Shareholder Lock Up Agreements and Company Holdback Agreement
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Company Lock Up Agreements The Company, on behalf of itself and any successor entity, agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Placement Agent, it will not for a period of thirty (30) days after the date of this Agreement (the “Lock-Up Period”), (i) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any ADSs, Ordinary Shares or other capital stock of the Company or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for ADSs, Ordinary Shares or such other shares of capital stock of the Company; (ii) file or cause to be filed any registration statement with the Commission relating to the offering of any ADSs, Ordinary Shares or other shares of capital stock of the Company or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of the Company; or (iii) complete any offering of debt securities of the Company, other than entering into a line of credit with a traditional bank or (iv) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of ADSs, Ordinary Shares or other capital stock of the Company, whether any such transaction described in clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) above is to be settled by delivery of ADSs, Ordinary Shares or other shares of capital stock of the Company or such other securities, in cash or otherwise. The restrictions contained in this Section 3.18 shall not apply to (i) the ADSs, Ordinary Shares and the Placement Agent’s Warrant, (ii) the issuance by the Company of ADSs upon the exercise of the Placement Agent’s Warrant or a stock option or warrant or the conversion of a security outstanding on the date hereof, or issuable pursuant to currently existing undertakings of the Company, which is disclosed in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package and Prospectus, provided that such options, warrants, and securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise price, exchange price or conversion price of such securities or to extend the term of such securities, (iii) the issuance by the Company of stock options, shares of capital stock of the Company or other awards under any equity compensation plan of the Company, provided that the underlying shares shall be restricted from sale during the entire Lock-Up Period; and (iv) transactions with members of the management and/or the board of directors of the Company, involving the issuance of equity securities of the Company in consideration of cash, provided that the underlying shares shall be restricted from sale during the entire Lock-Up Period.
Holdback Agreement (a) If (x) the Corporation shall file a Registration Statement (other than a registration statement (i) on Form S-8 or any successor form thereto, (ii) filed solely in connection with a dividend reinvestment plan or employee benefit plan covering officers or directors of the Corporation or its Affiliates or (iii) on Form S-4 or any successor form thereto, in connection with a merger, acquisition, exchange offer or similar corporate transaction) with respect to an underwritten offering of Shares or similar securities or securities convertible into, or exchangeable or exercisable for, such securities and (y) with reasonable prior notice, the managing underwriter or underwriters advise the Corporation in writing (in which case the Corporation shall notify the Holders with a copy of such underwriter’s notice) that a public sale or distribution of Registrable Shares would materially adversely affect such offering, then, each Holder shall, to the extent not inconsistent with applicable law and unless such managing underwriter or underwriters otherwise agree, refrain from, directly or indirectly, effecting any public sale, distribution or short sale of any Registrable Shares (except as part of such underwritten offering) during the period beginning ten days prior to the effective date of such Registration Statement and continuing until the earliest of (A) the abandonment of such offering, (B) such period of time as is sufficient and appropriate in the opinion of the managing underwriter or underwriters in order to complete the sale and distribution of securities included in such registration (but in no event in excess of 90 days following the effective date of any offering) and (C) the termination in whole or in part of any “hold back” period obtained by the underwriter or underwriters in such offering from the Corporation in connection therewith (each such period, a “Hold Back Period”); provided, that the Holders shall not be subject to the restrictions contained in this Section 4(a) unless each officer and director of the Corporation (regardless of the number of Shares then owned by such officer or director) and each beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of at least 5% of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock also agree to be bound by such restrictions.
Holdback Agreements (a) Each holder of Registrable Securities shall not effect any public sale or distribution (including sales pursuant to Rule 144) of equity securities of the Company, or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for such securities, during the seven days prior to and the 180-day period beginning on the effective date of any underwritten Demand Registration or any underwritten Piggyback Registration in which Registrable Securities are included (except as part of such underwritten registration), unless the underwriters managing the registered public offering otherwise agree.
Stockholder Lock-Ups The Company has caused to be delivered to you prior to the date of this Agreement a letter, in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Lock-Up Agreement”), from each individual or entity listed on Schedule IV. The Company will enforce the terms of each Lock-Up Agreement and issue stop-transfer instructions to the transfer agent for the Common Stock with respect to any transaction or contemplated transaction that would constitute a breach of or default under the applicable Lock-Up Agreement.
Stockholder Agreement The Stockholder agrees that, during the period from the date of this Agreement until the Expiration Date:
Shareholder Agreement The Shareholder Agreement shall have been duly executed and delivered by the Company.
Shareholder Agreements As a material inducement to Parent to enter into this Agreement, and simultaneously with, the execution of this Agreement, each Shareholder (as defined herein) is entering into an agreement, in the form of Annex A hereto (collectively, the "Shareholder Agreements") pursuant to which they have agreed, among other things, to vote their shares of Company Common Stock in favor of this Agreement.
Stockholder Agreements Except as provided in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, there are no agreements, written or oral, between the Company and any current holder of its securities, or to the Company's knowledge, among any holders of its securities, relating to the acquisition (including, without limitation, rights of first refusal, anti-dilution or preemptive rights), disposition, registration under the Securities Act, or voting of the Common Stock or Preferred Stock.
Hold-Back Agreements The Company agrees that it will not effect any public or private sale or distribution (including a sale pursuant to Regulation D under the Securities Act) of any securities the same as or similar to those covered by a Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 or 3 hereof (other than Additional Notes (as defined in the Indenture) issued under the Indenture), or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for such securities, during the 10 days prior to, and during the 90-day period beginning on, the effective date of any Registration Statement filed pursuant to Sections 2 and 3 hereof unless the Holders of a majority in the aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Notes to be included in such Registration Statement consent, if the managing underwriter thereof so requests in writing.
Lock-Up Agreement The Underwriters shall have received all of the Lock-Up Agreements referenced in Section 4 and the Lock-Up Agreements shall remain in full force and effect.
