Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securities, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration: (i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective; (ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; (iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000; (iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or (v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a). (i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice. (ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration. (c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld. (d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion. (e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Jones Mark Evan), Registration Rights Agreement (Colby Michael C.), Registration Rights Agreement (Goosehead Insurance, Inc.)
Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from either Cellectis or any other Holder or group of Holders holding at least 5010% of the Registrable Securitiesthen outstanding Company Shares, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing effective date of the IPO, registration statement filed in connection with the IPO (or such earlier time as agreed by the Company) a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.14.01, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, including by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 4.01 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 4.01 that has been declared declared, ordered or ordered become automatically effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expensescommissions, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the BoardBoard of Directors, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board of Directors to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board of Directors determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board of Directors determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than a total of 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a4.01(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw or suspend any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a4.01(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a4.01(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal withdrawal, suspension or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal withdrawal, suspension or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement postponement, suspension or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn withdrawn, suspended or postponed registration statement in accordance with this Section 2.1 (4.01 unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn withdrawn, suspended or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a4.01(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 4.03 and 2.64.06, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 4.02 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days 5 days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.14.01, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, including by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Stockholders Agreement (Cellectis S.A.), Stockholders Agreement (Calyxt, Inc.), Stockholders Agreement (Calyxt, Inc.)
Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from (i) any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 5040% of the Registrable Securities, in either case Securities at any time beginning 180 days one year after the closing of the IPO, or (ii) The Villages Invesco, LLC and its affiliates (the “Villages”) at any time beginning one eighteen months after the closing of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to all or a portion of the Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders or the Villages request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three four months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially and adversely interfere with a any existing or potential material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”)) , then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating HoldersHolders or, in the case where the Initiating Holder is the Villages, the Villages, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders Initiating Holder shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company Initiating Holder in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (BRP Group, Inc.), Reorganization Agreement (BRP Group, Inc.), Reorganization Agreement (BRP Group, Inc.)
Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from any Majority Holder or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securities, in either case at any time beginning on or following the earlier to occur of (a) 180 days after the closing of the IPOIPO and (b) July 17, 2022, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to all or a portion of the Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, (i) within five 10 Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to file a Registration Statement in respect of such Demand Registration as soon as possible, but in no event later than 75 days of receipt of the request, and (iii) use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant Pursuant to this Section 2.1 which 2.1, the Company shall not be required in any event to effect more than three Demand Registrations on Form F-1 or S-1, as applicable, or three Demand Registrations of each Holder in any twelve month period in case of a shelf registration on Form F-3 or S-3, as applicable (pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is obligated then eligible to effectuse such a registration). However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees directors of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,00035,000,000 with respect to a Demand Registration on Form F-1 or S-1 and $15,000,000 with respect to a Demand Registration on Form F-3 or S-3, as applicable; provided, however, that if any Majority Holder demands to register at least one-third of all Registrable Securities beneficially owned by such Majority Holder and its Affiliates, this section 2.1(iii) shall not be applicable;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the BoardCompany, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially and adversely interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization proposal or merger or other material transaction or event involving plan by the Company to engage in (directly or indirectly through any of its subsidiaries Subsidiaries): a material acquisition or divestiture of assets; a merger, consolidation, tender offer, reorganization, offering of the Company's securities or similar material transaction; or a material financing or any other material business transaction with a third party or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, and has determined that the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to such information is not be in the Company’s best interests (in either casecase of (i) or (ii), a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five 10 Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board Company determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five 10 Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board Company determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or;
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). ; Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five 10 Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 180 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Majority Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten 10 Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities Securities, which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating HoldersInitiating Holder(s), obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders Company shall have select the right underwriter(s), which underwriter or underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheldRequesting Shareholder.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Majority Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretionand the Initiating Holder(s).
(e) Any Majority Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two daysBusiness Days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (CureVac N.V.), Registration Rights Agreement (CureVac B.V.), Registration Rights Agreement (CureVac B.V.)
Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from (i) any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securities, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to all or a portion of the Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of The Company shall not be required to effect more than two Demand Registrations in any calendar year pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect2.1. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees directors of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000100,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially and adversely interfere with a any existing or potential material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”)) , then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating HoldersInitiating Holder(s), obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders Initiating Holder shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not to be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretionand the Initiating Holder(s).
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Royalty Pharma PLC), Registration Rights Agreement (Royalty Pharma PLC), Registration Rights Agreement (Royalty Pharma PLC)
Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding at least fifty percent (50% %) of the Registrable Securities, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered become effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (xA) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (yB) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (xA) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (yB) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (TWFG, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (TWFG, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (TWFG, Inc.)
Demand Registrations. (a) If Within 90 days following the date that Xx. Xxxx X. Getty, in the case of the trustees of the October 1993 Trust and its transferees or assignees, and within 90 days following the date that Xx. Xxxxxxxx X. Klein, in the case of Crediton Limited and its transferees or assignees, ceases to be employed by the Company, each such Holder shall have the right (the "Demand Right") on one occasion to require the Company to file a registration statement under the Securities Act in respect of all the Registrable Shares held by such Holder; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if such Holder is exercising such Demand Right together with any other Holders, then it may be exercised if the Registrable Shares and the other shares demanded by the other Holders shall exceed five percent of the outstanding Ordinary Shares of the Company. As promptly as practicable, but in no event later than 30 days after the Company receives a written request from such Holder demanding that the Company so register the number of Registrable Shares specified in such request, the Company shall receive from file with the Commission and thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective promptly a registration statement (a "Demand Registration") providing for the registration of all Registrable Shares as such Holder shall have demanded be registered.
(b) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall be entitled to postpone and delay, for a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 45 days (the "Blackout Period"), the filing of any Demand Registration if (i) the Company is conducting or about to conduct an underwritten public offering of securities in which the Holder is entitled to join pursuant to Section 3.02 hereof, (ii) the Company is subject to an existing contractual obligation not to engage in a public offering, or group (iii) the Company shall determine that any such filing or the offering of Holders holding at least 50% any Registrable Shares would (x) in the good faith judgment of the Registrable SecuritiesBoard of Directors of the Company, impede, delay or otherwise interfere with any pending or contemplated financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other similar transaction involving the Company, (y) based upon advice from the Company's investment banker or financial advisor, adversely affect any pending or contemplated offering or sale of any class of securities by the Company, or (z) require disclosure of material nonpublic information which, if disclosed at such time, would be materially harmful to the interests of the Company and its shareholders; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Blackout Period shall terminate upon the completion or abandonment of the relevant securities offering or sale, the termination or expiration of the existing contractual obligation to its underwriters not to engage in a public offering, the completion or abandonment of the relevant financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other similar transaction, such time as such Demand Registration shall no longer affect the relevant pending or contemplated offering or sale of securities by the Company, or the public disclosure by the Company or public admission by the Company of such material nonpublic information or such time as such material nonpublic information shall be publicly disclosed without breach of the last sentence of this subsection (b), as the case may be. After the expiration of any Blackout Period and without any further request from a Holder, the Company shall effect the filing of the relevant Demand Registration and shall use its best efforts to cause any such Demand Registration to be declared effective as promptly as practicable unless such Holder shall have, prior to the effective date of such Demand Registration, withdrawn in writing its initial request, in either which case at such withdrawn request shall not constitute a Demand Registration for purposes of determining the number of Demand Registrations to which such Holder is entitled to hereunder.
(c) Except with respect to any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, request by a written request that Holder for a Demand Registration which is subsequently withdrawn prior to such Demand Registration becoming effective due to (i) a material adverse change affecting the Company or capital markets generally, or (ii) a notification by the Company of an intention to file a registration statement with respect to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Class A Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by shall share equally with the Company, will deliver Company all expenses relating to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt preparation of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Crediton LTD), Registration Rights Agreement (October 1993 Trust), Registration Rights Agreement (Getty Images Inc)
Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from any Holder of C/R, GSCP, First Reserve, or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable SecuritiesXXXX, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after six (6) months after the closing of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request or any similar request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days (5) days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities 1933 Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the The Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) after it has effected a total of twelve (12) Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1, and such registrations have been declared or ordered effective. None of C/R acting individually, GSCP acting individually, First Reserve acting individually or XXXX acting individually may make more than three (3) Demand Registration Requests, which registrations have been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) within three (3) months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(iiiii) during the period starting with the date 15 fifteen (15) days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 ninety (90) days after the effective date of, a Company-Company initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC a Commission Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iiiiv) where the anticipated offering price, before net of any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expensescommissions, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(ivv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five (5) Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 sixty (60) days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five (5) Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 sixty (60) days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days once in any 12 twelve (12) month period; or
(vvi) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a2.1(a)(v), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company SharesCommon Equity, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iviii) of this Section 2.1(a)above, such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a2.1(a)(v) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five (5) Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 sixty (60) days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a2.1(a)(v).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days thirty (30) days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise NoticeNotice (or fifteen (15) days if, at the request of the Initiating Holders, the Company states in such written notice or gives telephonic notice to all Holders, with written confirmation to follow promptly thereafter, that such registration will be on a Form S-3).
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution, including a distribution to, and resale by, the members or partners of a Holder (a “Partner Distribution”) and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Company shall, at the request of any Holder seeking to effect a Partner Distribution, file any prospectus supplement or post-effective amendments and otherwise take any action necessary to include therein all disclosure and language deemed necessary or advisable by such Holder if such disclosure or language was not included in the initial registration statement, or revise such disclosure or language if deemed necessary or advisable by such Holder, including filing a prospectus supplement naming the Holders, partners, members and shareholders to the extent required by law, to effect such Partner Distribution.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior 2 (two) days notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Cobalt International Energy, Inc.), Reorganization Agreement (Cobalt International Energy, Inc.)
Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 5040% of the Registrable Securities, in either case Securities at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO (or such earlier time as permitted by the terms of the lockup agreements executed in connection with the IPO), a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to all or a portion of the Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration statement so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registeredregistered within five Business Days of receipt of such notice. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three four months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC a Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expensesExpenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;[•]; or
(iv) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. In addition, if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the BoardCompany, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a an existing shelf registration statement) would materially and adversely interfere with a any existing or potential material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries Subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board Company to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request (or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement statement) until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board Company determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board Company determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone the filing of, or withdraw withdraw, a registration statement (or suspend sales under a an existing shelf registration statement statement) and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner more than twice or for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) the immediately prior paragraph of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the such withdrawn registration statement and such new registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders Holder(s) shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.62.7, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders Holder(s) and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten five Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act Act, if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended the method of distribution intended by the Initiating Holder(s) and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating HoldersInitiating Holder(s), obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders Initiating Holder(s) shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(eInitiating Holder(s) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such saleSection 2.1(c).
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Weber Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Weber Inc.)
Demand Registrations. (a) If In addition to the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securitiesinitial Registration -------------------- described in Section 1(a), in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect such initial Registration Statement ceases to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then effective the Company shall, within five Business Days upon the written request of Holders of at least 25% of the receipt thereofTransfer Restricted Shares, give written notice promptly file with the Commission a Registration Statement (a "Demand Registration") on an appropriate form under the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject Securities Act relating to the limitations offer and sale of this Section 2.1, the Transfer Restricted Shares and thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective no later than 120 days after the registration under date of the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that request from the Holders request (such 120th day being the Effectiveness Deadline with respect to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of such Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. HoweverRegistration), provided that the Company shall not be obligated to take any action effect -------- more than one (1) Demand Registration for the Holders pursuant to effect any Demand Registration:this Section 1(b).
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration If at the time of any request to register Transfer Restricted Shares pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction1(b), provided that the Company is actively employing engaged in, or has fixed plans to engage in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
within thirty (iii30) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer days of the Company stating that time of such request, a registered public offering or is engaged in any other activity which, in the good faith judgment determination of the BoardBoard of Directors of the Company, any registration of Registrable Securities should not would be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined adversely affected by the Board Demand Registration to not be in the material detriment of the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a at its option direct that such Demand Registration Request be delayed for a reasonable period not in excess of three (3) months from the effective date of such other offering or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date of completion of such other material activity, as the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereofbe; provided, however, that such right to delay a request may be -------- ------- exercised by the Company not more than once in any period of twelve (12) consecutive months. In addition, the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If effect any registration within ninety (90) days after the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension effective date of any registration statement pursuant other Registration Statement of the Company. In any such case, the Effectiveness Deadline for the Demand Registration shall be extended by a period equal to clause the period of the permitted delay.
(ivii) The request for a Demand Registration by the Holders shall state the number of this Section 2.1(a)Transfer Restricted Shares proposed to be sold and the intended method of disposition thereof. Upon receiving a request for a Demand Registration, the Company shall not, during promptly take such steps as are necessary or appropriate to prepare for the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities Transfer Restricted Shares that was in effect at are the time of receipt subject of such notice. If the Company request.
(iii) A Registration shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to not constitute a Demand Registration until it has become effective and remains continuously effective for the Registration Period described in Section 1(d) hereof. In addition, a Registration shall not constitute a Demand Registration if (whether pursuant to clause (ivx) after such Demand Registration has become effective, such registration or the related offer, sale or distribution of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of Transfer Restricted Shares thereunder is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission or any other governmental agency or court), court for any reason not attributable to the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement Holders and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall interference is not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal thereafter eliminated or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securitiesconditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shallif any, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) entered into in connection with such registration and each Demand Registration are not satisfied or waived, other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent than by reason of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested a failure by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretionHolders.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Virtualfund Com Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Business Translation Services Inc)
Demand Registrations. Subject to Section 7.5(d) below, at any time after the end of the Lock- Up Period and so long as such Stockholder either (ay) If is subject to Rule 145(d)(1) in respect of the Company shall receive from any Holder Search Common Stock acquired by such Stockholder pursuant to the Merger, or group of Holders holding (z) holds at least 505% of the Registrable Securitiesissued and outstanding shares of Search Common Stock, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing Stockholders, as holders of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such may request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”)one, then the Company shallbut not more than one, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all or part of their Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take Form S-1 or any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Companysimilar long-initiated form registration (other than a "Long-Form Registrations"), or, if Search is eligible for same, on Forms S-2 or S-3 or any similar short-form registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option("Short-Form Registrations"), stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction)for which Search will pay all registration expenses, provided that the Company expected aggregate net cash proceeds to all sellers of Registrable Securities in any underwritten offering is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or not less than $25,000,000;
5 million. The Stockholders (iveither jointly or severally)collectively will be entitled to request only one (1) if registration under this Section 7.5(a). A registration will not count as the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any one permitted registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which until it has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereofbecome effective; provided, howeverthat if, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 within 60 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a)after it has become effective, the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed is interfered with by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall such registration will be deemed not be considered to have effected an effective been effected. The registration for under this Section 7.5(a) shall be, at the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date option of the postponement Stockholders after consultation with Search, either (w) a shelf registration which Search agrees to keep effective for a period of not less than ninety (90) days, or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a an underwritten registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders . Search shall have the right to designate select the lead managing underwriter (investment banker(s) and manager(s) to administer any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreementunderwritten offering, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to the consent of the CompanyStockholder whose shares are being registered thereunder, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so . The registration requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of this Section 7.5(a) is referred to herein as a "Demand Registration." The Demand Registration will be a Short-Form Registration whenever Search is permitted to use any such saleapplicable short form.
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Demand Registrations. (a) If Merrimac shall receive, at any time beginning 90 days prior to the Company shall receive second anniversary of the date hereof, a written request from any Holder DCEO or group a permitted transferee under the Subscription Agreement to file a Registration Statement covering the registration of Holders holding at least the lesser of (i) 50% of the Registrable Securities, in either case Shares then outstanding or (ii) Registrable Shares having an anticipated aggregate public offering price of at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”)least $1.0 million, then the Company shallMerrimac shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to file as soon as practicable and to effect, within five Business Days 90 days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicablerequest, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request Shares which DCEO requests to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company Merrimac shall not be obligated to take register any action shares pursuant to effect this Section 2.1(a) after Merrimac has effected two Registration Statements pursuant to this Section 2.1(a) and such Registration Statements have been declared or ordered effective. Registration Statements effected pursuant to Section 2.1(b) shall not affect the two Registration Statements permitted under this Section 2.1(a).
(b) In addition to the registration rights provided pursuant to Section 2.1(a), if Merrimac (i) shall receive, at any Demand Registrationtime beginning 90 days prior to the second anniversary of the date hereof, a written request from DCEO or a permitted transferee under the Subscription Agreement to file a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the registration of at least 50,000 shares of the Registrable Shares pursuant to a non-underwritten offering and (ii) is entitled, at the time the registration statement is requested, to use Form S-3 to register such shares, then Merrimac shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to file as soon as practicable and to effect, within 90 days of the receipt of such request, the registration under the Securities Act on Form S-3 of all Registrable Shares which DCEO requests to be registered. Merrimac shall not be obligated to register any Registrable Shares pursuant to this Section 2.1(b) on more than two occasions within any twelve-month period. Registration Statements effected pursuant to Section 2.1(a) shall not affect the Registration Statements permitted under this Section 2.1(b).
(c) If DCEO intends to distribute the Registrable Shares covered by its request by means of an underwriting, it shall so advise Merrimac as a part of its request made pursuant to Section 2.1(a) hereof. The underwriters will be selected by Merrimac and shall be reasonably acceptable to DCEO. In such an event, the right of DCEO to include the Registrable Shares in such Registration Statement shall be conditioned upon DCEO entering into an underwriting agreement, in customary form, with the underwriters.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Merrimac shall furnish to DCEO a certificate signed by the President of Merrimac stating that, in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of Merrimac, it would be seriously detrimental to Merrimac and its stockholders for such Registration Statement to be filed, Merrimac shall have the right to defer such filing for a period of not more than 60 days after receipt of the request for registration pursuant to Section 2.1(a) or (b) hereof; provided, however, that Merrimac may not utilize this Section 2.1(d) more than once in any twelve-month period.
(e) Pursuant to the Other Registration Agreements, Merrimac shall offer to the Other Holders the right to participate in and include their securities in a Registration Statement required to be filed pursuant to Section 2.1(a) or (b) hereof. In the event that an underwriting is requested by DCEO pursuant to Section 2.1(c) hereof, the right of any Other Holders to include their securities in such Registration Statement shall be conditioned upon the inclusion of such Other Holders' securities in the underwriting and their entering into an underwriting agreement, in customary form, with the underwriters on substantially the same terms as DCEO's agreement with the underwriters. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.1, if the underwriters advise Merrimac in writing that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of securities to be underwritten, then Merrimac shall so advise DCEO and all Other Holders desiring to participate in such offering. The amount of securities that may be included in the underwriting shall be allocated, first, to all of the Shares requested to be registered by DCEO and, second, if the underwriters approve, and there is sufficient space left in the underwriting, among all Other Holders requesting participation in such offering, in accordance with the provisions of the Other Registration Agreements or, if no such provisions are applicable, pro rata, based on the number of shares requested to be included therein by the Other Holders. Any Registrable Shares excluded from such underwriting shall be withdrawn from the Registration Statement.
(f) Merrimac shall not be obligated to file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2.1:
(i) within three months after if Merrimac has effected a Demand Registration registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;an Other Registration Agreement within the 90-day period preceding such request, during the period of 90 days after the effective date of such registration; or
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 no more than 30 days prior to its Merrimac's good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company Registration Statement pursuant to a stock optionSection 2.2 hereof in which Merrimac is registering securities for sale by it; provided, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company (1) Merrimac is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement Registration Statement to become effective;effective and (2) Merrimac has notified DuPont of its good faith estimate of such period before or promptly after its commencement.
(iiig) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice Notwithstanding anything to the Participating Holders contrary contained in any other provision of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponementthis Agreement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company Merrimac shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute effect a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn an offering on a delayed or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed continuous basis pursuant to clause Rule 415 (ivor any successor provision then in force) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means a "Shelf Registration") or maintain the effectiveness of a shelf registration pursuant Registration Statement to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such effect a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registrationShelf Registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Merrimac Industries Inc)
Demand Registrations. Subject to Section 7.5(d) below, at any time after the end of the Lock-Up Period and so long as such Stockholder either (ay) If is subject to Rule 145(d)(1) in respect of the Company shall receive from any Holder Search Common Stock acquired by such Stockholder pursuant to the Merger, or group of Holders holding (z) holds at least 505% of the Registrable Securitiesissued and outstanding shares of Search Common Stock, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing Stockholders, as holders of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such may request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”)one, then the Company shallbut not more than one, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all or part of their Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take Form S-1 or any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Companysimilar long-initiated form registration (other than a "Long-Form Registrations"), or, if Search is eligible for same, on Forms S-2 or S-3 or any similar short-form registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option("Short-Form Registrations"), stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction)for which Search will pay all registration expenses, provided that the Company expected aggregate net cash proceeds to all sellers of Registrable Securities in any underwritten offering is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or not less than $25,000,000;
5 million. The Stockholders (iveither jointly or severally)collectively will be entitled to request only one (1) if registration under this Section 7.5(a). A registration will not count as the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any one permitted registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which until it has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereofbecome effective; provided, howeverthat if, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 within 60 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a)after it has become effective, the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed is interfered with by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall such registration will be deemed not be considered to have effected an effective been effected. The registration for under this Section 7.5(a) shall be, at the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date option of the postponement Stockholders after consultation with Search, either (w) a shelf registration which Search agrees to keep effective for a period of not less than ninety (90) days, or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a an underwritten registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders . Search shall have the right to designate select the lead managing underwriter (investment banker(s) and manager(s) to administer any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreementunderwritten offering, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to the consent of the CompanyStockholder whose shares are being registered thereunder, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so . The registration requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of this Section 7.5(a) is referred to herein as a "Demand Registration." The Demand Registration will be a Short-Form Registration whenever Search is permitted to use any such saleapplicable short form.
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Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding Investors who together hold at least 50% Five Hundred Thousand (500,000) shares of the Registrable SecuritiesSecurities may make one request on or before August 17, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after 2005 that the Company file a Registration Statement covering the resale or distribution by the Investors of the Registrable Securities (the "Initial Demand Registration"). Any Investor who is, immediately following the closing of the IPOtransactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, a written an Affiliate of the Company may make one request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to Registration Statement covering the resale or distribution by such Investor of the Registrable Securities provided that such Investor is an Affiliate at the time of such request (a “an "Affiliate Demand Registration"). The Initial Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is Affiliate Demand Registration are each referred to herein as a “"Demand Registration,” and ." Upon the sender(s) receipt of such a request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”)for a Demand Registration, then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the will promptly file a registration statement on an appropriate form under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (includingthe "Securities Act"), without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant relating to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company and shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to use its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
be declared effective no later than one hundred twenty (iii120) where days after the anticipated offering pricedate of the request from the Investors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expensesif at the time of the request to register the Registrable Securities, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish is engaged in, or has fixed plans to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that engage in any other activity which, in the good faith judgment determination of the BoardBoard of Directors of the Company, any registration of Registrable Securities should not would be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined adversely affected by the Board Demand Registration to not be in the material detriment of the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing at its option direct that such demand registration be delayed for a registration statement relating period not to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer existsexceed ninety (90) days. In addition, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If effect any Demand Registration within ninety (90) days after the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension effective date of any other registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of the Company. For the purposes of this Section 2.1(a)Agreement, "Affiliate" has the meaning given to it in Rule 144 of the Securities Act.
(b) The Demand Registration by the Investors shall state the intended method of disposition of the Registrable Securities. Upon receiving a request for a Demand Registration, the Company shall notpromptly take such steps as are necessary or appropriate to prepare for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities.
(c) A registration shall not constitute a Demand Registration until it has become effective and remains continuously effective for the Registration Period described in Section 4 hereof. In addition, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 shall not constitute a Demand Registration if (i) after such Demand Registration has become effective, such registration or S-8 (the related offer, sale or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder distribution of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed is interfered with by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") or any other governmental agency or court), court for any reason not attributable to the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement Investors and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall interference is not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal thereafter eliminated, or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shallthe conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement, as expeditiously as possibleif any, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) entered into in connection with such registration and each Demand Registration are not satisfied or waived, other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent than by reason of a failure by the Company, not be unreasonably withheldInvestors.
(d) If so requested by Notwithstanding the Initiating Holder(s)foregoing, the Company may at any time effect the Initial Demand Registration (together prior to receipt of any request by Investors to do so) by filing the registration statement contemplated by this Section 2, notifying all Investors thereof and otherwise complying with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by obligations of the Company hereunder in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means connection with such Initial Demand Registration, including without limitation the obligations of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such saleunder Section 4.
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Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding Investors who together hold at least 50% Five Hundred Thousand (500,000) shares of the Registrable SecuritiesSecurities may make one request on or before August 17, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after 2005 that the Company file a Registration Statement covering the resale or distribution by the Investors of the Registrable Securities (the “Initial Demand Registration”). Any Investor who is, immediately following the closing of the IPOtransactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, a written an Affiliate of the Company may make one request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to Registration Statement covering the resale or distribution by such Investor of the Registrable Securities provided that such Investor is an Affiliate at the time of such request (a an “Affiliate Demand Registration”). The Initial Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is Affiliate Demand Registration are each referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,.” and Upon the sender(s) receipt of such a request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”)for a Demand Registration, then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the will promptly file a registration statement on an appropriate form under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (includingthe “Securities Act”), without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant relating to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company and shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to use its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
be declared effective no later than one hundred twenty (iii120) where days after the anticipated offering pricedate of the request from the Investors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expensesif at the time of the request to register the Registrable Securities, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish is engaged in, or has fixed plans to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that engage in any other activity which, in the good faith judgment determination of the BoardBoard of Directors of the Company, any registration of Registrable Securities should not would be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined adversely affected by the Board Demand Registration to not be in the material detriment of the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing at its option direct that such demand registration be delayed for a registration statement relating period not to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer existsexceed ninety (90) days. In addition, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If effect any Demand Registration within ninety (90) days after the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension effective date of any other registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of the Company. For the purposes of this Section 2.1(a)Agreement, “Affiliate” has the meaning given to it in Rule 144 of the Securities Act.
(b) The Demand Registration by the Investors shall state the intended method of disposition of the Registrable Securities. Upon receiving a request for a Demand Registration, the Company shall notpromptly take such steps as are necessary or appropriate to prepare for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities.
(c) A registration shall not constitute a Demand Registration until it has become effective and remains continuously effective for the Registration Period described in Section 4 hereof. In addition, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 shall not constitute a Demand Registration if (i) after such Demand Registration has become effective, such registration or S-8 (the related offer, sale or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder distribution of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed is interfered with by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) or any other governmental agency or court), court for any reason not attributable to the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement Investors and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall interference is not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal thereafter eliminated, or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shallthe conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement, as expeditiously as possibleif any, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) entered into in connection with such registration and each Demand Registration are not satisfied or waived, other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent than by reason of a failure by the Company, not be unreasonably withheldInvestors.
(d) If so requested by Notwithstanding the Initiating Holder(s)foregoing, the Company may at any time effect the Initial Demand Registration (together prior to receipt of any request by Investors to do so) by filing the registration statement contemplated by this Section 2, notifying all Investors thereof and otherwise complying with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by obligations of the Company hereunder in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means connection with such Initial Demand Registration, including without limitation the obligations of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such saleunder Section 4.
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Demand Registrations. (a) If At any time after 180 days following the Company shall receive from any Holder or group consummation of the Merger, Holders holding at least 50% of a majority of the Registrable Securities, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, Securities then outstanding may provide a written request that the Company file a registration statement Registration Statement with the SEC with respect to all or a portion of the Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 of the Securities Act (“Rule 415”) thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of The Company shall not be required to effect more than two Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which on behalf of the Company is obligated to effectHolders. HoweverNotwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three four months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an a transaction under SEC Rule 145 transactionpromulgated under the Securities Act), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement Registration Statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated gross offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,0001,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement Registration Statement should be suspended) because because: (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statementRegistration Statement) would materially and adversely interfere with a any existing or potential material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries subsidiaries, or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement Registration Statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement Registration Statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement Registration Statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement Registration Statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement Registration Statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement Registration Statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement Registration Statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement Registration Statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a2.1(a)(iv), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company SharesStock, other than pursuant to a registration statement Registration Statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement Registration Statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a2.1(a)(iv), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement Registration Statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement Registration Statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a2.1(a)(iv) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement Registration Statement and such registration statement Registration Statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statementRegistration Statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement Registration Statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a2.1(a)(iv).
(b) (i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Registration Rights Agreement (Kingfish Holding Corp)
Demand Registrations. (a) If The Stockholders holding 50% or more of then remaining Registrable Stock may jointly request the Company to register under the Securities Act on Form S-3 or any successor form thereto all, but not less than all, of the shares of Registrable Stock held by such Stockholders for sale in the manner specified in such notice; provided that the Company is a registrant then entitled to use -------- ---- Form S-3 or any successor form thereto to register such shares. Upon receipt of such a request by Stockholders holding 50% or more of the then remaining Registrable Stock, the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securities, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days days of the receipt thereof, thereof give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other HoldersStockholders and shall, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.13, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, effect such a registration as soon as practicable, the practicable and in any event to file within 75 days of such a request a registration statement under the Securities 1933 Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if covering all the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that Stock which the Holders Stockholders shall in writing request to be registeredincluded in such registration and to use its best efforts to have such registration statement become effective. There is Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to request may be made under this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
3(a): (i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 60 days prior to its good faith estimate of the Company's estimated date of filing of, and ending on a the date 90 days after six months immediately following the effective date of, a Company-initiated any registration statement pertaining to the securities of the Company (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to in a stock option, stock purchase Rule 145 transaction or similar plan or with respect to an SEC Rule 145 transactionemployee benefit plan), ; provided that the Company is actively employing in good -------- ---- faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
; and (iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(ivii) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders the Stockholder a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer President of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration Board of Registrable Securities should not Directors it would be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving significantly detrimental to the Company or its shareholders, provided that any of its subsidiaries or (ii) impact on the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to stock price that such an offer would cause will not be in considered detrimental to the Company’s best interests (in either case, shareholders for a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn filed in the near future, in which event the Company's obligation to use all reasonable efforts to register, qualify or comply under this Section 3(b) shall be deferred for a period not to exceed 90 days from the date of receipt of written request from the Stockholders; provided that the Company may not utilize this right more than -------- ---- once in any 12-month period. The Company will use its best efforts to insure that each registration filed pursuant to this Section 3(a) remain in effect for 120 days after the effective date of such filing.
(b) In the event that the Company is not a registrant entitled to use Form S-3 or any successor form thereto, the Stockholders holding 50% or more of then remaining Registrable Stock may jointly request the Company to register under the Securities Act of 1933 on Form X-0, Xxxx X-0 or any similar or successor registration form thereto all, but not less than all, of the shares of Registrable Stock held by them for sale in the manner specified in such notice; provided, that such registration shall be underwritten on a firm commitment -------- ---- basis. Upon receipt of such a request by any Stockholders holding 50% or more of the Registrable Stock, the Company shall within five days of the receipt thereof give notice to all Stockholders and shall, subject to the limitations of this Section 3, use its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing best efforts to effect such a registration as soon as practicable and in any event to file within 75 days of such a request a registration statement under the 1933 Act covering all the Registrable Stock which the Stockholders shall in writing request to be included in such registration and to use its best efforts to have such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but become effective. The Company will use its best efforts to insure that each registration filed pursuant to this Section 3(a) remain in no event effect for more than 90 120 days after the effective date of such filing.
(c) If the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and Stockholders request that the Registrable Stock be sold in an underwritten offering, then the Company, in consultation with the Stockholders, shall designate the managing underwriter of such offering. The Company shall give written notice be obligated to the Participating Holders of its determination register Registrable Stock pursuant to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereofthis Section 3 on two occasions only; provided, however, that such obligation shall -------- ------- be deemed satisfied only when a Registration Statement covering all shares of Registrable Stock specified in the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement received pursuant to clause (ivSection 3(a) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement sale in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders method of disposition specified by the Stockholders, shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheldbecome effective.
(d) If so requested The Company shall be entitled to include in any registration statement referred to in this Section 3, for sale in accordance with the method of disposition specified by the Initiating Holder(s)Stockholders, the Company (together with all Holders proposing shares of Common Stock to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting be sold by the Company for its own account, except as and to the extent that, in its sole discretionthe opinion of the managing underwriter, such inclusion would adversely affect the marketing of the Registrable Stock to be sold.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Stock Restriction and Registration Rights Agreement (On Technology Corp)
Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securities, in either case at At any time beginning 180 days following the 180th day after the closing Effective Time (i) the holders of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to majority of Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such may request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the one registration under the 1933 Act during any consecutive twelve (12) month period (a "Demand Registration") of all or part of their Registrable Securities Act on Form S-3 (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and except if the Company is not then eligible to use Form S-3, then such a registration) registration shall be on Form S-1 or Form SB-2 or on another appropriate form in accordance herewith permitting registration of all Registrable the Securities that for resale by such holders in the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 manner or manners designated by them), in which the Company is obligated to effectwill pay all registration expenses. However, the The Company shall will not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
Registration within six (i6) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than of a registration relating solely to in which the sale holders of securities to employees of the Company Registrable Securities were given piggyback rights pursuant to Section 7(c) or within twelve (12) months after the closing a stock optionprior Demand Registration. The Company will be required to file a registration within sixty (60) days after a request for a Demand Registration and shall use Bion Environmental Technologies, stock purchase or similar plan or Inc. November 9, 2006 Page 8 commercially reasonable efforts to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), have such registration declared effective as soon as practicable thereafter; provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts may postpone for up to cause such a total of sixty (60) days the filing or the effectiveness of a registration statement for a Demand Registration if such Demand Registration would reasonably be expected to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before have an adverse effect on any underwriting discounts proposal or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if plan by the Company shall furnish to such Holders engage in any acquisition of assets (other than in the ordinary course of business) or any merger, consolidation, tender offer or other transaction or any material corporate development, including without limitation, a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating Facility financing hereunder; provided, further, that in such event, the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration holders of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) initially requesting such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to will be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined entitled to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement request and, if so directed by the Companysuch request is withdrawn, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or will not count as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a one permitted Demand Registration within the twelve (x12) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Noticemonth period applicable thereto.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Engagement Letter (Bion Environmental Technologies Inc)
Demand Registrations. (a) If Subject to the provisions of Section 5 in the event of assignment of this Agreement, if the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securities, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, a written request from Security Holder requesting that the Company file a registration statement with respect Registration Statement relating to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”)Securities, then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, will as promptly as practicable prepare and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, file a Registration Statement and use its reasonable best efforts to effectcause the Registration Statement to become effective; subject, as soon as practicablehowever, to the registration under the Securities Act following provisions:
(including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if 1) the Company is then eligible shall be required to use such a registrationfile no more than an aggregate of two Registration Statements on behalf of Security Holder (or Permitted Transferee in the event of an assignment of this Agreement) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, Subsection A;
(2) the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after to file a Demand requested Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during in the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided event that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration aggregate number of Registrable Securities should not to be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) included in such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving requested Registration is less than 2 27 500,000 shares of the Company or any of its subsidiaries issued and outstanding Common Stock; or (ii) to prepare or file such Registration Statement or an amendment or supplement thereto, and may suspend sales, at any time when the Company is in possession reasonably determines (by action of material non-public information, the disclosure Company's Board of which has been determined Directors or an officer duly authorized by the Board of Directors to not be in make such decision) that the Company’s best interests (in either casefiling thereof at the time requested, or the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant thereto, would materially and adversely affect a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request pending or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by proposed offering of securities of the Company, an acquisition, merger, recapitalization, consolidation, reorganization or similar transaction relating to the Company may cause such registration statement or negotiations, discussions or pending proposals with respect thereto or require premature disclosure of information not otherwise required to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice disclosed to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and potential detriment of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereofCompany; provided, however, that such period of sale or distribution shall resume after any such suspension for a number of days necessary to keep such Registration effective for permitted sales thereunder for a term of 90 days. The filing of a Registration Statement, or any amendment or supplement thereto, by the Company shall may not defer its obligation be deferred, and the sale and distribution of shares may not be suspended, in this manner each case pursuant to the foregoing provisions, for more than 90 60 days after the abandonment or consummation (or the completion of the distribution of securities in the case of a public offering) of any of the proposals or transactions described therein or, in any 12 month period; orevent, for more than 120 days during any one year;
(v3) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement Registration Statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant request of Security Holder shall first include all Registrable Securities requested to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop orderbe included by Security Holder and, injunction or other order or requirement only after such inclusion, may, include securities of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court)Company being sold for the account of the Company; provided, however, that securities to be offered on behalf of the Company shall not will be considered included in such Registration Statement only to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until extent that, in the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date reasonable opinion of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes Public Offering of this AgreementRegistrable Securities on behalf of Security Holder, such inclusion will not materially adversely affect the “Manager”distribution of Registrable Securities on behalf of Security Holder;
(4) in connection with such registration and each other managing the selection of an underwriter for such registration, in each case a Public Offering of Registrable Securities by Security Holder shall be subject to consent the approval of the Company, which shall not be unreasonably withheld.;
(d5) If so for purposes of paragraph (1) of this Subsection A, if a requested Registration Statement is filed and the Company otherwise complies with its obligations hereunder, but the Registration Statement is withdrawn by Security Holder due to a delay in the offering requested by the Initiating Holder(s)Company for a period of more than 15 business days pursuant to paragraph (2) of this Subsection A, the Company then no requested Registration Statement shall be deemed to have been filed; and
(together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting6) no Other Holder (as defined below) shall enter into an underwriting agreement be entitled to include securities or piggyback in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting any Registration demanded by the Company in its sole discretionSecurity Holder.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Demand Registrations. (a) If In addition to the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securitiesinitial Registration described in Section 1(a), in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect such initial Registration Statement ceases to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then effective the Company shall, within five Business Days upon the written request of Holders of at least 25% of the receipt thereofTransfer Restricted Shares, give written notice promptly file with the Commission a Registration Statement (a "Demand Registration") on an appropriate form under the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject Securities Act relating to the limitations offer and sale of this Section 2.1, the Transfer Restricted Shares and thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective no later than 120 days after the registration under date of the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that request from the Holders request (such 120th day being the Effectiveness Deadline with respect to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of such Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. HoweverRegistration), provided that the Company shall not be obligated to take effect more than one (1) Demand Registration for the Holders pursuant to this Section 1(b) in any action twelve month period nor more than a total of four (4) Demand Registrations for the Holders pursuant to effect any Demand Registration:this Section 1(b).
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration If at the time of any request to register Transfer Restricted Shares pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction1(b), provided that the Company is actively employing engaged in, or has fixed plans to engage in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
within thirty (iii30) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer days of the Company stating that time of such request, a registered public offering or is engaged in any other activity which, in the good faith judgment determination of the BoardBoard of Directors of the Company, any registration of Registrable Securities should not would be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined adversely affected by the Board Demand Registration to not be in the material detriment of the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a at its option direct that such Demand Registration Request be delayed for a reasonable period not in excess of three (3) months from the effective date of such other offering or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date of completion of such other material activity, as the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereofbe; provided, however, that such right to delay a request may be exercised by the Company not more than once in any period of twelve (12) consecutive months. In addition, the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If effect any registration within ninety (90) days after the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension effective date of any registration statement pursuant other Registration Statement of the Company. In any such case, the Effectiveness Deadline for the Demand Registration shall be extended by a period equal to clause the period of the permitted delay.
(ivii) Each request for a Demand Registration by the Holders shall state the number of this Section 2.1(a)Transfer Restricted Shares proposed to be sold and the intended method of disposition thereof. Upon receiving a request for a Demand Registration, the Company shall not, during promptly take such steps as are necessary or appropriate to prepare for the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities Transfer Restricted Shares that was in effect at are the time of receipt subject of such notice. If the Company request.
(iii) A Registration shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to not constitute a Demand Registration until it has become effective and remains continuously effective for the Registration Period described in Section 1(d) hereof. In addition, a Registration shall not constitute a Demand Registration if (whether pursuant to clause (ivx) after such Demand Registration has become effective, such registration or the related offer, sale or distribution of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of Transfer Restricted Shares thereunder is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC Commission or any other governmental agency or court), court for any reason not attributable to the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement Holders and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall interference is not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal thereafter eliminated or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securitiesconditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shallif any, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) entered into in connection with such registration and each Demand Registration are not satisfied or waived, other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent than by reason of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested a failure by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretionHolders.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Demand Registrations. (a) If At any time following the date hereof and prior to the date on which the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securities, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, have obtained a written request opinion of legal counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Shareholder and addressed to the Company and the Shareholder to the effect that the Company file a registration statement with respect Shares may be publicly offered for sale in the United States by the Shareholder without restriction as to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” manner of sale and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” amount of securities sold and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the without registration under the Securities Act (includingsuch period, without limitationthe "Demand Period"), the Shareholder shall have the right on five (5) occasions to require the Company to file a registration statement under the Securities Act in respect of all or a portion of the Shares (so long as such request covers at least 25,000 shares), by means of a shelf registration pursuant delivering to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company written notice stating that such right is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on being exercised, specifying the number of Demand Registrations pursuant the Shares to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing included in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
and describing the intended method of distribution thereof (iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a "Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect"). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees thatAs promptly as practicable, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 thirty (30) days after the date of Company receives a Demand Request, the postponement or withdrawal), Company shall file with the SEC and thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed cause to be declared effective promptly a registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) (a "Demand Registration") providing for the registration of such number of Shares the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, Shareholder shall have demanded be registered for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution distribution.
(b) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall be entitled to postpone and delay, for a reasonable period of time, not to exceed ninety (90) days in the case of clauses (i) and (yii) below, or thirty (30) days in the case of clause (iii) below (each, a "Blackout Period"), the filing of any Demand Registration if requested the Company shall determine that any such filing or the offering of any Shares would (i) in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, unreasonably impede, delay or otherwise interfere with any pending or contemplated financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other similar transaction involving the Company, (ii) based upon advice from the Company's investment banker or financial advisor, adversely affect any pending or contemplated offering or sale of any class of securities by the Majority Participating HoldersCompany, obtain acceleration or (iii) in good faith judgment of the Board require disclosure of material non-public information (other than information relating to an event described in clause (i) or (ii) of this subsection (b)) which, if disclosed at such time, would be materially harmful to the interests of the Company and its stockholders; provided, however, that in the case of a Blackout Period pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) above, the Blackout Period shall earlier terminate upon the completion or abandonment of the relevant securities offering or sale, financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other similar transaction; and provided, further, that in the case of a Blackout Period pursuant to clause (iii) above, the Company shall give written notice of its determination to postpone or delay the filing of any Demand Registration and in the case of clause (iii) above, the Blackout Period shall earlier terminate upon public disclosure by the Company or public admission by the Company of such material non-public information or such time as such material non-public information shall be publicly disclosed without breach of the last sentence of this subsection (b); and provided, further, that in the case of a Blackout Period pursuant to clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, the Company shall furnish to the Shareholder a certificate of an executive officer of the Company to the effect that an event permitting a Blackout Period has occurred. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company shall not exercise pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) of the preceding sentence the right to postpone or delay the filing of any Demand Registration more than twice in any twelve (12) month period. Upon notice by the Company to the Shareholder of any such determination, the Shareholder covenants that it shall keep the fact of any such notice strictly confidential, and, in the case of a Blackout Period pursuant to clause (iii) above or Section 3.1(c) below, promptly halt any offer, sale, trading or transfer by it or any of its Affiliates of any Common Stock for the duration of the Blackout Period set forth in such notice (or until such Blackout Period shall be earlier terminated in writing by the Company) and promptly halt any use, publication, dissemination or distribution of the Demand Registration, each prospectus included therein, and any amendment or supplement thereto by it and any of its Affiliates for the duration of the Blackout Period set forth in such notice (or until such Blackout Period shall be earlier terminated in writing by the Company) and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company any copies then in such Shareholder's possession of the prospectus covering such Shares, that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. After the expiration of any Blackout Period and without further request from the Shareholder, the Company shall effect the filing of the relevant Demand Registration and shall use its best efforts to cause any such Demand Registration to be declared effective as promptly as practicable unless the Shareholder shall have, prior to the effective date of such Demand Registration, withdrawn in writing its initial request, in which case such withdrawn request shall not constitute a Demand Registration for purposes of determining the registration statement relating number of Demand Registrations to such registrationwhich the Shareholder is entitled under this Agreement.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, Anything in this Agreement to the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registrationcontrary notwithstanding, in each case subject to consent a Demand Registration has been filed, if a transaction of the type specified in Section 3.1(b)(i) has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such Demand Registration to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such Demand Registration for a reasonable period of time, not be unreasonably withheldto exceed the Blackout Period applicable to Section 3.1(b)(i); provided, however, that in no event shall a Demand Registration so withdrawn count as one of the five Demand Registrations which the Shareholder is entitled to make pursuant to Section 3.1(a) hereof.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s)The Shareholder may withdraw a Demand Request in circumstances including, but not limited to, the following: if (i) the Company is in material breach of its obligation hereunder and has not cured such breach after having received notice thereof and a reasonable opportunity to do so or (together with all Holders proposing ii) the withdrawal occurs during a Blackout Period. Any Demand Request withdrawn prior to distribute their securities through such underwritingDemand Registration becoming effective and pursuant to this subsection (d) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with not constitute a Demand Registration for the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by purposes of determining the Company in its sole discretionnumber of Demand Registrations to which the Shareholder is entitled.
(e) Any Holder that intends The Company may elect to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf include in any registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 415 thereunderthis Section 3.1 any Common Stock to be issued by it or held by any of its subsidiaries or by any other shareholders only to the extent such Common Stock is offered and sold pursuant to, and on the terms and subject to the conditions of, any underwriting agreement or distribution arrangements entered into or effected by the Shareholder.
(f) The managing underwriter for any Demand Registration shall give be selected by the Company two days’ prior notice of any party or parties making the demand for such saleregistration, provided that such underwriter shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company.
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Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from (i) any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securities, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to all or a portion of the Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of The Company shall not be required to effect more than two Demand Registrations in any calendar year pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect2.1. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees directors of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000100,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially and adversely interfere with a any existing or potential material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”)) , then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).. (b)
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating HoldersInitiating Holder(s), obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders Initiating Holder shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not to be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretionand the Initiating Holder(s).
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from either (i) the Sponsor or (ii) any other Holder or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securitiesthen outstanding Company Shares, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO, a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,00050,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days 30 days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise NoticeNotice (or 15 days if, at the request of the Initiating Holders, the Company states in such written notice or gives telephonic notice to all Holders, with written confirmation to follow promptly thereafter, that such registration will be on a Form S-3).
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution, including a distribution to, and resale by, the members or partners of a Holder (a “Partner Distribution”) and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Company shall, at the request of any Holder seeking to effect a Partner Distribution, file any prospectus supplement or post-effective amendments and otherwise take any action necessary to include therein all disclosure and language deemed necessary or advisable by such Holder if such disclosure or language was not included in the initial registration statement, or revise such disclosure or language if deemed necessary or advisable by such Holder, including filing a prospectus supplement naming the Holders, partners, members and shareholders to the extent required by law, to effect such Partner Distribution.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 5040% of the Registrable Securities, in either case Securities at any time beginning 180 days after the closing of the IPO (or such earlier time as permitted by the terms of the lockup agreements executed in connection with the IPO), a written request that the Company file a registration statement with respect to all or a portion of the Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration statement so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registeredregistered within five Business Days of receipt of such notice. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three four months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC a Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expensesExpenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;25.0 million; or
(iv) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. In addition, if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the BoardCompany, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) because (i) such registration (or continued sales under a an existing shelf registration statement) would materially and adversely interfere with a any existing or potential material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries Subsidiaries or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board Company to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a Demand Registration Request (or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement statement) until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board Company determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board Company determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone the filing of, or withdraw withdraw, a registration statement (or suspend sales under a an existing shelf registration statement statement) and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner more than twice or for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) the immediately prior paragraph of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the such withdrawn registration statement and such new registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders Holder(s) shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.62.7, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders Holder(s) and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten five Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act Act, if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended the method of distribution intended by the Initiating Holder(s) and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating HoldersInitiating Holder(s), obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders Initiating Holder(s) shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(eInitiating Holder(s) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such saleSection 2.1(c).
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Demand Registrations. (a) If the Company shall receive from any Holder or group of Holders holding at least 50% of the Registrable Securities, in either case at At any time beginning after the earlier of 180 days after the closing consummation of the IPOMerger, Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities then outstanding may provide a written request that the Company file a registration statement Registration Statement with the SEC with respect to all or a portion of the Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as a “Demand Registration,” and the sender(s) of such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as the “Initiating Holder(s)”), then the Company shall, within five Business Days of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 of the Securities Act (“Rule 415”) thereunder if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of The Company shall not be required to effect more than two Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which on behalf of the Company is obligated to effectHolders. HoweverNotwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) : within three four months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) ; during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an a transaction under SEC Rule 145 transactionpromulgated under the Securities Act), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement Registration Statement to become effective;
(iii) ; where the anticipated gross offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) 1,000,000; if the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement Registration Statement should be suspended) because because: (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statementRegistration Statement) would materially and adversely interfere with a any existing or potential material financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger or other material transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries subsidiaries, or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (x) the Company may postpone filing a registration statement Registration Statement relating to a Demand Registration Request or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement Registration Statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement Registration Statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement Registration Statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement Registration Statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement Registration Statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement Registration Statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner for more than 90 days in any 12 month period; or
(v) or in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement Registration Statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a2.1(a)(iv), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company SharesStock, other than pursuant to a registration statement Registration Statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement Registration Statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a2.1(a)(iv), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement Registration Statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement Registration Statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a2.1(a)(iv) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court), the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement until the Company shall have filed a new registration statement Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement Registration Statement and such registration statement Registration Statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statementRegistration Statement, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement Registration Statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such request, in which case the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a2.1(a)(iv).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested and if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution and (y) if requested by the Majority Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registration, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheld.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s), the Company (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company in its sole discretion.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Demand Registrations. (a) If Each of (i) the Company shall receive from Shamrock Members, at any Holder or group of Holders time, (ii) the Class C Members, at any time following an Initial Public Offering, and (iii) Non-Shamrock Members holding at least 50% ten percent (10%) of the Registrable SecuritiesSecurities then held by all Non-Shamrock Members, in either case at any time beginning 180 days after when the closing of Company is eligible to use a Form S-3 registration statement (or an equivalent form that is a successor to Form S-3), shall have the IPO, right to make a written request that the Company file a for registration statement with respect to Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration Request,” and the registration so requested is referred to herein as any such request, a “Demand Registration,” ”) with the SEC, under and in accordance with the sender(s) provisions of the Securities Act, of all or part of the Registrable Securities held of record and beneficially by such request pursuant to this Agreement shall be known as Members and their respective Affiliates (such Members making such demand, the “Initiating Holder(s)Demanding Holder”); provided, then that (i) the Company shallor Newco, within five Business Days as applicable, need not effect a Demand Registration if such registration will result in less than $10 million of the receipt thereof, give written notice (the “Demand Exercise Notice”) of such request to all other Holdersgross proceeds, and subject to (ii) the limitations of this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to effectCompany or Newco, as soon as practicableapplicable, the registration under the Securities Act may defer such Demand Registration for a single period not to exceed ninety (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder if so requested and 90) days during any one-year period if the Company is then eligible to use such a registration) of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered. There is no limitation on the number of Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 2.1 which the Company is obligated to effect. However, the Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any Demand Registration:
(i) within three months after a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 that has been declared or ordered effective;
(ii) during the period starting with the date 15 days prior to its good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 90 days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration (other than a registration relating solely furnishes to the sale of securities to employees of the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or to an SEC Rule 145 transaction), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(iii) where the anticipated offering price, before any underwriting discounts or commissions and any offering-related expenses, is equal to or less than $25,000,000;
(iv) if the Company shall furnish to such Demanding Holders a certificate signed by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer stating that the Board or the board of directors of Newco, as applicable, determined in the exercise of its reasonable judgment that to effect such Demand Registration at such time would have a material adverse effect on the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Boardor Newco, any registration of Registrable Securities should not be made or continued (or sales under a shelf registration statement should be suspended) as applicable, because such action would (i) such registration (or continued sales under a shelf registration statement) would materially interfere with a material financing, significant acquisition, corporate reorganization or merger reorganization, or other material similar transaction or event involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or Company; (ii) require premature disclosure of material information that the Company is in possession of material non-public information, the disclosure of which has been determined by the Board to not be in the Company’s best interests a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; or (in either case, a “Valid Business Reason”), then (xiii) render the Company may postpone filing a registration statement relating unable to a Demand Registration Request comply with requirements under the Securities Act or suspend sales under an existing shelf registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists and (y) in case a registration statement has been filed relating to a Demand Registration Request, if the Valid Business Reason has not resulted from actions taken by the Company, the Company may cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and its effectiveness terminated or may postpone amending or supplementing such registration statement until five Business Days after such Valid Business Reason no longer exists, but in no event for more than 90 days after the date the Board determines a Valid Business Reason exists; and the Company shall give written notice to the Participating Holders of its determination to postpone or withdraw a registration statement or suspend sales under a shelf registration statement and of the fact that the Valid Business Reason for such postponement, withdrawal or suspension no longer exists, in each case, promptly after the occurrence thereofExchange Act; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer register any securities for its obligation own account or that of any other Member during such up to ninety (90) day period other than an Excluded Registration. Within ten (10) days after receipt of the request for a Demand Registration, the Company or Newco, as applicable, will send written notice (the “Demand Registration Notice”) of such registration request and its intention to comply therewith to all Members who hold Registrable Securities and, subject to subsection (c) below, the Company or Newco, as applicable, will include in such registration all the Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company or Newco, as applicable, has received written requests for inclusion therein within twenty (20) Business Days after the date such Demand Registration Notice is given. All requests made pursuant to this manner subsection (a) will specify the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered and will also specify the intended methods of disposition thereof. Upon receipt of a Demand Registration, the Company or Newco, as applicable, shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect registration of the Registrable Securities to be registered in accordance with the intended method of distribution specified in writing by the Demanding Holder as soon as practicable, and in any event within forty-five (45) days after the Demand Registration is given by the Demanding Holder(s), and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration for a period of one-hundred and twenty (120) days. If available, the Company or Newco, as applicable, will effect such registration on Form S-3 or an equivalent form and, if requested by the Demanding Holder, such registration will be a “shelf” registration statement providing for the registration of, and the sale on a continuous or delayed basis of the Registrable Securities, pursuant to Rule 415 or any similar rule that may be adopted by the SEC, in either which event the Company or Newco, as applicable, shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the effectiveness of such registration for a period of one-hundred eighty (180) days; provided, however, that the Company or Newco, as applicable, shall not effect a registration on Form S-3 or an equivalent form if the managing underwriter or underwriters determine that using a different registration form is in the best interests of the Company, Newco and/or the Demanding Holder and other holders.
(b) Each of the Shamrock Members shall be entitled to unlimited Demand Registrations, and each of the Non-Shamrock Members shall be entitled (whether individually or as a member of a group) to not more than 90 days one (1) Demand Registration in any 12 month period; or.
(vc) If in any particular jurisdiction in which Demand Registration the Company would be required to qualify to do business managing underwriter or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance. If the Company shall give any notice of postponement, withdrawal or suspension of any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), the Company shall not, during the period of postponement, withdrawal or suspension, register any Company Shares, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 underwriters thereof (or an equivalent registration form then in effect). Each Holder the case of Registrable Securities agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company that the Company has determined to withdraw any registration statement pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a), such Holder will discontinue its disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall have withdrawn or prematurely terminated a registration statement filed pursuant to a Demand Registration (whether pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a) or as a result of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court)not being underwritten, the Company shall not be considered to have effected Demanding Holder after consultation with an effective registration for the purposes investment banker of this Agreement until nationally recognized standing) advise the Company shall have filed a new registration statement covering the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn registration statement and such registration statement shall have been declared effective and shall not have been withdrawn. If the Company shall give any notice of withdrawal or postponement of a registration statementNewco, the Company shall, not later than five Business Days after the Valid Business Reason that caused such withdrawal or postponement no longer exists (but in no event later than 90 days after the date of the postponement or withdrawal), use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities covered by the withdrawn or postponed registration statement in accordance with Section 2.1 (unless the Initiating Holders shall have withdrawn such requestas applicable, in which case writing that in its or their reasonable opinion the Company shall not be considered to have effected an effective registration for the purposes of this Agreement), and such registration shall not be withdrawn or postponed pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.1(a).
(i) The Company, subject to Sections 2.3 and 2.6, shall include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other Holder of Registrable Securities, which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended proposed to be disposed of by sold in such Participating Holder) within ten Business Days after Demand Registration exceeds the receipt number that can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on the success of the Demand Exercise Notice.
(ii) The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.1, use its reasonable best efforts to (x) effect such registration under the Securities Act offering (including, without limitation, by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under an impact on the Securities Act if so requested and if selling price), the Company is then eligible to use or Newco, as applicable, will include in such registration only the number of Registrable Securities that, in the reasonable opinion of such underwriter or underwriters (or the Demanding Holder, as the case may be) can be sold without having a registration) material adverse effect on the success of the offering, and the number of Registrable Securities which included in the underwritten offering shall be allocated among the holders of Registrable Securities requesting to include Registrable Securities in such offering pro rata among all such holders on the basis of the relative percentage of Registrable Securities held by each of them. In the event that the managing underwriter or Demanding Holder determines that additional Registrable Securities may be sold in any Demand Registration without having a material adverse effect on the success of the offering, the Company has been so requested or Newco, as applicable, may include comparable securities to register, for distribution in accordance with such intended method of distribution be issued and (y) if requested sold by the Majority Participating HoldersCompany or Newco, obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration.
(c) In connection with any Demand Registrationas applicable, the Majority Participating Holders shall have the right to designate the lead managing underwriter (any lead managing underwriter for the purposes of this Agreement, the “Manager”) in connection with such registration and each or comparable securities held by other managing underwriter for such registration, in each case subject to consent of the Company, not be unreasonably withheldPersons.
(d) If so requested by the Initiating Holder(s)a Demand Registration is to be an underwritten offering, the Company (together with all Holders proposing holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to distribute their securities through be included in such underwriting) shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the Demand Registration will select a managing underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by of recognized national standing to administer the offering, which managing underwriter or underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company in its sole discretionor Newco, as applicable.
(e) Any Holder that intends to sell Registrable Securities by means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder, shall give the Company two days’ prior notice of any such sale.
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Samples: Limited Liability Company Agreement (Carmike Cinemas Inc)