EXHIBIT 9.1
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STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT
among
HCC INDUSTRIES INC.
WINDWARD CAPITAL ASSOCIATES, L.P.
WINDWARD/PARK HCC, L.L.C.
WINDWARD/MERCHANT, L.P.
WINDWARD/MERBAN, L.P.
and
THE OTHER STOCKHOLDERS LISTED HEREIN
Dated as of February 14, 1997
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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BACKGROUND.............................................................. 1
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS............................................................. 3
1.1 Definitions................................................... 3
ARTICLE II
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.................................................... 15
2.1 Voting Rights in Charter; Voting Matters
Related to Charter Documents................................ 15
2.2 Designation of Directors...................................... 16
2.3 Replacement of Nominees....................................... 18
2.4 Calling Special Meetings for the Removal
of Nominees................................................. 19
2.5 Calling Special Meetings for the Enforcement of
Corporate Governance Provisions............................. 19
2.6 Removal for Cause............................................. 19
2.7 Grant of Proxies.............................................. 20
2.8 Voting Agreement.............................................. 20
ARTICLE III
RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER; RIGHTS OF FIRST REFUSAL....................... 21
3.1 Restrictions on Transfer...................................... 21
3.2 Rights of First Refusal Generally............................. 22
3.3 Apportionment of Shares Among Stockholders
in the Event of Over-Subscription........................... 24
3.4 Apportionment of Shares Among Stockholders
in the Event of Failure to Purchase......................... 25
3.5 Transfer Mechanics............................................ 26
3.6 Transfers to Third Parties after Stock
holders Decline Rights of First Refusal..................... 26
3.7 Exceptions to Rights of First Refusal......................... 27
ARTICLE IV
TAG-ALONG RIGHTS........................................................ 28
4.1 Tag-Along Rights Generally.................................... 28
4.2 Allocation of Shares of Tag-Along Stock....................... 29
4.3 Transfer Mechanics............................................ 30
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4.4 Transfers to Third Parties after Stock
holders Decline Tag-Along Rights............................ 31
4.5 Exceptions to Tag-Along Rights................................ 31
ARTICLE V
RIGHTS TO COMPEL SALE OR IPO EVENT...................................... 32
5.1 Rights to Compel Sale Generally............................... 32
5.2 Compelled Sale Pursuant to a Sale of Company Stock............ 32
5.3 Compelled Sale Other Than Pursuant to a
Sale of Company Stock
5.4 Cooperation in Connection with Compelled Sale................. 35
5.5 Notice of Consummation of Compelled Sale...................... 35
5.6 Rights to Compel IPO Event.................................... 36
ARTICLE VI
PREEMPTIVE RIGHTS....................................................... 37
6.1 Preemptive Rights............................................. 37
ARTICLE VII
PUT AND CALL RIGHTS ON MANAGEMENT STOCK................................. 38
7.1 Put and Call Rights........................................... 38
7.2 Obligation to Sell Several.................................... 42
7.3 Deferral of Purchases......................................... 42
7.4 Payment for Stock............................................. 43
7.5 Miscellaneous................................................. 44
7.6 Proxy and Escrow of Company Stock............................. 45
ARTICLE VIII
COMPANY COVENANTS....................................................... 45
8.1 Affiliated Arrangements....................................... 45
8.2 Financial Reports............................................. 46
8.3 Access to Information......................................... 46
8.4 FIRPTA Activities............................................. 46
ARTICLE IX
REGISTRATION RIGHTS..................................................... 46
9.1 Demand Registration Rights.................................... 46
9.2 Piggyback Registration Rights................................. 49
9.3 Priority in Piggyback Registrations........................... 51
9.4 Expenses...................................................... 53
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9.5 Restrictions on Public Sale by Stockholders and Company....... 53
9.6 Indemnification by the Company................................ 55
9.7 Indemnification by the Stockholders and Underwriters.......... 56
9.8 Notices of Claims, Etc........................................ 57
9.9 Other Indemnification......................................... 58
9.10 Registration Procedure....................................... 58
9.11 Rule 144..................................................... 62
ARTICLE X
ADDITIONAL STOCKHOLDERS................................................. 63
10.1 Transferees of Stockholders or the Company................... 63
10.2 New Stockholders............................................. 63
10.3 Supplemental Agreements...................................... 64
ARTICLE XI
STOCK LEGENDS........................................................... 64
11.1 Stock Certificate Legend..................................... 64
ARTICLE XII
APPOINTMENT OF AGENTS................................................... 65
12.1 Appointment of Agent for Windward Group Matters.............. 65
12.2 Appointment of Agent for the Management Stockholders......... 68
ARTICLE XIII
TERM OF AGREEMENT....................................................... 69
13.1 Term......................................................... 69
ARTICLE XIV
MISCELLANEOUS........................................................... 69
14.1 Confidentiality.............................................. 69
14.2 Specific Performance......................................... 70
14.3 Consent to Jurisdiction, Etc................................. 71
14.4 Attorneys' Fees.............................................. 71
14.5 Headings; No Third Party Beneficiaries....................... 72
14.6 Entire Agreement............................................. 72
14.7 Notices...................................................... 72
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14.8 Applicable Law............................................... 74
14.9 Severability................................................. 74
14.10 Successors; Assigns; Transferees; Amendments; Waivers
14.11 Defaults; No Circumvention of Agreement..................... 75
14.12 Further Assurances.......................................... 75
14.13 Counterparts................................................ 76
14.14 Recapitalization, etc....................................... 76
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STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT
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STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT dated as of February 14, 1997 (the
"Agreement"), by and among HCC Industries Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), Windward Capital Associates, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership
("Windward"), Windward/Park HCC, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
("Windward/Park"), Windward/Merban, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership
("Windward/Merban"), Windward/Merchant, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership
("Windward/Merchant") and the persons listed in the Schedule of Management
Stockholders attached hereto (such persons, together with any employees of the
Company or its subsidiaries who become parties to this Agreement pursuant to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement and each of their respective Permitted
Transferees (as defined herein), are referred to herein, collectively, as the
"Management Stockholders"), and such other persons or entities who or which
become parties to this Agreement pursuant to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement. Windward, Windward/Park, Windward/Merban and Windward/Merchant,
together with their respective Permitted Transferees, shall be referred to
collectively in this Agreement as the "Windward Group".
BACKGROUND
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WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the First Amendment
and Restatement of the Stock Purchase and Sale Agreement dated as of February
14, 1997 (the "Stock Purchase Agreement"), by and among the Company, the
Windward Group, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ("MetLife") and certain
stockholders of the Company set forth on the signature pages thereto, among
other things, (a) the Company has agreed to issue to the members of the Windward
Group, and the members of the Windward Group have agreed to acquire from the
Company, 96,335 shares of Common Stock, par value $.10 per share, of the Company
(the "Common Stock") (representing in the aggregate approximately 67% of the
Company's total outstanding capital stock (without giving effect to the
exercise of any outstanding options, the Warrants (as defined below) or other
similar securities)) and (b) the Company has agreed to purchase from certain
stockholders of the Company who are parties to the Stock Purchase
Agreement and such stockholders have agreed to sell to the Company certain
shares of Common Stock as set forth in the Stock Purchase Agreement;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Stock Purchase
Agreement, at the Closing (as defined in the Stock Purchase Agreement), the
Company has agreed to issue to Windward/Merban, Windward/Merchant and
Windward/Park, and Windward/Merban, Windward/Merchant and Windward/Park have
agreed to acquire from the Company, certain warrants to acquire additional
shares of Common Stock (subject to the conditions set forth in such warrants)
(such warrants, as more fully described in the Stock Purchase Agreement, the
"Warrants");
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Stock Purchase
Agreement, the Company has the right to repurchase and acquire from
Windward/Merban, Windward/Merchant and Windward/Park the Warrants and certain
of the shares of Common Stock purchased by Windward/Merban, Windward/Merchant
and Windward/Park pursuant to the Stock Purchase Agreement as set forth in
Section 7.3 of the Stock Purchase Agreement;
WHEREAS, after the Closing , the Company has agreed to grant options
to purchase additional shares of Common Stock to certain employees of the
Company and its subsidiaries, such options to be subject to the terms (including
performance criteria) set forth in the plan governing such options and, upon
exercise, such employees will, to the extent they are not otherwise parties
hereto, become parties to this Agreement pursuant to Article X hereof;
WHEREAS, after the Closing, the Company may offer and sell additional
shares of Common Stock to certain other persons and to employees of the Company
and its subsidiaries and such employees will, to the extent they are not
otherwise parties hereto, become parties to this Agreement pursuant to Article X
hereof;
WHEREAS, pursuant to and subject to the terms and conditions of
Article XII hereof, each of the members of the Windward Group have designated
and appointed Windward as its attorney-in-fact, agent and representative to act
on its behalf and on behalf of its Permitted Transferees in connection with this
Agreement (in such
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capacity, Windward, and any successor thereof appointed pursuant to such Article
XII, shall hereinafter be referred to as "the Windward Agent"); and
WHEREAS, the Stockholders believe it to be in their best interests and
in the best interests of the Company that they enter into this Agreement
providing for certain rights and restrictions with respect to the shares of
Common Stock owned by them or their permitted transferees.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and
obligations set forth in this Agreement, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms
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shall have the meanings ascribed to them below (such terms to be equally
applicable to both singular and plural forms of the terms defined or referred
to):
(a) The term "Affiliate" or "affiliate" shall mean, with respect to
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any specified person, (x) any director or officer of, or any person that
beneficially owns at least 5% of the capital stock or other equity interests of,
such specified person, or (y) any other person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, such specified person,
at any time during the period for which the determination of affiliation is
being made; provided that in the case of a person who is an individual, such
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terms shall also include members of such specified person's immediate family
(as defined in Instruction 2 of Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K under the
Securities Act).
(b) The term "Board" shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.
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(c) The term "Bona Fide Offer" shall mean any offer by a Third Party
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in writing, setting forth a specific purchase price and a closing date of no
more than
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thirty days therefrom, which is fully financed and not subject to any material
conditions.
(d) The term "Book Value" shall mean, as to (x) each share of Common
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Stock, the sum of (i) the price per share of Common Stock paid by the Windward
Entities pursuant to the Stock Purchase Agreement and (ii) the increase (or
minus the decrease) in the book value per share of Common Stock (as determined
in accordance with GAAP, calculated on a Fully-Diluted Basis) for the period
commencing on the first day of the first fiscal quarter of the Company following
the date hereof through and until the last day of the fiscal quarter of the
Company immediately preceding the date on which book value shall be determined,
and (y) as to each share of Company Stock subject to an Option, the positive
difference between the Book Value as calculated pursuant to clause (x) of this
definition and the applicable exercise price per share of Company Stock of such
Option.
(e) The term "Business Day" shall mean any calendar day which is not
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a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday under the laws of the State of New York.
(f) The term "Cause", used in connection with the termination of
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employment of any Management Stockholder by the Company or any subsidiary of
the Company, shall mean a termination due to a finding by the Board in good
faith that such Management Stockholder has (a) been engaged in an act or acts of
dishonesty that were intended to and did result directly or indirectly in more
than an aggregate of $5,000 in gain or personal enrichment to employee at the
expense of the Company; (b) failed to substantially perform employee's duties
under his applicable employment agreement, if any (other than failure resulting
from employee's Disability), persisting for a reasonable period following the
delivery to employee of written notice specifying the details of any alleged
failure to perform, which failure has resulted in demonstrable and material
injury and damage to the Company; (c) violated or failed to comply in any
material respect with the Company's published rules, regulations or policies,
as in effect from time to time; (d) breached the applicable employment
agreement, if any, in any material respect; or (e) been convicted of a felony
offense or a misdemeanor offense involving fraud, theft or dishonestly at any
time, which conviction employee failed to disclose
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to the Company; or (f) been incarcerated for more than 10 days.
(g) The term "Change of Control" shall mean the occurrence of any of
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the following events:
i) the sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of Company or its subsidiaries (taken as a
whole) to any person or related group of persons other than the Stockholders;
ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into
another corporation, or the merger of another corporation into the Company, with
the effect that persons other than the Stockholders (and their Permitted
Transferees or any "group" (as defined in the rules promulgated under Section
13(d) of the Exchange Act) of which any Stockholder or any Permitted Transferee
is a member) hold more than 50% of the total voting power on a Fully Diluted
Basis entitled to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees of the
surviving corporation of such merger or the corporation resulting from such
consolidation; and
iii) any other event which results in a Person or a "group" other
than the Stockholders (and their Permitted Transferees or any "group" of which
any Stockholder or any Permitted Transferee is a member) holding, directly or
indirectly, in the aggregate more than 50% of common stock outstanding at such
time, after giving effect to the issuance of all shares of Company Stock
issuable (i) upon conversion of all convertible securities outstanding at such
time and (ii) upon exercise of all other warrants, options and other rights
outstanding at such time.
(h) The term "Common Stock" shall mean the capital stock named as
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"Common Stock" in the second paragraph of this Agreement, and any and all
shares of capital stock or other securities of the Company or any successor or
assign of the Company (whether by merger, consolidation, sale of assets or
otherwise), which may be issued in respect of, in exchange for, or in
substitution for any shares of Common Stock, by reason of any stock dividend,
split, reverse split, combination, recapital-
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ization, reclassification, merger, consolidation or otherwise.
(i) The term "Company" shall mean the person named as the "Company"
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in the first paragraph of this Agreement, and any successor or assign thereof.
(j) The term "Company Stock" shall mean the Common Stock and any
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other capital stock of any class or series of the Company, and any securities of
the Company convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any such
Common Stock or other capital stock of the Company (including, without
limitation, (i) shares of Common Stock issued (or issuable) pursuant to the
Stock Purchase Agreement, (ii) shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the
Company Stock Option Plan or any other stock option plan or employee benefit or
other incentive plan presently in effect or which may be adopted by the Company
after the date hereof, (iii) shares of Common Stock issued (or issuable) upon
exercise of the Warrants, any other warrants or upon exercise of preemptive
rights granted by the Company, (iv) the Warrants and any warrants or options to
purchase Common Stock (the "Options"), and (v) shares of Common Stock issued and
outstanding prior to the date hereof). The term "Company Stock" shall include,
except as otherwise provided herein, any and all shares of capital stock or
other securities of the Company or any successor or assign of the Company
(whether by merger, consolidation, sale of assets or otherwise), which may be
issued in respect of, in exchange for, or in substitution for any shares of
Company Stock, by reason of any stock dividend, split, reverse split,
combination, recapitalization, reclassification, merger, consolidation or
otherwise.
(k) The term "Company Stock Option Plan" shall mean the HCC
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Industries Inc. 1997 Stock Option Plan, adopted by the Company as of the date
hereof pursuant to the Stock Purchase Agreement.
(l) The term "control", when used with respect to any person, shall
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mean the power to direct the management and policies of such person, directly
or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract
or otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings
correlative to the foregoing.
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(m) The term "Credit Agreement" shall mean the Credit Agreement dated
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as of the date hereof among the Company, the Lenders (as defined therein), and
Fleet Capital Corporation, as agent for the Lenders, as the same may be amended
from time to time.
(n) The term "Disability" shall mean the inability of the Management
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Stockholder to substantially render to the Company the services required by the
Company in accordance with his job for more than 60 days out of any consecutive
120 day period because of mental or physical illness or incapacity, as
determined in good faith by the Board. The date of such Disability shall be on
the last day of such 60 day period.
(o) The term "Duly Endorsed" shall mean (i) duly endorsed in blank by
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the person or persons in whose name a stock certificate or certificate
representing a debt security is registered or (ii) accompanied by a duly
executed stock or security assignment separate from the certificate, in each
case with the signature(s) thereon guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust
company or a member of a national securities exchange or of the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
(p) The term "EBITDA" shall mean the consolidated net income (or
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loss) of the Company and its subsidiaries, excluding (to the extent net income
is reduced or increased or net loss is increased or reduced thereby), without
duplication, (a) interest expense, (b) provisions for taxes based on income, (c)
depreciation expense, (d) amortization expense from intangibles and goodwill,
(e) extraordinary gains or losses, (f) gains or losses on the sale or disposal
of assets, (g) the cumulative effect of any changes in accounting principles,
(h) the granting or modification of options under option (and similar) plans
(other than legal and other costs incurred in connection with the establishment
and administration of such plan), (i) investment income and losses, and (j) non-
cash amounts that relate to capitalized inventory, in each case as shown on the
Company's unaudited (or audited, with respect to any four fiscal quarters for
which audited statements are otherwise available) consolidated financial
statements for the four fiscal quarters of the Company ending immediately prior
to the particular date on which the EBITDA calculation is being made, in each
case calculated in accordance with GAAP.
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(q) The term "Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of
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1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(r) The term "Fair Market Value", used in connection with the value
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of (x) a share of Company Stock, shall mean the quotient of (i) the excess of
(1) product of (A) 6.5 multiplied by (B) the amount of EBITDA, as shown on the
Company's unaudited (or audited, with respect to any four fiscal quarters for
which audited statements are otherwise available) consolidated financial
statements for the four fiscal quarters of the Company ending immediately prior
to the particular date of termination of employment in question (or, in the
event that the periods during which the exercise of the rights pursuant to
Section 7.1 hereof are deferred pursuant to Section 7.3 hereof, immediately
prior to the first date on which such periods recommence pursuant to such
Section 7.3), over (2) the amount of Net Indebtedness as of the end of the
period in question, divided by (ii) the total number of shares of Company Stock
(calculated on a Fully-Diluted Basis), and (y) a share of Company Stock subject
to an Option shall mean the positive difference between Fair Market Value as
calculated pursuant to clause (x) of this definition and the applicable exercise
price per share of Company Stock of such Option.
(s) The term "Financing Default" shall mean an event or circumstance
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which would constitute (or with notice or lapse of time or both would
constitute) an event of default under either the Subordinated Note Agreement or
the Credit Agreement, or any other indebtedness incurred by the Company ranking
senior to or pari passu with the indebtedness incurred pursuant to the
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Subordinated Notes, or any refunding, refinancing or extension of any of the
foregoing (including, without limitation, any debt offering pursuant to Rule
144A promulgated under the Securities Act), as such agreements may be amended
from time to time, and which event or circumstance has not been waived or cured.
(t) The term "Fully-Diluted Basis" shall mean, with respect to any
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calculation of the outstanding number of shares of Company Stock or the
outstanding amount of common equity of the Company (as the case may be), an
amount equal to the total outstanding number of shares of Company Stock and all
other shares of common stock of the
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Company, calculated without duplication and assuming the conversion of all
outstanding shares of convertible capital stock and securities of the Company
and the exercise of all warrants, options and other rights (including, without
limitation, employee stock options pursuant to the Company Stock Option Plan and
the Warrants (except that, with respect to such options and the Warrants, if any
such options are finally determined to be less than 100% vested or if any such
Warrants are finally determined to be less than 100% exercisable, only those
shares of Company Stock which may be exercised following such final
determination shall be included in such calculation)) to purchase shares of
Company Stock or other common stock of the Company.
(u) The term "GAAP" shall mean U.S. generally accepted accounting
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principles, as in effect on the date any calculation thereunder is made, applied
on a basis consistent with prior periods.
(v) The term "IPO Event" shall mean an initial public offering of
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capital stock by the Company involving the Registration and sale of an aggregate
of $25 million or more of common equity of the Company, whether involving a
primary offering or a combined primary and secondary offering, and pursuant to
which the Company becomes listed on a national securities exchange or on the
Nasdaq Stock Market or Nasdaq National Market; provided that in the event that
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the Windward Agent consents to an initial public offering that involves the
Registration and sale of less than $25 million of common equity of the Company,
then an IPO Event shall be deemed, for purposes of this Agreement, to mean a
Registration which, when taken together with all other Registrations,
constitutes a sale by the Company, its stockholders or any combination thereof,
of $25 million or more of common equity of the Company (as calculated in the
manner set forth above).
(w) The term "Net Indebtedness" shall mean (i) Indebtedness (as
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defined in the Credit Agreement) less (ii) cash and cash equivalents (other than
cash held in the Deferred Purchase Price Fund established pursuant to the
Deferred Purchase Price Agreement and the Escrow Agreement (each as defined in
the Stock Purchase Agreement)), in each case, of the Company as shown on the
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Company's most recently available balance sheet prior to the date of
determination.
(x) The term "Permitted Transferee" of a Stockholder shall mean the
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Company and:
i) in the case of any member of the Windward Group, (A) corporations,
partnerships or other entities which are Affiliates of any member (or any
general or limited partner or equity holder of any member) of the Windward
Group (collectively, the "Windward Affiliates"), (B) any general partner,
limited partner, controlling shareholder, director, officer, managing director
or other employee of Windward or any Windward Affiliate (collectively, the
"Windward Associates"), (C) the lineal descendants, heirs, executors,
administrators, testamentary trustees, legatees or beneficiaries of any Windward
Associate and (D) any trust, the beneficiaries of which, or corporation or
partnership, the stockholders or general or limited partners of which, include
only a Windward Associate, his or her spouse, members of his or her immediate
family or his or her lineal descendants, to which any such member of the
Windward Group, a Windward Affiliate or a Windward Associate has transferred
shares of Company Stock; and
ii) in the case of a Management Stockholder, (A) the lineal
descendants, heirs, executors, administrators, testamentary trustees, legatees
or beneficiaries of any Management Stockholder and (B) any trust, the
beneficiaries of which, or a corporation or partnership, the stockholders or
general or limited partners of which, include only a Management Stockholder, his
or her spouse, members of his or her immediate family or his or her lineal
descendants, to which a Management Stockholder has transferred shares of Company
Stock;
provided that in each case (1) each such transferor has obtained the prior
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written consent of the Company (which consent shall not be withheld unless, in
the opinion of the Company, such transfer together with all other transfers of
Company Stock made after the Closing could result in or create a significant
risk (as defined below) that the Company may become subject to, or after any
Registration will continue to be subject to, the informational requirements of
the Exchange Act) and (2) each such transferee (other than the Company) has
agreed in writ-
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ing, in accordance with Article X hereof, to be bound by the terms and
conditions of this Agreement to the same extent and in the same manner as the
Stockholder transferring such shares of Company Stock; provided further that
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the transfer to any such person is in compliance with all applicable federal,
state and foreign securities laws. For the purposes of this Section 1.1(t), a
"significant risk" shall be deemed to arise when the number of "holders of
record" (as determined in accordance with the Exchange Act) is greater than 80%
of the number of "holders of record" that would cause the application or
continued application of the informational requirements of the Exchange Act
under the then existing circumstances.
(y) The term "person" shall mean an individual, partnership,
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corporation, business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated
association, joint venture, or other entity of whatever nature.
(z) The term "Piggyback Securities" shall mean those Registrable
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Securities which are requested to be sold by any Stockholder pursuant to Section
9.2 hereof.
(aa) The term "Registrable Securities" shall mean shares of Common
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Stock (including, without limitation, shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to
the Stock Purchase Agreement, shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the
Company Stock Option Plan or any other stock option plan or employee benefit or
other incentive plan presently existing or which may be adopted by the Company
after the date hereof, shares of Common Stock issued upon exercise of any
warrants or options or upon exercise of preemptive rights granted by the
Company, and shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding prior to the date
hereof) and any other equity securities of the Company or any successor
corporation issued in exchange for or in respect of such shares of Common Stock.
As to any particular Registrable Securities, such securities shall cease to be
Registrable Securities when (i) such securities shall have been registered
under the Securities Act, the registration statement with respect to the sale of
such securities shall have become effective under the Securities Act and such
securities shall have been disposed of pursuant to such effective registration
statement, (ii) such securities shall have been distributed pursuant to Rule
144 (or any similar provision then in
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force) under the Securities Act, (iii) such securities shall have been otherwise
transferred, if new certificates or other evidences of ownership for them not
bearing a legend restricting further transfer and not subject to any stop
transfer order or other restrictions on transfer shall have been delivered by
the Company and subsequent disposition of such securities shall not require
registration or qualification of such securities under the Securities Act or any
state securities laws then in force or (iv) such securities shall cease to be
outstanding.
(ab) The term "Registration" shall mean a bona fide public offering
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of the Company's securities pursuant to an effective registration statement
under the Securities Act and in compliance with all applicable state securities
laws.
(ac) The term "Registration Expenses" shall mean all expenses of the
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Company incident to the Company's performance of or compliance with Article IX
hereof, including, without limitation, all SEC and stock exchange or National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD") registration, filing and
listing fees and expenses, fees and expenses of compliance with securities or
blue sky laws (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and disbursements
of counsel for the underwriters in connection with blue sky qualifications of
the Registrable Securities), rating agency fees, all fees and expenses of the
transfer agent and registrar for the Common Stock, printing expenses, messenger
and delivery expenses, the reasonable fees and expenses incurred in connection
with the listing of the securities to be registered on each securities exchange
or national market system on which Registrable Securities are to be listed or on
which similar securities issued by the Company are to be listed in connection
with such transaction, reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the
Company and all independent certified public accountants for the Company
(including the expenses of any annual audit, special audit and "cold comfort"
letters required in connection therewith or incident thereto), securities laws
liability insurance (if the Company so desires or if the underwriters so
desire), the reasonable fees and disbursements of underwriters customarily paid
by issuers or sellers of securities, all fees and expenses of any qualified
independent underwriter or any person acting in
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a similar capacity under the rules of the NASD, the reasonable fees and
disbursements of one counsel retained in connection with each such registration
by the Stockholders who hold a majority of the Registrable Securities being
registered, the reasonable fees and expenses of any special experts retained by
the Company in connection with such registration, and fees and expenses of other
persons retained by the Company (but not including any underwriting discounts or
commissions or transfer taxes, if any, attributable to the sale of Registrable
Securities by the holders of such Registrable Securities).
(ad) The term "Representative" shall mean, with respect to a
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particular person, any director, officer, general partner, limited partner, co-
owner, member, nominee, managing director or controlling person of such person.
(ae) The term "Retirement" shall mean, with respect to a Management
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Stockholder, the Management Stockholder's retirement as an employee of the
Company or any Company subsidiary in accordance with the policies of the Company
or such subsidiary.
(af) The term "Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933
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and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(ag) The term "SEC" shall mean the United States Securities and
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Exchange Commission.
(ah) The term "Stockholders" shall mean (i) each of the members of
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the Windward Group, (ii) the Management Stockholders, (iii) persons who or
which have acquired shares of the Company's capital stock from, and are
Permitted Transferees of, any of them, and any combination of them, and (iv)
such other persons who or which become parties to this Agreement pursuant to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement.
(ai) The term "Subordinated Notes" shall mean the 12% Subordinated
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Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $22,500,000 to be issued by the
Company to MetLife, Windward/Merban and Windward/Merchant pursuant to the
Subordinated Note Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Company,
MetLife, Windward/Merban and
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Windward/Merchant (the "Subordinated Note Agreement"), as the same may be
amended from time to time.
(aj) The term "subsidiary" shall have the same meaning as set forth
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in the Stock Purchase Agreement.
(ak) The term "Third Party" shall mean, with respect to any
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Stockholder, any person other than (i) such Stockholder's Permitted Transferees
and (ii) the Company.
(al) The term "Transfer" shall mean any direct or indirect sale,
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assignment, mortgage, transfer, pledge, gift, hypothecation or other disposition
of or transfer of capital stock (other than any bona fide pledge or
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hypothecation of capital stock to a financial institution(s) in connection with
any loan from such financial institution(s)).
(am) The term "Violation" shall mean, with respect to any purchase
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of shares of Company Stock, any event or circumstance pursuant to which the
purchase of such shares (together with any other purchases of Company Stock
pursuant to this Agreement of which the Company has at such time been given or
has given notice) would (A) conflict with or result in a violation of or breach
(or any event which with lapse of time or the occurrence of any act or event or
otherwise would constitute or result in any of the foregoing) any law, statute,
rule, regulation, order, writ, injunction, decree or judgment promulgated or
entered by any federal, state, local or foreign court or governmental authority
applicable to the Company or its subsidiaries or any of their properties or
assets or (B) violate or conflict with or constitute a breach or default, or an
event creating rights of acceleration or termination (in each case, whether upon
lapse of time or the occurrence of any act or event or otherwise), under any
agreement to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by
which any of their properties or assets may be bound.
(an) The term "Voluntary Termination" shall mean the voluntary
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termination by a Management Stockholder of his or her employment with the
Company or any Company subsidiary by voluntary resignation or any other means,
other than (i) in connection with the Retirement, Disability or death of such
Management Stockholder or
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(ii) simultaneous with or following termination for Cause or at a time when
there is in existence or outstanding any matter, event or circumstance which if
known to the Company at the time of such voluntary termination by the Management
Stockholder of his or her employment would have allowed the Company or any
Company subsidiary to have terminated the Management Stockholder's employment
for Cause (regardless of whether the Company knew, or should have known, of such
matter, event or circumstance).
A Voluntary Termination shall be for "Good Reason" if it follows,
within a reasonable period of time thereafter, (x) a material breach of the
Company's obligations under the applicable employment agreement, if any, with
such Management Stockholder, or (y) the Board, by vote in accordance with
Article II hereof, but excluding those directors who are officers or employees,
or former officers or employees, of the Company or its subsidiaries, determines
in its sole discretion that a Voluntary Termination by the Management
Stockholder is for "Good Reason" under the circumstances then prevailing.
ARTICLE II
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
2.1 Voting Rights in Charter; Voting Matters Related to Charter
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Documents.
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(a) The parties hereto acknowledge that the Company's Restated
Certificate of Incorporation (as amended as contemplated hereby, the
"Certificate") and by-laws ("By-laws") shall be amended on the date hereof (and
each of the Stockholders agrees to use its respective best efforts to effect
such amendment) to provide that in order for the Board (or any committee of the
Board) to take any action (except as specifically provided for herein), in
addition to any other requirements under the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware, the approval of the members of the Board (or such committee
of the Board) that are Windward Nominees acting by majority vote (or by written
consent) would be required in order for the Company to take any action for
which Board approval would be required. Any committee of
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the Board established by the Board in accordance with its Certificate and By-
laws shall include at least one Windward Nominee.
(b) From and after the Closing, each Stockholder shall vote its
shares of Company Stock (to the extent entitled to vote), at each regular or
special meeting of stockholders of the Company or in any written consent
executed in lieu of such a meeting of stockholders, and shall take all actions
reasonably necessary, to ensure that the Certificate or Company's By-laws (x)
are consistent with the provisions of Section 2.1(a) above and (y) do not, at
any time, conflict with the provisions of this Agreement. From and after the
Closing, each Stockholder shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause its
respective Nominees (as defined below), if any, to act in a manner consistent
with the provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, the
provisions of Section 2.1(a) above).
(c) Any act or action to be taken or permitted to be taken by the
Company pursuant to the terms of, or any amendment, modification, or waiver of,
(i) this Agreement, (ii) the Stock Purchase Agreement (following the closing
thereunder), (iii) any Ancillary Agreement (as defined in the Stock Purchase
Agreement), (iv) any employee stock, bonus or other incentive plan or
arrangement, or (v) any other agreement or arrangement contemplated hereby or
thereby, shall require approval or action by the Board in accordance with the
provisions of this Article II.
2.2 Designation of Directors.
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(a) From and after the Closing, each of the Stockholders shall vote
its shares of Company Stock (to the extent entitled to vote), at each regular or
special meeting of the stockholders of the Company called for the purpose of
filling positions on the Board, or in any written consent executed in lieu of
such a meeting of stockholders, and shall take all actions reasonably necessary,
to ensure the election to the Board of the following individuals: (i) two (2)
individuals (the "Windward Nominees") selected by the Windward Agent who may be
affiliated with Windward; (ii) one (1) individual selected by the holders of a
majority of the percentage interests (the "Majority WP Holders") in
Windward/Park
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(the "Windward/Park Nominee"), provided, however, that in the event that at the
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end of any thirty consecutive day period in which the Majority WP Holders shall
have failed to select the Windward/Park Nominee, then the Windward Agent shall
select the Windward/Park Nominee to serve until such time as the Majority WP
Holders shall select an individual to serve as the Windward/Park Nominee (at
which time the individual appointed by the Windward Agent to serve as the
Windward/Park Nominee shall resign and be replaced by the individual selected by
the Majority WP Holders in accordance with Article II hereof); (iii) three (3)
individuals (the "Independent Nominees") selected by the Windward Agent who
shall not be employees of Windward; and (iv) three (3) individuals (the
"Management Stockholder Nominees") selected by the Management Stockholders (or
by the Management Stockholders and the Permitted Transferees of the Management
Stockholders, if any, as the Management Stockholders and such Permitted
Transferees may agree between or among themselves by the affirmative vote of the
holders of a majority of the shares of Company Stock owned by such persons). To
effectuate the provisions of this Section 2.2, the Secretary of the Company, or
if there be no Secretary such other officer of the Company as the Board may
appoint to fulfill the duties of Secretary (the "Secretary"), shall not record,
and the Company shall not give effect to, any vote or consent contrary to, or
inconsistent with, the terms of this Section 2.2. The Windward Nominees, the
Windward/Park Nominee, the Independent Nominees and the Management Stockholder
Nominees are sometimes collectively referred to herein as the "Nominees" and
individually as a "Nominee."
From and after the Closing, Majority WP Holders shall be entitled to
designate (subject to the reasonable approval of the Board) one (1) individual
who shall be entitled to notice of, and shall be entitled to attend, all
meetings of the Board (such designee, the "Windward/Park Observer"). The
Windward/Park Observer shall not be (X) permitted to vote at any meeting of the
Board or on any matter which may be considered by the Board or (Y) counted for
purposes of determining whether there is sufficient quorum for the Board to
conduct its business. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the
Windward/Park Observer shall owe no fiduciary or other duties to the
Stockholders or otherwise have any director or
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fiduciary duties or liabilities to the Company or its Stockholders.
(b) The Management Stockholders (or the Management Stockholders and
the Permitted Transferees of the Management Stockholders, if any) may recommend
to the Windward Agent up to two (2) individuals for consideration by the
Windward Agent in selecting the Independent Directors; provided, however, the
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parties hereto acknowledge that the Windward Agent shall have the final
determination as to the selection of the Independent Nominees and as such the
Windward Agent may accept or reject the recommendations of the Management
Stockholders (or the Management Stockholders and the Permitted Transferees of
the Management Stockholders, if any) for any reason and under any circumstances
in the sole discretion of the Windward Agent. For purposes of determining the
individuals to be recommended in accordance with the foregoing sentence, the
Management Stockholders (and their Permitted Transferees, if any) may agree on
such individuals between or among themselves by the affirmative vote of the
holders of a majority of the shares of Company Stock owned by such persons.
2.3 Replacement of Nominees. If, prior to his election to the Board
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pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof, any Nominee shall be unable or unwilling to
serve as a director of the Company, the Stockholder or Stockholders who
nominated any such Nominee shall be entitled to nominate a replacement who shall
then be a Nominee for purposes of this Article II. If, following election to
the Board pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof, any Nominee shall resign, die or be
removed or be unable to serve for any reason prior to the expiration of his term
as a director of the Company, the Stockholder or Stockholders who nominated such
Nominee shall within 30 days of such event, notify the Board in writing of a
replacement Nominee, and all Stockholders shall vote their shares of Company
Stock (to the extent entitled to vote), at any regular or special meeting called
for the purpose of filling positions on the Board, or in any written consent
executed in lieu of such a meeting of stockholders, and shall take all actions
necessary, to ensure the election to the Board of such replacement Nominee to
fill the unexpired term of the Nominee whom such new Nominee is replacing;
provided that no person may be selected by a Stockholder or group of
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Stockholders as a Nominee if such person previously
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served as a director of the Company and was previously removed for Cause in
accordance with Section 2.6 hereof. If a Stockholder or Stockholders shall fail
to so notify the Board, the Board may, in the event that there is an
insufficient number of directors to constitute a quorum or otherwise conduct any
business before the Board, nominate any other person to fill the vacancy.
2.4 Calling Special Meetings for the Removal of Nominees. Each
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Stockholder hereby agrees to use such Stockholder's best efforts to call, or
cause the appropriate officers and directors of the Company to call, a special
meeting of stockholders of the Company and to vote all of the shares of Company
Stock (to the extent entitled to vote) owned or held of record by such
Stockholder for, or to take all actions by written consent in lieu of any such
meeting necessary to cause, the removal (with or without Cause) of any director
if the persons designating such director pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof request,
in a writing signed by the holders of a majority of the Company Stock owned by
such Stockholders, his removal for any reason (with or without Cause (as set
forth in Section 2.6), notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.6). Except
for any action taken in accordance with the previous sentence of this Section
2.4 or with respect to the removal of a director for Cause, each Stockholder
further agrees to take no action, whether by voting of shares of Common Stock or
otherwise, with respect to the removal of any director that was not designated
by such Stockholder pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof.
2.5 Calling Special Meetings for the Enforcement of Corporate
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Governance Provisions. In order to effectuate the provisions of this Article
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II, each Stockholder hereby agrees that when any action or vote is required to
be taken by such Stockholder pursuant to this Agreement, such Stockholder shall
use its best efforts to call, or cause the appropriate officers and directors of
the Company to call, a special or annual meeting of stockholders of the Company,
as the case may be, or execute or cause to be executed a consent in writing in
lieu of any such meetings to effectuate such stockholder action.
2.6 Removal for Cause. Each Stockholder hereby agrees that, subject
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to the requirements of appli-
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cable law and the Certificate, no director shall be removed without Cause
(except as provided in Section 2.4 hereof). For the purposes of Section 2.4 and
this Section 2.6, "Cause" shall mean the commission of an act of fraud or
embezzlement against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any conviction or
guilty plea for a felony (or a plea of nolo contendere thereto).
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2.7 Grant of Proxies. In order to effectuate the provisions of this
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Article II and in addition to and not in lieu of Sections 2.1 through 2.6
hereof, (i) the Windward Agent hereby grants to Xx. Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx, or if Xx.
Xxxxxxx shall cease to be a managing director, officer, director, affiliate or
associate (as such terms are defined in the rules and regulations under the
Exchange Act) of the Windward Agent or of any member of the Windward Agent or
any of its affiliates or associates, to his successor, who shall be a managing
director, officer, director, affiliate or associate of the Windward Agent or of
any member of the Windward Agent or any of its affiliates or associates and
shall be selected by the Windward Agent, and (ii) the Management Stockholders
hereby grant to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, or if Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx shall cease to be Chief
Executive Officer of the Company, to a person who is an officer and stockholder
of the Company and who is selected by the Management Stockholders, a proxy to
vote at any annual or special meeting of stockholders, or to take action by
written consent in lieu of such meeting with respect to, all of the shares of
Company Stock owned or held of record by such Stockholder solely for (x) the
election of directors designated in accordance with Section 2.2 hereof, (y) the
removal of directors in accordance with Sections 2.4 and 2.5 hereof, and (z) the
election of a director to fill any vacancy on the Board in accordance with
Section 2.3 hereof. The proxies granted pursuant to this Section 2.7 shall
terminate on the ten-year anniversary of the date hereof, unless terminated
prior to such date.
2.8 Voting Agreement. Each Stockholder who is a member of the
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Windward Group, subject to such Stockholder's receiving full disclosure of all
material facts relating thereto, shall vote its shares of Company Stock (to the
extent then entitled to vote) at any regular or special meeting called for the
purposes of approving the arrangements, plans or bonuses contemplated by the
Stock Purchase Agreement in effect on the date hereof or to be
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paid hereafter to the extent approval is contemplated by (or in accordance with)
Section 280G(b)(5)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the
"Code"), or in any written consent executed in lieu of any such meeting of
Stockholders, and shall take all actions necessary, to ensure the approval of
such proposal.
ARTICLE III
RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER;
RIGHTS OF FIRST REFUSAL
3.1 Restrictions on Transfer.
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(a) No Company Stock now or hereafter owned by any Stockholder or any
interest therein may be Transferred prior to the expiration of the third
anniversary of the date hereof (the "Restricted Period"), except (i) for the
sale by the Windward Group to a Third Party of all (subject to any percentage
reduction arising as a result of the exercise of any "tag-along" rights pursuant
to Article IV hereof) of its equity interests in the Company, (ii) for any sale
of shares in connection with the exercise by the Windward Group of its rights
under Sections 5.1 through 5.6 hereof, (iii) upon the exercise by the Company
(or its designee) of any "call" rights or any Management Stockholder of its
"put" rights provided for in Article VII hereof or (iv) Transfers to or from a
Permitted Transferee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall any
Stockholder transfer any Company Stock prior to April 15, 1997.
(b) After the Restricted Period, no Company Stock now or hereafter
owned by any Stockholder or any interest therein may be Transferred, except (i)
pursuant to any Transfer which complies with the provisions of Articles III or
IV hereof (provided that during the period in which any Management Stockholder
and its Permitted Transferees are subject to the "put" and "call" provisions of
Article VII hereof (including, without limitation, any period following any
termination of the Management Stockholder's employment with the Company and its
subsidiaries up until the expiration of the Company's put and call periods set
forth in Sections 7.1 and 7.3 hereof), no such Management Stockholder and its
Permitted Transferees shall be permitted to Transfer any shares of
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Company Stock pursuant to either the provisions of Article III hereof or the
"tag-along" provisions of Article IV hereof, except for Transfers to the
Permitted Transferees of such Management Stockholder), (ii) pursuant to any
Registration contemplated in connection with the provisions of Article IX hereof
(provided that, prior to an IPO Event, no Management Stockholder and its
Permitted Transferees shall be permitted to Transfer any shares of Company Stock
pursuant to the provisions of Article IX hereof), (iii) for the sale by the
Windward Group to a Third Party of all (subject to any percentage reduction
arising as a result of the exercise of any "tag-along" rights pursuant to
Article IV hereof) of its equity interests in the Company, (iv) for any sale of
shares in connection with the exercise by the Windward Group of its rights under
Sections 5.1 through 5.6 hereof, (v) upon the exercise by the Company (or its
designee) of any "call" rights or any Management Stockholder of its "put"
rights provided for in Article VII hereof or (vi) Transfers to or from a
Permitted Transferee.
(c) Any Transfer of Company Stock made pursuant to this Section 3.1
to a Permitted Transferee shall be effective only if such Permitted Transferee
shall agree in writing to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement
pursuant to the provisions of Article X hereof. No Transfer of Company Stock in
violation of this Agreement shall be made or recorded on the books of the
Company and any such Transfer shall be void and of no effect.
3.2 Rights of First Refusal Generally.
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(a) Subject to the restrictions of Section 3.1 hereof and the
limitations of Section 3.7 hereof, and prior to the application of any of the
provisions of Article IV hereof, if, at any time during the term of this
Agreement, any Stockholder (the "Offering Stockholder") receives a bona fide
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offer which such Stockholder wishes to accept (a "Transfer Offer") from any
Third Party (the "Offeror") to purchase Company Stock (the "Transfer Stock")
then owned by such Stockholder, the Offering Stockholder shall cause the
Transfer Offer to be reduced to writing and shall provide a written notice (the
"Right of First Refusal Notice") of such Transfer Offer to the Company, and the
Company shall provide
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written notice of such Transfer Offer to each of the other Stockholders (the
"Stockholder Offerees" and, together with the Company, the "Transfer Offerees")
in the manner set forth in Section 14.7 hereof. The Right of First Refusal
Notice shall also contain an irrevocable offer to sell the Transfer Stock to the
Transfer Offerees (in the manner set forth below) at the same price and upon
substantially the same terms and conditions as the terms and conditions
contained in the Transfer Offer and shall be accompanied by a true and correct
copy of the Transfer Offer (which shall identify the Offeror, the Transfer
Stock, the price contained in the Transfer Offer and all the other terms and
conditions of the Transfer Offer); provided that (x) the Right of First Refusal
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Notice may be combined with a Tag-Along Notice, (y) any such combined Tag-Along
Notice/Right of First Refusal Notice may state that in the event that the
offer(s) to sell the Transfer Stock to the Transfer Offerees are not accepted in
full in accordance with this Section 3.2, then such notice shall constitute an
offer with respect to Tag-Along Stock in accordance with Section 4.1 hereof and
(z) references herein to a Right of First Refusal Notice shall be deemed to
include any such combined Tag-Along Notice/Right of First Refusal Notice.
(b) The Transfer Offerees shall have the right and option, within 30
days after the date the Right of First Refusal Notice is received by such
Transfer Offerees, to accept irrevocably such offer (subject to the priorities
and pro rata adjustments set forth in Sections 3.3 and 3.4 below), in the
aggregate, as to all, but not less than all (unless otherwise consented to by
the relevant Offering Stockholders and Offerors), shares of Transfer Stock.
Each Transfer Offeree which desires to exercise such option shall provide the
Offering Stockholder with written notice (specifying the number of shares of
the Transfer Stock as to which each Transfer Offeree is accepting the offer)
within such 30 day period. Unless the relevant Offering Stockholders and
Offerors shall have otherwise consented to the purchase of less than all of the
shares of Transfer Stock, no Transfer Offeree shall have the right to acquire
such shares of Transfer Stock unless all such shares are being acquired by
Transfer Offerees pursuant to the provisions of this Article III.
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(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this
Article III, there shall be no liability on the part of the Offering Stockholder
to any Stockholder in the event that the sale of Transfer Stock contemplated
pursuant to this Article III is not consummated for any reason whatsoever.
Whether a sale of Transfer Stock contemplated pursuant to this Article III is
effected by the Offering Stockholder is in the sole and absolute discretion of
the Offering Stockholder.
3.3 Apportionment of Shares Among Stockholders in the Event of Over-
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Subscription.
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(a) If the aggregate number of shares of Transfer Stock as to which
notices of acceptance are provided by all Transfer Offerees exceeds the number
of shares of Transfer Stock, the right to purchase the Transfer Stock shall be
allocated (i) first, to the Stockholder Offerees and (ii) second, to the Company
with respect to any shares of Transfer Stock as to which notices of acceptance
have not been provided by the Stockholder Offerees.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) above, if the
aggregate number of shares of Transfer Stock as to which notices of acceptance
are provided by the Stockholder Offerees exceeds the number of shares of
Transfer Stock, then (i) each Stockholder Offeree which provided a notice of
acceptance shall first be allocated the lesser of (A) the number of shares of
Transfer Stock which such Stockholder Offeree agreed to purchase and (B) the
number of shares of Transfer Stock as is equal to the full number of shares of
Transfer Stock offered in the Right of First Refusal Notice multiplied by a
fraction, (1) the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common
Stock held or deemed to be held by such Stockholder Offeree as of the date of
the Right of First Refusal Notice (for the purpose of such calculation, a
Stockholder Offeree shall be deemed to hold the number of shares of Common Stock
which would be issuable, as of the date of the Right of First Refusal Notice, to
such Stockholder Offeree upon conversion, exercise or exchange of all securities
then held by such Stockholder Offeree that are then convertible, exercisable or
exchangeable (but excluding any unvested options) into or for (whether directly
or indirectly) shares of Common Stock) and (2) the denominator of which shall be
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the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock (calculated as aforesaid) held
or deemed to be held on such date by all Stockholder Offerees who accepted the
offer contained in the Right of First Refusal Notice, and (ii) the balance of
the shares of Transfer Stock (if any) offered shall be reallocated among the
Stockholder Offerees accepting the offer contained in the Right of First Refusal
Notice in the same proportion as set forth in the preceding clause (i)(B)
(provided that no Stockholder Offeree shall be obligated to purchase more than
the number of shares of Transfer Stock which such Stock holder Offeree initially
agreed to purchase) in continuous reallocations until all such remaining shares
have been reallocated fully among such Stockholder Offerees; provided that all
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allocations referred to herein shall be determined in good faith by the Company
in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3.3 and any share amounts so
determined shall be rounded to avoid fractional shares.
3.4 Apportionment of Shares Among Stockholders in the Event of
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Failure to Purchase. If any shares of Transfer Stock are not purchased by a
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Stockholder Offeree who or which previously delivered a written notice of
acceptance relating thereto (collectively, the "Transfer Default Stock"), such
shares of Transfer Default Stock may be purchased by the other Stockholder
Offerees purchasing Transfer Stock (the "Default Offerees"), allocated among
such Default Offerees in proportion to the number of shares of Transfer Stock
otherwise being purchased by those of such Default Offerees who agree to
purchase Transfer Default Stock; provided that, if the Default Offerees do not
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purchase all the Transfer Default Stock, the Company may purchase the remaining
Transfer Default Stock; provided further that the provisions of this Section 3.4
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shall not excuse the failure by any such Stockholder Offeree to purchase the
shares of Transfer Default Stock with respect to which it previously delivered
a written notice of acceptance relating thereto; provided further that all
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allocations referred to herein shall be determined in good faith by the Company
in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3.4 and any share amounts so
determined shall be rounded to avoid fractional shares. The provisions of the
last sentence of Section 3.2(b) shall apply if the Default Offerees and the
Company do not in the aggregate purchase all of the Transfer Default Stock.
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3.5 Transfer Mechanics. The closing of the purchase of the Transfer
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Stock by the Transfer Offerees who have exercised the option pursuant to Section
3.2 hereof shall take place at the principal executive offices of the Company
on the 45th Business Day after the expiration of the 30-day period after the
giving of the Right of First Refusal Notice (or such other date as may be
mutually agreed to by the parties to such transaction). At such closing, each
Transfer Offeree shall deliver to the Offering Stockholder the appropriate per
share consideration (which, in the event that the Transfer Offer set forth in
the Right of First Refusal Notice contemplated the payment by the Offeror of
non-cash consideration, shall be paid in cash in an amount equal to the fair
market value of such non-cash consideration, as determined in accordance with
the provisions of the last sentence of this Section 3.5) pursuant to a bank,
cashier's or certified check or by wire transfer of immediately available funds
(unless otherwise specified in the Right of First Refusal Notice provided to the
Transfer Offerees), against delivery of certificates representing the Transfer
Stock so purchased Duly Endorsed. For purposes of this Section 3.5, the value
of non-cash consideration shall be the fair market value of the aggregate
consideration (whether such consideration is in the form of cash, securities,
other assets or the assumption of liabilities, or any combination thereof) to be
paid (without assigning any value to the non-economic terms of the particular
transaction (e.g., representations, warranties, covenants, conditions,
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indemnification, etc. or the tax treatment of the particular transaction), as
determined by the Windward Agent in its reasonable discretion. Any transfer
(other than to a Third Party) pursuant to this Article III shall be made without
any representations, warranties, covenants or indemnities; except, that, each
transferor shall be deemed to have represented that (i) the transfer has been
duly authorized by it, (ii) that it has the capacity, power and authority to
transfer such shares and (iii) that the acquiror shall obtain good title to such
shares, free and clear of any defects, encumbrances and adverse interests (other
than as provided for in this Agreement).
3.6 Transfers to Third Parties after Stockholders Decline Rights of
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First Refusal. If at the end of the 30-day period following the giving of the
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Right of First Refusal Notice, the Transfer Offerees (including,
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without limitation, the Company) shall not have collectively accepted the offer
contained in such notice as to all shares of Transfer Stock covered thereby
(unless otherwise consented to by the relevant Offering Stockholders and
Offerors), the Offering Stockholder shall have 60 days in which to sell the
Transfer Stock to the Offeror, at a price not less than that contained in the
Right of First Refusal Notice and on terms and conditions not more favorable to
the Offeror than were contained in the Right of First Refusal Notice. No sale
may be made to any Offeror unless such Offeror agrees in writing to be bound by
the terms and conditions of this Agreement pursuant to the provisions of Article
X hereof. Promptly after any sale pursuant to this Section 3.6, the Offering
Stockholder shall notify the Company of the consummation thereof and shall
furnish such evidence of the completion (including time of completion) of such
sale and of the terms and conditions thereof as the Company may reasonably
request. If, at the end of such 60 day period, the Offering Stockholder has not
completed the sale of the Transfer Stock, such Stockholder shall no longer be
permitted to sell such shares pursuant to this Section 3.6 without again fully
complying with the provisions of this Article III and all the restrictions on
Transfer contained in this Agreement shall again be in effect with respect to
all such person's shares of Company Stock, including the Transfer Stock.
3.7 Exceptions to Rights of First Refusal. The provisions of this
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Article III shall not be applicable to any Transfer of Company Stock (a) from
any Stockholder to any Permitted Transferee, or from any Permitted Transferee of
such Stockholder to such Stockholder, provided that in any Transfer to a
Permitted Transferee such Permitted Transferee (other than the Company) must
agree in writing to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement
pursuant to the provisions of Article X hereof, (b) made pursuant to a public
offering of Company Stock in connection with the exercise by any Stockholder of
its rights pursuant to Article IX hereof or in connection with the exercise by
the Windward Agent of its rights pursuant to Section 5.6 hereof, (c) made in
connection with the exercise by the Windward Group of a Compelled Sale Right,
(d) by any Tag-Along Offeree pursuant to Article IV hereof (provided that the
rights of Tag-Along Offerees pursuant to Article IV hereof shall only apply
after application of the provisions of this Article
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III), or (e) between the Company (or its designee), on the one hand, and any
Management Stockholder or employee of the Company and its subsidiaries, on the
other, pursuant to Articles VII or X hereof.
ARTICLE IV
TAG-ALONG RIGHTS
4.1 Tag-Along Rights Generally.
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(a) Subject to the restrictions on Transfer set forth in Section 3.1
hereof, and subject to the prior application of the right of first refusal
provisions of Sections 3.2 through 3.7 hereof, any Stockholder or Stockholders
may, individually or collectively, in any one transaction or any series of
similar transactions, Transfer any shares of Company Stock to any Third Party,
but only if the Stockholder or Stockholders desiring to so transfer their
Company Stock (collectively, the "Transferor") first offer to each of the other
Stockholders (the "Tag-Along Offerees") to include, at the option of each Tag-
Along Offeree, in the sale or other disposition to the Third Party, such number
of shares of Company Stock (collectively, the "Tag-Along Stock") as shall be
determined in accordance with this Article IV.
(b) Upon the receipt by any Transferor or Transferors of a bona fide
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offer or offers to purchase or otherwise acquire shares of its or their Company
Stock from a Third Party (other than a Transfer which pursuant to Section 4.5
hereof would not be subject to the provisions of Sections 4.1 through 4.4
hereof) which such Transferor or Transferors desire to accept, such Transferors
shall cause the Third Party's offer to be reduced to writing and shall provide a
copy of such written notice of such Third Party's offer (the "Tag-Along
Notice") to the Company, and the Company shall provide a copy of the Tag-Along
Notice to each of the Tag-Along Offerees in the manner set forth in Section 14.7
hereof. The Tag-Along Notice must contain an offer to purchase or otherwise
acquire shares of Tag-Along Stock from the Tag-Along Offerees according to the
terms and conditions of this Article IV and upon substantially the same terms
and conditions as the terms and conditions contained in the Third Party's offer
and shall be accompanied by a true
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and correct copy of the Third Party's offer; provided that (x) the Tag-Along
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Notice may be combined with a Right of First Refusal Notice, (y) the offer by a
Third Party with respect to Tag-Along Stock set forth in any such combined Tag-
Along Notice/Right of First Refusal Notice may be conditioned on the offer(s)
with respect to the purchase in accordance with Article IV of the Transfer
Stock set forth therein not being accepted and (z) references herein to a Tag-
Along Notice shall be deemed to include any such combined Tag-Along Notice/Right
of First Refusal Notice.
(c) At any time within 10 Business Days after its receipt of the Tag-
Along Notice (or 30 days after its receipt of a combined Tag-Along Notice/Right
of First Refusal Notice), each of the Tag-Along Offerees may irrevocably accept
the Third Party offer included in the Tag-Along Notice for up to such number of
shares of Tag-Along Stock as is determined in accordance with the provisions of
this Article IV by furnishing written notice of such acceptance to the
Transferor and such Third Party; such written notice of acceptance must be
accompanied by the certificate or certificates representing the shares of Tag-
Along Stock (which shall be free and clear of liens), Duly Endorsed, to be sold
or otherwise disposed of pursuant to such offer by such Tag-Along Offeree,
together with a limited power-of-attorney authorizing the Transferor to sell or
otherwise dispose of such shares of stock pursuant to the terms and conditions
of such Third Party's offer and the terms and conditions of this Article IV.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this
Article IV, there shall be no liability on the part of the Transferor to any
Stockholder in the event that the sale of Company Stock to the Third Party
contemplated pursuant to this Article IV is not consummated for any reason
whatsoever. Whether a sale of Company Stock to the Third Party contemplated
pursuant to this Article IV is effected is in the sole and absolute discretion
of the Transferor.
4.2 Allocation of Shares of Tag-Along Stock. Each Tag-Along Offeree
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shall have the right to sell pursuant to the Third Party's offer a number of
shares of Tag-Along Stock up to the product of (x) the total number of shares to
be acquired by the Third Party as set forth
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in the Tag-Along Notice (or such higher number of shares as such Third Party may
agree to), times (y) a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the number of
shares of Common Stock held or deemed to be held by such Tag-Along Offeree as of
the date of the Tag-Along Notice (for the purpose of such calculation, a Tag-
Along Offeree shall be deemed to hold the number of shares of Common Stock which
would be issuable, as of the date of the Tag-Along Notice, to such Tag-Along
Offeree upon conversion, exercise or exchange of all securities then held by
such Tag-Along Offeree that are then convertible, exercisable or exchangeable
(but excluding any unvested options) into or for (whether directly or
indirectly) shares of Common Stock) and (2) the denominator of which shall be
the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock (calculated as aforesaid) held or
deemed to be held on such date by all Stockholders; provided that all
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allocations referred to herein shall be determined in good faith by the Company
in accordance with the provisions of this Section 4.2 and any share amounts so
determined shall be rounded to avoid fractional shares.
4.3 Transfer Mechanics. The purchase from the Tag-Along Offerees
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pursuant to this Article IV shall be on the same terms and conditions, including
any representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities and the per share
price (which, in the event of cash consideration, shall be paid by bank,
cashier's or certified check or by wire transfer of immediately available funds,
unless otherwise specified in the Tag-Along Notice provided to the Tag-Along
Offerees by the Company) and the date of sale or other disposition, as are
received by the Transferor and stated in the Tag-Along Notice provided to the
Tag-Along Offerees by the Company. As promptly as practicable (but in no event
later than 5 days) after the consummation of the sale or other disposition of
Company Stock of the Transferor and Tag-Along Stock of the Tag-Along Offerees to
the Third Party pursuant to the Third Party's offer, the Transferor shall notify
the Tag-Along Offerees thereof, shall remit to each Tag-Along Offeree who
accepted the Third Party's offer in accordance with the provisions of this
Article IV the total sales price of the shares of Tag-Along Stock of such Tag-
Along Offeree sold or otherwise disposed of pursuant thereto (together with
any excess shares of Tag-Along Stock of such Tag-Along Offeree which are not
sold or otherwise disposed of pursuant thereto), and shall furnish such other
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evidence of the completion and time of completion of such sale or other
disposition and the terms and conditions thereof as may be reasonably requested
by the Tag-Along Offerees.
4.4 Transfers to Third Parties after Stockholders Decline Tag-Along
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Rights. If within 10 Business Days after the receipt of the Tag-Along Notice
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(or 30 days after its receipt of a combined Tag-Along Notice/Right of First
Refusal Notice), any Tag-Along Offeree has not accepted the offer contained in
the Tag-Along Notice, such Tag-Along Offeree will be deemed to have waived any
and all rights with respect to the sale or other disposition of Tag-Along Stock
described in the Tag-Along Notice and the Transferor shall have 60 days in which
to sell or otherwise dispose of the shares of Company Stock described in the
Third Party's offer, on terms and conditions not more favorable to the
Transferor than were set forth in the Tag-Along Notice. If, at the end of 60
days following the receipt of the Tag-Along Notice, the Transferor has not
completed the sale or other disposition of Company Stock of the Transferor and
Tag-Along Stock of any Tag-Along Offeree in accordance with the terms and
conditions of the Third Party's offer, the Transferor shall return to such Tag-
Along Offeree all certificates representing shares of Tag-Along Stock which such
Tag-Along Offeree delivered for sale or other disposition pursuant to this
Article IV, and all the restrictions on Transfer contained in this Agreement
with respect to Company Stock owned by the Transferor shall again be in effect.
4.5 Exceptions to Tag-Along Rights. The provisions of this Article
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IV shall not be applicable to any Transfer of Company Stock (a) from any
Stockholder to any Permitted Transferee, or from any Permitted Transferee of
such Stockholder to such Stockholder, provided that in any Transfer to a
Permitted Transferee such Permitted Transferee (other than the Company) must
agree in writing to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement
pursuant to the provisions of Article X hereof, (b) made pursuant to a public
offering of Company Stock in connection with the exercise by any Stockholder of
its rights pursuant to Article IX hereof or in connection with the exercise by
the Windward Group of its rights pursuant to Section 5.6 hereof, (c) made in
connection with the exercise by the Windward Group of a Compelled Sale Right
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or (d) between the Company (or its designee), on the one hand, and any
Management Stockholder or employee of the Company and its subsidiaries, on the
other, pursuant to Articles VII or X hereof.
ARTICLE V
RIGHTS TO COMPEL SALE OR IPO EVENT
5.1 Rights to Compel Sale Generally. The Windward Group shall have
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the right (the "Compelled Sale Right") to cause the sale of all or substantially
all of the Company to a Third Party (the "Third Party Purchaser"), whether
pursuant to a sale of Company Stock, merger, consolidation, stock swap,
business combination, sale of assets or similar transaction (any such sale, the
"Compelled Sale"); provided that the Windward Group gets treated no more
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favorably as to the terms and conditions of the Compelled Sale than the other
Stockholders (other than with respect to any transaction fee arrangements
entered into by the Company and Windward (or any of its Affiliates) in
connection with a Compelled Sale which such transaction fee arrangements, in the
case of any Compelled Sale, shall be subject to the approval of a majority of
the directors of the Company who are not Windward Nominees). If the Windward
Group proposes to exercise its Compelled Sale Right, the Windward Agent shall
send written notice of the exercise of its Compelled Sale Right to each of the
remaining Stockholders, setting forth the consideration to be paid by the Third
Party Purchaser and the other terms and conditions of such transaction (such
notice, the "Compelled Sale Notice").
5.2 Compelled Sale Pursuant to a Sale of Company Stock.
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(a) In the event that the Windward Group determines to exercise its
Compelled Sale Right pursuant to a sale of Company Stock to the Third Party
Purchaser, then the Windward Agent may, at its option, require the remaining
Stockholders and their respective Permitted Transferees to sell all Company
Stock (along with all rights to acquire Company Stock and similar interests)
held by them to the Third Party Purchaser for the same consideration per share
(appropriately adjusted in the
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case of securities such as options and warrants) and otherwise on the same terms
and conditions upon which the Windward Group sells its shares of Company Stock
(along with all rights to acquire Company Stock and similar interests). Within
10 days following the date on which the Windward Agent delivers the Compelled
Sale Notice, each of the remaining Stockholders shall deliver to a
representative of the Windward Agent designated in the Compelled Sale Notice,
certificates representing all shares of Company Stock (along with all rights to
acquire Company Stock and similar interests) held by such Stockholder, Duly
Endorsed, together with all other documents required to be executed in
connection with such transaction; provided that in the event that the Windward
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Group does not anticipate consummating such Compelled Sale within 30 days after
the date of delivery of the Compelled Sale Notice, the Windward Group shall
subsequently notify the remaining Stockholders of the anticipated date of
consummation of such Compelled Sale and such remaining Stockholders shall
thereupon deliver to such designated representative of the Windward Agent,
within 5 days prior to such anticipated date of consummation, such certificates
and documents.
(b) In the event that a remaining Stockholder and its Permitted
Transferees should fail to deliver such certificates and documents to the
Windward Agent, then (i) the Company shall cause the books and records of the
Company to show that such shares are bound by the provisions of this Article V
and that such shares may be transferred only to the Third Party Purchaser and
(ii) such remaining Stockholder and each of its Permitted Transferees (A) shall
not be entitled to the consideration it is to receive under this Section 5.2
until it cures such failure (provided that after curing such failure it shall be
so entitled to such consideration without interest), (B) shall for all purposes
be deemed no longer to be a stockholder of the Company and have no voting rights
with respect to such shares of Company Stock, (C) shall not be entitled to any
dividends or other distributions with respect to the shares of Company Stock
held by it, (D) shall have no other rights or privileges granted to stockholders
under this or any other agreement and (E) in the event of liquidation of the
Company, shall have rights subordinate to the rights of any equity holder with
respect to any consideration it would have received if it had complied with this
Section
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5.2, if any, until it cures such failure (provided, that after curing such
failure it shall be so entitled to such consideration without interest). If any
party so fails to deliver such certificates and documents as so required it
shall execute, acknowledge and deliver all such further agreements and take all
such further actions as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to give effect
to the provisions of this Section 5.2.
(c) If, within one year after the Windward Agent gives such notice,
the Windward Group has not completed the sale of all the shares of Company Stock
(along with all rights to acquire Company Stock and similar interests) of the
Stockholders in accordance herewith, the Windward Agent shall return to each of
the remaining Stockholders all certificates representing shares of Company Stock
that such Stockholder delivered for sale pursuant hereto and that were not
purchased pursuant to this Article V.
(d) Stockholders who deliver to the Windward Agent certificates
representing shares of Company Stock in accordance with this Section 5.2 or
otherwise pursuant to a Compelled Sale shall retain full voting control (to the
extent such shares are entitled to vote) and any other rights and incidents of
ownership associated with such Stockholder's ownership of such shares until the
applicable Compelled Sale has been completed or such shares have been returned
in accordance with the provisions of this Article V and such shares will be
held by the Windward Agent for the benefit of such Stockholder until such time.
5.3 Compelled Sale Other Than Pursuant to a Sale of Company Stock.
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In the event that the Windward Group determines to exercise its Compelled Sale
Right pursuant to a merger, consolidation, stock swap, business combination,
sale of assets or similar transaction, then the Windward Agent may, at its
option, require the remaining Stockholders and their respective Permitted
Transferees to vote in favor of such transaction. In particular, in the event
of any such proposed transaction, upon any request by the Windward Agent, each
of the Stockholders shall use its respective best efforts (i) to call, or cause
the appropriate officers and directors of the Company to call, a special meeting
of stockholders of the Company to consider approval of such proposed trans-
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action, and (ii) vote in favor of such proposed transaction all of the shares
of Company Stock owned or held of record by such Stockholder (to the extent
entitled to vote), at each regular or special meeting of the stockholders of
the Company called for the purpose of voting on such matter, or in any written
consent executed in lieu of such a meeting of stockholders, and shall take all
actions reasonably necessary, to ensure that all necessary stockholder approvals
for such transaction are obtained.
5.4 Cooperation in Connection with Compelled Sale. Each Stockholder
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shall cooperate with the Windward Agent and the other members of the Windward
Group in the event that the Windward Group determines to exercise its Compelled
Sale Right pursuant to this Article V and shall take all necessary and
appropriate actions in connection with any such Compelled Sale as may be
reasonably requested by the Windward Agent (including, without limitation,
entering into such agreements and instruments in connection with any such
Compelled Sale as may be requested by the Windward Agent (subject to the
provisions of the next sentence)). Without limitation to the foregoing
provisions, each Stockholder hereby covenants and agrees that, at the request of
the Windward Agent, it will promptly enter into any agreements and instruments
(which may include such representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities
as may be negotiated by the Windward Agent) with a Third Party Purchaser
relating to any Compelled Sale that is negotiated by the Windward Agent;
provided, however, that, unless the Stockholders shall otherwise agree, all such
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representations, warranties and indemnities shall be several and not joint as
among the Stockholders.
5.5 Notice of Consummation of Compelled Sale. Promptly (but in no
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event later than 2 Business Days) after the consummation of any sale transaction
contemplated pursuant to Section 5.1 hereof, the Windward Agent shall give
notice thereof to the remaining Stockholders, shall remit to each of the
remaining Stockholders the total transaction proceeds to which such Stockholders
are entitled pursuant thereto, and shall furnish such other evidence of the
completion and time of completion of such sale or other disposition and the
terms and conditions thereof as may be reasonably requested by such
Stockholders.
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5.6 Rights to Compel IPO Event.
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(a) The Windward Agent may, on behalf of the Windward Group, at any
time, in its sole discretion, cause the Company to effect an IPO Event (which
may include, at the Windward Agent's option, the secondary sale of shares of
Company Stock then held by the Windward Group); provided that the Windward
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Group's election to include any of its shares of Company Stock in such public
offering shall entitle the Management Stockholders to participate in accordance
with (and subject to the restrictions applicable to) the "piggyback"
registration rights provisions of Article 9 hereof.
(b) In the event that the Windward Agent, on behalf of the Windward
Group, elects to exercise its rights pursuant to Section 5.6(a) above, the
Windward Agent shall have the right to designate all of the material terms of
such IPO Event (e.g., the underwriters, if any, to be retained by the Company in
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connection therewith, the securities exchanges or national market systems, if
any, where the Company's equity would be listed for trading, the price, timing
and other terms of the proposed public offering, etc.). In addition, in the
event that the Windward Agent elects to exercise the rights of the Windward
Group contemplated pursuant to Section 5.6(a) above, then the Windward Agent
may, at its option, require the remaining Stockholders and their respective
Permitted Transferees to vote in favor of any amendment(s) to the Certificate
and By-Laws which are reasonably requested by any underwriter retained in
connection with such IPO Event. In particular, in the event of any such
proposed IPO Event, upon any request by the Windward Agent, each of the
Stockholders shall use its respective best efforts (i) to call, or cause the
appropriate officers and directors of the Company to call, a special meeting of
stockholders of the Company to consider approval of such proposed amendment(s),
and (ii) vote in favor of such proposed amendment(s) all of the shares of
Company Stock owned or held of record by such Stockholder (to the extent
entitled to vote), at each regular or special meeting of the stockholders of the
Company called for the purpose of voting on such matter, or in any written
consent executed in lieu of such a meeting of stockholders, and shall take all
actions reasonably necessary, to ensure that all necessary stock-
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holder approvals for such amendment(s) and such IPO Event are obtained.
ARTICLE VI
PREEMPTIVE RIGHTS
6.1 Preemptive Rights.
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(a) The Company hereby grants to each Stockholder who is a member of
the Windward Group or a Management Stockholder (and their respective Permitted
Transferees) (each, a "Preempting Stockholder") a right of first refusal to
purchase, with respect to the issuance by the Company of new or additional
equity securities for cash, that portion of such new or additional equity
securities as may be necessary in order to permit such Stockholder to maintain
their relative ownership of the aggregate amount of the Company's total common
equity (calculated on a Fully-Diluted Basis). Such right of first refusal would
be offered to each Preempting Stockholder (such offer, the "Preemptive Rights
Offer") pursuant to a written notice from the Company offering each Preempting
Stockholder such securities on the same terms and conditions as offered to the
other offeree(s) (such written notice, the "Preemptive Rights Notice"). Each
Preempting Stockholder would have 15 days from the date of the Company's
delivery of the Preemptive Rights Notice to notify the Company in writing of its
binding acceptance of such Preemptive Rights Offer with respect to all (but not
less than all) equity securities which are offered to such Preempting
Stockholder pursuant to such Preemptive Rights Offer.
(b) If a Preempting Stockholder accepts the Preemptive Rights Offer
in accordance with the provisions of the preceding sentence, the Company and any
such accepting party shall have 30 days in which to consummate such binding
agreement. In the event that a Preempting Stockholder does not accept the
Preemptive Rights Offer within such 15-day period in accordance with the
provisions of the preceding sentence or fails to consummate any such purchase
within such 30-day period, the Company would have the right, subject to the
provisions of Section 12.1(f) but not the obligation to issue such securities
on terms and conditions in the aggregate no more favorable to the other
offeree(s) than those set forth in
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the Preemptive Rights Notice, pursuant to a definitive agreement to be entered
into no later than 120 days after such date.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no
rights of first refusal pursuant to Section 6.1(a) above would apply in the
event of (i) any issuances or grants of equity securities to the officers,
directors or employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (ii) the
exercise of any employee or director options or the exercise or conversion of
any options, warrants or convertible securities in existence as of the date of
the Closing or issued pursuant to or in connection with the Stock Purchase
Agreement, or the issuance of any securities to the employees or directors of
the Company or its subsidiaries pursuant to any restricted stock or other
incentive plan of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or the issuance upon
the conversion or exercise of convertible securities or warrants the issuance of
which was subject to this Article VI, (iii) the issuance of equity securities,
either directly or indirectly, in connection with the acquisition, strategic
business combination or investment by the Company in any party which is not
prior to such transaction an Affiliate of either the Company or any of the
Stockholders (whether by merger, consolidation, stock swap, sale of assets or
securities, or otherwise), (iv) the issuance of securities (including any
convertible securities or options and the conversion or exercise thereof) to any
third party which is at such time a creditor of the Company, in connection with
the refinancing or restructuring of the indebtedness owed to such third party,
(v) an issuance of securities by the Company in connection with an IPO Event or
any other Registration, (vi) an issuance of securities by the Company in
connection with any Compelled Sale Right, (vii) the distribution by the Company
of its securities to all of its stockholders on a pro rata basis or (viii) any
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issuance of securities by the Company pursuant to the Stock Purchase Agreement.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, for as long as the
Subordinated Notes remain outstanding, the Company shall not issue any shares of
Common Stock to any of its directors; provided, however, that the Company may
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(i) issue shares upon the excercise of options granted to directors in
accordence with the terms of the Company Stock Option Plan and (ii) issue up to
2,000 shares of Common Stock to Independent
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Nominees and an additional 500 shares of Common Stock to a Windward/Park Nominee
who is not an employee of MetLife, in each case at a purchase price per share at
least equal to the price per share paid by the Windward Entities pursuant to the
Stock Purchase Agreement.
ARTICLE VII
PUT AND CALL RIGHTS ON MANAGEMENT STOCK
7.1 Put and Call Rights.
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(a) Termination Without Cause. If, prior to an IPO Event, a
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Management Stockholder's employment with the Company and its subsidiaries is
terminated (x) by the Company and its subsidiaries for any reason other than
Cause or other than in connection with the Retirement, Disability or death of
such Management Stockholder, or (y) by reason of Voluntary Termination for Good
Reason, then the Company (or its designee) shall have the right, for 120 days
following the date of termination of such employment and subject in each case to
the provisions of Section 7.3 hereof, upon the approval of at least 75% of the
members of the Board, to purchase from such Management Stockholder and his or
her Permitted Transferees, and such Management Stockholder and his or her
Permitted Transferees shall be required to sell on one occasion to the Company
(or its designee), all Company Stock then held by such person(s) at a price
equal to 90% of the Fair Market Value; provided, however, that the Company may
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not exercise such right if payment for such shares must be made in Management
Repurchase Notes (as defined in Section 7.4) in accordance with Section 7.4.
(b) Termination Upon Disability, Death or Retirement. (i) Other
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than with respect to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, if, prior to an IPO Event, a Management
Stockholder's employment with the Company and its subsidiaries is terminated
due to the Retirement, Disability or death of the Management Stockholder, then
the Company (or its designee) shall have the right, for 120 days following the
date of termination of such employment and subject in each case to the
provisions of Sections 7.3 hereof, to purchase from such Management Stockholder
(or the personal representatives of such deceased Management Stockholder, as the
case may be) and his or her Permitted
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Transferees, and such Management Stockholder (or the personal representatives of
such deceased Management Stockholder, as the case may be) and his or her
Permitted Transferees shall be required to sell on one occasion to the Company
(or its designee), all Company Stock then held by such person(s) at a price
equal to 85% of the Fair Market Value; provided, however, that in the event of
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such "call" (a "Management Stockholder Call Event"), if prior to 180 days after
the consummation of such Management Stockholder Call Event, a Change of Control
shall have occurred, the Company will pay to such Management Stockholder upon
consummation of such Change of Control (x) the positive difference between (i)
the price per share of Company Stock paid to Stockholders in connection with
the Change of Control (based on the value of cash or property (including the
retained value of any security and the present value of any right to receive
payment in the future) paid to such Stockholders in the Change of Control) and
(ii) the purchase price per share of Company Stock paid to the Management
Stockholder in such Management Stockholder Call Event, multiplied by (y) the
number of shares of Company Stock sold in such Management Stockholder Call
Event.
(ii) Other than with respect to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, if, prior to an IPO
Event, a Management Stockholder's employment with the Company and its
subsidiaries is terminated due to the Retirement, Disability or death of the
Management Stockholder, then, subject in each case to the provisions of Section
7.3 hereof, such Management Stockholder (or the personal representatives of such
deceased Management Stockholder, as the case may be) and all of his or her
Permitted Transferees shall have the right, for 90 days following the date of
termination of such employment, to sell to the Company (or its designee), and
the Company (or its designee) shall be required to purchase on one occasion from
such Management Stockholder and his or her Permitted Transferees, all shares of
Company Stock held by all such person(s) as a price equal to 80% of the Fair
Market Value; provided, however that in the event that the Company pays such
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purchase price in Management Repurchase Notes in accordance with the provisions
of Section 7.4, the purchase price shall be equal to 90% of the Fair Market
Value.
(c) Voluntary Termination. If, prior to an IPO Event, a Management
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Stockholder's employment with
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the Company and its subsidiaries is terminated by reason of Voluntary
Termination (other than Voluntary Termination for Good Reason), then the
Company (or its designee) shall have the right, for 120 days following the date
of termination of such employment and subject in each case to the provisions of
Section 7.3 hereof, to purchase from such Management Stockholder and his or her
Permitted Transferees, and such Management Stockholder and his or her Permitted
Transferees shall be required to sell on one occasion to the Company (or its
designee), all Company Stock then held by such person(s) at a price equal to
85% of the Fair Market Value. For purposes of this Section 7.1(c) and Section
7.1(d), the termination of the employment of a Management Stockholder who is a
party to an employment or consulting contract or agreement with the Company or
its subsidiaries by reason of Voluntary Termination (other than Voluntary
Termination for Good Reason) shall be deemed to be a termination for Cause and
such Stockholder shall be subject to the provisions of Section 7.1(d).
(d) Termination for Cause. If, prior to an IPO Event, (x) a
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Management Stockholder's employment with the Company and its subsidiaries is
terminated for Cause (or is deemed terminated for Cause pursuant to Section
7.1(c)) or (y) a Management Stockholder voluntarily terminates his or her
employment simultaneous with or following termination for Cause or an event
which if known to the Company at the time of such voluntary termination by the
Management Stockholder of his or her employment would allow the Company and its
subsidiaries to terminate the Management Stockholder's employment for Cause,
then the Company (or its designee) shall have the right, for 120 days following
the date of termination of such employment and subject in each case to the
provisions of Section 7.3 hereof, to purchase from such Management Stockholder
and his or her Permitted Transferees, and such Management Stockholder and his or
her Permitted Transferees shall be required to sell on one occasion to the
Company (or its designee), all shares of Company Stock then held by such
person(s) at a price equal to the lower of cost, Book Value or 75% of the Fair
Market Value.
(e) Notice of Exercise; Closing. (i) If the Company (or its
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designee) desires to exercise its option to purchase shares of Company Stock
pursuant to
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its rights under this Section 7.1, the Company (or its designee) shall, not
later than the expiration date of the 120-day call period referred to in clauses
(a), (b)(i), (c) and (d) above (as it may be extended pursuant to the provisions
of Section 7.3 hereof), send written notice of its intention to purchase all of
the shares of Company Stock held by such Management Stockholder and his or her
Permitted Transferees pursuant to this Section 7.1. Subject in each case to the
provisions of Section 7.3 hereof, the closing of the purchase shall take place
at the principal office of the Company on the tenth day following the giving of
such notice or as soon thereafter as practicable but in no event later than
twenty days after the giving of such notice. The purchase price shall be paid
in accordance with Section 7.4 hereof.
(ii) Each Management Stockholder (and the Permitted Transferees
thereof) which desires to sell all of its shares of Company Stock pursuant to
its rights under this Section 7.1 shall, not later than the expiration date of
the 90-day put period referred to in clause (b)(ii) above, send a written,
irrevocable notice of its intention to sell all of its shares of Company Stock
pursuant to this Section 7.1. Subject in each case to the provisions of Section
7.3 hereof, the closing of the purchase shall take place at the principal office
of the Company on the tenth day following the giving of such notice. The
purchase price shall be paid in accordance with Section 7.4 hereof.
7.2 Obligation to Sell Several. In the event that any Management
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Stockholder has transferred any shares of Company Stock to any Permitted
Transferees, the failure of any one member of such group to perform its
obligations hereunder shall not excuse or affect the obligations of any other
member thereof, and the closing of the purchases from such other members by the
Company (or its designee) shall not excuse, or constitute a waiver of the
Company's rights against, the defaulting member(s).
7.3 Deferral of Purchases.
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(a) Events of Deferral. The Company (and its designee) shall not be
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obligated to purchase any shares of Company Stock, at any time pursuant to this
Article VII, regardless of whether it has in the case of
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Section 7.1 hereof delivered a notice of its election to purchase any such
shares, (x) to the extent that the purchase of such shares would give rise to or
result in a Violation or (y) if immediately prior to the time of purchase there
exists, or if immediately after giving effect to such purchase there would
exist, a Financing Default.
(b) Extension of Put and Call Periods. The period during which the
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Company (or its designee) shall have the right or obligation to purchase shares
of Company Stock pursuant to the exercise of any "put" rights pursuant to
Section 7.1 (a "Put Right") or pursuant to the exercise of any right to
purchase shares of Company Stock pursuant Section 7.1 hereof (a "Call Right"),
shall, except with respect to the Call Right contemplated by Section 7.1, be
extended in the event the Board in good faith determines that any Violation or
Financing Default exists or would result as a result of any purchase of Company
Stock pursuant to this Article VII until 90 days (in the event of the exercise
of any Put Rights), or 120 days (in the event of the exercise of any Call
Rights), as the case may be, after the Board determines that such is no longer
the case; provided that, in order to exercise such rights, (i) the Management
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Stock holder (or the personal representatives of such deceased Management
Stockholder, as the case may be) exercising any Put Rights must have given
notice of its intention to exercise its Put Rights within 90 days from the date
the Management Stockholder's termination of employment, and (ii) the Company (or
its designee) must have given notice of its intention to exercise its Call
Rights within 120 days from the date of the Management Stockholder's
termination of employment.
7.4 Payment for Stock. The purchase price of shares of Company Stock
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to be purchased by the Company (or its designee) pursuant to this Article VII
will be paid by (a) at the Company's option, the cancellation of indebtedness
owing from the Management Stockholder to the Company or any of its subsidiaries,
if any, and (b) then by the Company's delivery of a bank cashier's check or
certified check for the remainder of the purchase price, if any, against
delivery of the certificates or other instruments representing the Company
Stock so purchased, Duly Endorsed; provided that, in the event (x) that the
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Company does not have sufficient cash flow to finance the
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payment of such purchase price referred to in clause (b) above, as determined in
good faith the Board, or (y) that the Company is not permitted, pursuant to the
provisions of either the Credit Agreement or the Subordinated Notes, or any
refinancing, refunding or amendment thereof (after seeking in good faith to
obtain from the lenders thereunder a consent reasonably acceptable to the
Company with respect to effecting a cash repurchase), to pay cash in payment of
such purchase price referred to in clause (b) above, but is permitted, pursuant
thereto and pursuant to all other credit obligations of the Company to issue a
Management Repurchase Note, then, in any of such events, the Company (or its
designee) may, at its option, pay for such purchase price with the delivery of a
junior, subordinated promissory note bearing interest at an eight percent (8%)
annual rate of interest, due on the fifth anniversary of the date of issuance
thereof (or such later date as may be required by any financing agreement to
which the Company is a party) and substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A for the remainder of the purchase price, if any (such promissory note,
the "Management Repurchase Note"); provided further that if a Management
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Repurchase Note is issued by the Company in connection with the exercise of the
"call" right pursuant to Section 7.1(c), such Management Repurchase Note shall
be deemed a priority note (a "Priority Note") and the Company covenants,
notwithstanding the term of the Management Repurchase Notes, to use its
reasonable efforts to repay any Priority Notes as promptly thereafter as the
Company's financing documents or cash flow shall reasonably, as determined by
the Board, permit; provided, that, the Company shall not be bound by the
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foregoing covenant to the extent that (and for as long as) any payment of any
Priority Notes would give rise to or result in a Violation. In the event that
the Company (or its designee) intends to deliver a Management Repurchase Note
upon the exercise of any Put Right or any Call Right, the Company (or its
designee) shall notify the intended recipient thereof prior to the delivery
thereof. The Company (or its designee) shall have the rights set forth in
subsections (a) and (b) of the first sentence of this Section 7.4 whether or not
any Permitted Transferee(s) of the Management Stockholder owing amounts to the
Company or its subsidiaries, if applicable, is itself an obligor of the Company
or its subsidiaries.
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7.5 Miscellaneous. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set
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forth in this Agreement, (a) the Company shall be permitted to reach any
agreement with any Management Stockholder (or his estate, as the case may be)
concerning the purchase of such Management Stockholder's shares of Company
Stock, and (b) the Company, in its sole discretion, shall have the right, but
not the obligation, to assign any of its rights, and delegate any of its
obligations, to purchase any shares of Common Stock of any Management
Stockholder (or his estate, as the case may be) pursuant to Article VII hereof
to any employee stock ownership plan or similar compensation or benefit plan
that the Company may have, or to any subsidiary or employee of the Company (or
any combination of the foregoing).
7.6 Proxy and Escrow of Company Stock.
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(a) In the event that the Company (or its designee) does not exercise
its rights under Section 7.1 to purchase all shares of Company Stock held by a
Management Stockholder, the Company may, at its option, require such Management
Stockholder to execute and deliver to the Secretary irrevocable proxies (which
proxies shall be deemed to be coupled with an interest and which shall terminate
upon an IPO Event) in such form and as the Company may from time to time
prescribe, in favor of such person as the Board may from time to time prescribe,
entitling such person to vote such shares, if at all, on matters in direct
proportion to the affirmative and negative votes and abstentions of all other
voting securities then outstanding.
(b) Each Management Stockholder agrees that he or she will, upon
termination of such Management Stockholder's employment for any reason, or
prior to termination at the request of the Company, deliver to the Secretary,
to be held by the Secretary for the benefit of such Management Stockholder, the
certificates representing all shares of Company Stock of such Management
Stockholder.
ARTICLE VIII
COMPANY COVENANTS
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8.1 Affiliated Arrangements. The Company agrees that it will not
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enter into any contractual arrangements or effect any transactions (including,
without limitation, the payment of any management or transactional fees)
between the Company and any of the Stockholders or their respective Affiliates,
other than (a) those fee arrangements contemplated by the Letter Agreement,
dated as of the date hereof, among the Company and Windward Capital Partners,
L.P., (b) any transaction fee arrangements entered into by the Company and
Windward or its Affiliates in connection with an IPO Event, a Compelled Sale or
any other similar transaction, and (c) those which have been approved by a
majority of the members of the Board that are disinterested in such transaction.
8.2 Financial Reports. The Company shall prepare and distribute to
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each of the Stockholders unaudited quarterly and audited annual financial
reports of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries (including consolidated
balance sheets and consolidated statements of income and cash flow) as soon as
reasonably practicable after the end of the applicable financial period (but in
no event later than 45 days after the end of any fiscal quarter of the Company
or 90 days after the end of any fiscal year of the Company).
8.3 Access to Information. Subject to the provisions of Section 14.1
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hereof, the Company shall provide to each Stockholder access to the books and
records of the Company and its subsidiaries during the regular business hours of
the Company and such subsidiaries, following the Company's receipt of a written
notice from such Stockholder requesting such access.
8.4 FIRPTA Activities. The Company agrees that it will not, without
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first obtaining the prior written consent of the Windward Agent, take any
actions that would result in the Company becoming a United States real property
holding company within the meaning of section 897(c)(2) of the Code (or any
successor statutory or regulatory provision of similar effect).
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ARTICLE IX
REGISTRATION RIGHTS
9.1 Demand Registration Rights.
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(a) Upon written notice from a Stockholder entitled to request
Registration pursuant to Section 9.1(c) below (the "Requesting Stockholder"),
the Company shall use its best efforts to effect at the earliest possible date
and maintain the registration under the Securities Act of offers and sales of
Common Stock by the Requesting Stockholder (and no offers and sales of any other
securities by any other person shall be registered with such Common Stock of the
Requesting Stockholder without the Requesting Stockholder's prior consent), its
Permitted Transferees and any underwriter with respect to such stock, in
accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition specified by the
Requesting Stockholder (including, but not limited to, an offering on a delayed
or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 (or any successor rule) promulgated
under the Securities Act); provided that if, after a Registration request
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pursuant to this Section 9.1 has been made, the outside legal counsel of the
Company has determined in good faith that the filing of a Registration request
would require the disclosure of material information which the Company has a
bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, the Company shall
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not be obligated to effect a Registration pursuant to this Section 9.1 until the
earlier of (A) the date upon which such material information is disclosed to
the public or ceases to be material, or (B) 45 days after such outside legal
counsel of the Company first makes such good faith determination; provided
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further that no Requesting Stockholder may request any such Registration
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pursuant to this Section 9.1 (x) until at least six (6) months after the
anniversary of the closing of the last Registration and sale of Company
securities and (y) unless the Registrable Securities sought to be registered has
a Fair Market Value of at least $2,500,000; provided, however, that the
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Requesting Stockholder shall not have the right to utilize the services of an
underwriter unless the Fair Market Value of the Company Stock to be offered
exceeds $20,000,000. The Requesting Stockholder(s) requesting a Registration
under this Section 9.1 may, at any time prior to the effective date of the
registration statement relating to
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such Registration, revoke such request by providing written notice thereof to
the Company.
(b) In connection with any Registration requested pursuant to this
Section 9.1, (i) the Requesting Stockholder shall have the right, subject to
the penultimate sentence of Section 9.1(a), to designate the managing
underwriter(s) and (ii) the Company shall take such other actions, including,
without limitation, listing such shares for trading on any securities exchange
or national market system and registering or qualifying such shares under state
securities laws, as may be reasonably requested by the Requesting Stockholder.
If the Requesting Stockholder consents to the inclusion of offers and sales of
any other securities in a Registration of Common Stock by the Requesting
Stockholder pursuant to this Section 9.1 and the underwriter(s) retained in
connection with such Registration advise the Company in writing that such
offering would be materially and adversely affected by the inclusion of such
securities, the Requesting Stockholder may in its sole discretion exclude all or
some of such securities from such offering.
(c) After the occurrence of an IPO Event:
(i) the Windward Agent, on behalf of the Windward Group, will have the
right to request Registration of Company Stock of the Windward Group as a
Requesting Stockholder pursuant to this Section 9.1 an aggregate of three (3)
times; provided that if the Windward Group had elected, pursuant to Section 5.6
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hereof, to cause the Company to effect the IPO Event, such election will not be
a request for Registration of Company Common Stock for purposes of this Section
9.1(c) hereof; and
(ii) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, on behalf of the Management Stockholders upon
the request of holders of a majority of the shares of Common Stock held by
Management Stockholders at such time, will have the right to request
Registration of Company Stock of the Management Stockholders pursuant to this
Section 9.1 an aggregate of two (2) times; provided, that, prior to such time
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the Windward Group shall have effected one Registration pursuant to Section
9.1(c)(i); provided, further, that in the event Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, on behalf of
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the Management Stockholders, requests Registration pursuant to this Section
9.1(c)(ii), the Company shall notify the Windward Agent
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in writing of such request and the Windward Agent may elect, in its sole
discretion (the "Windward Election"), within 15 days of receipt of such written
notice, to request Registration pursuant to Section 9.1(c)(i) in which case the
Windward Group shall be treated as a Requesting Stockholder for purposes of such
Registration and the Management Shareholders shall not be treated as Requesting
Stockholders for purposes of such Registration (and such Registration request
shall not be counted with respect to the Management Shareholders for purposes of
the preceding sentence), however the Windward Agent shall only be allowed to
make one Windward Election and after such election may no longer make a Windward
Election unless the requested Registration pursuant to the Windward Election is
not deemed effective (as set forth below) in which case such election shall not
be deemed to be the Windward Election;
provided further that any Registration requested by any Requesting Stockholder
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pursuant to this Section 9.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected (and,
therefore, not requested for purposes of this Section 9.1(c)), (i) unless it has
become effective, provided that a registration which does not become effective
after the Company has filed a registration statement with respect thereto solely
by reason of the refusal to proceed by the Requesting Stockholder (other than a
refusal to proceed based upon the advice of counsel relating to a matter with
respect to the Company) shall be deemed to have been effected by the Company at
the request of such Requesting Stockholder unless the Requesting Stockholder
shall have elected to pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such
registration, (ii) if after it has become effective such Registration is
interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of
the SEC or other governmental agency or court for any reason other than a
misrepresentation or an omission by the Requesting Stockholder and, as a result
thereof, the Common Stock requested to be registered cannot be completely
distributed in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the
related registration statement or (iii) if the closing pursuant to the purchase
agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such
Registration does not occur. Any Registration effected pursuant to Section 9.2
shall not be deemed to have been requested by a Requesting Stockholder for
purposes of this Section 9.1(c).
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9.2 Piggyback Registration Rights. If at any time following the
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completion of an IPO Event the Company proposes to effect another Registration,
whether or not for sale for its own account and (subject to the provisions of
Section 9.1 above) whether or not pursuant to the exercise of any of the demand
registration rights referred to in Section 9.1 hereof, in a manner which would
permit Registration of Registrable Securities for sale to the public under the
Securities Act, it will each such time, subject to the provisions of Sections
9.1 and 9.2(c) hereof, give prompt written notice to all Stockholders of record
of Registrable Securities of its intention to do so and of such Stockholders'
rights under this Article IX, at least 25 days prior to the anticipated filing
date of the registration statement relating to such Registration. Such notice
shall offer all such Stockholders the opportunity to include in such
registration statement such number of Registrable Securities as each such
Stockholder may request. Upon the written request of any such Stockholder made
within 10 days after the receipt of the Company's notice (which request shall
specify the number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such
Stockholder and the intended method of disposition thereof), the Company will
use its best efforts to effect the Registration under the Securities Act and the
qualification under any applicable state securities or Blue Sky laws of all
Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register by
the Stockholders thereof, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in
accordance with such intended methods thereof) of the Registrable Securities so
requested to be registered; provided that:
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(a) if such Registration involves an underwritten public offering,
all Stockholders requesting that their Registrable Securities be included in the
Company's Registration must, upon request by the underwriter(s), sell their
Registrable Securities to such underwriter(s) selected by the Company (or the
Requesting Stockholders in accordance with Section 9.1, as the case may be) on
the same terms and conditions as apply to the Company or any selling
securityholder (or on equivalent terms and conditions, in the event that such
requesting Stockholders hold different securities from those being sold by the
Company or such selling securityholder), including, without limitation,
executing and delivering such underwriting agreements or other related
agreements
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to which the Company or any such selling securityholder has agreed to execute
and deliver;
(b) if, at any time after giving written notice of its intention to
register any securities pursuant to this Section 9.2 and prior to the effective
date of the registration statement filed in connection with such Registration,
the Company shall determine for any reason not to register such securities, the
Company shall give written notice to all Stockholders of Registrable Securities
and, thereupon, shall be relieved of its obligation to register any Registrable
Securities in connection with such Registration (without prejudice, however, to
the rights of the Stockholders immediately to request that such registration be
effected as a Registration under Section 9.1);
(c) if a Registration pursuant to this Section 9.2 involves an
underwritten public offering, any Stockholder of Registrable Securities
requesting to be included in such Registration may elect, in writing at least 10
days prior to the effective date of the registration statement filed in
connection with such Registration, not to register such securities in
connection with such Registration;
(d) the Company shall not be required to effect any Registration of
Common Stock under this Section 9.2 incidental to the registration of any of
its securities in connection with mergers, acquisitions, exchange offers,
subscription offers, dividend reinvestment plans or stock option or other
executive or employee benefit or compensation plans (including, without
limitation, any registration of securities on a Form S-4 or S-8 registration
statement or any successor or similar forms); and
(e) no Registration of Common Stock effected under this Section 9.2
shall relieve the Company of its obligation to effect a Registration of shares
of Common Stock pursuant to Section 9.1.
9.3 Priority in Piggyback Registrations.
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(a) If at any time following an IPO Event the Company proposes to
effect another Registration in connection with an underwritten offering (other
than any
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Registration pursuant to the exercise of any of the demand registration rights
referred to in Section 9.1 hereof or any demand registration rights which
specify a priority for "piggyback" registration rights which is the same as set
forth in Section 9.3(b) below (such latter form of demand registration rights,
the "Permitted Demand Registration Rights")), including any Registration for the
Company's account, and the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company in writing
that, in its or their judgement, the number of shares of equity securities of
the Company (including all shares of Registrable Securities) which the Company,
the Stockholders and any other persons intend to include in such Registration
exceeds the largest number of securities which can be sold without having an
adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities
can be sold, the Company shall include in such Registration: (i) first, all
securities the Company proposes to sell for its own account (the "Company
Securities"), (ii) second, to the extent that the number or dollar amount of the
Company Securities to be offered by the Company is less than the number of
shares of securities which the Company has been advised can be sold in such
offering without having the adverse effect referred to above, the number of
Piggyback Securities requested to be sold by any Stockholder who is a member of
the Windward Group or a Management Stockholder (provided that if the number of
the Company Securities and Piggyback Securities exceeds the number of shares of
securities which the Company has been advised can be sold in such offering
without having the adverse effect referred to above, the number of such
Piggyback Securities to be included in such offering shall be allocated pro rata
among all holders of such Piggyback Securities on the basis of the relative
number or amount of Piggyback Securities each such holder has requested to be
included in such Registration), and (iii) third, to the extent that the number
of Company Securities and Piggyback Securities held by Stockholders is less
than the number of shares of securities which the Company has been advised can
be sold in such offering without having the adverse effect referred to above,
the equity securities requested to be sold for the account of any other persons
(allocated among the persons holding such other securities in such proportions
as such persons and the Company may agree).
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(b) If at any time following an IPO Event the Company proposes to
effect another Registration in connection with an underwritten offering pursuant
to the exercise of any of the demand registration rights referred to in Section
9.1 hereof or any Permitted Demand Registration Rights, and the managing
underwriter(s) advise the Company in writing that, in its or their judgement,
the number of shares of equity securities of the Company (including all shares
of Registrable Securities) which the Company, the Stockholders and any other
persons intend to include in such Registration exceeds the largest number of
securities which can be sold without having an adverse effect on such offering,
including the price at which such securities can be sold, the Company shall
include in such Registration: (i) first, all securities which are held by the
Stockholders or other persons who are exercising the demand registration rights
referred to in Section 9.1 hereof or any Permitted Demand Registration Rights
(the "Demand Securities"), (ii) second, to the extent that the number or dollar
amount of the Demand Securities to be offered by the Company is less than the
number of shares of Demand Securities which the sellers thereof have been
advised can be sold in such offering without having the adverse effect referred
to above, the number of Piggyback Securities requested to be sold by any
Stockholder who is a member of the Windward Group or a Management Stockholder
(provided that if the number of the Demand Securities and Piggyback Securities
exceeds the number of shares of securities which the Company has been advised
can be sold in such offering without having the adverse effect referred to
above, the number of such Piggyback Securities to be included in such offering
shall be allocated pro rata among all holders of such Piggyback Securities on
the basis of the relative number or amount of Piggyback Securities each such
holder has requested to be included in such Registration), and (iii) third, to
the extent that the number of Demand Securities and Piggyback Securities held
by Stockholders is less than the number of shares of securities which the
Company has been advised can be sold in such offering without having the adverse
effect referred to above, the equity securities requested to be sold for the
account of the Company and any other persons (allocated among the Company and
the persons holding such other securities in such proportions as such persons
and the Company may agree).
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9.4 Expenses. The Company will pay all Registration Expenses in
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connection with each Registration of Registrable Securities requested pursuant
to this Article IX (including any Registration deemed not to be "effected"
under Section 9.1(c) or not consummated as contemplated by Section 9.2(b)) and
any other actions that may be taken in connection with any such Registration as
contemplated by this Article IX; provided that the Company will not be
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obligated to pay any underwriting discounts or commissions or transfer taxes, if
any, relating to the sale or disposition of shares sold by persons other than
the Company pursuant to any such Registration.
9.5 Restrictions on Public Sale by Stockholders and Company.
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(a) In connection with any offering of securities of the Company,
including, without limitation, any offering contemplated by this Article IX,
each Stockholder agrees that, whether or not such Stockholder's Registrable
Securities are included in such Registration, it will consent and agree to
comply with any "hold back" restriction, relating to Common Stock or any other
securities of the Company then owned by such holder, that may be reasonably
requested by the underwriter(s) or placement or other selling agent(s) of such
offering. Without limitation to the foregoing, each Stockholder shall, upon
request by such underwriter(s) or agent(s), agree not to effect any public sale
or distribution, including any sale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities
Act, of any Registrable Securities, and not to effect any such public sale or
distribution of any other equity security of the Company or of any security
convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for any equity security of the
Company (in each case, other than as part of such underwritten public offering)
during the 30 days prior to, and during the 180 day period beginning on, the
effective date of such registration statement (except as part of such
Registration).
(b) If any Registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to Article
IX shall be in connection with an underwritten public offering, the Company
agrees, if requested by the underwriter(s) or placement or other selling
agent(s), (i) not to effect any public sale or distribution of any of its equity
securities or of any security convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable
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for any equity security of the Company (other than any such sale or distribution
of such securities in connection with any merger or consolidation by the
Company or a subsidiary of the Company or in connection with the purchase of all
or substantially all the assets of any other person or in connection with an
employee stock option or other benefit plan) during the 30 days prior to, and
during the 180 day period beginning on, the effective date of such registration
statement (except as part of such Registration) and (ii) that any agreement
entered into after the date of this Agreement pursuant to which the Company
issues or agrees to issue any privately placed equity securities shall contain a
provision under which holders of such securities agree not to effect any public
sale or distribution of any such securities during the period referred to in the
foregoing clause (i) or during any of the periods referred to in Section 9.5(a)
above, including any sale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (except
as part of such Registration, if permitted).
(c) In connection with any offering of securities of the Company
contemplated by this Article IX, the Company shall take such other actions in
connection therewith as may be necessary or appropriate, including, without
limitation, entering into customary underwriting arrangements and agreeing to
indemnify any Requesting Stockholder or any other Stockholder selling Common
Stock in such offering.
9.6 Indemnification by the Company. In the event of any Registration
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of any securities of the Company under the Securities Act pursuant to Article
IX, the Company will, and it hereby does, indemnify and hold harmless, to the
full extent permitted by law, each of the Stockholders holding any Registrable
Securities covered by such registration statement, its Representatives, each
other person who participates as an underwriter in the offering or sale of such
securities and each other person, if any, who controls, is controlled by or is
under common control with such Stockholder or any such underwriter within the
meaning of the Securities Act, against any and all losses, claims, damages or
liabilities, joint or several, and expenses (including any amounts paid in any
settlement effected with the Company's consent, which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld) to which such Stockholder, any such Repre-
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sentative or any such underwriter or controlling person may become subject under
the Securities Act, state securities or blue sky laws, common law or otherwise,
insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions or
proceedings in respect thereof) or expenses arise out of or are based upon (i)
any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained
in any registration statement under which such securities were registered under
the Securities Act, any preliminary, final or summary prospectus contained
therein, or any amendment or supplement thereto, (ii) any omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (iii) any violation
by the Company of any federal, state or common law rule or regulation applicable
to the Company and relating to action required of or inaction by the Company in
connection with any such Registration, and the Company will reimburse such
Stockholder and each such Representative or underwriter and controlling person
for any legal or any other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection
with investigating or defending such loss, claim, liability, action or
proceeding; provided that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to
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the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability (or action or proceeding
in respect thereof) or expenses arises out of or is based upon any untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in
such registration statement or amendment or supplement thereto or in any such
preliminary, final or summary prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with
written information furnished to the Company through an instrument duly executed
by such Stockholder or any such Representative or underwriter specifically
stating that it is for use in the preparation thereof. Such indemnity shall
remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on
behalf of such Stockholder or any such Representative or underwriter and shall
survive the transfer of such securities by such Stockholder.
9.7 Indemnification by the Stockholders and Underwriters. The
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Company may require, as a condition to including any Registrable Securities in
any registration statement filed in accordance with Article IX, that the Company
shall have received an undertaking reasonably satisfactory to it from the
Stockholders of such Regis-
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trable Securities and any underwriter, to indemnify and hold harmless (in the
same manner and to the same extent as set forth in Section 9.6) the Company and
its Representatives and all other prospective sellers and their respective
Representatives, and their respective controlling persons with respect to any
statement or alleged statement in or omission or alleged omission from such
registration statement, any preliminary, final or summary prospectus contained
therein, or any amendment or supplement thereto, if such statement or alleged
statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in
conformity with written information furnished to the Company or its
representatives through an instrument duly executed by or on behalf of such
Stockholder or underwriter, as the case may be, specifically stating that it is
for use in the preparation of such registration statement, preliminary, final
or summary prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto, or a document
incorporated by reference into any of the foregoing. Such indemnity shall remain
in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of
the Company or any of the Stockholders, underwriters or any of their respective
Representatives or controlling persons and shall survive the transfer of such
securities by such Stockholder; provided that no such Stockholder shall be
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liable under this Section 9.7 for any amounts exceeding the product of the
purchase price per Registrable Security and the number of Registrable Securities
being sold pursuant to such registration statement or prospectus by such
Stockholder (net of any underwriters' or placement agents' fees, discounts or
commissions related thereto and net, in the case of the members of the Windward
Group, of the purchase price paid by such member pursuant to the Stock Purchase
Agreement).
9.8 Notices of Claims, Etc. Promptly after receipt by an indemnified
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party hereunder of written notice of the commencement of any action or
proceeding with respect to which a claim for indemnification may be made
pursuant to this Article IX, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect
thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party, promptly give written
notice to the latter of the commencement of such action; provided, however, that
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the failure of any indemnified party to give notice as provided herein shall not
relieve the indemnifying party of its obligations under the preceding
subsections of this Article IX, except to the extent that
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the indemnifying party is actually materially prejudiced by such failure to give
notice. In case any such action is brought against an indemnified party, unless
in such indemnified party's reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between
such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist in respect of such claim,
the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate in and, jointly with any
other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, to
the extent that it may wish, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such
indemnified party, and after notice from the indemnifying party of its election
so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party will not be liable to
such indemnified party for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by
the latter in connection with the defense thereof, unless in such indemnified
party's reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and
indemnifying parties arises in respect of such claim after the assumption of the
defense thereof, and the indemnifying party will not be subject to any liability
for any settlement made without its consent (which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld). No indemnifying party will consent to entry of any
judgment or enter into any settlement which does not include as an unconditional
term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party
of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation. An
indemnifying party who is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense
of a claim will not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one
counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to
such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a
conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and any other of
such indemnified parties with respect to such claim, in which event the
indemnifying party shall be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of such
additional counsel or counsels.
9.9 Other Indemnification. Indemnification similar to that specified
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in the preceding Sections of this Article IX (with appropriate modifications)
shall be given by the Company and each Stockholder of Registrable Securities
with respect to any required Registration or other qualification of securities
under any federal or state law or any regulation of a governmental authority
other than arising under the Securities Act.
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9.10 Registration Procedure.
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(a) If and whenever the Company is required to effect or cause the
Registration of any Registrable Securities pursuant to this Article IX, the
Company will, as expeditiously as possible:
(1) Prepare in cooperation with the sellers (and, in the event of an
underwritten public offering, with the underwriter(s)), and file with the SEC,
in a manner consistent with the provisions of this Article IX, a registration
statement with respect to such Registrable Securities on any form for which the
Company then qualifies or which counsel for the Company shall deem appropriate
as the case may be, and which form shall be available for the sale of the
Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended methods of distribution
thereof, and use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to
become and remain effective; provided that before filing with the SEC a
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registration statement or prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto,
the Company will (i) furnish to one counsel selected by the Requesting
Stockholder(s), in the event of a Registration effected pursuant to Section 9.1
hereof, or selected by the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities
covered by such registration statement, in the event of any other Registration,
copies of all such documents proposed to be filed, which documents will be
subject to the timely review of such counsel, and (ii) notify each holder of
Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement of any stop order
issued or threatened by the SEC and take all reasonable actions required to
prevent the entry of such stop order or to remove it if entered.
(2) Prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and supplements to
such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection therewith as
may be necessary to keep such registration statement effective for a period of
not less than 120 days or such shorter period which will terminate when all
Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement have been sold
(but not before the expiration of the 90-day period referred to in Section 4(3)
of the Securities Act and Rule 174 thereunder, if applicable) and comply with
the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of all
securities covered by such registra-
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tion statement during such period in accordance with the intended methods of
disposition by the seller or sellers thereof set forth in such registration
statement.
(3) Furnish to each holder of Registrable Securities covered by the
registration statement and to each underwriter, if any, of such Registrable
Securities, such number of copies of such registration statement, each amendment
and supplement thereto (in each case including all exhibits thereto), and the
prospectus included in such registration statement (including each preliminary
prospectus), and such other documents, as such person may reasonably request, in
order to facilitate the public sale or other disposition of the Registrable
Securities owned by such holder.
(4) Use its best efforts to register or qualify such Registrable
Securities covered by such registration statement under such other securities or
blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as any holder, and underwriter, if any, of
Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement shall reasonably
request, and do any and all other acts and things which may be reasonably
necessary or advisable to enable such seller to consummate the disposition in
such jurisdictions of the Registrable Securities owned by such seller; provided
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that the Company shall not for any such purpose, be required to (A) qualify to
do business as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction where, but for the
requirements of this Section 9.10, it is not then so qualified, (B) subject
itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction, or (C) take any action which would
subject it to consent to general or unlimited service or process not then so
subject.
(5) Use its best efforts to cause such Registrable Securities covered
by such registration statement to be registered with or approved by such other
governmental agencies or authorities as may be necessary by virtue of the
business and operations of the Company to enable the seller or sellers thereof
to consummate the disposition of such Registrable Securities.
(6) Immediately notify each seller of Registrable Securities covered
by such registration statement, at any time when a prospectus relating thereto
is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, of
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the happening of any event which comes to the Company's attention if as a result
of such event the prospectus included in such registration statement, as then in
effect, includes any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a
material, fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and at the
request of any such seller, deliver a reasonable number of copies of an amended
or supplemental prospectus as may be necessary so that, as thereafter delivered
to the purchasers of such Registrable Securities, such prospectus shall not
include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(7) Otherwise use its best efforts to comply with all applicable
rules and regulations of the SEC and make available to its security holders, in
each case as soon as practicable, an earnings statement covering a period of at
least 12 months, beginning with the first month after the effective date of the
registration statement (as the term "effective date" is defined in Rule 158(c)
under the Securities Act), which earnings statement shall satisfy the provisions
of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act including, at the option of the Company,
Rule 158 thereunder.
(8) Use its best efforts to cause all such Registrable Securities to
be listed on such national securities exchange or the National Association of
Securities Dealers National Market System as may be reasonably requested by the
Requesting Stockholder, and if any similar securities issued by the Company are
then listed on any securities exchanges or national market systems, to also list
all such Registrable Securities on such securities exchanges or national market
systems, and enter into such customary agreements including a listing
application and indemnification agreement in customary form, provided that the
applicable listing requirements are satisfied, and to provide a transfer agent
and registrar for such Registrable Securities covered by such registration
statement no later than the effective date of such registration statement.
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(9) Use its best efforts to obtain a "cold comfort" letter from the
independent public accountants for the Company in customary form and covering
matters of the type customarily covered by such letters as may be reasonably
requested by the Requesting Stockholder(s), in the event of a Registration
effected pursuant to Section 9.1 hereof, or by the holders of a majority of
the Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement, in the event
of any other Registration.
(10) Execute and deliver all instruments and documents (including in
an underwritten offering an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take
such other actions and obtain such certificates and opinions as sellers of a
majority of the Registrable Securities being sold reasonably request in order to
effect an underwritten public offering of such Registrable Securities. The
Company may require each holder of Registrable Securities as to which any
Registration is being effected to furnish to the Company such information
regarding such holder and the distribution of such Registrable Securities as
the Company may from time to time reasonably request in writing in connection
with effecting such offering.
(b) Each holder of Registrable Securities will, upon receipt of any
notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in
Section 9.10(a)(6), forthwith discontinue disposition of the Registrable
Securities pursuant to the registration statement covering such Registrable
Securities until such holder's receipt of the copies of the supplemented or
amended prospectus contemplated by Section 9.10(a)(6), and, if so directed by
the Company, such holder 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 at the time of receipt of
such notice.
9.11 Rule 144. If the Company shall have filed a registration
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statement pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Exchange Act or a
registration statement pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the
Company covenants that it will file the reports required to be filed by it under
the Securities Act and
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the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations adopted by the SEC thereunder
(or, if the Company is not required to file such reports, it will, upon the
request of any holder of Registrable Securities, make publicly available other
information), and it will take such further action as any holder of Registrable
Securities may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time
to enable such holder to sell shares of Registrable Securities without
registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions
provided by (i) Rule 144 under the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended
from time to time, or (ii) any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by
the SEC. Upon the request of any holder of Registrable Securities, the Company
will deliver to such holder a written statement as to whether it has complied
with such requirements.
ARTICLE X
ADDITIONAL STOCKHOLDERS
10.1 Transferees of Stockholders or the Company. No Transfers of
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shares of Company Stock may be made (and shall not be effective) to a Permitted
Transferee or to any Third Party, unless in each case prior to such Transfer any
such transferee agrees in writing to be bound (to the same extent as
contemplated with respect to the Stockholder (or the Permitted Transferee(s)
thereof) transferring such shares of Company Stock) by the terms and conditions
of this Agreement pursuant to a supplementary agreement reasonably satisfactory
in form and substance to the Company. The Company may, as a condition to any
original issuance of Company Stock to a person who or which is not at such time
a Stockholder, require that such person agree in writing to be bound by the
terms and conditions of this Agreement pursuant to a supplementary agreement
reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Company. Upon entering
into such supplementary agreement, such transferee or purchaser of Company Stock
shall be deemed to be a Stockholder for all purposes of this Agreement. The
provisions of this Section 10.1 shall not apply to any Transfer (a) made
pursuant to a public offering of Company Stock, including in connection with the
exercise by any Stockholder of its rights pursuant to Article IX hereof or in
connection with the exercise by the Windward Agent of its rights
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pursuant to Section 5.6 hereof, or (b) made in connection with the exercise by
the Windward Group of a Compelled Sale Right.
10.2 New Stockholders. Each Independent Nominee, member of
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management or other employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries who
becomes a holder of Company Stock after the date hereof shall be deemed, upon
the execution of a supplementary agreement described below, to have the same
rights and obligations as a Stockholder for purposes of this Agreement. The
Company shall not issue Company Stock to any Independent Nominee, member of
management or other employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries unless
the person to whom the Company Stock is to be issued or transferred agrees in
writing to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement pursuant to a
supplementary agreement reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the
Company; upon entering into such agreement, such member of management or other
employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries shall be deemed to be a
Management Stockholder for all purposes of this Agreement. The parties hereto
acknowledge and agree that the Company Stock Option Plan (or the agreements
entered into in connection therewith) shall provide that optionholders
thereunder will be required to become parties to this Agreement upon any
exercise of options granted thereunder, as a condition to the exercise of such
options.
10.3. Supplemental Agreements. Each supplementary agreement
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referred to in Sections 10.1 and 10.2 above, shall become effective upon its
execution by the Company and the new holder of Company Stock, and it shall not
require the signatures or the consent of the other Stockholders (or their
respective Permitted Transferees). The supplementary agreement between the
Company and any new holder of Company Stock may modify some of the terms and
conditions of this Agreement as they affect the rights and obligations of the
new holder of Company Stock, provided that the modified terms and conditions
shall be no less favorable to the other Stockholders (or their respective
Permitted Transferees) than the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement. The Schedule of Management Stockholders attached hereto shall be
updated from time to time to include each Management Stockholder who becomes a
party to this Agreement after the date hereof.
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ARTICLE XI
STOCK LEGENDS
11.1 Stock Certificate Legend. A copy of this Agreement shall be
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filed with the Secretary of the Company and kept with the records of the
Company. Each of the Stockholders agrees that the following two legends shall
be placed on the certificates representing any shares of Company Stock owned by
them:
"THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS
ON TRANSFER AND CERTAIN OTHER CONDITIONS, AS SPECIFIED IN A STOCKHOLDERS
AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 14, 1997 (COPIES OF WHICH ARE ON FILE WITH
THE SECRETARY OF HCC INDUSTRIES INC. (TOGETHER WITH ITS SUCCESSORS, THE
"COMPANY") AND WHICH WILL BE MAILED TO A STOCKHOLDER WITHOUT CHARGE WITHIN
FIVE DAYS AFTER RECEIPT BY THE COMPANY OF A WRITTEN REQUEST THEREFOR FROM
SUCH STOCKHOLDER). THE HOLDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE, BY ACCEPTANCE OF THIS
CERTIFICATE, AGREES TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE PROVISIONS OF SUCH
STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT.
NO TRANSFER, SALE, ASSIGNMENT, PLEDGE, HYPOTHECATION OR OTHER DISPOSITION
OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE MADE EXCEPT
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUCH STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT AND, EXCEPT AS
OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN SUCH AGREEMENT, (A) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 AND THE RULES AND
REGULATIONS IN EFFECT THEREUNDER AND ALL APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES OR
"BLUE SKY" LAWS (SUCH FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS, THE "SECURITIES LAWS") OR (B)
IF THE COMPANY HAS BEEN FURNISHED WITH AN OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR THE
HOLDER, WHICH OPINION AND COUNSEL SHALL BE REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE
COMPANY, TO THE EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFER, SALE, ASSIGNMENT, PLEDGE,
HYPOTHECATION OR OTHER DISPOSITION IS EXEMPT FROM THE PROVISIONS OF THE
SECURITIES LAWS."
All Stockholders shall be bound by the require-
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ments of such legends to the extent that such legends are applicable. Upon a
Registration of any shares of Company Stock, the certificate representing such
shares shall be replaced, at the expense of the Company, with certificates
bearing only the first of the two legends referred to above.
ARTICLE XII
APPOINTMENT OF AGENTS
12.1 Appointment of Agent for Windward Group Matters.
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(a) Each member of the Windward Group hereby irrevocably (subject to
the provisions of paragraph (e) below) designates and appoints Windward as its
attorney-in-fact, agent and representative, to act on its behalf and on behalf
of its Permitted Transferees, (i) in connection with exercising any of its
rights hereunder, performing any of its duties or obligations hereunder or
enforcing any claims or rights on its behalf under this Agreement, (ii) to
investigate, contest, litigate, demand, xxx for, collect, recover and receive
all claims, debts, monies and other amounts whatsoever which may hereafter
become due to the members of the Windward Group in connection with this
Agreement (including, without limitation, instituting any action, suit or legal
proceeding to enforce any of its rights hereunder) and to make, execute and
deliver receipts, releases, settlements, adjustments and other discharges
therefor, (iii) to defend, settle, adjust, submit to arbitration or compromise
all actions, suits, accounts, reckonings, claims and demands that may be brought
against the members of the Windward Group in connection with this Agreement
(including, without limitation, defending, or settling any claims brought by
the Company, the Management Stockholders or any of the other parties hereto in
connection with this Agreement), (iv) to amend, supplement or grant any waiver
under, this Agreement or any other agreement or document contemplated hereby,
(v) to vote at any annual or special meeting of stockholders, or to take action
by written consent in lieu of such meeting with respect to, all of the shares of
Company Stock owned or held of record by such Stockholder, but only for (1) the
election of directors designated in accordance with
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Section 2.2 hereof, (2) the removal of directors in accordance with Sections 2.4
and 2.5 hereof, and (3) the election of a director to fill any vacancy on the
Board in accordance with Section 2.3 hereof, (vi) in executing, acknowledging,
verifying and/or delivering any and all agreements, certificates and instruments
in connection with taking any of the actions referred to in clauses (i), (ii),
(iii), (iv) and (v) above, and (vii) in doing, executing and performing any
other act, deed, matter or thing, of any kind or nature whatsoever, that is
necessary, appropriate or advisable to enforcing any claims or rights under
this Agreement or performing any of its duties or obligations hereunder or
otherwise representing its interests hereunder; all of the foregoing actions may
be taken in such manner as Windward determines in its sole discretion to be
appropriate, advisable or necessary.
(b) The designation and appointment of Windward referred to in the
previous paragraph (a) shall be deemed to be irrevocable (subject to the
provisions of paragraph (e) below) and coupled with an interest and shall
survive the death, dissolution, bankruptcy, incompetency or legal disability of
any member of the Windward Group. Without limitation to the foregoing and
notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any
payments or other amounts are received by Windward on behalf of the members of
the Windward Group from the Company, the Management Stockholders or any of the
other parties hereto in connection with this Agreement, Windward shall, after
deducting any expense reimbursement amounts with which it may be entitled,
distribute such amounts to the various members of the Windward Group in such
manner as Windward deems reasonably appropriate in light of each member's
relevant interests and the particular circumstances.
(c) Each of the parties to this Agreement acknowledges and agrees
that, notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the provisions
of this Section 12.1 may be amended, modified or supplemented by a majority in
number of the members of the Windward Group (such majority in number of members,
the "Requisite Members"); provided that (i) such amendment, modification or
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supplement is in writing and copies thereof are provided to the other parties
to this Agreement within a reasonable period following the date of such
amendment,
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modification or supplement and (ii) such amendment, modification or supplement
does not adversely affect any of the rights, duties or obligations of any party
to this Agreement (other than the members of the Windward Group). Other than
Windward (or any successor thereof appointed pursuant to Section 12.1(e) hereof)
and other than any actions taken at the request or with the consent of Windward
or such successor, each of the members of the Windward Group agrees that it will
not take any action, nor institute any actions or proceedings, against the
Company, the Management Stockholders or any of the other parties hereto (other
than another member of the Windward Group) in connection with this Agreement or
with respect to any matters referred to in this Agreement, except with the prior
written consent of the Requisite Members.
(d) Windward (or any successor thereof appointed pursuant to this
Section 12.1(e)) may resign from the performance of all its functions and duties
as agent on behalf of the Windward Group under this Agreement at any time by
giving at least 30 Business Days' prior written notice to the other parties to
this Agreement. Such resignation shall take effect upon the acceptance by a
successor agent of its appointment pursuant to this Section 12.1(e). Upon any
such notice of resignation by Windward (or any such successor thereof), the
Requisite Members shall appoint a successor agent. If a successor agent shall
not have been so appointed within said 30 Business Day period, Windward (or any
duly appointed successor thereof) shall then appoint a successor who shall
serve as agent on behalf of the Windward Group under this Agreement until such
time, if any, as the Requisite Members appoint a successor agent as provided in
this Section 12.1(e). Windward (or any successor thereof appointed pursuant to
this Section 12.1(e)) may be removed by the Requisite Members and replaced with
another person, at any time and for any reason, upon ten (10) days prior written
notice given by the Requisite Members to the agent then in effect and all other
parties to this Agreement. Upon the appointment of a successor agent hereunder,
references in this Agreement to Windward, acting in its role as agent for the
Windward Group, shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, thereafter mean such
successor agent.
(e) In the event that any member of the Windward Group does not opt
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share of Company Stock pursuant to the exercise of any preemptive rights
pursuant to Article VI hereof or the right of first refusal in Article III, or
sell its allocable shares pursuant to the "tag-along" rights in Article IV,
Windward (or any successor thereof appointed pursuant to Section 12.1(e) above)
may reallocate such shares among the remaining members of the Windward Group, in
such manner as it deems reasonably appropriate in light of each member's
relevant interests and the particular circumstances.
12.2 Appointment of Agent for the Management Stockholders. Each
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Management Stockholder hereby irrevocably designates and appoints Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx as its attorney-in-fact, agent and representative, to act on its behalf
and on behalf of its Permitted Transferees in connection with exercising any of
its rights, performing any of its duties or obligations or enforcing any claims
or rights on its behalf, arising pursuant to Article IX of this Agreement.
ARTICLE XIII
TERM OF AGREEMENT
13.1 Term. This Agreement shall terminate, and be of no further
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force or effect, automatically without any further action on the part of any
parties hereto, upon the earlier of (a) the ten (10) year anniversary of the
date hereof, (b) an IPO Event, (c) a sale of all or substantially all of the
assets or equity interests in the Company to a Third Party (whether by merger,
consolidation, sale of assets or securities or otherwise), (d) approval by the
Windward Agent and by those Management Stockholders who hold at least a majority
of the total amount of the then-outstanding Company Stock held by Management
Stockholders at such time, or (e) the Windward Group (together with its
Permitted Transferees) ceases to own at least five percent (5%) of the total
outstanding number of shares of Company Stock (calculated on a Fully-Diluted
Basis), unless such reduction is the result of any Transfers to Permitted
Transferees in accordance with this Agreement; provided that, in the event of an
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IPO Event, the provisions of Articles VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII and XIV (other
than Section 14.1) of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect
until the earli-
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est to occur of the events set forth in clauses (a), (c), (d) or (e).
ARTICLE XIV
MISCELLANEOUS
14.1 Confidentiality. Except with the prior written consent of the
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Company (which consent may not be unreasonably withheld) and except as otherwise
required by law or the listing requirements of any securities exchange on which
the securities of such Stockholder are then traded, each Stockholder shall, and
shall cause each of its Representatives to (a) hold in strict confidence all
confidential, proprietary or other non-public information or trade secrets
relating to the Company or its subsidiaries or their respective assets or
operations (the "Confidential Information"), and (b) not release or disclose in
any manner whatsoever to any other person any such Confidential Information;
provided that (i) the foregoing provisions shall not apply to any disclosure, to
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the extent reasonably required, to (A) those of such Stockholder's auditors,
attorneys and other representatives who agree to be bound by the provisions of
this Section 8.1 and (B) any other persons in connection with any actions to be
taken pursuant to Article V of this Agreement, (ii) the foregoing provisions
shall not apply where such Stockholder or any of its Representatives is
compelled to disclose such Confidential Information, by judicial or
administrative process or, in the reasonable opinion of its counsel, by other
requirements of law (provided that prior written notice of such disclosure is
given to the Company and any such disclosure is limited to only that portion of
the Confidential Information which such person is compelled to disclose), (iii)
the term "Confidential Information" shall not include information (A) which is
or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of
disclosure of such information by such Stockholder or any of its
Representatives, (B) becomes available to the recipient of such information on a
non-confidential basis from a source which is not, to the recipient's knowledge,
bound by a confidentiality or other similar agreement, or by any other legal,
contractual or fiduciary obligation which prohibits disclosure of such
information to the other parties hereto, or (C) which can be demonstrated to
have
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been developed independently by the representatives of such recipient which
representatives have not had any access to any information which would otherwise
be deemed to be "Confidential Information" pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 8.1, and (iv) each of the Stockholders acknowledges and agrees that any
information they may receive from the Company in its reports to stockholders is
confidential, proprietary and non-public in nature.
14.2 Specific Performance. Each of the Stockholders acknowledges
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and agrees that in the event of any breach of this Agreement, the non-breaching
party or parties would be irreparably harmed, no adequate remedy at law would
exist and damages would be difficult to determine. It is accordingly agreed
that (x) in the event of a breach of any provision of this Agreement, the
aggrieved party shall be entitled to specific performance of this Agreement and
to enjoin any continuing breach of this Agreement (without the necessity of
proving actual damages and without posting bond or other security), in addition
to any other remedy to which such aggrieved party may be entitled at law or in
equity, and (y) the Stockholders will waive the defense in any action for
specific performance or other equitable relief that a remedy at law would be
adequate.
14.3 Consent to Jurisdiction, Etc. Each of the parties hereto
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irrevocably and unconditionally (a) agrees that all suits, actions or other
legal proceedings arising out of this Agreement or any of the transactions
contemplated hereby (a "Suit") shall be brought and adjudicated solely in the
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United States District Court in the State of New York, or, if such courts will
not accept jurisdiction, in any court of competent civil jurisdiction sitting
in the State of New York, (b) submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of any such
court for the purpose of any such Suit and (c) waives and agrees not to assert
by way of motion, as a defense or otherwise in any such Suit, any claims that it
is not subject to the jurisdiction of the above courts, that such Suit is
brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such Suit is improper.
Each of the parties hereto also irrevocably and unconditionally consents to the
service of any process, summons, pleadings, notices or other papers in a manner
permitted by the notice provisions of Section 14.7 hereof and agrees that any
such form of service shall be
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effective in connection with any such Suit; provided that nothing contained
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herein shall affect the right of any party to serve process, pleadings, notices
or other papers in any other manner permitted by applicable Law. Each of the
parties hereto also agrees that any final and unappealable judgment against a
party hereto in any Suit shall be conclusive and binding on such party and that
such judgment may be enforced in any other jurisdiction, either within or
outside of the United States, by suit on the judgment, a certified or
exemplified copy of which shall be conclusive evidence of the fact and amount of
such judgment.
14.4 Attorneys' Fees. In any legal action or proceeding (including,
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without limitation, any arbitration proceeding) brought to enforce any
provision of this Agreement, or where any provision hereof is validly asserted
as a defense, or because of an alleged dispute, breach or default in connection
with any of the provisions of this Agreement, the successful or prevailing
party or parties shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorneys' fees and
other costs incurred in that action or proceeding, in addition to any other
available remedy or relief to which such party or parties may be entitled.
14.5 Headings; No Third Party Beneficiaries. The headings and
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captions contained herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not
control or affect the meaning or construction of any of the provisions hereof.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the covenants, agreements and
other provisions contained in this Agreement are for the sole benefit of the
parties hereto and their permitted successors and assigns, and they shall not be
construed as conferring, and are not intended to confer, any rights, remedies or
other benefits hereunder on any other persons. Neither this Agreement nor any
purchase or sale of Company Stock shall create, or be construed or deemed to
create, any right to employment in favor of the Management Stockholder or any
other person by the Company or any subsidiary of the Company.
14.6 Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire
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agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject
matter contained herein, and there are no restrictions, promises,
representations, warranties, covenants or undertakings with
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respect to the subject matter hereof, other than those expressly set forth or
referred to herein. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and
understandings among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter
hereof.
14.7 Notices. All notices, requests, instructions or and other
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communications to be given hereunder by any party hereto to another party hereto
shall be in writing and, unless otherwise provided herein, shall be deemed duly
given if delivered personally, telecopied (which is confirmed) or sent by
registered or certified mail (postage prepaid, return receipt requested) or by
Federal Express or other similar courier service (i) to the Company, any member
of the Windward Group at the addresses set forth below, (ii) in the case of a
Permitted Transferee, to the address set forth in the written agreement executed
pursuant to Article X hereof, (iii) if to a Management Stockholder, as listed on
the signature page hereto, or, if not so listed, to it at its address as
reflected in the stock records of the Company, or (iv) in the case of any member
of management or other employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries who
becomes a holder of Company Stock or options to acquire Company Stock after the
date hereof, to the address set forth in the written agreement executed pursuant
to Article X hereof:
If to the Company or to any Management Stockholder, to it at:
HCC Industries Inc.
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxx.
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Fax: (000) 000-0000
With copies to:
O'Melveny & Xxxxxx
1999 Avenue of the Stars
Xxxxx 000
Xxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Esq.
Fax: (000) 000-0000
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxx X. Xxxxx, Esq.
Fax: (000) 000-0000
If to Windward or any member
of the Windward Group, to:
Windward Capital Partners, L.P.
Eleven Madison Avenue
28th floor
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Fax: (000) 000-0000
With copies to:
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxx X. Xxxxx, Esq.
Fax: (000) 000-0000
If to Windward/Park, to:
Windward/Park HCC, L.L.C.
c/o Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Corporate Equities
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, X.X. Xxx 000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Attention: Vice President
Telecopy No.: (000) 000-0000
and:
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxx 0X
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx X. Hoi, Esq.
Telecopy No.: (000) 000-0000
provided that in the event any of the parties referred to above desires to
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designate another address to which such notices should be sent to such party,
such party may designate such other address by giving notice to the other
parties hereto in writing as set forth in this Sec-
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tion 14.7 (provided that any change of address shall be effective only upon
receipt thereof).
14.8 Applicable Law. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
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OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER AND THE PARTIES SUBJECT HERETO SHALL BE GOVERNED BY,
AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE CHOICE OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF.
14.9 Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any
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provision of this Agreement in any jurisdiction shall not affect the validity,
legality or enforceability of the remainder of this Agreement in such
jurisdiction or the validity, legality or enforceability of this Agreement,
including any such provision, in any other jurisdiction, it being intended that
all rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall be enforceable to the
fullest extent permitted by law.
14.10 Successors; Assigns; Transferees; Amendments; Waivers.
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(a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and accrue
to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, successors and
permitted assigns. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may not be
amended, modified or supplemented, no waivers of, consents to or departures from
the provisions hereof may be given, and neither this Agreement nor any right,
remedy, obligation or liability arising hereunder or by reason hereof shall be
assignable by the Company or any Stockholder without the prior written consent
of (i) each of the Company and the Windward Agent (and their respective
Permitted Transferees) and (ii) the Management Stockholders owning a majority of
the shares of Common Stock which are owned by all the Management Stockholders;
provided that this Agreement may be amended, modified or supplemented by the
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Company, and waivers of, consents to or departures from the provisions hereof
may be given by the Company, in order to cure any ambiguity, defect or
inconsistency in this Agreement, so long as (x) such action does not adversely
affect the rights of any Stockholder in any material respect and (y) the Company
promptly notifies each Stockholder in accordance with the provisions of Section
14.7 hereof of such action.
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(b) The rights and remedies of the Stockholders and the Company
under this Agreement shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or
remedies which either would otherwise have hereunder or at law or in equity or
by statute, and no failure or delay by either party in exercising any right or
remedy shall impair any such right or remedy or operate as a waiver of such
right or remedy, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any power or right
preclude such party's other or further exercise or the exercise of any other
power or right.
14.11 Defaults; No Circumvention of Agreement. A default by any
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party to this Agreement in such party's compliance with any of the conditions or
covenants hereof or performance of any of the obligations of such party
hereunder shall not constitute a default by any other party. No Stockholder or
any of its Permitted Transferees may do indirectly, through the sale of capital
stock of its or their subsidiaries or otherwise, that which is not permitted by
this Agreement (including, without limitation, the provisions of Articles III,
IV and V hereof).
14.12 Further Assurances. Each party hereto or person subject hereto
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shall do and perform or cause to be done and performed all such further acts and
things and shall execute and deliver all such other agreements, certificates,
instruments and documents as any other party hereto or person subject hereto may
reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and accomplish the purposes
of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.
14.13 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more
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counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which shall
constitute one and the same Agreement.
14.14 Recapitalization, etc. Except as otherwise provided in this
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Agreement, the provisions of this Agreement shall apply to any and all shares of
capital stock or other securities of the Company or any successor or assign of
the Company (whether by merger, consolidation, sale of assets, or otherwise)
which may be issued in respect of, in exchange for, or in substitution of, any
shares of Company Stock by reason of any reorgani-
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zation, any recapitalization, reclassification, merger, consolidation, partial
or complete liquidation, sale of assets, spin-off, stock dividend, split,
distribution to stockholders or combination of the shares of Company Stock or
any other change in the Company's capital structure, in order to preserve
fairly and equitably as far as practicable, the original rights and obligations
of the parties hereto under this Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been duly executed by each of
the parties hereto as of the date first written above.
HCC INDUSTRIES INC.
By:______________________________
Name:
Title:
WINDWARD CAPITAL ASSOCIATES, L.P.
By: Windward Capital
Associates, Inc.,
its general partner
By:_______________________________
Name:
Title:
WINDWARD/PARK HCC L.L.C.
By: Windward Capital Associates,
L.P., its manager
By: Windward Capital
Associates, Inc.,
its general partner
By:_______________________________
Name:
Title:
WINDWARD/MERBAN, L.P.
By: Windward Capital Associates,
L.P., its general partner
By: Windward Capital
Associates, Inc.,
its general partner
By:_______________________________
Name:
Title:
WINDWARD/MERCHANT, L.P.
By: Windward Capital Associates,
L.P., its general partner
By: Windward Capital
Associates, Inc.,
its general partner
By:_______________________________
Name:
Title:
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Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Co-Trustee for the
Xxxxxx and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Revocable
Trust of 1995
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Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Co-Trustee for the
Xxxxxx and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Revocable
Trust of 1995
__________________________________
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Trustee for the
Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Irrevocable Trust
__________________________________
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Trustee for the
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Irrevocable Trust
__________________________________
Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
__________________________________
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
__________________________________
Xxxxxxx X. Ferraid
__________________________________
Xxxxx X. Ferraid
__________________________________
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
__________________________________
Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
__________________________________
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
__________________________________
Sepideh Kessai
__________________________________
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
__________________________________
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
_____________________________
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
_____________________________
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
(to the extent a beneficial
owner of any Company Stock)
Date:________________ ______________________________
[Signature of Management
Stockholder]
Name: ---------------------------
[Please Print]
Address: ---------------------------
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Spousal Waiver
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_______________ [Name of spouse] hereby waives and releases any and
all equitable or legal claims and rights, actual, inchoate or contingent which
__________________ [he or she] may acquire with respect to the disposition,
voting or control of the shares of Company Stock subject to this Agreement,
except for rights in respect of the proceeds of any disposition of such Company
Stock.
______________________________
[Signature of spouse]
Schedule of Management Stockholders
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Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, a resident of California
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, a resident of California
Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, a resident of California
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, a resident of California
Xxxxxxx X. Ferraid, a resident of New Jersey
Xxxxx Ferraid, a resident of New Jersey
Xxxxxx Xxxxx, a resident of California
Xxxxx Xxxxx, a resident of California
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, a resident of California
Sepideh Kessai, a resident of California
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, a resident of Ohio
Xxxx Xxxxxx, a resident of Ohio
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, a resident of Ohio
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, a resident of California
Exhibit A
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Form of Junior Subordinated Promissory Note
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EXHIBIT A TO STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT
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THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE "SECURITIES ACT"). NO SALE, HYPOTHECATION, TRANSFER OR OTHER DISPOSITION
OF THIS NOTE (OTHER THAN TO THE ISSUER THEREOF) MAY BE MADE UNLESS (A) EITHER
PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR
PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES
ACT AND (B) IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS NOTE.
JUNIOR SUBORDINATED PROMISSORY NOTE
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, HCC INDUSTRIES INC., a Delaware
corporation [ALTERNATIVELY, INSERT NAME OF DESIGNEE OF COMPANY] (the "Obligor"),
hereby promises to pay to [INSERT NAME OF MANAGEMENT STOCKHOLDER OR PERMITTED
TRANSFEREE (AS THE CASE MAY BE)] (such person, or any Authorized Transferee (as
defined in Section 3 hereof) of such person, the "Holder") the principal amount
of [INSERT PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTE] ($_________), plus interest accrued but
unpaid thereon, on [INSERT DATE WHICH IS [FIFTH] ANNIVERSARY OF THE DATE OF
ISSUANCE OF THIS NOTE (or such later date as may be required pursuant to the
terms of any financing agreement of the Company). Interest in the unpaid
principal amount hereof shall accrue at an eight percent (8%) annual rate of
interest, from the date hereof until maturity, computed on the basis of a 365-
day year for the actual number of days elapsed and shall be payable semi-
annually on the first day of June and December in each year commencing with the
June or December next following the issuance of this Note (each such semiannual
date, an "Interest Payment Date"); provided that in the event that, on any
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Interest Payment Date, the Company (as defined below) is permitted to defer any
repurchases of Common Stock pursuant to Section 7.3 of the Stockholders
Agreement, the Company shall be permitted to defer such payment of interest
until the next Interest Payment Date on which it is no longer permitted to defer
any repurchases of Common Stock pursuant to Section 7.3 of the Stockholders
Agreement (at which time all interest accrued to such date shall become due and
payable).
1. Stockholders Agreement. This Note has been issued pursuant to the
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provisions of Article VII of the Stockholders Agreement dated as of February 14,
1997 (the "Stockholders Agreement"), by and among by and among HCC Industries
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), Windward Capital Associates, L.P.,
a Delaware limited partnership, Windward/Park HCC, L.L.C., a Delaware limited
liability company, Windward/Merban, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership,
Windward/Merchant, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership and the members of the
Company's management listed in the Schedule of Management Stockholders attached
hereto, and such other persons or entities who or which become parties to the
Stockholders Agreement pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Stockholders
Agreement. All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein
shall have the same meanings as set forth in the Stockholders Agreement.
2. Payment of Amounts. Payments of principal and interest shall be
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made in lawful money of the United States of America at the principal office of
the Obligor upon presentation of this Note for notation of such payment hereon.
3. Non-Transferability of Note. This Note is not negotiable and may
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be transferred by the Holder only to one or more of its Affiliates who agree to
be bound by the transfer restrictions hereunder (any such transferee to whom
this Note is transferred in compliance with the provisions of this Note, an
"Authorized Transferee"). With respect to any such authorized transfer, this
Note is transferable only by surrender and cancellation of this Note at the
principal office of the Obligor 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxx., Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx
00000 or at such other location as shall at such time be the principal office of
the Obligor, by the Holder in person or by an attorney-in-fact duly authorized
in writing. Upon any such authorized transfer a new note, in the name of such
Authorized Transferee(s), in substantially the form of this Note and for the
aggregate unpaid principal amount hereof, will be issued in exchange hereof.
4. Registered Holder. The Obligor, and any agents of the Obligor,
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may deem and treat the Holder as the registered holder hereof, and as the
absolute owner of this Note, for the purpose of receiving payment of or on
account of the principal of and interest on this Note
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and neither the Obligor nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to
the contrary. The Obligor, and any agent of the Obligor, may without liability
refuse to recognize any assignee or other holder of this Note, other than any
Authorized Transferee, as owner of this Note for any and all purposes
whatsoever.
5. Optional Prepayment. The amounts owed under this Note are
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prepayable (at the discretion of the Obligor) at any time and from time to time,
in whole or in part, upon notice to the Holder given by certified mail, return
receipt requested, not less than 10 Business Days prior to the date fixed for
prepayment, at a prepayment price equal to the principal amount of this Note to
be prepaid, together with the interest accrued but unpaid hereon, to the date
fixed for prepayment. Any prepayment of less than the entire principal amount
of this Note (plus all accrued but unpaid interest thereon) shall be applied
first towards the payment of unpaid interest hereon and then to the unpaid
principal hereof.
6. Mandatory Prepayment. The Obligor covenants and agrees that,
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within 10 Business Days following the consummation of (a) a Compelled Sale or
(b) a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of or equity interests in
the Company to a Third Party, it shall give written notice thereof to the
Holder. Subject to Section 9 hereof, within 10 Business Days following the date
of delivery of such notice the Obligor will prepay this Note in full, at a
prepayment price equal to the outstanding principal amount of this Note,
together with the interest accrued but unpaid hereon, to the date fixed for
prepayment.
7. Offset. The indebtedness evidenced hereunder may be reduced or
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offset by the Obligor in respect of any and all indebtedness owed to the Obligor
by the Holder.
8. Events of Default.
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(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 9 hereof and to the proviso
set forth in the preamble hereto, an "Event of Default" occurs if: (i) the
Obligor defaults in the payment of any interest on the Note when the same
becomes due and payable, and such default continues for 10 days; (ii) the
Obligor defaults in the pay-
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ment of the principal of the Note when the same becomes due and payable at the
stated maturity, upon mandatory redemption, acceleration or otherwise; or (iii)
the Obligor or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to or within the meaning of any
Bankruptcy Law (as defined in the Subordinated Note Agreement): (A) commences a
voluntary case; (B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in
an involuntary case; (C) consents to the appointment of a custodian of it or for
any substantial part of its property; (D) makes a general assignment for the
benefit of its creditors; or (E) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an
order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that: (1) is for relief against the
Obligor in an involuntary case; (2) appoints a custodian of the Obligor or for
any substantial part of its property; or (3) orders the winding up or
liquidation of the Obligor or any of its subsidiaries, and the order or decree
remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days.
(b) Subject to the provisions of Section 9 hereof, if an Event of
Default pursuant to clause (a)(iii) occurs and is continuing, then the amounts
amount owed under the Note shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and
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payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Holder. Subject
to the provisions of Section 9 hereof, upon an Event of Default pursuant to
clauses (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above, the Holder, at its option, may declare the
entire principal amount of this Note to be, and such Note shall forthwith mature
and become, due and payable, but only after such Holder notifies the Obligor of
the default and the Obligor does not cure the default within 30 days after
receipt of such notice; such notice by the Holder must specify the default and
demand that it be remedied.
9. Subordination. The principal amount of and the interest on this
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Note shall be fully subordinated and junior to the prior payment in full in cash
all Senior Debt (as hereinafter defined) of the Obligor, whether outstanding at
the date of this Note or created or incurred by the Obligor after the date of
this Note on the terms and conditions set forth below:
(a) Upon maturity of any Senior Debt by lapse of time,
acceleration or otherwise, then all such mature Senior Debt shall first be
paid in full
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before any payment on account of principal or interest is made on this
Note.
(b) In the event of any insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation,
reorganization or other similar proceedings, or any receivership
proceedings in connection therewith, relative to the Obligor or its
creditors or its property, and in the event of any proceedings for partial
or total liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of the Obligor,
whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings, then all
Senior Debt shall first be paid in full before any payment on account of
principal or interest is made upon this Note. In any of the proceedings
referred to in the first sentence of this subparagraph (b) ("Insolvency
Proceedings"), unless and until all Senior Debt shall have been paid in
full, if any payment shall have been made, or any payment or distribution
of any kind or character, whether in cash, property, stock or obligations,
which may be payable or deliverable in respect of the principal amount of
or interest on this Note shall be made, then such amounts shall be paid or
delivered directly to the holders of Senior Debt (or to a banking
institution selected by the court or person making the payment or delivery
or designated by any holder of Senior Debt) for application in payment
thereof, and the holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled to enforce all
claims of the Holder with respect to the principal and interest payable
hereunder and to take generally any action in connection with such
Insolvency Proceedings which the Holder hereof might otherwise take in
respect of such Holder's claims hereunder.
(c) During the continuance of any default in the payment of any
Senior Debt or any other default (whether or not matured) under any
instrument or agreement evidencing Senior Debt, (i) the Obligor shall not
make, and the Holder shall not accept, any payment of principal of or
interest on, or purchase or acquire for value, this Note, and (ii) the
Holder shall not commence any Insolvency Proceedings or take any other
legal or other action of any kind to enforce any of its rights to payment
hereunder.
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(d) Any payment of principal or interest on this Note made to or
received by the Holder other than in compliance with this Section 9 shall
be held in trust for the benefit of and paid over to the holders of Senior
Debt.
(e) Until the Senior Debt shall have been indefeasibly paid in
full, in the event that, and during the continuance of any Event of Default
described in Section 8(a) hereof, all or any portion of the unpaid
principal amount of this Note shall have been declared due and payable
pursuant to the provisions of Section 8 hereof, such declarations shall not
be effective until the earlier of (i) the date on which an Event of Default
under Section 8(a)(iii) has occurred, or (ii) the date on which the
maturity of any Senior Debt is accelerated.
(f) Subject to the indefeasible payment in full of all Senior
Debt, the Holder shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of Senior
Debt to receive payments or distributions of assets of the Obligor payable
or distributable to the holders of Senior Debt, until this Note and
interest hereon shall be paid in full and, as between the Obligor, its
creditors other than the holders of Senior Debt, and the Holder, no
payments or distributions otherwise payable or deliverable in respect to
this Note but, by virtue of the provisions hereof, paid or delivered to
the holders of Senior Debt shall be deemed to be a payment by the Obligor
on account of Senior Debt and no payments or distributions paid to the
Holder, by virtue of subrogation herein provided for, shall be deemed to be
a payment by the Obligor on account of this Note.
(g) The provisions of this Section 9 are for the purpose of
defining the relative rights of the holders of Senior Debt on the one hand
and the Holder on the other hand, and as between the Obligor and the
Holder, nothing herein shall impair the obligation of the Obligor, which is
unconditional and absolute, to pay to the Holder the principal hereof and
any interest thereon in accordance with its terms (provided, however, that
this provision is not intended to limit the restrictions on payments on
this Note set forth in Section 9(c) hereof).
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(h) As used herein, the term "Senior Debt" shall mean all Debt (as
defined in the Subordinated Note Agreement) of HCC Industries Inc., a
Delaware corporation, for principal, interest, fees and other amounts (i)
with respect to or relating to the Credit Agreement and the Subordinated
Note Agreement, (ii) all Senior Debt (as defined in the Subordinated Note
Agreement) and (iii) all Debt with respect to or relating to any
refinancing, refunding, renewal, extension, amendment or modification of
any Debt referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above.
10. No Recourse Against Affiliates. No recourse for the payment of
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principal of or interest on this Note, or for any claim based hereon or
otherwise in respect hereof, or in relation to the creation of any indebtedness
represented hereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer
of the Obligor or any of its Affiliates or of any successor thereof, either
directly or through the Obligor or any of its Affiliates or any successor
thereof, whether by virtue of any statute or rule of law or by the enforcement
of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the
acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof,
expressly waived or released.
11. Applicable Law. THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED
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AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT
GIVING EFFECT TO THE CHOICE OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401
OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL CORPORATION LAW.
12. Headings; No Third Party Beneficiaries. The headings and
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captions contained herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not
control or affect the meaning or construction of any of the provisions hereof.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein (including, without limitation,
the subordination provisions of Section 9 hereof), the provisions contained in
this Note are for the sole benefit of the Holder, and they shall not be
construed as conferring, and are not intended to confer, any rights, remedies or
other benefits hereunder on any other persons or entities.
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13. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements of the
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Obligor under this Note shall be binding on the Obligor and its successors and
assigns.
14. Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any
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provision of this Note in any jurisdiction shall not affect the validity,
legality or enforceability of the remainder of this Note in such jurisdiction or
the validity, legality or enforceability of this Note, including any such
provision, in any other jurisdiction, it being intended that all rights and
obligations of the parties hereunder shall be enforceable to the fullest extent
permitted by law.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
the Obligor has caused this Note to be duly executed effective as of this ___
day of ____, _____.
[INSERT NAME OF OBLIGOR]
By:
Name:
Title:
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