REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
REGISTRATION
RIGHTS AGREEMENT,
dated
as of December 14, 2005 (the “Agreement”), between Strategy International
Insurance Group, Inc., a Texas corporation (the “Company”), and Grupo Lakas
S.A., a Panamanian corporation (the “Shareholder”).
RECITALS
A. The
Shareholder has been issued warrants (the “Warrants”) having a term of two (2)
years, to purchase from the Company of up to 6,944,009 shares of the common
stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common
Stock”).
B. The
Company has agreed to grant to the Shareholder certain registration rights
with
respect to the Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants, as
set
forth herein.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in
consideration of the foregoing and the mutual representations, warranties,
covenants and agreements set forth herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
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DEFINITIONS
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As
used
in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the respective meanings
set
forth below:
1.1 “Affiliate”
shall
have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.
1.2 “Common
Stock”
shall
have the meaning specified in the Recitals.
1.3 “Company”
shall
have the meaning specified in the Preamble.
1.4 “Company
Shares”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 2.1(c).
1.5 “Exchange
Act”
shall
mean the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any
successor law, and regulations and rules issued pursuant to such act or
successor law.
1.6 “Holder”
shall
mean a holder of Registrable Securities.
1.7 “Maximum
Number”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 2.1(c).
1.8 “Registrable
Securities”
shall
mean all securities beneficially owned by the Shareholder or its permitted
assignees under Section 6.4, provided,
however,
that
securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities (a) when a registration
statement with respect to the sale of such securities shall have become
effective under the Securities Act and such securities have been deposed
of
pursuant to such registration statement, or (b) when such securities shall
have
been sold under Rule 144 (or any successor provision) under the Securities
Act
under circumstances in which any legend borne by such securities shall have
ceased to be outstanding.
1.9 “Registration
Expenses”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 3.2.
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1.10 “Securities
Act”
shall
mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor law, and
regulations and rules issued pursuant to such act or successor law.
1.11 “SEC”
shall
mean the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other federal agency at
the
time administering the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.
1.12 “Shareholder”
shall
have the meaning specified in the Preamble.
1.13 “Shelf
Registration”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 2.1(a).
1.14 “Warrant
Shares”
shall
mean shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.
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REGISTRATION
RIGHTS
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2.1 Demand
Registration.
(a) At
any
time following the one year anniversary of the issuance to the Shareholder
of
Warrant Shares, the Holder of the Registrable Securities shall be entitled
to
demand that the Company effect the registration under the Securities Act
of the
applicable Registrable Securities. Such demand registration rights may be
exercised with respect to Registrable Securities representing not less than
3,000,000 of the Warrant Shares by giving written notice to the Company.
Such
written notice shall specify the amount of Registrable Securities to be
registered and the intended method of disposition, which may include, without
limitation, an underwritten offering or a continuous or delayed offering
pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a “Shelf Registration”). The
Company shall use its reasonable commercial efforts as promptly as practicable
to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the number of Registrable
Securities specified in any such notice in order to permit the sale of such
Registrable Securities by the exercising Holders pursuant to the intended
method
of distribution specified in such notice.
(b) The
Company’s obligations pursuant to Section 2.1(a) hereof, and the right of the
Holder to demand the Company file a registration statement pursuant to Section
2.1(a) hereof are subject to the following limitations and
conditions:
(i) The
Company shall not be required to effect more than one registration in any
six
month period.
(c) In
connection with any demand registration pursuant to this Section 2.1, the
Company shall be entitled to register and sell to the public shares of Common
Stock to be issued and sold by the Company for its own account (“Company
Shares”), provided that if the intended method of distribution is an
underwritten offering, such Company Shares shall not cause the number of
shares
in the proposed offering to exceed the number of shares (the “Maximum Number”)
which the managing underwriter advises can be sold in the offering without
adversely affecting such offering (including price, timing and distribution).
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2.2 “Piggyback”
Registration.
(a) If
at any
time the Company proposes to register any shares of Common Stock under the
Securities Act by registration on Form XX-0, X-0 or any successor or similar
general registration form (except registrations on such forms solely for
registration of securities offered or sold in connection with an employee
benefit plan, stock option plan or dividend reinvestment plan, or a merger,
recapitalization, combination or consolidation) for purposes of a sale by
the
Company for its own account (a “primary offering”), or upon the request or for
the account of any holder of its Common Stock, other than in connection with
that certain registration of securities in connection with investments made
in
Strategy Real Estate Investments, Inc. or a demand registration pursuant
to
Section 2.1 (a “secondary offering”), or for purposes of a combined primary
offering and secondary offering, then each such time the Company shall give
prompt written notice to the Shareholder of its intention to do so. Such
notice
shall specify, at a minimum, the number of shares proposed to be registered,
the
proposed date of filing of such registration statement, any proposed method
of
distribution of such shares, any proposed managing underwriter or underwriters
of such shares and a good faith estimate by the Company of the proposed maximum
offering price thereof (if a primary offering). Upon the written request
of any
Holder, given within twenty (20) days after the receipt by the Shareholder
of
any such written notice, the Company will use its reasonable commercial efforts
to include in such registration statement the number of Registrable Securities
specified by the Shareholder in such request for sale pursuant to the intended
method of distribution specified in such request; provided,
however,
that,
with respect to any underwritten offering, if the managing underwriter advises
the Company and any selling Holder in writing that, in its opinion, the
aggregate number of shares proposed to be included in the proposed offering
exceeds the Maximum Number, then there shall be included in such offering
only
such number of Registrable Securities as will not result in an aggregate
number
of shares to be included in such offering which exceeds the Maximum
Number.
(b) The
Holders may exercise their piggyback registration rights at any time and
from
time to time, without limitation on the number of requests. No piggyback
registration effected pursuant to this Section 2.2 shall relieve the Company
of
its obligations to effect demand registrations under Section 2.1.
(c) Any
Holder shall have the right to withdraw from any registration under this
Section
2.2 by giving written notice to the Company and any other selling shareholder
at
least ten (10) business days prior to the anticipated effective date of the
registration statement.
(d) If,
at
any time after giving written notice pursuant to this Section 2.2 of its
intention to register any shares 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 proceed with the registration process
or
to delay registration of such shares, the Company shall give written notice
of
such determination to the Holders. In the case of a determination by the
Company
not to proceed with the registration process, the Company shall be relieved
of
its obligation to register any Registrable Securities in connection with
such
registration (but not from any obligation of the Company to pay the Registration
Expenses in connection therewith).
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REGISTRATION
PROCEDURES AND
EXPENSES
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3.1 Registration
Procedures.
If the
Company is required by the provisions of Section 2.1 or 2.2 to use its
reasonable commercial efforts to register any Registrable Securities under
the
Securities Act, the Company shall, as promptly as practicable:
(a) Prepare
and file with the SEC a registration statement on any appropriate form under
the
Securities Act, which form shall be available for the sale of the Registrable
Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution
thereof, with respect to such Registrable Securities and use its best commercial
efforts to cause such registration statement to become and remain
effective.
(b) 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 current and to comply with the provisions
of
the Securities Act, and any regulations promulgated thereunder, with respect
to
the sale or disposition of such Registrable Securities, but in no event shall
the Company be required to do so for a period of more than nine (9) months
following the effective date of the registration statement.
(c) Furnish
to the Holders participating in the offering copies (in reasonable quantities)
of summary, preliminary, final, amended or supplemented prospectuses, in
conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act and any regulations
promulgated thereunder, and other documents as reasonably may be required
in
order to facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities, but only
while the Company is required under the provisions hereof to keep the
registration statement current.
(d) Use
its
reasonable commercial efforts to register or qualify the Registrable Securities
covered by such registration statement under such other securities or blue
sky
laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as the Holder or the managing
underwriter, if any, shall reasonably request, and do any and all other acts
and
things which may be reasonably necessary to enable each participating Holder
or
underwriter, if any, to consummate the disposition of the Registrable Securities
in such jurisdictions; provided,
however,
that in
no event shall the Company be required to qualify to do business as a foreign
corporation in any jurisdiction where it is not so qualified, to execute
or file
any general consent to service of process under the laws of any jurisdiction,
to
take any action that would subject it to service of process in suits other
than
those arising out of the offer and sale of the securities covered by the
registration statement, or to subject itself to taxation in any jurisdiction
where it has not theretofore done so.
(e) Notify
each Holder selling Registrable Securities, at any time when a prospectus
relating to any such Registrable Securities covered by such registration
statement is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, of the Company’s
becoming aware that the prospectus included in such registration statement,
as
then in effect, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits
to
state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the
statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances then
existing, and promptly prepare and furnish to each such Holder selling
Registrable Securities and each underwriter, if any, a reasonable number
of
copies of a prospectus supplemented or amended so that, as thereafter delivered
to the purchasers of such Registrable Securities, such prospectus shall not
include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein
not
misleading in the light of the circumstances then existing.
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(f) Provide
a
transfer agent and registrar for all such Registrable Securities covered
by such
registration statement not later than the effective date of such registration
statement.
(g) If
the
method of disposition is an underwritten offering, obtain an opinion from
the
Company’s counsel and “cold comfort” letters from the Company’s independent
public accountants (including one letter when such registration statement
is
declared effective and one at the closing of the offering made thereunder)
in
customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered
by such
opinions and “cold comfort” letters.
3.2 Information
Concerning the Holders.
If
requested by the Company, the seller of Registrable Securities as to which
any
registration is being effected shall furnish to the Company such information
regarding such seller and the distribution of such securities as the Company
may
from time to time reasonably request in writing for inclusion in the
registration statement in accordance with the rules and regulations of the
SEC
or in connection with any registration, qualification, compliance or filing
for
an exemption under state securities laws.
3.3 Registration
Expenses.
(a) The
Company shall pay the Registration Expenses with respect to the demand
registrations under Section 2.1.
(b) If
registration of Registrable Securities of a Holder is effected pursuant to
Section 2.2, the Holders whose Registrable Securities are included in the
registration statement will pay the incremental Registration Expenses incurred
by the Company in connection with such registration of its Registrable
Securities.
(c) “Registration
Expenses”
shall
mean all out-of-pocket expenses incident to the Company’s performance of or
compliance with its obligation to register Registrable Securities pursuant
to
Section 2.1 or 2.2 including, without limitation, (i) all SEC and any NASD
registration and filing fees and expenses, (ii) any fees and expenses in
connection with the qualification of the shares for offering and sale under
the
State securities and blue sky laws, including reasonable fees and disbursements
of counsel for the underwriters or the placement or sales agent, if any,
in
connection with such qualifications, (iii) all expenses relating to the
preparation, printing, distribution and reproduction of each registration
statement required to be filed hereunder, each prospectus included therein
or
prepared for distribution pursuant hereto, each amendment or supplement to
the
foregoing, the certificates representing the Registrable Securities and all
other documents relating hereto, (iv) messenger and delivery expenses, (v)
fees
and expenses of any escrow agent or custodian, (vi) fees, disbursements and
expenses of counsel and independent certified public accountants of the Company
(including the expenses of any opinions or “cold comfort” letters required by or
incident to such performance and compliance), (vii) the cost of any special
or
other non-ordinary course of business audit incident to or required by any
registration, (viii) any fees and expenses of the Company’s registrar and
transfer agent; (ix) any listing fees and (x) if required by the underwriters
or
the placement or sales agent, reasonable and customary reimbursement of
disbursements of the underwriters or the placement or sales agent, including
the
reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the underwriters or the
placement or sales agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Holders whose
Registrable Securities are included in the registration statement shall pay
a
pro rata
share
(based on the number of Registrable Securities being sold by the Holders)
of all
underwriting discounts and commissions and all agency fees and commissions
attributable to the sale of the Registrable Securities and all fees and
disbursements of any counsel or other advisors or experts retained by the
Holders shall not constitute Registration Expenses. The Company shall bear
all
its own internal expenses, including, without limitation, all salaries and
expenses of the Company’s officers and employees performing legal and accounting
duties.
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3.4 Lock-Up
Undertaking.
In
order to facilitate any underwritten offering pursuant to the exercise of
a
demand registration right under Section 2.1, if required by the managing
underwriter, Shareholder agrees that it will execute and cause any other
Holders
to execute an agreement with the underwriters restricting the sale of any
Registrable Securities held by each Holder that are not sold pursuant to
such
offering for such period following the date of commencement of such offering
as
may be requested by the underwriters.
3.5 Indemnification.
(a) Indemnification
by the Company.
Upon
the registration of any Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.1 or
2.2
and in consideration of the agreements of the Shareholder contained herein
and
as an inducement to the Shareholder to enter into this Agreement the Company
shall, and hereby agrees to, indemnify and hold harmless each Holder, and
each
person who participates as an underwriter or a placement or sales agent in
any
offering or sale of such Registrable Securities, against any losses, claims,
damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which any such Holder, underwriter
or agent may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar
as
such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof)
arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement
of a material fact contained in any registration statement under which such
Registrable Securities were registered under the Securities Act, or any
preliminary, final or summary prospectus contained therein or furnished by
the
Company to any such Holder, underwriter or agent, or any amendment or supplement
thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission
to
state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary
to make
the statements therein not misleading, and the Company shall, and hereby
agrees
to, reimburse any such Holder, underwriter and agent for any out-of-pocket
legal
or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating
or defending any such action or claim; provided,
however,
that
the Company shall not be liable to any such person in any such case to the
extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is
based
upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged
omission made in such registration statement, or preliminary, final or summary
prospectus, or amendment or supplement, in reliance upon and in conformity
with
written information furnished to the Company by such person expressly for
use
therein; and provided further,
that
the Company shall not be liable to any Holder, underwriter or placement or
sales
agent under the indemnity agreement in this subsection (a) with respect to
any
preliminary prospectus to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or
liability of such underwriter or agent results from the fact that such
underwriter or agent sold Registrable Securities to a person to whom there
was
not sent or given, at or prior to the written confirmation of such sale,
a copy
of the related final prospectus if the Company has previously furnished such
final prospectus to such underwriter or agent and such prospectus corrects
the
statement or omission, or alleged statement or omission, out of which such
loss,
claim, damage or liability arises.
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(b) Indemnification
by the Holders and Agents.
The
Shareholder, jointly and severally with any Holders requesting the inclusion
of
Registrable Securities in any registration statement, and from each underwriter
named in any such underwriting agreement, severally and not jointly as between
such underwriters and the Holders, hereby covenants and agrees to (i) indemnify
and hold harmless the Company, and all other shareholders, if any, selling
under
the same registration statement, against any losses, claims, damages or
liabilities to which the Company or such other shareholders may become subject,
under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages
or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based
upon an
untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained
in
such registration statement, or any preliminary final or summary prospectus
contained therein or furnished by the Company to the Holders, underwriter
or
agent, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based
upon
the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required
to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading,
in
each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement
or
alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance
upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company
by the
Holders or underwriter expressly for use therein, and (ii) reimburse the
Company
for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in connection
with investigating or defending any such action or claim.
(c) Notices
of Claims, Etc.
Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection 3.5(a) or
(b)
above of written notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified
party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying
party pursuant to the indemnification provisions of or contemplated by this
Section 3.5, notify such indemnifying party in writing of the commencement
of
such action; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not
relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party
other
than under the indemnification provisions of or contemplated by Section 3.5(a)
or 3.5(b) hereof. In case any such action shall be brought against any
indemnified party and it shall notify an indemnifying party of the commencement
thereof, such indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein
and,
to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party
similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory
to
such indemnified party (who may be counsel to the indemnifying party unless
representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate
due to
actual or potential conflicts of interest between them), and, after notice
from
the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume
the defense thereof, such indemnifying party shall not be liable to such
indemnified party for any legal expenses of other counsel or any other expenses,
in each case subsequently incurred by such indemnified party, in connection
with
the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. So long
as an
indemnifying party is complying with its obligations under this Section 3.5,
such indemnifying party shall not be liable for settlement of any proceeding
effected without its written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld.
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(d) Contribution.
Each
party hereto agrees that, if for any reason the indemnification provisions
contemplated by Section 3.5(a) or Section 3.5(b) hereof are unavailable to
or
insufficient to hold harmless as indemnified party in respect of any losses,
claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to
therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid
or
payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages
or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate
to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and the indemnified
party in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such
losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as
well
as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of such
indemnifying party and indemnified party shall be determined by reference
to,
among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material
fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to
information supplied by such indemnifying party or by such indemnified party,
and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and
opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The parties
hereto
agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to
this
Section 3.5(d) were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Holders
or
any underwriters or agents or all of them were treated as one entity for
such
purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account
of the
equitable considerations referred to in this Section 3.5(d). The amount paid
or
payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages,
or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to above shall be deemed
to
include any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such
indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such
action
or claim. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning
of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution
from
any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Holders’
obligations in this Section 3.5(d) to contribute shall be joint and several
and,
as between the Holders and any underwriters, their obligations in this Section
3.5(d) to contribute shall be several in proportion to the number or amount
of
Registrable Securities registered or underwritten, as the case may be, by
them
and not joint.
(e) The
obligations of the Company under this Section 3.5 shall be in addition to
any
liability which the Company may otherwise have and shall extend upon the
same
terms and conditions, to each officer, director and partner of any Holder,
underwriter or agent and each person, if any, who controls any Holder,
underwriter or agent within the meaning of the Securities Act; and the
obligations of the Holders and any underwriters contemplated by this Section
3.5
shall be in addition to any liability which the Holders or underwriter may
otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each
officer and director of the Company (including any person who, with his consent,
is named in any registration statement as about to become a director of the
Company) and to each person, if any, who controls the Company within the
meaning
of the Securities Act.
(f) The
indemnification of underwriters provided for in this Section 3.5 shall be
on
such other terms and conditions as are at the time customary for a public
offering in the United States, and reasonably required by such underwriters,
in
which event the indemnification of the Holders selling Registrable Securities
in
such public offering shall at their request be modified to conform to such
terms
and conditions.
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3.6 Exchange
Act Filings; Rule 144; Rule 144A.
(a) The
Company covenants to and with the Shareholder that to the extent it shall
be
required to do so under the Exchange Act, the Company shall timely file the
reports required to be filed by it under the Exchange Act or the Securities
Act
(including, but not limited to, the reports under Section 13 and 15(d) of
the
Exchange Act referred to in subparagraph (c)(1) of Rule 144 adopted by the
SEC
under the Securities Act) and the rules and regulations adopted by the SEC
thereunder, to enable the Holders to sell Registrable Securities without
registration under the Securities Act within the limitations of the exemption
provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended
from
time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the
SEC.
Upon the request of the Shareholder, the Company shall deliver to such
Shareholder a written statement as to whether it has complied with such
requirements.
(b) If
at any
time the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
and
is not exempt from reporting pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Exchange
Act,
the Company agrees, upon the request of any Holder seeking to transfer
securities in conformity with Rule 144A under the Securities Act to furnish
to
such Holder or prospective purchasers of the securities from such Holder
the
information required by Rule 144A(d)(4)(i) under the Securities Act in the
manner and at the times contemplated by such Rule.
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EFFECTIVE
DATE AND TERMINATION
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4.1 This
Agreement is effective on and as of the date first set forth above.
4.2 The
registration rights granted hereunder of any Holder shall terminate if (a)
such
Holder (together with its Affiliates) holds less than one (1%) percent of
the
outstanding Common Stock and (b) all Registrable Securities held by and issuable
to such Holder (and its Affiliates, partners and former partners, if any)
may be
sold under Rule 144 during any ninety (90) day period or under Rule 144(k).
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MISCELLANEOUS
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5.1 Notices.
Each
notice, demand or other communication given or made under this Agreement
shall
be in writing and delivered or sent to the relevant party at its address
or
facsimile number set forth below (or such other address or facsimile number
as
the addressee has by five (5) days’ prior written notice specified to the other
parties). Any notice, demand or other communication so addressed to the relevant
party shall be deemed to have been delivered (x) if given or made by letter,
when actually delivered to the relevant address; or (y) if given or made
by
facsimile, when dispatched with confirmed report of transmission.
(a) if
to the
Company to: Strategy International Insurance Group, Inc., [200 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx.,
Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx X0X 0X0], Attn: Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Esq.,
facsimile number: 000-000-0000, with a copy to Xxxxx & XxXxxxxx LLP, 1114
Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, Attn: Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, Esq.,
facsimile number: (000) 000-0000.
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(b) if
to the
Holder, to Grupo
Lakas S.A., Av. De la Xxxxxxxx/000, Xxxx 0 Xxx Xxxxx, Xxxx, Xxxx, Attn: X.
Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx R.; with
a
copy to [ ]
5.2 No
Waivers.
No
failure or delay by any party in exercising any right, power or remedy under
this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or
partial exercise of the same preclude any further exercise thereof or the
exercise of any other right, power or remedy. Without limiting the foregoing,
no
waiver by any party of any breach of any provision hereof shall be deemed
to be
a waiver of any subsequent breach of that or any other provision hereof.
If at
any time any provision of this Agreement is or becomes illegal, invalid or
unenforceable in any respect, the legality, validity and enforceability of
the
remaining provisions of this Agreement shall not be affected or impaired
thereby.
5.3 Modifications
and Amendments.
At any
time prior to the termination of this Agreement, the parties hereto may,
by
written agreement, modify or amend the provisions of this Agreement or extend
the time for the performance of any of the obligations or other acts of the
other parties hereto.
5.4 Assignment.
The
Shareholder shall not be entitled to assign its rights under this Agreement,
except to any Affiliate to whom such Shareholder transfers Registrable
Securities, so long as such transferee enters into an agreement to be bound
by
the terms of this Agreement. The Shareholder’s obligations hereunder may not be
assigned and no assignment of rights pursuant to this Agreement will limit
or
affect the assignor’s obligations hereunder.
5.5 Entire
Agreement.
This
Agreement and any agreements, documents and instruments to be executed and
delivered pursuant hereto are intended to embody the final, complete and
exclusive agreement among the parties with respect to the subject matter
of this
Agreement, and are intended to supersede all prior agreements, understandings
and representations written or oral, with respect thereto. No variations
of this
Agreement shall be effective unless made in writing.
5.6 Further
Assurances.
From
time to time, the parties hereto shall execute and deliver, or cause to be
executed and delivered, all such documents and instruments and shall take,
or
cause to be taken, all such further or other actions as may be reasonably
necessary or desirable to give effect to the provisions of this
Agreement.
5.7 Severability.
If at
any time any provision of this Agreement is or becomes illegal, invalid or
unenforceable in any respect under the law of any jurisdiction., the legality,
validity and enforceability of such provision under the law of any other
jurisdiction, and of the remaining provisions of this Agreement, shall not
be
affected or impaired thereby.
5.8 Governing
Law and Jurisdiction.
(a) This
Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws
of New
York without regard to principles of conflicts of law which would result
in the
application of the laws of another jurisdiction.
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(b) Each
party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the
laying
of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to
this
Agreement brought in any of the New York state or federal courts, and hereby
further irrevocably waives any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding
brought in such courts has been brought in an inconvenient forum. Each party
further agrees that final judgment against it in any such action or proceeding
shall be final and conclusive and may be enforced in any other jurisdiction
by
suit on the judgment, a verified, certified, exemplified or otherwise duly
authenticated copy of which shall be conclusive evidence of the fact and
the
amount of its indebtedness.
5.9 Counterparts.
This
Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, and each such
counterpart hereof shall be deemed to be an original instrument, but all
such
counterparts together shall constitute but one agreement.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF
this
Agreement has been executed on the day and year first above
written.
STRATEGY
INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE GROUP, INC.
By:
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
GRUPO LAKAS S.A.
By:
/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Lakas R.
Name:
Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Lakas R.
Title:
President
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