Common use of No Registration, Restrictions on Transfer Clause in Contracts

No Registration, Restrictions on Transfer. The Investor acknowledges that, as of the date of this Agreement, the Securities and any component thereof have not been registered under the Act or any applicable state securities laws by reason of exemptions from the registration requirements of the Act and such laws, and may not be sold, pledged (except for any limited pledge in connection with a margin account of Investor to the extent that such pledge does not require registration under the Act or unless an exemption from such registration is available and provided further that if such pledge is realized upon, any transfer to the pledgee shall comply with the requirements set forth herein), assigned or otherwise disposed of in the absence of an effective registration of the Securities and any component thereof under the Act or unless an exemption from such registration is available;