Warrant Registration Statement. 3.1 With respect to the Sponsor Warrants, the following provisions shall apply instead of Section 2.2, Section 2.3, Section 2.4 and Section 2.5. The Company agrees that, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Closing Date (the “Filing Deadline”), the Company will file with the Commission (at the Company’s sole cost and expense) a registration statement registering the resale of the Sponsor Warrants (the “Warrant Registration Statement”), and the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the Warrant Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, but no later than the earlier of (i) the 60th calendar day (or 90th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Issuer that it will “review” the Registration Statement) following the Closing and (ii) the 10th Business Day after the date the Issuer is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review (such earlier date, the “Effectiveness Date”); provided, however, that the Company’s obligations to include the Sponsor Warrants in the Warrant Registration Statement are contingent upon the ION Holders furnishing in writing to the Company such information regarding the ION Holders, the securities of the Company held by the ION Holders and the intended method of disposition of the Sponsor Warrants as shall be reasonably requested by the Company to effect the registration of the Sponsor Warrants, and the ION Holders shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as the Company may reasonably request that are customary of a selling shareholder in similar situations. For purposes of clarification, any failure by the Company to file the Warrant Registration Statement by the Filing Deadline or to effect such Warrant Registration Statement by the Effectiveness Date shall not otherwise relieve the Company of its obligations to file or effect the Warrant Registration Statement as set forth above in this Section 3. 3.2 The Company shall, upon reasonable request, inform the ION Holders as to the status of the registration effected by the Company pursuant to this Section 3. At its expense the Company shall: 3.2.1 except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend the use of the prospectus forming part of the Warrant Registration Statement, use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep such registration, and any qualification, exemption or compliance under state securities laws which the Company determines to obtain, continuously effective with respect to the ION Holders, and to keep the applicable Warrant Registration Statement or any subsequent shelf registration statement free of any material misstatements or omissions, until the earlier of the following: (i) the ION Holders ceases to hold any Sponsor Warrants, and (ii) the date all Sponsor Warrants held by the ION Holders may be sold without restriction under Rule 144 and 145, including any volume and manner of sale restrictions under Rule 144 and 145 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable); 3.2.2 advise the ION Holders as expeditiously as possible, but in any event within five (5) Business Days: (a) when the Warrant Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective; (b) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Warrant Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for such purpose; and (c) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Sponsor Warrants included therein for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. 3.2.3 use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Warrant Registration Statement as soon as reasonably practicable; 3.2.4 upon the occurrence of any event that requires the making of any changes in the Warrant Registration Statement or prospectus so that, as of such date, the statements therein are not misleading and do not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend, and has suspended, the use of a prospectus forming part of the Warrant Registration Statement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to as soon as reasonably practicable prepare a post-effective amendment to the Warrant Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to purchasers of the Sponsor Warrants included therein, such prospectus will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and 3.2.6 notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall not have any obligation to prepare any prospectus supplement, participate in any due diligence, execute any agreements or certificates or deliver legal opinions or obtain comfort letters in connection with any sales of the Sponsor Warrants under the Warrant Registration Statement in an underwritten offering. 3.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be entitled to delay or postpone the effectiveness of the Warrant Registration Statement, and from time to time to require the ION Holders not to sell under the Warrant Registration Statement or to suspend the effectiveness thereof, if the negotiation or consummation of a transaction by the Company or its subsidiaries is pending or an event has occurred, which negotiation, consummation or event the Company’s Board reasonably believes, upon the advice of legal counsel (which may be in-house legal counsel), would require additional disclosure by the Company in the Warrant Registration Statement of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for keeping confidential and the non-disclosure of which in the Warrant Registration Statement would be expected, in the reasonable determination of the Company’s board of directors, upon the advice of legal counsel (which may be in-house legal counsel), to cause the Warrant Registration Statement to fail to comply with applicable disclosure requirements (each such circumstance, a “Suspension Event”); provided, however, that the Company may not delay or suspend the Warrant Registration Statement on more than three (3) occasions or for more than sixty (60) consecutive calendar days, or more than one hundred and twenty (120) total calendar days, in each case during any twelve (12)-month period. Upon receipt of any written notice from the Company of the happening of any Suspension Event during the period that the Warrant Registration Statement is effective or if as a result of a Suspension Event the Warrant Registration Statement or related prospectus contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made (in the case of the prospectus) not misleading, the ION Holders agrees that (i) it will immediately discontinue offers and sales of the Sponsor Warrants under the Warrant Registration Statement (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, sales conducted pursuant to Rule 144) until the ION Holders receives copies of a supplemental or amended prospectus (which the Company agrees to promptly prepare) that corrects the misstatement(s) or omission(s) referred to above and receives notice that any post-effective amendment has become effective or unless otherwise notified by the Company that it may resume such offers and sales, and (ii) it will maintain the confidentiality of any information included in such written notice delivered by the Company unless otherwise required by law or subpoena. If so directed by the Company, the ION Holders will deliver to the Company or, in the ION Holders’s sole discretion destroy, all copies of the prospectus covering the Sponsor Warrants in the ION Holders’s possession; provided, however, that this obligation to deliver or destroy all copies of the prospectus covering the Sponsor Warrants shall not apply (i) to the extent the ION Holders is required to retain a copy of such prospectus (a) in order to comply with applicable legal, regulatory, self-regulatory or professional requirements or (b) in accordance with a bona fide pre-existing document retention policy or (ii) to copies stored electronically on archival servers as a result of automatic data back-up.
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Samples: Investors’ Rights Agreement (Taboola.com Ltd.), Investors’ Rights Agreement (Taboola.com Ltd.)
Warrant Registration Statement. 3.1 With respect Subject to the Sponsor Warrants, the following provisions shall apply instead of Section 2.2, Section 2.3, Section 2.4 and Section 2.5. The Company agrees that, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Closing Date (the “Filing Deadline”)18.5, the Company will agrees, with and for the benefit of the Holders of Warrants, to file with the Commission (at the Company’s sole cost and expense) a registration statement registering to register the resale issuance of the Sponsor Warrants Warrant Shares by the Company to the Holders from time to time in accordance with Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act (the “Warrant Registration Statement”), "WARRANT REGISTRATION STATEMENT") as soon as reasonably practicable after the date of this Agreement (but in no event later than 30 days) and the Company shall to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to have cause the Warrant Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as reasonably practicable after thereafter. For a period commencing on the filing thereof, but no later than Issue Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the 60th calendar day third anniversary of the Issue Date (subject to extension pursuant to Section 18.5) or 90th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Issuer that it will “review” the Registration Statement) following the Closing and (ii) such date when all of the 10th Business Day after Warrant Shares have been issued (the date the Issuer is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that the "Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review (such earlier datePeriod"), the “Effectiveness Date”); provided, however, that the Company’s obligations to include the Sponsor Warrants in the Warrant Registration Statement are contingent upon the ION Holders furnishing in writing to the Company such information regarding the ION Holders, the securities of the Company held by the ION Holders and the intended method of disposition of the Sponsor Warrants as shall be reasonably requested by the Company to effect the registration of the Sponsor Warrants, and the ION Holders shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as the Company may reasonably request that are customary of a selling shareholder in similar situations. For purposes of clarification, any failure by the Company to file the Warrant Registration Statement by the Filing Deadline or to effect will keep such Warrant Registration Statement by the Effectiveness Date shall not otherwise relieve the Company of its obligations to file or effect the Warrant Registration Statement as set forth above in this Section 3.
3.2 The Company shall, upon reasonable request, inform the ION Holders as to the status of the registration effected by the Company pursuant to this Section 3. At its expense the Company shall:
3.2.1 except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend the use of the prospectus forming part of the Warrant Registration Statement, use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep such registration, and any qualification, exemption or compliance under state securities laws which the Company determines to obtain, continuously effective with respect to the ION Holders, and to keep the applicable Warrant Registration Statement or any subsequent shelf registration statement free of any material misstatements or omissions, until the earlier of the following: (i) the ION Holders ceases to hold any Sponsor Warrants, and (ii) the date all Sponsor Warrants held by the ION Holders may be sold without restriction under Rule 144 and 145, including any volume and manner of sale restrictions under Rule 144 and 145 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable);
3.2.2 advise the ION Holders as expeditiously as possible, but in any event within five (5) Business Days: (a) when the Warrant Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective; (b) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Warrant Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for such purpose; and (c) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Sponsor Warrants included therein for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose.
3.2.3 use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Warrant Registration Statement as soon as reasonably practicable;
3.2.4 upon the occurrence of any event that requires the making of any changes in the Warrant Registration Statement or prospectus so that, as of such date, the statements therein are not misleading and do not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend, and has suspended, the use of a prospectus forming part of the Warrant Registration Statement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to as soon as reasonably practicable prepare a post-effective amendment to the Warrant Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to purchasers of the Sponsor Warrants included therein, such prospectus will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and
3.2.6 notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall not have any obligation to prepare any prospectus supplement, participate in any due diligence, execute any agreements or certificates or deliver legal opinions or obtain comfort letters in connection with any sales of the Sponsor Warrants under the Warrant Registration Statement in an underwritten offering.
3.3 Notwithstanding anything Securities Act and will file such amendments and/or supplements to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be entitled to delay or postpone the effectiveness of the Warrant Registration Statement, and from time supplement and keep current any prospectus forming a part of such Warrant Registration Statement, as may be necessary to time permit the Company to require comply with the ION Holders not to sell under Securities Act and the rules and regulations thereunder in connection with the issuance of the Warrant Registration Statement or Shares, and to suspend the effectiveness thereof, if the negotiation or consummation of a transaction by permit the Company or its subsidiaries is pending or an event has occurred, which negotiation, consummation or event to deliver to each Holder exercising a Warrant a prospectus meeting the Company’s Board reasonably believesrequirements of Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act and otherwise comply therewith; and the Company will deliver such prospectus to each such Holder. The Company shall, upon the advice request of legal counsel (which any Holder of Warrants that may be in-house legal counsel)required pursuant to the Securities Act to deliver a prospectus in connection with any sale or other disposition of Warrant Shares, would require additional disclosure by include within the plan of distribution section of the prospectus and in such other places in the prospectus as may be necessary, all information necessary under the Securities Act to enable such holder to deliver such prospectus in connection with sales or other dispositions of such Warrant Shares, and the Company shall also take such action as may be necessary under the Securities Act with respect to the related registration statement to enable such holder to effect such delivery in the Warrant Registration Statement of material information that the connection with such sale or other disposition. The Company has further agrees to provide any holder who may be required to deliver a bona fide business purpose for keeping confidential and the non-disclosure of which in the Warrant Registration Statement would be expected, in the reasonable determination of the Company’s board of directors, prospectus upon the advice sale or other disposition of legal counsel (which may be in-house legal counsel)such Warrant Shares, to cause the Warrant Registration Statement to fail to comply with applicable disclosure requirements (each such circumstance, a “Suspension Event”); provided, however, that the Company may not delay or suspend the Warrant Registration Statement on more than three (3) occasions or for more than sixty (60) consecutive calendar days, or more than one hundred and twenty (120) total calendar days, in each case during any twelve (12)-month period. Upon receipt number of any written notice from the Company of the happening of any Suspension Event during the period that the Warrant Registration Statement is effective or if as a result of a Suspension Event the Warrant Registration Statement or related prospectus contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made (in the case of the prospectus) not misleading, the ION Holders agrees that (i) it will immediately discontinue offers and sales of the Sponsor Warrants under the Warrant Registration Statement (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, sales conducted pursuant to Rule 144) until the ION Holders receives copies of a supplemental or amended prospectus (which the Company agrees to promptly prepare) that corrects the misstatement(s) or omission(s) referred to above and receives notice that any post-effective amendment has become effective or unless otherwise notified by the Company that it may resume such offers and sales, and (ii) it will maintain the confidentiality of any information included in such written notice delivered by the Company unless otherwise required by law or subpoena. If so directed by the Company, the ION Holders will deliver to the Company or, in the ION Holders’s sole discretion destroy, all copies of the prospectus covering the Sponsor Warrants in the ION Holders’s possession; provided, however, that this obligation to deliver or destroy all copies of the prospectus covering the Sponsor Warrants shall not apply (i) to the extent the ION Holders is required to retain a copy of as such prospectus (a) in order to comply with applicable legal, regulatory, self-regulatory or professional requirements or (b) in accordance with a bona fide pre-existing document retention policy or (ii) to copies stored electronically on archival servers as a result of automatic data back-upholder reasonably requests.
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Warrant Registration Statement. 3.1 With respect The Company shall prepare, and, as soon as practicable but in no event later than 45 days after each date the Company issues any Warrants pursuant to the Sponsor Warrants, the following provisions shall apply instead of Section 2.2, Section 2.3, Section 2.4 Securities Purchase Agreement and Section 2.5. The Company agrees that, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Closing Date Exhibit A thereto (the “"Warrant Filing Deadline”"), the Company will file with the Commission a Warrant Registration Statement or Warrant Registration Statements (at the Company’s sole cost and expenseas necessary) a registration statement registering on Form S-3 covering the resale of all of the Sponsor Registrable Securities relating to such Warrants (the “"Warrant Registration Statement”Registrable Securities"). In the event that Form S-3 is unavailable for such a registration, and the Company shall use such other form as is available for such a registration. Any Warrant Registration Statement prepared pursuant hereto shall register for resale at least that number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of Warrant Registrable Securities relating to such Warrants as of the date immediately preceding the date the Registration Statement is initially filed with the Commission. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to have the Warrant Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable after by the filing thereof, but no later than Commission within the earlier earliest to occur of (i) 90 days (120 days if the 60th calendar day Warrant Filing Deadline is within 75 days of the end of the Company's fiscal year) after the date of issuance of such Warrants; (or 90th calendar day ii) if the Commission notifies the Issuer that it will “review” the Registration Statement) following the Closing and (ii) the 10th Business Day after the date the Issuer is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that the Registration Statement will elects not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further conduct a review (such earlier date, the “Effectiveness Date”); provided, however, that the Company’s obligations to include the Sponsor Warrants in the Warrant Registration Statement are contingent upon the ION Holders furnishing in writing to the Company such information regarding the ION Holders, the securities of the Company held by the ION Holders and the intended method of disposition of the Sponsor Warrants as shall be reasonably requested by the Company to effect the registration of the Sponsor Warrants, and the ION Holders shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as the Company may reasonably request that are customary of a selling shareholder in similar situations. For purposes of clarification, any failure by the Company to file the Warrant Registration Statement by the Filing Deadline or to effect such Warrant Registration Statement by the Effectiveness Date shall not otherwise relieve the Company of its obligations to file or effect the Warrant Registration Statement as set forth above in this Section 3.
3.2 The Company shall, upon reasonable request, inform the ION Holders as to the status of the registration effected by the Company pursuant to this Section 3. At its expense the Company shall:
3.2.1 except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend the use of the prospectus forming part of the Warrant Registration Statement, use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep such registration, and any qualification, exemption or compliance under state securities laws which the Company determines to obtain, continuously effective with respect to the ION Holders, and to keep the applicable Warrant Registration Statement or any subsequent shelf registration statement free of any material misstatements or omissions, until the earlier of the following: (i) the ION Holders ceases to hold any Sponsor Warrants, and (ii) the date all Sponsor Warrants held by the ION Holders may be sold without restriction under Rule 144 and 145, including any volume and manner of sale restrictions under Rule 144 and 145 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable);
3.2.2 advise the ION Holders as expeditiously as possible, but in any event within five (5) Business Days: (a) when the Warrant Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective; (b) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Warrant Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for such purpose; and (c) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Sponsor Warrants included therein for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose.
3.2.3 use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Warrant Registration Statement as soon as reasonably practicable;
3.2.4 upon the occurrence of any event that requires the making of any changes in the Warrant Registration Statement or prospectus so that, as of such date, the statements therein are not misleading and do not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend, and has suspended, the use of a prospectus forming part of the Warrant Registration Statement, the date which is three (3) business days after the date upon which either the Company shall use or its commercially reasonable efforts to as soon as reasonably practicable prepare a post-effective amendment to counsel is so notified, whether orally or in writing; or (iii) if the Warrant Registration Statement or a supplement to is reviewed by the related prospectus, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to purchasers of the Sponsor Warrants included therein, such prospectus will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and
3.2.6 notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this AgreementCommission, the Company shall not have any obligation to prepare any prospectus supplement, participate in any due diligence, execute any agreements or certificates or deliver legal opinions or obtain comfort letters in connection with any sales of date which is three (3) business days after the Sponsor Warrants under the Warrant Registration Statement in an underwritten offering.
3.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be entitled to delay or postpone the effectiveness of the Warrant Registration Statement, and from time to time to require the ION Holders not to sell under the Warrant Registration Statement or to suspend the effectiveness thereof, if the negotiation or consummation of a transaction by date upon which the Company or its subsidiaries counsel is pending or an event has occurred, which negotiation, consummation or event the Company’s Board reasonably believes, upon the advice of legal counsel (which may be in-house legal counsel), would require additional disclosure notified by the Company Commission, whether orally or in the Warrant Registration Statement of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for keeping confidential and the non-disclosure of which in the Warrant Registration Statement would be expected, in the reasonable determination of the Company’s board of directors, upon the advice of legal counsel (which may be in-house legal counsel), to cause the Warrant Registration Statement to fail to comply with applicable disclosure requirements (each such circumstance, a “Suspension Event”); provided, howeverwriting, that the Company may not delay or suspend Commission has no further comments with respect to the Warrant Warant Registration Statement on more than three (3) occasions or for more than sixty (60) consecutive calendar days, or more than one hundred and twenty (120) total calendar days, in each case during any twelve (12)-month period. Upon receipt of any written notice from the Company of the happening of any Suspension Event during the period that the Warrant Registration Statement may be declared effective. The earliest of such dates is effective or if as a result of a Suspension Event the Warrant Registration Statement or related prospectus contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made (in the case of the prospectus) not misleading, the ION Holders agrees that (i) it will immediately discontinue offers and sales of the Sponsor Warrants under the Warrant Registration Statement (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, sales conducted pursuant to Rule 144) until the ION Holders receives copies of a supplemental or amended prospectus (which the Company agrees to promptly prepare) that corrects the misstatement(s) or omission(s) referred to above and receives notice that any post-effective amendment has become effective or unless otherwise notified by herein as the Company that it may resume such offers and sales, and (ii) it will maintain the confidentiality of any information included in such written notice delivered by the Company unless otherwise required by law or subpoena. If so directed by the Company, the ION Holders will deliver to the Company or, in the ION Holders’s sole discretion destroy, all copies of the prospectus covering the Sponsor Warrants in the ION Holders’s possession; provided, however, that this obligation to deliver or destroy all copies of the prospectus covering the Sponsor Warrants shall not apply (i) to the extent the ION Holders is required to retain a copy of such prospectus (a) in order to comply with applicable legal, regulatory, self-regulatory or professional requirements or (b) in accordance with a bona fide pre-existing document retention policy or (ii) to copies stored electronically on archival servers as a result of automatic data back-up"Warrant Effectiveness Deadline".
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Samples: Securities Purchase Agreement (Online System Services Inc)
Warrant Registration Statement. 3.1 With respect to the Sponsor Warrants, the following provisions shall apply instead of Section 2.2, Section 2.3, Section 2.4 and Section 2.5. The Company agrees that, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Closing Date (the “Filing Deadline”), the Company will file with the Commission (at the Company’s sole cost and expense) a registration statement registering the resale of the Sponsor Warrants (the “Warrant Registration Statement”), and the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the Warrant Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, but no later than the earlier of (i) the 60th calendar day (or 90th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Issuer that it will “review” the Registration Statement) following the Closing and (ii) the 10th Business Day after the date the Issuer is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review (such earlier date, the “Effectiveness Date”); provided, however, that the Company’s obligations to include the Sponsor Warrants in the Warrant Registration Statement are contingent upon the ION Holders furnishing in writing to the Company such information regarding the ION Holders, the securities of the Company held by the ION Holders and the intended method of disposition of the Sponsor Warrants as shall be reasonably requested by the Company to effect the registration of the Sponsor Warrants, and the ION Holders shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as the Company may reasonably request that are customary of a selling shareholder in similar situations. For purposes of clarification, any failure by the Company to file the Warrant Registration Statement by the Filing Deadline or to effect such Warrant Registration Statement by the Effectiveness Date shall not otherwise relieve the Company of its obligations to file or effect the Warrant Registration Statement as set forth above in this Section 3.
3.2 The Company shall, upon reasonable request, inform the ION Holders as to the status of the registration effected by the Company pursuant to this Section 3. At its expense the Company shall:
3.2.1 except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend the use of the prospectus forming part of the Warrant Registration Statement, use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep such registration, and any qualification, exemption or compliance under state securities laws which the Company determines to obtain, continuously effective with respect to the ION Holders, and to keep the applicable Warrant Registration Statement or any subsequent shelf registration statement free of any material misstatements or omissions, until the earlier of the following: (i) the ION Holders ceases to hold any Sponsor Warrants, and (ii) the date all Sponsor Warrants held by the ION Holders may be sold without restriction under Rule 144 and 145, including any volume and manner of sale restrictions under Rule 144 and 145 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable);
3.2.2 advise the ION Holders as expeditiously as possible, but in any event within five (5) Business Days: :
(a) when the Warrant Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective; ;
(b) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Warrant Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for such purpose; and and
(c) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Sponsor Warrants included therein for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose.
3.2.3 use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Warrant Registration Statement as soon as reasonably practicable;
3.2.4 upon the occurrence of any event that requires the making of any changes in the Warrant Registration Statement or prospectus so that, as of such date, the statements therein are not misleading and do not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend, and has suspended, the use of a prospectus forming part of the Warrant Registration Statement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to as soon as reasonably practicable prepare a post-effective amendment to the Warrant Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to purchasers of the Sponsor Warrants included therein, such prospectus will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and
3.2.6 3.2.5 notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall not have any obligation to prepare any prospectus supplement, participate in any due diligence, execute any agreements or certificates or deliver legal opinions or obtain comfort letters in connection with any sales of the Sponsor Warrants under the Warrant Registration Statement in an underwritten offering.
3.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be entitled to delay or postpone the effectiveness of the Warrant Registration Statement, and from time to time to require the ION Holders not to sell under the Warrant Registration Statement or to suspend the effectiveness thereof, if the negotiation or consummation of a transaction by the Company or its subsidiaries is pending or an event has occurred, which negotiation, consummation or event the Company’s Board reasonably believes, upon the advice of legal counsel (which may be in-house legal counsel), would require additional disclosure by the Company in the Warrant Registration Statement of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for keeping confidential and the non-disclosure of which in the Warrant Registration Statement would be expected, in the reasonable determination of the Company’s board of directors, upon the advice of legal counsel (which may be in-house legal counsel), to cause the Warrant Registration Statement to fail to comply with applicable disclosure requirements (each such circumstance, a “Suspension Event”); provided, however, that the Company may not delay or suspend the Warrant Registration Statement on more than three (3) occasions or for more than sixty (60) consecutive calendar days, or more than one hundred and twenty (120) total calendar days, in each case during any twelve (12)-month period. Upon receipt of any written notice from the Company of the happening of any Suspension Event during the period that the Warrant Registration Statement is effective or if as a result of a Suspension Event the Warrant Registration Statement or related prospectus contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made (in the case of the prospectus) not misleading, the ION Holders agrees that (i) it will immediately discontinue offers and sales of the Sponsor Warrants under the Warrant Registration Statement (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, sales conducted pursuant to Rule 144) until the ION Holders receives copies of a supplemental or amended prospectus (which the Company agrees to promptly prepare) that corrects the misstatement(s) or omission(s) referred to above and receives notice that any post-effective amendment has become effective or unless otherwise notified by the Company that it may resume such offers and sales, and (ii) it will maintain the confidentiality of any information included in such written notice delivered by the Company unless otherwise required by law or subpoena. If so directed by the Company, the ION Holders will deliver to the Company or, in the ION Holders’s sole discretion destroy, all copies of the prospectus covering the Sponsor Warrants in the ION Holders’s possession; provided, however, that this obligation to deliver or destroy all copies of the prospectus covering the Sponsor Warrants shall not apply (i) to the extent the ION Holders is required to retain a copy of such prospectus (a) in order to comply with applicable legal, regulatory, self-regulatory or professional requirements or (b) in accordance with a bona fide pre-existing document retention policy or (ii) to copies stored electronically on archival servers as a result of automatic data back-up.
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