Demand Rights Subject to the conditions of this Section 3.1, if the Company shall receive a written request from the holders of at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the issued and outstanding shares of Preferred Stock that were issued in exchange for shares of series A, series AA, series B or series BB preferred stock of Renewable Energy Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“REG”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated , 2009 by and among the Company, REG and REG Merger Sub, Inc. (the “Initiating Holders”) that the Company file a registration statement under the Securities Act covering the registration of Registrable Securities with anticipated proceeds of at least (i) $40,000,000 at a share price (subject to appropriate adjustments in the event of any stock dividend, stock split, combination or other similar recapitalization as generally described in the Company’s Certificate of Designation of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series A Certificate of Designation”)) of at least two times the original purchase price per share of the Series A Preferred Stock for the Initial Offering or (ii) $10,000,000 for a public offering thereafter, then the Company shall, within ten (10) days of the receipt thereof, give written notice of such request to all Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 3.1, use best efforts to file, and commercially reasonable efforts to cause to become effective, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered in a written request received by the Company within twenty (20) days of the mailing of the Company’s notice pursuant to this Section 3.1(a). The holders of Senior Registrable Securities shall be limited to a maximum of two (2) demand registrations pursuant to this Section 3.1, provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3.1(a) shall not be deemed to have been effected (i) unless a registration statement with respect thereto has been declared effective for a period of at least one hundred twenty (120) days, (ii) if after a registration statement has become effective, such registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Commission or other governmental agency or court for any reason, (iii) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied, other than as a result of the voluntary termination of such offering by the Holders of Registrable Securities, or (iv) if the Holders of Registrable Securities that would otherwise be underwritten are required to exclude or withdraw a number of Registrable Securities from such underwriting pursuant to Section 3.1(b) the result of which is gross proceeds to the Holders of Registrable Securities from the registration of less than $40,000,000 if the Initial Offering or $10,000,000 if a public offering thereafter.
Demand Registration Rights At any time after the date two years after the Closing Date, the holders of a majority of the shares of VPI Stock issued to the Founding Stockholders pursuant to this Agreement and the Other Agreements which have not been previously registered or sold and which are not entitled to be sold under Rule 144(k) (or any similar or successor provision) promulgated under the 1933 Act may request in writing (the "Demand Registration Request") that VPI file a registration statement under the 1933 Act covering the registration of up to all of the shares of VPI Stock issued to the STOCKHOLDERS pursuant to this Agreement and the Other Agreements then held by such Founding Stockholders (a "Demand Registration"). Within ten (10) days of the receipt of the Demand Registration Request, VPI shall give written notice of such request to all other Founding Stockholders and shall, as soon as practicable but in no event later than 45 days after the Demand Registration Request, file and use its best efforts to cause to become effective a registration statement covering all shares requested to be registered pursuant to this Section 17.2. VPI shall be obligated to effect only one Demand Registration for all Founding Stockholders. Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph, following the Demand Registration Request a majority of VPI's disinterested directors (i.e., directors who have not demanded or elected to sell shares in any such public offering) may defer the filing of the registration statement for a 60-day period if such deferral is deemed by such directors to be in the best interests of VPI. If immediately prior to the Demand Registration Request VPI has fixed plans to file within 60 days after receipt of the Demand Registration Request a registration statement covering the sale of any of its securities in a public offering under the 1933 Act, no registration of the Founding Stockholders' VPI Stock shall be initiated under this Section 17.2 until 90 days after the effective date of such registration unless VPI is no longer proceeding diligently to effect such registration (in which case the delay contemplated by this sentence would not be applicable); provided that VPI shall provide the Founding Stockholders the right to participate in such public offering pursuant to, and subject to, Section 17.1 hereof.
Postponement of Demand Registration The Company shall be entitled to postpone (but not more than once in any twelve-month period), for a reasonable period of time not in excess of sixty (60) days, the filing of a Registration Statement if the Company delivers to the Holders requesting registration a resolution of the Board that, in the good faith judgment of the Board, such registration and offering would reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect any bona fide material financing of the Company or any material transaction under consideration by the Company or would require disclosure of information that has not been disclosed to the public and is not otherwise required to be disclosed at that time, the premature disclosure of which would materially adversely affect the Company. Such Board resolution shall contain a statement of the reasons for such postponement and an approximation of the anticipated delay. The Holders receiving such resolution shall keep the information contained in such resolution confidential on the same terms set forth in Section 5(p). If the Company shall so postpone the filing of a Registration Statement, the Holder who made the Demand Registration shall have the right to withdraw the request for registration by giving written notice to the Company within twenty (20) days of the anticipated termination date of the postponement period, as provided in such resolution delivered to the Holders, and in the event of such withdrawal, such request shall not be counted for purposes of the number of Demand Registrations to which such Holder is entitled pursuant to the terms herein.
Not Demand Registration Registration pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall not be deemed to be a demand registration as described in Section 2.3 above. There shall be no limit on the number of times the Holders may request registration of Registrable Securities under this Section 2.4.
Unlimited Piggy-Back Registration Rights For purposes of clarity, any Registration effected pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof shall not be counted as a Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration effected under Section 2.1 hereof.
Piggy-Back Registration Rights 10.1 In the event that the Company proposes to register any Registrable Securities under the Securities Act (other than a Registration Statement on Form S-4 or Form S-8, or any successor forms thereto, promulgated under the Securities Act), for the account of TopCo Parent (or the Apollo Funds if such Apollo Funds are direct holders of Common Stock) the Company shall give the Holders written notice (the “Piggy-Back Notice”) of its intention to effect such a registration at least ten (10) days before the anticipated filing date. Subject to Section 10.2, such Holders shall have the right (the “Piggy-Back Registration Right”) to request that the Company use its reasonable best efforts to cause all the Registrable Securities specified in a written request by the Holders and delivered to the Company within ten (10) days after the giving of such Piggy-Back Notice by the Company to be included in such registration on the same terms and conditions as the Registrable Securities otherwise being sold in such registration. The Holders shall be entitled to request to include in such Registration Statement a number of Registrable Securities equal to the product of (x) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock owned by such Holder as of the date of the Piggy-Back Notice (or at the Company’s option, as of the date such Registration Statement is filed) and (y) the ratio of (i) the number of shares of Common Stock proposed to be included in such Registration Statement that are owned, directly or indirectly, by the Apollo Funds to (ii) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock owned, directly or indirectly, by the Apollo Funds that are outstanding as of the date of the Piggy-Back Notice (or at the Company’s option, as of the date such Registration Statement is filed). If at any time after giving written notice of its intention to register any Registrable Securities and prior to the effective date of the Registration Statement filed in connection with such registration, the Company determines for any reason not to proceed with the proposed registration, the Company may at its election give written notice of such determination to the Holders and thereupon shall be relieved of its obligation to register any Registrable Securities in connection with such registration. A Holder shall be permitted to withdraw all or part of its Registrable Securities from a registration pursuant to this Section 10.1 at any time prior to the effectiveness of such Registration Statement except in an underwritten offering where such Holder has previously committed to the underwriters that it would participate in such offering.
Priority in Demand Registrations If a Demand Registration involves an Underwritten Offering, and the sole or lead managing Underwriter, as the case may be, of such Underwritten Offering shall advise the Company in writing (with a copy to each Holder requesting registration) on or before the date five days prior to the date then scheduled for such offering that, in its opinion, the amount of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration exceeds the number which can be sold in such offering within a price range acceptable to the Majority Holders of the Registration (such writing to state the basis of such opinion and the approximate number of Registrable Securities which may be included in such offering), the Company shall include in such Demand Registration, to the extent of the number which the Company is so advised may be included in such offering, the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration by the Holders allocated pro rata in proportion to the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration by each of them. In the event the Company shall not, by virtue of this Section 2.2(b), include in any Demand Registration all of the Registrable Securities of any Holder requesting to be included in such Demand Registration, such Holder may, upon written notice to the Company given within five days of the time such Holder first is notified of such matter, reduce the amount of Registrable Securities it desires to have included in such Demand Registration, whereupon only the Registrable Securities, if any, it desires to have included will be so included and the Holders not so reducing shall be entitled to a corresponding increase in the amount of Registrable Securities to be included in such Demand Registration.
Priority on Demand Registration Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the managing underwriter or underwriters of an Underwritten Offering to which such Demand Registration relates advises the Holders that the total amount of Registrable Securities that such Holders intend to include in such Demand Registration is in the aggregate such as to materially and adversely affect the success of such offering, then the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such Demand Registration will, if necessary, be reduced and there will be included in such Underwritten Offering the largest number of Registrable Securities that, in the opinion of such managing underwriter or underwriters, can be sold without materially and adversely affecting the success of such Underwritten Offering. The Registrable Securities of the Holder or Holders initiating the Demand Registration shall receive priority in such Underwritten Offering to the full extent of the Registrable Securities such Holder or Holders desire to sell (unless these securities would materially and adversely affect the success of such offering, in which case the number of such Holder's Registrable Securities included in the offering shall be reduced to the extent necessary) and the remaining allocation available for sale, if any, shall be allocated pro rata among the other Holders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder.
Effective Demand Registration The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause any such Demand Registration to become and remain effective not later than sixty (60) days after it receives a request under Section 3(a) hereof. A registration shall not constitute a Demand Registration until it has become effective and remains continuously effective for the lesser of (i) the period during which all Registrable Securities registered in the Demand Registration are sold or (ii) 120 days; provided, however, that a registration shall not constitute a Demand Registration if (x) after such Demand Registration has become effective, such registration or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Commission or other governmental agency or court for any reason not attributable to the Initiating Holders and such interference is not thereafter eliminated or (y) the conditions specified in the underwriting agreement, if any, entered into in connection with such Demand Registration are not satisfied or waived, other than by reason of a failure by the Initiating Holder.
Right of Withdrawal in Demand Registration If any Holder of Registrable Securities (other than the Initiating Holder(s)) disapproves of the terms of the underwriting, such Holder may elect to withdraw therefrom by written notice to the Fund and the Underwriters’ Representative proposing to distribute their securities through the underwriting, delivered at least twenty (20) days prior to the effective date of the Registration Statement. The securities so withdrawn shall also be withdrawn from the Registration Statement.
