on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such a Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees to sell its Registrable Securities on the basis provided in such underwriting agreement and completes and executes all questionnairesthis Section 2, powers of attorney, indemnities and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting agreement. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration (and, therefore, not requested for purposes of subsection 2(a)), (A) unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the registration statement filed with respect to such Holder's Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, become effective or (B) if after it has become effective, (i) effective such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agencycourt for any reason other than a misrepresentation or an omission by such Holder and, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registrationas a result thereof, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered requested to be registered cannot be distributed in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the related registration statement or (C) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied (other than by reason of an act or omission by such Holder) or waived by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or underwriters; and (ii) if, in a registration requested by a Holder pursuant to this Section 2 and later withdrawn at the case request of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will Holder shall be deemed not to have been effected (and, therefore, requested for purposes of clause (ii) Section 2(a)), whether withdrawn by the Holder prior to or after the effectiveness of such requested registration, unless such request is withdrawn by a Holder prior to the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) filing of a registration requested statement with the SEC; and (c) In the event that any registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not 2 shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, a Holder shall have the right to have been effected designate an underwriter reasonably satisfactory to Parent as a Demand Registration or (ii) co-manager of such underwritten offering and Parent shall have the registration requested pursuant right to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after designate the commencement of lead underwriter reasonably satisfactory to the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)underwritten offering.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Saks Holdings Inc)

Demand Registration. Upon written notice (athe "Request Notification") Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after nine (9) months from the date hereof by any of the Investor(s) (the "Registering Investors") requesting that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or part of their respective the Registrable Securities under owned beneficially and of record by the Securities Act Registering Investors, provided that any such request shall cover in the aggregate not less than twenty percent (a “Demand Registration”20 %) by delivering a written request therefor to of the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or HoldersSecurities, (ii) specifying whether which notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition thereof is pursuant of such Registrable Securities and be simultaneously sent to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be any Investor not included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandsaid Registering Investors, the Company shall be obliged to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (xthe "SEC") promptly notify all Holders a registration statement within ninety (90) days of the Request Notification and use its best efforts, subject to receipt of necessary information from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts Registering Investors, to effect cause such registration (includingstatement to become effective, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under as that term is used in the Securities Act Act, within one hundred and eighty (180) days of the Company's receipt of the Request Notification, for disposition of such Registrable Securities and the Registrable Securities of any other governmental requirements Investor(s) requesting to include all or regulations) part of the Registrable Securities that owned beneficially and of record by it in such registration within thirty (30) days of receipt of the Request Notification (such Investor(s) upon such request, shall also be "Registering Investors"), in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in the Request Notification. Any Investor which is not included among the Registering Investors in a given demand and who has not notified the Company has been so requested within thirty (30) days of receipt of a copy of the Request Notification that it wishes to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering include all or part of the Registrable Securities pursuant owned beneficially and of record by it shall be deemed for all purposes to such Demand Registration may have waived, and be precluded from exercising, any registration rights in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall be required to make any representations and warranties to, or agreements with, any underwriter in a applicable registration other than customary representations, warranties and agreements and (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)4.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Touchtunes Music Corp)

Demand Registration. (ai) Subject At any time after the consummation of an Initial Public Offering, (A) if no Automatic Exchange Event has occurred, upon each notice to the provisions hereofCompany by the Xxxxx Foundation or the New York Trust, or (B) if an Automatic Exchange Event (including without limitation a Qualified Public Offering) has occurred, upon each notice to the Company by the holders of Registrable Securities then constituting at least a majority of the Registrable Securities, requesting, in the case of either (A) or (B), the registration of a specified number of Registrable Securities, the Company shall, as promptly as practicable and in any time on or after the date that is 180 event not later than 90 days after the Closing Date (as defined in Company's receipt of such notice, prepare and file with the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities Commission under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor Registration Statement with respect to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in which such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below)notice relates, and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use its reasonable best efforts to effect cause such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws Registration Statement to be declared effective at the earliest practicable date and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under to prepare and make available a Prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act and providing for the method of disposition determined pursuant to Section 1(a)(iii) for such period as may be required by the Securities Act, but in no event beyond the period reasonably required by the underwriter(s) in any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested Underwritten Offering permitted pursuant to registerSection 7; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated required to effect more than one any such registration within the period beginning on the effective date of a Registration Statement filed by the Company on its behalf covering a firm commitment Underwritten Offering and ending on the later of (1A) Demand Registration in any six 90 days after such effective date and (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (iB) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) expiration of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriters, if any, in connection therewith; and provided, further, that the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to, and shall cause each underwriter participating in such registration and disposition to use its reasonable best efforts to, cause any registration and disposition of Registrable Securities requested pursuant to Section 1(a)(i)(A) to constitute a Qualified Public Offering. Two requests for registration may be made pursuant to this Section 1(a)(i); provided, that the number of such permissible requests shall be increased as set forth in Sections 1(c)(ii)(A) and 1(c)(iv). (ii) At any time that is both after the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date and prior to the consummation of an Initial Public Offering, (A) if no Automatic Exchange Event has occurred, upon each notice to the Company by the Xxxxx Foundation or the New York Trust, or (B) if an Automatic Exchange Event (other than a Qualified Public Offering) has occurred, upon each notice to the Company by the holders of Registrable Securities then constituting at least a majority of the Registrable Securities, requesting, in the case of either (A) or (B), the registration of a specified number of Registrable Securities, the Company shall, as promptly as practicable and in any event not later than 90 days after the Company's receipt of such notice, prepare and file with the Commission under the Securities Act a Registration Statement with respect to the Registrable Securities to which such notice relates, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective at the earliest practicable date and to prepare and make available a Prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act and providing for the method of disposition determined pursuant to Section 1(a)(iii) for such period as may be required by the Securities Act, but in no event beyond the period reasonably required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted Underwritten Offering permitted pursuant to Section 7; provided, that the Company will not be required to effect any such registration within the period beginning on the effective date of a Registration Statement filed by the Company on its own behalf or covering a firm commitment Underwritten Offering and ending on behalf the later of (A) 90 days after such effective date and (B) the Holdersexpiration of any lock-up period required by the underwriters, if any, in connection therewith; and provided, further, that the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to, and shall cause each underwriter participating in such registration and disposition to use its reasonable best efforts to, cause any registration and disposition of Registrable Securities requested pursuant to Section 1(a)(ii)(A) to constitute a Qualified Public Offering. One request for registration may be made pursuant to this Section 1(a)(ii). (ciii) IfIf a request for registration is made pursuant to Section 1(a)(i) or 1(a)(ii), in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise promptly give written notice of such request to all Holders holders of Registrable Securities who did not participate in such request; and each of such holders shall have the right, by giving written notice to the Company promptly (and in any event within 30 days after such notice is given by the Company), to join in such request and to have included in the Registration Statement to be filed by the Company pursuant to such request such number of Registrable Securities as such holder shall specify in such notice; and the method of distribution of the Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (iiRegistration Statement under Section 1(a)(i) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders or 1(a)(ii) shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of selected by the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretoto which the request for registration was made under Section 1(a)(i) and this Section 1(a)(iii), collectively, or under Section 1(a)(ii) and this Section 1(a)(iii), collectively; (iv) The Company may delay the filing of a Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 1(a) if, in its reasonable judgment, (A) the filing of such Registration Statement at such time would adversely affect a proposed financing, reorganization or recapitalization, or pending negotiations relating to a merger, consolidation, acquisition or similar transaction, or otherwise adversely affect the Company; or (B) financial statements meeting the requirements of Regulation S-X are not available at such time because of any such pending proposal or negotiations; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement right of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 subsection (iv) to delay the filing of a Registration Statement shall not extend for more than 135 days from the date that notice is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested given pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (451(a)(i) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(dor 1(a)(ii), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to as the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registrationcase may be, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)requesting registration.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (National Auto Finance Co Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or (i) after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date or (as defined ii) before the receipt by Purchaser and the Company of an opinion of counsel reasonably satisfactory to both Purchaser and the Company that registration of the Shares under the Securities Act is not then required in the Merger Agreement)order for Purchaser to effect a public offering, the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities Purchaser shall have the right to require make two requests of the Company in writing to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities register under the Securities Act at least 15% of the outstanding shares of common stock beneficially owned by Purchaser (shares subject to such request hereunder being referred to as the "Subject Stock"), and the Company shall use best efforts to cause such Subject Stock to be registered under the Securities Act as soon as reasonably practicable so as to permit promptly the sale thereof, and in connection therewith, the Company shall prepare and file, on such appropriate form as the Company in its discretion shall determine, a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor registration statement under the Securities Act to effect such registration. Purchaser undertakes to provide all such information and materials and take all such action as may be required in order to permit the Company to comply with all applicable requirements of the Commission and to obtain any desired acceleration of the effective date of such registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate cause any special audit to be undertaken in connection with any such registration (aii) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings shall be entitled to postpone for a reasonable period of time, but not in excess of 60 days, the filing of any twelve (12) month period, registration statement otherwise required to be prepared and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted filed by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise if the Company is, at such time, conducting or about to conduct an underwritten public offering of equity securities (or securities convertible into equity securities) and is advised in writing by its managing underwriter or underwriters (with a copy to Purchaser) that such offering would in its or their opinion be adversely affected by the registration so requested and (iii) shall be entitled to postpone for a reasonable opinion period of time the number filing of securities proposed any registration statement otherwise required to be included prepared and filed by the Company if the Company determines, in its reasonable judgment, that such registration exceeds and offering would interfere with any financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other material transaction involving the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) Company or that it would require the Company to disclose material non-public information that it deems advisable not to disclose and promptly gives Purchaser written notice of such determination. If the Company shall so advise all Holders postpone the filing of Registrable Securities a registration statement, Purchaser shall have the right to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) withdraw the request for registration by giving written notice to the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis within 30 days after receipt of the number notice of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) ifpostponement and, in the case event of an Underwritten Offeringsuch withdrawal, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will request shall not be deemed not to have been effected counted for purposes of clause the requests for registration to which Purchaser is entitled to in this paragraph (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(aa).

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Samples: Common Stock Purchase Agreement (Boca Research Inc)

Demand Registration. (ai) Subject to the provisions hereof, If at any time there is no currently effective Shelf Registration Statement on or after file with the date Commission, any Holder that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of holds any Registrable Securities shall have the right option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to Prairie (a “Demand Notice,” and the Holder that delivers such a Demand Notice, the “Initiating Holder”), to require Prairie to, pursuant to the Company terms of and subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement registering for the offering and sale all or part of their respective the number and type of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in the Demand Notice (or, to the extent permitted under the Securities Act Commission’s rules and regulations, a prospectus supplement in respect of an existing Registration Statement) 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”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying ). The Demand Notice must set forth the number and type of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested Initiating Holder intends to register; providedinclude in such Demand Registration. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, however, that (i) the Holders in no event shall not make a request for Prairie be required to effectuate a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price value of less than $5,000,000, 50 million based on the VWAP of such Registrable Securities as of the date of the Demand Notice. (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three Within five (35) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering Business Days of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) receipt of the Underwritten OfferingDemand Notice, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval Prairie shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 give written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing notice of such Demand RegistrationNotice to all Holders and, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a).within ten

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Samples: Stock Purchase Agreement

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is 180 publication by the Parent of financial results covering at least 30 days after of post Merger combined operations, upon written notice from the Closing Date Representatives (as defined hereinafter defined) in the Merger Agreement), manner set forth in Section 11(h) hereof requesting that the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have Parent effect the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities registration under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor of any or all of the Registrable Securities, which notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition of such Registrable Securities, the Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect, in the Company manner set forth in Section 5, the registration under the Securities Act of all of such Registrable Securities for disposition in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such request, provided that: (i) specifying if, within 5 business days of receipt of a registration request pursuant to this Section 2(a), Parent is advised in writing (with a copy to the Holder requesting registration) by the lead underwriter of the proposed offering described below that, in such firm's good faith opinion, a registration at the time and on the terms requested would materially and adversely affect any immediately planned offering of securities by Parent as to which Parent was In Registration prior to receipt of notice requesting registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) (a "Transaction Blackout"), Parent shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earliest of (A) the abandonment of such offering or (B) 120 days after receipt by the Holder requesting registration of the lead underwriter's written opinion referred to above in this subsection (i)); (ii) if, while a registration request is pending pursuant to this Section 2(a), Parent has determined in good faith that the filing of a registration statement would require the disclosure of material non-public information that Parent has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, Parent shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earlier of (1) the date upon which such material information is otherwise disclosed to the public or ceases to be material or Parent is able to so comply with applicable SEC requirements, as the case may be, and (2) 90 days after Parent makes such good-faith determination; (iii) Parent shall not be obligated to file a registration statement relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2: (A) if such registration request is for a number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price then market value of less than $5,000,000, 150 million or (iiB) more than 36 months have elapsed since the Holders will not be entitled to require Effective Time; (iv) at least four months have elapsed since the Company to effect last request made by the Representatives on behalf of any Holders; and (v) no more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate demands under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not Section 2 shall be obligated required to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodbe honored. (b) The offering Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, contrary: (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or requested on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such a Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees to sell its Registrable Securities on the basis provided in such underwriting agreement and completes and executes all questionnairesthis Section 2, powers of attorney, indemnities and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting agreement. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration (and, therefore, not requested for purposes of subsection 2(a)), (A) unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the registration statement filed with respect to such Holder's Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, become effective or (B) if after it has become effective, (i) effective such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder registration is or becomes the subject of interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agencycourt for any reason other than a misrepresentation or an omission by such Holder and, as a result thereof, all of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered cannot be distributed in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the related registration statement or (C) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied (other than by reason of an act or omission by such Holder) or waived by the underwriters; and (ii) a registration requested by a Holder pursuant to this Section 2 and later withdrawn at the request of such Holder shall be deemed to have been effected (and, therefore, requested for purposes of Section 2(a)), whether withdrawn by the Holder prior to or after the effectiveness of such requested registration, unless such request is withdrawn by a Holder prior to the filing of a registration statement with the SEC; and (c) In the event that any court prevents registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall involve, in whole or otherwise limits in part, an underwritten offering, a Holder shall have the right to designate an underwriter reasonably satisfactory to Parent as a co-manager of such underwritten offering and Parent shall have the right to designate the lead underwriter reasonably satisfactory to the Holder of such underwritten offering. (d) Parent shall have the right to cause the registration of additional securities for sale for the account of any person (including Parent) in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by a Holder pursuant to Section 2(a); provided that Parent shall not have the right to cause the registration of such additional securities if such person is advised in writing (with a copy to the Parent) by the lead underwriter that, in such firm's good faith opinion, registration of such additional securities would materially and adversely affect the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered contemplated by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Holder.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Proffitts Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject After the consummation of an IPO or at such time prior to the provisions hereofconsummation of an IPO as is permitted by Section 10.3 with respect to a given Shareholder, at any time on or after upon a Shareholder's written request specifying the date that is 180 days after intended manner of disposition (including the Closing Date number of shares of Vail Equity to be sold) (as defined in the Merger Agreementa "Demand Notice"), Vail will use its best efforts to prepare and file with the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file SEC, as expeditiously as possible, a Registration Statement registering on an available form for sale all or part which Vail then qualifies (but not including by means of their respective Registrable Securities a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor Act), which legal counsel for Vail deems appropriate and which is available for the sale of Vail Equity to permit an underwritten public offering of some or all of the Company (i) specifying the number shares of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration Vail Equity then held by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), Shareholder and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable its best efforts to effect cause such registration statement to become effective (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a "Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodRegistration"). (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such A Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as occurred until it has become effective under the Securities Act (unless a Shareholder delivers a Demand Notice and subsequently withdraws the Demand Notice, in which case such Demand Registration will be deemed to have occurred unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective such Shareholder agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses associated with such registration actually incurred by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretoVail); provided, however, that if, after it a Demand Registration has become effective, (i) the offering of Vail Equity pursuant to such Demand Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of prohibited by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or administrative agencya court, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective such Demand Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause occurred (ii) unless such prohibition on the sale of the proviso Vail Equity is based on actions or omissions of such Shareholder, in which case such Demand Registration will be deemed to have occurred unless such Shareholder agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses associated with such registration actually incurred by Vail). (c) Vail shall only be obligated to effect one Demand Registration per Shareholder in any twelve month period under this Section 4.2(a). If 5.1; provided, however, that Vail will not be required to register the Vail Equity pursuant to a Demand Notice under this Section 5.1 if at such time (i) the shares of Vail Equity which a registration requested Shareholder is requesting to be registered pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not 5.1 constitute less than 6.0% (or, if less, all of the shares of Vail Equity owned by such Shareholder) of the outstanding Vail Securities so requested to have been effected as a Demand Registration be registered or (ii) such Demand Notice is given within six (6) months after the effective date of any other registration requested of any Vail Securities under the Securities Act. (d) The managing underwriter will be selected by the Shareholder requesting registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 does 5.1 (the "Requesting Shareholder"); provided, however, that such underwriter shall be subject to the approval of Vail, which approval shall not remain continuously effective until fortybe unreasonably withheld. In the event there is one or more co-five (45) days after managers, the commencement first such co-manager shall be selected by Vail, provided that such co-manager shall be subject to the approval of the distribution Requesting Shareholder, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, and all other co- managers will be selected by the Holders Requesting Shareholder. (e) In connection with a Demand Registration, both the Shareholder not requesting the Demand Registration (the "Non- Requesting Shareholder") and Vail may elect to include additional shares of Vail Securities in such offering on the Registrable same terms and conditions as the Vail Equity to be sold by the Requesting Shareholder; provided, however, that if the managing underwriter(s) advises the Requesting Shareholder, the Non- Requesting Shareholder and Vail that, in its judgment, the number of shares proposed to be included in such offering exceeds the largest number of Vail Securities covered by which can be sold without having an adverse effect on such registrationoffering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the "Marketable Number"), then the Company shall continue total number of shares to be obligated included in such offering shall be limited as follows: (i) first, all the shares of Vail Equity that the Requesting Shareholder and the Non-Requesting Shareholder propose to effect a Demand Registration pursuant sell up to this Section 4.2 the Marketable Number, allocated pro rata between the Requesting Shareholder and the Non-Requesting Shareholder on the basis of the Registrable relative number of Vail Securities that the Requesting Shareholder and the Non-Requesting Shareholder have proposed to be included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause and (ii) second, all the shares of Vail Securities that Vail proposes to sell, which does not exceed the proviso difference, if any, between the Marketable Number and that number of shares which the Requesting Shareholder and the Non-Requesting Shareholder have included pursuant to Section 4.2(a)clauses (i) and (ii) above.

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Samples: Stock Purchase Agreement (New Ralcorp Holdings Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at any time on or From and after the date that is 180 days hereof until five (5) years after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement)Company completes a Qualified IPO or until Holders’ rights under this Agreement otherwise terminate, the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require have the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings demand registrations in any twelve the aggregate on Form X-0, X-0 or S-3 (12) month periodor similar forms then in effect for small business entities), and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) Ifsuch applicable or successor forms, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in then owned of record and beneficially by such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in Holders. A request for such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to (a “Registration Request”) must be allocated pro rata among the made in writing by Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest owning at least fifty percent (50%) of the Registrable Securities. (db) A registration will not be deemed The Company shall use its best efforts to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of cause the Registrable Securities requested specified in the Registration Request (which amount may include Registrable Securities that were not registered pursuant to limitations or exclusions on registration set forth in Section 2.2 hereof) to be included registered as soon as reasonably practicable so as to permit the sale thereof, and in connection therewith shall, within thirty (30) days after such Holders provide the Company with such a Registration Request, prepare and file a registration statement with the SEC under the Securities Act to effect such registration. (c) Such registration statement shall contain such required information pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act and such additional information as deemed necessary by the managing underwriter or, if there is no managing underwriter, as the Company deems necessary under the Securities Act. (d) In connection with the preparation of the registration statement, each Holder shall: (i) specify the number of shares intended to be offered and sold by that Holder; (ii) express that Holder’s intention to offer or cause the offering of such shares for distribution; (iii) describe the nature or method of the proposed offer and sale thereof by that Holder; an (iv) undertake to provide all such information and materials and take all such action as may be required in order to permit the Company to comply with all applicable requirements of the SEC and to obtain any desired acceleration of the effective date of such registration statement. (e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company shall furnish to the Holders making a Registration Request a certificate signed by a duly authorized officer of the Company stating that, in the registration by good faith judgment of the Holders are included in such registrationBoard of Directors of the Company, and it would be seriously detrimental to the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect theretofor such registration statement to be filed on or before the date such filing would be required, then the Company shall be entitled to postpone filing of the registration statement for up to ninety (90) days; provided, however, that if, after it the Company shall be entitled to issue such a certificate only one (1) time in any given twelve (12) month period. (f) If a registration has become effectiveeffective but is withdrawn before completion of the offering contemplated thereby because of adverse business developments at the Company that were not known to the requesting Holders when they requested that the Company initiate such registration proceedings, such registration shall not count as one of the two registrations referred to in Section 2.1(a). (ig) such Registration Statement or The Company shall not cause the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable registration under the Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject Act of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement shares of the SEC or any Common Stock to become effective (other governmental or administrative agencythan registration of an employee stock plan, or if registration in connection with any court prevents Rule 145 or otherwise limits similar transaction) during the sale effectiveness of the Registrable Securities pursuant a registration requested hereunder. (h) Notwithstanding anything to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offeringcontrary, the Company fails shall not be required to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not take any action to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by effect any such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to qualification or compliance under this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time 2.1 prior to the commencement completion of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Qualified IPO.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (FNDS3000 Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereof, at At any time on or after the date that is commencing 180 days after the Closing Date (------------------- Initial Public Offering and for so long as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company shall not be eligible to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all on Form F-3 (or part any successor form relating to secondary offerings), each of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to Holders may request, in writing, that the Company effect a registration on Form F-1 or Form F-2 (ior any successor form) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration Shares held by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether having an aggregate offering price to the intended method public of disposition thereof is at least $50,000,000.00. Following receipt of any notice pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demandthis Section 2, the Company shall (x) promptly immediately notify all Holders from whom the request for registration notice has not been received and (y) shall use reasonable its best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued register under the Securities Act Act, for public sale in accordance with the method of distribution specified in such notice from the requesting Holder or Holders, the number of Registrable Shares specified in such notice (and any in all notices received by the Company from other governmental requirements or regulations) Holders within 30 days after the giving of such notice by the Company). If such method of distribution shall be an underwritten public offering, the Holder of a majority of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested Shares to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate be sold in such offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) underwriter of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offeringoffering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) delayed. If a registration pursuant to this Section 2 is, in whole or in part, an underwritten public offering, the Company shall (together provide such assistance with respect to the offering as may be reasonably requested by the requesting Holders proposing or the underwriters, including, but not limited to, causing members of the Company's senior management team to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement participate in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and "roadshow" presentations for the benefit purpose of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition marketing of the Registrable Securities disposed of Shares to be sold by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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 agreementunderwriters. The Company shall not be obligated required to effect or participate (a) more than two one such registration at the request of each of the CGIP Group and the Floscule Group under this Section 2; provided that such -------- obligation shall be deemed satisfied only when a Registration Statement covering all Registrable Shares specified in notices received as aforesaid, for sale in accordance with the method of disposition specified by the requesting Holders, shall have become effective and, if such method of disposition is a firm commitment underwritten public offering, all such shares shall have been sold pursuant thereto. The Company will use its best efforts to maintain the effectiveness for up to 90 days (or such shorter period of time as the underwriters need to complete the distribution of the registered offering) of any Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and . (b) The Company shall be entitled to include in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required Registration Statement referred to in this Section 2, for sale in accordance with the method of disposition specified by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted requesting Holders, Class A Common Shares to be sold by the Company on for its own behalf or on behalf account; provided, that if the proposed method -------- of disposition specified by the Holders. (c) If, in connection with requesting Holders shall be an Underwritten Offeringunderwritten public offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed shares to be included in such registration exceeds an offering shall be reduced if and to the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then extent that the managing underwriter shall be of the opinion that such inclusion would adversely affect the marketing of the Registrable Shares to be sold. Such reduction will be effected as follows: (i) First, any shares to be sold by the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and reduced; and (ii) Second, if all of the shares to be sold by the Company will are excluded from the offering, then the Registrable Shares of the requesting Holders shall be obligated and required to include in reduced, such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof reduction to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated made pro rata among the ---- requesting Holders thereof based on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein Shares owned by each such Holderrequesting Holders. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A Except for registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SECstatements on Form X-0, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC X-0 or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offeringsuccessor thereto, the Company fails will not file with the Commission any other Registration Statement with respect to provide Full Cooperationits Class A Common Shares, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected whether for purposes its own account or that of clause (ii) other stockholders, from the date of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) receipt of a registration requested notice from requesting Holders pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) 2 until the completion of the period of distribution of the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)contemplated thereby.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Compagnie Generale D Industrie Et De Participations)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject At any time prior to such time as the rights under this Section 2 terminate with respect to a Holder as provided in Section 2(e) hereof, upon written notice from such Holder in the manner set forth in Section 12(h) hereof requesting that the Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of any or all of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder, which notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition of such Registrable Securities, the Company shall use its best efforts to effect, in the manner set forth in Section 5, the registration under the Securities Act of such Registrable Securities for disposition in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such request (including in an offering on a delayed or continuous basis under Rule 415 (or any successor rule to similar effect) promulgated under the Securities Act, if the Company is then eligible to register such Registrable Securities on Form S-3 (or a successor form) for such offering), provided that: (i) if, within 5 business days of receipt of a registration request pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Holder or Holders making such request are advised in writing that the Company has in good faith commenced the preparation of a registration statement for an underwritten public offering prior to receipt of the notice requesting registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) and the managing underwriter of the proposed offering has determined that in such firm’s good faith opinion, a registration at the time and on the terms requested would materially and adversely affect the offering that is contemplated by the Company, the Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) (a “Transactional Deferral”) until the earliest of (A) the abandonment of such offering by the Company, (B) 60 days after receipt by the Holder or Holders requesting registration of the managing underwriter’s written opinion referred to above in this clause (i), unless the registration statement for such offering has become effective and such offering has commenced on or prior to such 60th day, and (C) if the registration statement for such offering has become effective and such offering has commenced on or prior to such 60th day, the day on which the restrictions on the Holders contained in Section 10 hereof lapse, provided, however, that the Company shall not be permitted to delay a requested registration in reliance on this clause (i) more than once in any 12-month period; (ii) if, while a registration request is pending pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Company determines, following consultation with and receiving advice from its legal counsel, that the filing of a registration statement would require the disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential and the disclosure of which the Company determines reasonably and in good faith would have a material adverse effect on the Company, the Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) until the earlier of (A) the date upon which such material information is otherwise disclosed to the provisions hereof, at any time on public or after the date that is 180 ceases to be material and (B) 90 days after the Closing Date Company makes such determination; (as defined iii) the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2 if such registration request is for a number of Registrable Securities having a Fair Market Value on the business day immediately preceding the date of such registration request of less than $3,500,000.00; and (iv) the Company shall not be obligated to file a registration statement relating to a registration request pursuant to this Section 2: (A) in the Merger case of a registration request by Xxxxxx or any Permitted Transferee that has acquired, in the transaction in which it became a Permitted Transferee, more than 30% of the then issued and outstanding Voting Stock, on more than two occasions (which number shall not include the registration effected by the Company pursuant to Section 7.10 of the Purchase Agreement), or (B) in the Holders case of a majority Holder other than Xxxxxx or a Permitted Transferee described in clause (A) above, on more than the number of occasions permitted such Holder in accordance with Section 11 hereof. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary: (i) a registration requested by a Holder pursuant to this Section 2 shall not be deemed to have been effected (and, therefore, not requested for purposes of Section 2(a)), (A) unless the registration statement filed in connection therewith has become effective, (B) if after such registration statement has become effective, it becomes subject to any stop order, or there is issued an injunction or other order or decree of the SEC or other governmental agency or court for any reason other than a misrepresentation or an omission by such Holder, which injunction, order or decree prohibits or otherwise materially and adversely affects the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities so registered prior to the completion of the distribution thereof in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the registration statement or (C) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied by reason of some act, misrepresentation or omission by the Company and are not waived by the purchasers or underwriters; and (ii) nothing herein shall modify a Holder’s obligation to pay Registration Expenses, in accordance with Section 4 hereof, that are incurred in connection with any withdrawn registration requested by such Holder. (c) In the event that any registration pursuant to this Section 2 shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering, Holders owning at least 50.1% of the Fair Market Value of the Registrable Securities to be registered in connection with such offering shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor designate an underwriter reasonably satisfactory to the Company as the lead managing underwriter of such underwritten offering, and the Company shall have the right to designate one underwriter reasonably satisfactory to such Holders as a co-manager of such underwritten offering. (id) specifying The Company shall have the number right to cause the registration of additional securities for sale for the account of any person (including the Company) in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by any Holder pursuant to Section 2(a) only to the extent the managing underwriter or other independent marketing agent for such offering (if any) determines that, in its opinion, the additional securities proposed to be sold will not materially and adversely affect the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities to be included registered in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition then contemplated by such Holder. The rights of a Holder to cause the registration of additional Registrable Securities held by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method in any registration of disposition thereof is Registrable Securities requested by another Holder pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iiiSection 2(a) containing all information about such Holder required to shall be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after governed by the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) agreement of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this with respect thereto as provided in Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period11(a). (be) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) file a registration requested statement relating to a registration request by a Holder pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected 2 from and after such time as a Demand Registration such Holder first owns Registrable Securities representing (assuming for this purpose the conversion, exchange or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement exercise of all Registrable Securities then owned by such Holder that are convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Voting Stock of the distribution by the Holders Company) less than 10% of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 issued and outstanding Voting Stock of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Company.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Omega Protein Corp)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject Upon written notice to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of Issuer from a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (i) the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the Holders. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of holding a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities (but no later than the Exhibit 13 date that is 12 months after the Effective Time) (the "Demand Request") requesting that the Issuer effect the registration under the Securities Act of any or all of the Registrable Securities held by such requesting Holders, which notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition of such Registrable Securities, the Issuer shall prepare as soon as practicable and, within 15 days after such request, file with the Commission a registration statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act for purposes of dispositions in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such request within 30 days after the filing of such registration statement. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary: (i) the Holders may collectively exercise their rights to request registration under this Section 2.2(a) on not more than one occasion (such registration being referred to herein as the "Demand Registration"); (ii) the method of disposition requested by Holders in connection with any Demand Registration may not, without the Issuer's written consent, be a Rule 415 Offering; and (iii) the Issuer shall not be required to effect the Demand Registration hereunder if all securities that were Registrable Securities on the date hereof have ceased to be Registrable Securities. (db) A registration will Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, a Demand Registration requested by Holders pursuant to this Section 2.2 shall not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SECeffected, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities and, therefore, not requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effectiverights of each Holder shall be deemed not to have been exercised for purposes of paragraph (a) above, (i) if such Demand Registration Statement has not become effective under the Securities Act or (ii) if such Demand Registration, after it became effective under the related offerSecurities Act, sale or distribution of Registrable was not maintained effective under the Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject Act (other than as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission or other government agency or court solely on the account of a material misrepresentation or omission of a Holder) for at least 30 days (or such shorter period ending when all the Registrable Securities covered thereby have been disposed of pursuant thereto) and, as a result thereof, the Registrable Securities requested to be registered cannot be distributed in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the related registration statement. So long as a Demand Request is made by the Holders within the 12-month period referred to in Section 2.2(a), the Holders shall not lose their right to their Demand Registration under Section 2.2 if the Demand Registration related to such Demand Request is delayed or not effected in the circumstances set forth in this clause (b). (c) The Issuer shall have the right to cause the registration of additional equity securities for sale for the account of the Issuer, but not for the account of any other governmental person, in the registration of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders pursuant to Section 2.2(a) above, provided that if such Holders are advised in writing (with a copy to the Issuer) by the lead or administrative agencymanaging underwriter referred to in Section 2.3(b) that, in such underwriter's good faith view, all Exhibit 13 or if any court prevents a part of such Registrable Securities and additional equity securities cannot be sold and the inclusion of such Registrable Securities and additional equity securities in such registration would be likely to have an adverse effect on the price, timing or otherwise limits distribution of the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities and additional equity securities then contemplated, then the number of securities that can, in the good faith view of such underwriter, be sold in such offering without so adversely affecting such offering shall be allocated pro rata among the requesting Holders and the Issuer on the basis of the relative number requested to be included therein by the Issuer and each such Holder; provided that in the event such a pro rata allocation shall be made in connection with the Demand Request, the remaining Holders shall be entitled to request one additional Demand Registration (without needing to make a Demand Request therefor within the 12-month period referred to in Section 2.2(a)); provided further that in connection with such additional Demand Registration, if any, the Issuer may not include additional securities therein for its own account if such inclusion would result in any reduction in the Registrable Securities proposed to be sold therein by the Holders. The Holders of the Registrable Securities to be offered pursuant to paragraph (a) above may require that any such additional equity securities be included by the registrationIssuer in the offering proposed by such Holders on the same conditions as the Registrable Securities that are included therein. (d) Within 7 days after delivery of a Demand Request by a Holder, and in the Issuer shall provide a written notice to each case less than Holder (provided that, if so requested by the Issuer after appropriate notice to the Zell Xxxders' Agent by the Issuer, the Zell Xxxders' Agent shall provide written notice to each Zell Xxxxxx), xdvising such Holder of its right to include any or all of the Registrable Securities covered held by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling such Holder or Holders for sale pursuant to the Demand Registration Statement, or (ii) if, and advising such Holder of procedures to enable such Holder to elect to so include Registrable Securities for sale in the case Demand Registration. Any Holder may, within 7 days of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails delivery to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes Holder of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested notice pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not 2.2(d), elect to have been effected as a so include Registrable Securities in the Demand Registration or (ii) by written notice to such effect to the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after Issuer specifying the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder number of Registrable Securities shall desired to be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of so included by such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)Holder.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Zell Chilmark Fund L P)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject At any time following the six-month anniversary of the date of this Agreement, the Holder may make a written request to the provisions hereof, at any time on or after the date Company requesting that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities register under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (a “Demand Registration”the "Act"), all or any portion of the Shares held by the Holder (but in no event shall the written demand be for less than 150,000 Shares) by delivering a written request therefor to for sale in the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities to be included manner specified in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registernotice; provided, however, that (i) the Holders Company shall not make be required to effect a request for a Demand Registration under registration pursuant to this Section 4.2(a) 1 if counsel for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company shall deliver an opinion, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Holder, to the effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in that all of the aggregate Shares sought to be sold by the Holder are salable pursuant to Rule 144 under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period.Act. 2 (b) The offering Company shall use its reasonable commercial efforts to register the Shares under the Act by taking all actions necessary, including, without limitation, those actions set forth in Section 3 hereof, to permit the public sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be Shares in accordance with the method of disposition specified in the form notice described in paragraph (a) above, the number of Shares specified in such notice. If such method of disposition shall be an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such caseoffering, (i) the Company Holder may designate the managing underwriter(s) underwriter of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offeringoffering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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 agreementdelayed. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required register the Shares held by the underwriter(s) Holder pursuant to this Section 1 on three occasions only, provided, however, that such obligation shall be deemed satisfied only when a registration statement covering all Shares specified in any prior underwritten offering conducted the notice received as aforesaid, for sale in accordance with the method of disposition specified by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the HoldersHolder shall have become effective. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the The Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required entitled to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number any registration statement referred to in this Section 1, for sale in accordance with the method of Registrable Securities requested disposition specified by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum NumberHolder, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held to be sold by any Person other than Registrable Securities held selling stockholders or by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected Company for its own account, except as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registration, and the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) ifextent that, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) opinion of the proviso to Section 4.2(amanaging underwriter (if such method of disposition shall be an underwritten public offering). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) , such inclusion would adversely affect the registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement marketing of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue Shares to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)sold.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Lowestfare Com Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject At any time during the period commencing on the date six months subsequent to the date hereof and ending on the date two years after the date hereof, the Purchaser may request, in writing, that the Company effect the registration of at least 20% of the total Shares originally issued (or any lesser percentage if the reasonably anticipated aggregate price to the public of such public offering would exceed $1,000,000). If the Purchaser intends to distribute the Shares covered by its request by means of an underwriting, it shall so advise the Company as a part of its request made pursuant to this Section 2(a). Upon receipt of the Purchaser's request, the Company shall, as soon as practicable, use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration (on a registration Form determined in accordance with Section 2(f) of this Agreement) of all Shares which the Company has been requested to so register. The Registration Statement filed pursuant to the Purchaser's request may, subject to the provisions hereofof Section 2(b) of this Agreement, at any time on or after the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Holders include other securities of a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part of their respective Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”) by delivering a written request therefor to the Company (i) specifying which are held by officers or directors of the number Company, (ii) which are held by persons who, by virtue of Registrable Securities agreements with the Company, are entitled to be include their securities in any such registration (the "Other Holders") and (iii) which are included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that (i) the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, (ii) the Holders will not be entitled to require the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month periodCompany. (b) The If the Company desires to include any securities described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of Section 2(a) of this Agreement (the "Additional Securities") in any registration for an underwritten offering of the Registrable Securities requested pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in the form of an underwritten public offering (an “Underwritten Offering”said Section 2(a). In such case, (i) the Company may designate include such securities in such registration and underwriting on the managing underwriter(s) of the Underwritten Offering, provided that such Holders may designate a co-managing underwriter to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the terms set forth herein. The Company shall (together with the Purchaser and all officers, directors and Other Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for (including, without limitation, customary indemnification and contribution provisions on the part of the Company) with the managing underwriter. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2(b), if the managing underwriter advises the Company that the inclusion of all shares requested to be registered would materially and adversely affect the offering and if a limitation of the number of Additional Securities is required, the number of Additional Securities that may be included in such registration and underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings shall, except as otherwise provided in any contract to which the Company is a party, be allocated among all holders of equity Additional Securities pro rata, based upon the total number of Additional Securities requested to be registered. If the Company or any officer, director, or Other Holder who has requested inclusion in such registration as provided above disapproves of the terms of the underwriting, such person or entity may elect to withdraw therefrom by written notice to the Company, and the securities with so withdrawn shall also be withdrawn from registration. (c) The Purchaser shall have the right to select the managing underwriter(s) proposing for any underwritten offering requested pursuant to distribute their securities through such Underwritten Offering, which underwriting agreement shall have indemnification provisions in substantially the form as set forth in Section 4.9 2(a) of this Agreement; provided, that (i) subject to the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit approval of the underwriter(sCompany, which approval will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. (d) shall also be made to and for the benefit of the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through the Underwritten Offering, (ii) no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder 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. The Company shall not be obligated required to effect or participate (a) more than two (registrations pursuant to this Section 2) Underwritten Offerings ; provided, that, in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one registration pursuant to this Section 2 after it has already effected a registration on its own behalf a Registration Statement on Form S-1 or on behalf of the Holders. Form S-2 (cor any successor forms) Ifpursuant to this Section 2. In addition, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to not be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number effect any registration within six months after the effective date of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis any other Registration Statement of the number Company. For purposes of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders this Section 2(d), a Registration Statement shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected counted until such time as a Demand Registration unless the such Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% Commission (unless the Purchaser withdraws its request for such registration (other than as a result of information concerning the business or financial condition of the Registrable Securities requested Company which is made known to be included in the Purchaser after the date on which such registration was requested) and elects not to pay the Registration Expenses therefor). (e) If at the time of any request to register Shares by the Holders are included in such registrationPurchaser pursuant to Section 2(a) of this Agreement, and the Company is engaged or has complied plans to engage in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such Registration Statement a registered public offering or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or engaged in any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) ifactivity which, in the case good faith determination of an Underwritten Offeringthe Company's Board of Directors, would be adversely affected by the requested registration, then the Company may at its option direct that such request be delayed for a period not in excess of six months from the date of such request, such right to delay a request to be exercised by the Company not more than once in any 12-month period. (f) The Parties hereby acknowledge that as of the date hereof, the Company fails is not permitted under the Commission's rules and regulations to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not use a Registration Statement on Form S-3 to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) effect a registration requested pursuant to Section 2(a) of this Agreement. In the event at the time of a request for registration under Section 4.2 2(a) of this Agreement the Company is deemed not permitted under the Commission's rules and regulations to have been effected as use a Demand Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any successor form relating to secondary offerings) (iian "S-3 Registration Statement") the to effect a registration requested pursuant to Section 2(a) of this Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registrationAgreement, then the Company shall continue use an S-3 Registration Statement in effecting the requested registration and shall use its reasonable best efforts to be obligated cause such S-3 Registration Statement to remain effective for a period ending on the earlier of (i) the date two years subsequent to the date hereof and (ii) until all shares registered thereunder are sold. In the event at the time of a request for registration under Section 2(a) of this Agreement the Company is not permitted under the Commission's rules and regulations to use an S-3 Registration Statement to effect a Demand Registration registration requested pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences 2(a) of this Section 4.2(d)Agreement, each Holder of Registrable Securities the Company shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all use a Registration Statement on Form S-1 or Form S-2 (or any part successor forms) in effecting the requested registration and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to remain effective until the earlier of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior (I) the date two months subsequent to the commencement of marketing of date such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause Statement is declared effective and (iiII) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)until all shares registered thereunder are sold.

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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Peritus Software Services Inc)

Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the provisions hereofSection 4.2(a), if, at any time on or after the date that which is 180 days after eleven (11) months from the Closing Date (as defined date hereof, the Company shall receive from a Holder or Holders beneficially owning in the Merger Agreementaggregate more than 50% of the Registrable Securities a written request (a "Demand Request") that the Company register under the Securities Act the Registrable Securities, then the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause all Registrable Securities specified in such Demand Request to be registered as soon as reasonably practicable so as to permit the offering and sale thereof and, in connection therewith, shall, as expeditiously as possible, but in any event not later than thirty (30) days (excluding any days which occur during the period of a permitted Suspension Condition under Section 4.2 below) after receipt of a Demand Request, prepare and file with the SEC, a registration statement, which may, at the option of such Holder(s), the Holders of be a majority of Registrable Securities shall have the right to require shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (if such Form S-3 is available for use by the Company to file a Registration Statement registering for sale all or part effect the registration and distribution of their respective the Registrable Securities Securities) pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i) under the Securities Act (a "Demand Registration”Registration Statement") by delivering a written request therefor and use its commercially reasonable efforts to the Company (i) specifying the number of Registrable Securities cause such Demand Registration Statement to be included in such registration by such Holder or Holders, (ii) specifying whether the intended method of disposition thereof is pursuant to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), and (iii) containing all information about such Holder required to be included in such Registration Statement in accordance with applicable law. As soon as practicable after the receipt of such demand, the Company shall (x) promptly notify all Holders from whom the request for registration has not been received and (y) use reasonable best efforts to effect such registration (including, without limitation, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) of the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to registerdeclared effective; provided, however, that such Demand Request shall: (i) specify the Holders shall not make a request for a Demand Registration under this Section 4.2(a) for number of Registrable Securities having an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $5,000,000, intended to be offered and sold by the Holder(s) pursuant thereto; (ii) express the Holders will not be entitled present intention of the Holder(s) to require offer or cause the Company to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations in the aggregate under this Agreement, and (iii) the Company will not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration in any six (6) month period. (b) The offering of the such Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration may be in Statement; (iii) describe the form nature or method of distribution of such Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration Statement, including by means of an underwritten public offering offering; and (an “Underwritten Offering”). In such case, (iiv) contain the Company may designate the managing underwriter(s) undertaking of the Underwritten Offering, provided that Holder(s) to provide all such Holders information and materials and take all such actions as may designate a co-managing underwriter be required in order to participate in the Underwritten Offering, subject to the approval of the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (ii) the Company shall (together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form for underwriting agreements for firm commitment offerings 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 4.9 of this Agreement; provided, that (i) the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, permit the Company to and for the benefit comply with all applicable requirements of the underwriter(s) shall also be made to Securities Act, the Exchange Act and for the benefit rules and regulations of the Holders proposing SEC thereunder, and to distribute their securities through obtain any desired acceleration of the Underwritten Offeringeffective date of such Demand Registration Statement. (b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (ii) if a Form S-3 is available for use by the Company to effect the registration and distribution of the Registrable Securities, the Demand Registration Statement shall be on Form S-3, and no Holder shall 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 (iii) the liability of each Holder in respect of any indemnification, contribution or other obligation of such Holder arising under such underwriting agreement (a) 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 Demand Request that the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for inclusion therein and (b) shall not in register any event, absent fraud or intentional misrepresentation, exceed an amount equal to the net proceeds to such Holder (after deduction of all underwriters’ discounts and commissions) from the disposition of the Registrable Securities disposed of by such Holder pursuant to such Underwritten Offering. No Holder may participate in any such Underwritten Offering unless such Holder agrees to sell its Registrable Securities on the basis provided in such underwriting agreement and completes and executes all questionnaires, powers Form S-1 or other form of attorney, indemnities and other documents reasonably required registration under the terms of such underwriting agreement. The Company shall not be obligated to effect or participate (a) more than two (2) Underwritten Offerings in any twelve (12) month period, and (b) in any Underwritten Offering during any lock-up period required by the underwriter(s) in any prior underwritten offering conducted by the Company on its own behalf or on behalf of the HoldersSecurities Act. (c) If, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, the managing underwriter(s) advise The procedures to be followed by the Company that in its or their reasonable opinion and the number of securities proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the Underwriters’ Maximum Number, then (i) the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Underwritten Offering and (ii) the Company will be obligated and required to include in such Underwritten Offering only that number of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders thereof to be included in such registration that does not exceed such Underwriters’ Maximum Number, such Registrable Securities to be allocated pro rata among the Holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder. No shares of Common Stock held by any Person other than Registrable Securities held by the Holders shall be included in a Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities. (d) A registration will not be deemed to have been effected as a Demand Registration unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has been declared effective by the SEC, at least 75% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration by the Holders are included in such registrationHolders, and the respective rights and obligations of the Company has complied in all material respects with its obligations under this Agreement and the Holders, with respect thereto; providedto the preparation, however, that if, after it has become effective, (i) such filing and effectiveness of the Demand Registration Statement or and the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is or becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental or administrative agency, or if any court prevents or otherwise limits the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration, and in each case less than all of the Registrable Securities covered by the effective Demand Registration Statement are actually sold by the selling Holder or Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (ii) if, in the case of an Underwritten Offering, the Company fails to provide Full Cooperation, then such registration will be deemed not to have been effected for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a). If (i) a registration requested pursuant to under this Section 4.2 is deemed not to have been effected as a Demand Registration or (ii) the registration requested pursuant to this 4.1 are set forth in Section 4.2 does not remain continuously effective until forty-five (45) days after the commencement of the distribution by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration, then the Company shall continue to be obligated to effect a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 4.2 of the Registrable Securities included in such registration. In circumstances not including the events described in the immediately two preceding sentences of this Section 4.2(d), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be permitted voluntarily to withdraw all or any part of its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the commencement of marketing of such Demand Registration, provided that such registration nonetheless shall count as a Demand Registration for purposes of clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 4.2(a)hereof.

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Samples: Standstill and Registration Rights Agreement (Cell Genesys Inc)

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