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Exhibit 4.2
RESTORE MEDICAL, INC.
INVESTORS’ RIGHTS AGREEMENT
January 28, 2004
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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REGISTRATION RIGHTS |
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1.1
Definitions |
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1.2
Request for Registration |
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1.3
Company Registration |
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1.4
Form S-3 Registration |
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1.5
Obligations of the Company |
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1.6
Information from Holder |
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1.7
Expenses of Registration |
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1.8
Delay of Registration |
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1.9
Indemnification |
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1.10
Reports Under the 1934 Act |
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1.11
Assignment of Registration Rights |
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1.12
Limitations on Subsequent Registration Rights |
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1.13
“Market Stand-Off’ Agreement |
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1.14
Termination of Registration Rights |
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1.15
Black-Out Period |
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2.
COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY |
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2.1
Delivery of Financial Statements |
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2.2
Inspection |
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2.3
Termination of Information and Inspection Covenants |
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2.4
Right of First Offer |
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2.5
Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreements |
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2.6
Compensation and Audit Committees |
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2.7
Director and Officer Liability Insurance |
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2.8
Qualified Small Business Stock |
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3.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS |
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3.1
Articles of Incorporation |
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3.2
Agreement to Vote |
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3.3
Board Size |
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3.4
Election of Directors |
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3.5
Removal; Vacancies |
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3.6
Legend |
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3.7
No Liability for Election of Recommended Directors |
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3.8
Termination of Voting Provisions |
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3.9
Board Observation Rights |
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DRAG-ALONG RIGHTS |
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LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY |
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PAY-TO-PLAY FINANCING |
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REORGANIZATION OF THE COMPANY |
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ADDITIONAL COVENANTS |
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8.1
Required Financing |
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8.2
Consent to Pay-to-Play |
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8.3
Investors’ Rights Agreement |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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9.1
Successors and Assigns |
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9.2
Governing Law |
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9.3
Counterparts |
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9.4
Titles and Subtitles |
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9.5
Notices |
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9.6
Expenses |
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9.7
Entire Agreement; Amendments and Waivers |
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9.8
Severability |
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9.9
Aggregation of Stock |
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9.10
Restrictions of Transfer |
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9.11
Massachusetts Business Trusts |
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INVESTORS’ RIGHTS AGREEMENT
THIS
INVESTORS’ RIGHTS AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is made as
of the 28`h day of January, 2004, by and among Restore Medical, Inc., a
Minnesota corporation (the “Company”), the investors and certain
other shareholders of the Company listed on Schedule A hereto, each
of which is herein referred to as an “Investor,” and the holders of
the Company’s capital stock listed on Schedule B hereto, each
of whom is herein referred to as a “Founder”
RECITALS
WHEREAS,
the Company and certain Investors are parties to the Series C and
Series C-1 Preferred Stock and Warrant Purchase Agreement of even date
herewith (the “Series C/C-1 Agreement”); and
WHEREAS,
in order to induce such Investors to purchase Series C Preferred Stock and
Series C-1 Preferred Stock (collectively, the “Series C
Preferred”) and invest funds in the Company pursuant to the
Series C/C-1 Agreement, the Investors, the Founders and the Company hereby
desire to enter into this Agreement.
NOW,
THEREFORE, THE PARTIES HEREBY AGREE AS FOLLOWS:
1. Registration
Rights. The Company covenants and agrees as follows:
1.1
Definitions. For purposes of this Section 1:
(a)
The term “Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(b)
The term “Common Stock” means the Company’s Common Stock, par
value $.01 per share.
(c)
The term “Form S-3” means such form under the Act as in effect on
the date hereof or any registration form under the Act subsequently adopted by
the SEC that permits inclusion or incorporation of substantial information by
reference to other documents filed by the Company with the SEC.
(d)
The term “Holder” means any person owning or having the right to
acquire Registrable Securities or any assignee thereof in accordance with
Section 1.11 hereof.
(e)
The term “Initial Offering” means the Company’s first firm
commitment underwritten public offering of its Common Stock under the Act.
(f)
The term “1934 Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
(g)
The term “Preferred Stock” means the Company’s Series A
Preferred Stock, Series B Preferred Stock and Series C Preferred
Stock, each with a par value of $.01 per share.
(h)
The terms “register,” “registered,” and
“registration” refer to a registration effected by preparing and
filing a registration statement or similar document in compliance with the Act,
and the declaration or ordering of effectiveness of such registration statement
or document.
(i)
The term “Registrable Securities” means (i) the Common Stock
issuable or issued upon conversion of the Preferred Stock and (ii) any
Common Stock of the Company issued as (or issuable upon the conversion or
exercise of any warrant, right or other security that is issued as) a dividend
or other distribution with respect to, or in exchange for, or in replacement
of, the shares referenced in (i) above, excluding in all cases, however,
any Registrable Securities sold by a person in a transaction in which his
rights under this Section 1 are not assigned.
(j)
The number of shares of “Registrable Securities” outstanding shall
be determined by the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding that are, and
the number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to then exercisable or
convertible securities that are, Registrable Securities.
(k)
The term “Rule 144” shall mean Rule 144 under the Act.
(l)
The term “Rule 144(k)” shall mean subsection (k) of
Rule 144 under the Act.
(m)
The term “SEC” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.
1.2
Request for Registration.
(a)
Subject to the conditions of this Section 1.2, if the Company shall
receive at any time after six (6) months after the effective date of the
Initial Offering, a written request from the Holders of fifty-one percent (51%)
or more of the Registrable Securities then outstanding (for purposes of this
Section 1.2, the “Initiating Holders”) that the Company file a
registration statement under the Act covering the registration of Registrable
Securities with an anticipated aggregate offering price of at least
$10,000,000, then the Company shall, within twenty (20) days of the receipt
thereof, give written notice of such request to all Holders, and subject to the
limitations of this Section 1.2, use all commercially reasonable efforts
to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Act of all
Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered in a written
request received by the Company within twenty (20) days of the mailing of
the Company’s notice pursuant to this Section 1.2(a); provided,
however, that only one such request may be made by Holders during any twelve
(12) month period.
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(b)
If the Initiating Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities
covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the
Company as a part of their request made pursuant to this Section 1.2 and
the Company shall include such information in the written notice referred to in
Section 1.2(a). In such event the right of any Holder to include its
Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such
Holder’s participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such
Holder’s Registrable Securities in the underwriting (unless otherwise
mutually agreed by a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders and such
Holder) to the extent provided herein. All Holders proposing to distribute
their securities through such underwriting shall enter into an underwriting
agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for
such underwriting by a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders (which
underwriter or underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company).
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 1.2, if the
underwriter advises the Company that marketing factors require a limitation on
the number of securities underwritten (including Registrable Securities), then
the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities that would
otherwise be underwritten pursuant hereto, and the number of shares that may be
included in the underwriting shall be allocated to the Holders of such
Registrable Securities pro rata based on the number of Registrable Securities
held by all such Holders (including the Initiating Holders). In no event shall
any Registrable Securities be excluded from such underwriting unless all other
securities are first excluded. Any Registrable Securities excluded or withdrawn
from such underwriting shall be withdrawn from the registration.
(c)
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be required to effect a
registration pursuant to this Section 1.2:
(i)
in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to
execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration,
unless the Company is already subject to service in such jurisdiction and
except as may be required under the Act; or
(ii)
after the Company has effected two (2) registrations pursuant to this
Section 1.2, and such registrations have been declared or ordered
effective; or
(iii)
during the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the
Company’s good faith estimate of the date of the filing of and ending on
a date one hundred eighty (180) days following the effective date of a
Company-initiated registration subject to Section 1.3 below, provided that
the Company is actively employing in good faith all commercially reasonable
efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; or
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(iv)
if the Initiating Holders propose to dispose of Registrable Securities that may
be registered on Form S-3 pursuant to Section 1.4 hereof; or
(v)
if the Company shall furnish to Holders requesting a registration statement
pursuant to this Section 1.2 a certificate signed by the Company’s
Chief Executive Officer or Chairman of the Board stating that in the good faith
judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, it would be seriously
detrimental to the Company and its stockholders for such registration statement
to be effected at such time, in which event the Company shall have the right to
defer such filing for a period of not more than one hundred twenty (120) days
after receipt of the request of the Initiating Holders, provided that such
right shall be exercised by the Company not more than once in any twelve
(12) month period and provided further that the Company shall not register
any securities for the account of itself or any other stockholder during such
one hundred twenty (120) day period (other than a registration relating
solely to the sale of securities of participants in a Company stock plan, a
registration relating to a corporate reorganization or transaction under
Rule 145 of the Act, a registration on any form that does not include
substantially the same information as would be required to be included in a
registration statement covering the sale of the Registrable Securities, or a
registration in which the only Common Stock being registered is Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of debt securities that are also being registered).
1.3
Company Registration.
(a)
If (but without any obligation to do so) the Company proposes to register
(including for this purpose a registration effected by the Company for
stockholders other than the Holders) any of its stock or other securities under
the Act in connection with the public offering of such securities (other than a
registration relating solely to the initial public offering of the
Company’s securities, the sale of securities of participants in a Company
stock plan, a registration relating to a corporate reorganization or
transaction under Rule 145 of the Act, a registration on any form that
does not include substantially the same information as would be required to be
included in a registration statement covering the sale of the Registrable
Securities, or a registration in which the only Common Stock being registered
is Common Stock issuable upon conversion of debt securities that are also being
registered), the Company shall, at such time, promptly give each Holder written
notice of such registration. Upon the written request of each Holder given
within twenty (20) days after mailing of such notice by the Company in
accordance with Section 9.5, the Company shall, subject to the provisions
of Section 1.3(c), use all commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be
registered under the Act all of the Registrable Securities that each such Holder
requests to be registered.
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(b)
Right to Terminate Registration. The Company shall have the right to
terminate or withdraw any registration initiated by it under this
Section 1.3 prior to the effectiveness of such registration whether or not
any Holder has elected to include securities in such registration. The expenses
of such withdrawn registration shall be borne by the Company in accordance with
Section 1.7 hereof.
(c)
Underwriting Requirements. In connection with any offering involving an
underwriting of shares of the Company’s capital stock, the Company shall
not be required under this Section 1.3 to include any of the
Holders’ securities in such underwriting unless they accept the terms of
the underwriting as agreed upon between the Company and the underwriters
selected by the Company (or by other persons entitled to select the
underwriters) and enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with
such underwriters, and then only in such quantity as the underwriters determine
in their sole discretion will not jeopardize the success of the offering by the
Company. If the total amount of securities, including Registrable Securities,
requested by stockholders to be included in such offering exceeds the amount of
securities sold other than by the Company that the underwriters determine in
their sole discretion is compatible with the success of the offering, then the
Company shall be required to include in the offering only that number of such
securities, including Registrable Securities, that the underwriters determine
in their sole discretion will not jeopardize the success of the offering. In no
event shall any Registrable Securities held by holders that purchased shares of
Series C Preferred Stock pursuant to the Series C/C-1 Agreement be
excluded from such offering unless all other stockholders’ securities
(including, without limitation, the holders of Series C-1 Preferred Stock)
have been first excluded. In the event that the underwriters determine that
less than all of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered can be
included in such offering, then the Registrable Securities that are included in
such offering shall be apportioned pro rata among the selling Holders based on
the number of Registrable Securities held by all selling Holders or in such
other proportions as shall mutually be agreed to by all such selling Holders.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall (i) the amount of
securities of the selling Holders included in the offering be reduced below thirty
percent (30%) of the total amount of securities included in such offering,
unless such offering is the initial public offering of the Company’s
securities, in which case the selling Holders may be excluded if the
underwriters make the determination described above and no other
stockholder’s securities are included in such offering. For purposes of
the preceding sentence concerning apportionment, for any selling stockholder
that is a Holder of Registrable Securities and that is a venture capital fund,
mutual fund, business trust, partnership or corporation, the affiliated venture
capital funds, mutual funds, business trusts, partners, retired partners and
stockholders of such Holder, or the estates and family members of any such
partners and retired partners and any trusts for the benefit of any of the
foregoing persons shall be deemed to be a single “selling Holder,”
and any pro rata reduction with respect to such “selling Holder”
shall be based upon the aggregate
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amount of Registrable
Securities owned by all such related entities and individuals.
1.4
Form S-3 Registration. In case the Company shall receive from
Holders of Registrable Securities (for purposes of this Section 1.4, the
“Initiating Holders”) a written request or requests that the
Company effect a registration on Form S-3 and any related qualification or
compliance with respect to all or a part of the Registrable Securities owned by
such Holder or Holders, the Company shall:
(a)
promptly give written notice of the proposed registration, and any related
qualification or compliance, to all other Holders; and
(b)
use all commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, such
registration and all such qualifications and compliances as may be so requested
and as would permit or facilitate the sale and distribution of all or such
portion of such Holders’ Registrable Securities as are specified in such
request, together with all or such portion of the Registrable Securities of any
other Holders joining in such request as are specified in a written request
given within fifteen (15) days after receipt of such written notice from
the Company, provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to
effect any such registration, qualification or compliance, pursuant to this
section 1.4:
(i)
if Form S-3 is not available for such offering by the Holders;
(ii)
if the Holders, together with the holders of any other securities of the
Company entitled to inclusion in such registration, propose to sell less than
100,000 Registrable Securities (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends,
combinations or the like);
(iii)
if the Company has, within the twelve (12) month period preceding the date
of such request, already effected two registrations on Form S-3 for the Holders
pursuant to this Section 1.4;
(iv)
in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to
qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in
effecting such registration, qualification or compliance;
(v)
during the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the
Company’s good faith estimate of the date of the filing of and ending on
a date one hundred eighty (180) days following the effective date of, any
registration statement pertaining to securities of the Company, provided that
the Company is actively employing in good faith all commercially reasonable
efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; or
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(vi)
if the Company shall furnish to the Initiating Holders a certificate signed by
the Company’s Chief Executive Officer or Chairman of the Board stating
that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, it
would be seriously detrimental to the Company and its stockholders for such
registration statement to be effected at such time, in which event the Company
shall have the right to defer such filing for a period of not more than ninety
(90) days after receipt of the request of the Initiating Holders, provided
that such right shall be exercised by the Company not more than once in any
twelve (12) month period and provided further that the Company shall not
register any securities for the account of itself or any other stockholder
during such ninety (90) day period (other than a registration relating
solely to the sale of securities of participants in a Company stock plan, a
registration relating to a corporate reorganization or transaction under
Rule 145 of the Act, a registration on any form that does not include
substantially the same information as would be required to be included in a
registration statement covering the sale of the Registrable Securities, or a
registration in which the only Common Stock being registered is Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of debt securities that are also being registered).
(c)
If the Initiating Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities
covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the
Company as a part of their request made pursuant to this Section 1.4 and
the Company shall include such information in the written notice referred to in
Section 1.4(a). The provisions of Section 1.2(b) shall be applicable
to such request (with the substitution of Section 1.4 for references to
Section 1.2).
(d)
Subject to the foregoing, the Company shall file a registration statement
covering the Registrable Securities and other securities so requested to be
registered as soon as practicable after receipt of the request or requests of the
Initiating Holders. Registrations effected pursuant to this Section 1.4
shall not be counted as requests for registration effected pursuant to
Sections 1.2.
1.5
Obligations of the Company. Whenever required under this Section 1
to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities, the Company shall, as
expeditiously as reasonably possible:
(a)
prepare and file with the SEC a registration statement with respect to such
Registrable Securities and use all commercially reasonable efforts to cause
such registration statement to become effective, and, upon the request of the
Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities registered thereunder, keep
such registration statement effective for a period of up to one hundred twenty
(120) days or, if earlier, until the distribution contemplated in the
Registration Statement has been completed;
(b)
prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and supplements to such
registration statement and the prospectus used in connection with such
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registration statement as may
be necessary to comply with the provisions of the Act with respect to the
disposition of all securities covered by such registration statement;
(c)
furnish to the Holders such number of copies of a prospectus, including a
preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the Act, and
such other documents as they may reasonably request in order to facilitate the
disposition of Registrable Securities owned by them;
(d)
use all commercially reasonable efforts to register and qualify the securities
covered by such registration statement under such other securities or Blue Sky
laws of such jurisdictions as shall be reasonably requested by the Holders,
provided that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a
condition thereto to qualify to do business or to file a general consent to
service of process in any such states or jurisdictions;
(e)
in the event of any underwritten public offering, enter into and perform its
obligations under an underwriting agreement, in usual and customary form, with
the managing underwriter of such offering;
(f)
notify each Holder of Registrable Securities covered by such registration
statement at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be
delivered under the Act of the happening of any event as a result of which the
prospectus included in such registration statement, as then in effect, includes
an untrue statement of a material fact or omits 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;
(g)
cause all such Registrable Securities registered pursuant to this
Section 1 to be listed on a national exchange or trading system and on
each securities exchange and trading system on which similar securities issued
by the Company are then listed; and
(h)
provide a transfer agent and registrar for all Registrable Securities
registered pursuant hereunder and a CUSIP number for all such Registrable
Securities, in each case not later than the effective date of such
registration.
1.6
Information from Holder. It shall be a condition precedent to the
obligations of the Company to take any action pursuant to this Section 1
with respect to the Registrable Securities of any selling Holder that such
Holder shall furnish to the Company such information regarding itself, the
Registrable Securities held by it, and the intended method of disposition of
such securities as shall be reasonably required to effect the registration of
such Holder’s Registrable Securities.
1.7
Expenses of Registration. All expenses other than underwriting discounts
and commissions incurred in connection with registrations, filings or
qualifications pursuant to Sections 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4, including (without
limitation) all registration, filing and qualification fees, printers’
and accounting fees, fees and disbursements of counsel
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for the Company and the
reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel for the selling Holders shall
be borne by the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not
be required to pay for any expenses of any registration proceeding begun
pursuant to Section 1.2 or Section 1.4 if the registration request is
subsequently withdrawn at the request of the Holders of a majority of the
Registrable Securities to be registered (in which case all participating
Holders shall bear such expenses pro rata based upon the number of Registrable
Securities that were to be included in the withdrawn registration), unless, in
the case of a registration requested under Section 1.2, the Holders of a
majority of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such
registration agree to forfeit their right to one demand registration pursuant
to Section 1.2 and provided, however, that if at the time of such
withdrawal, the Holders have learned of a material adverse change in the
condition, business or prospects of the Company from that known to the Holders at
the time of their request and have withdrawn the request with reasonable
promptness following disclosure by the Company of such material adverse change,
then the Holders shall not be required to pay any of such expenses and shall
retain their rights pursuant to Section 1.2 and 1.4.
1.8
Delay of Registration. No Holder shall have any right to obtain or seek
an injunction restraining or otherwise delaying any such registration as the
result of any controversy that might arise with respect to the interpretation
or implementation of this Section 1.
1.9
Indemnification. In the event any Registrable Securities are included in
a registration statement under this Section 1:
(a)
To the extent permitted by law, the Company will indemnify and hold harmless
each Holder, the partners, officers, directors, trustees and stockholders of
each Holder, legal counsel and accountants for each Holder, any underwriter (as
defined in the Act) for such Holder and each person, if any, who controls such
Holder or underwriter within the meaning of the Act or the 1934 Act, against
any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (joint or several) to which they may
become subject under the Act, the 1934 Act, any state securities laws or any
rule or regulation promulgated under the Act, insofar as such losses, claims,
damages, or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are
based upon any of the following statements, omissions or violations
(collectively a “Violation”): (i) any untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact contained in such registration statement,
including any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus contained therein or
any amendments or supplements thereto, (ii) the omission or alleged
omission to state in such registration statement a material fact required to be
stated therein, or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or
(iii) any violation or alleged violation by the Company of the Act, the
1934 Act, any state securities laws or any rule or regulation promulgated under
the Act, the 1934 Act or any state securities laws, and the Company will
reimburse each such Holder, underwriter, controlling person or other
aforementioned person for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by
them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim,
damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred;
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provided, however, that the
indemnity agreement contained in this subsection 1.9(a) shall not apply to
amounts paid in settlement of any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action
if such settlement is effected without the consent of the Company (which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), nor shall the Company be liable in
any such case for any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action to the
extent that it arises out of or is based upon a Violation that occurs in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished expressly
for use in connection with such registration by any such Holder, underwriter,
controlling person or other aforementioned person; provided further, however,
that the foregoing indemnity agreement with respect to any preliminary
prospectus shall not inure to the benefit of any Holder or underwriter or other
aforementioned person, or any person controlling such Holder or underwriter,
from whom the person asserting any such losses, claims, damages or liabilities
purchased shares in the offering, if a copy of the most current prospectus was
not sent or given by or on behalf of such Holder or underwriter or other
aforementioned person to such person, if required by law to have been so
delivered, at or prior to the written confirmation of the sale of the shares to
such person, and if the prospectus (as so amended or supplemented) would have
cured the defect giving rise to such loss, claim, damage or liability.
(b)
To the extent permitted by law, each selling Holder will indemnify and hold
harmless, severally and not jointly, the Company, each of its directors, each
of its officers who has signed the registration statement, each person, if any,
who controls the Company within the meaning of the Act, legal counsel and
accountants for the Company, any underwriter, any other Holder selling
securities in such registration statement and any controlling person of any
such underwriter or other Holder, against any losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (joint or several) to which any of the foregoing persons may become
subject, under the Act, the 1934 Act, any state securities laws or any rule or
regulation promulgated under the Act, the 1934 Act or any state securities
laws, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in
respect thereto) arise out, of or are based upon any Violation, in each case to
the extent (and only to the extent) that such Violation occurs in reliance upon
and in conformity with written information furnished by such Holder expressly
for use in connection with such registration; and each such Holder will
reimburse any — person intended to be indemnified pursuant to this
subsection 1.9(b) for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such
person in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim,
damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however,
that the indemnity agreement contained in this subsection 1.9(b) shall not
apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such loss, claim, damage, liability
or action if such settlement is effected without the consent of the Holder
(which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), and provided that in no
event shall any indemnity under this subsection 1.9(b) exceed the net proceeds
from the offering received by such Holder.
(c)
Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 1.9 of
notice of the commencement of any action (including any
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governmental action), such
indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against any
indemnifying party under this Section 1.9, deliver to the indemnifying
party a written notice of the commencement thereof and the indemnifying party
shall have the right to participate in and, to the extent the indemnifying
party so desires, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly noticed,
to assume the defense thereof with counsel mutually satisfactory to the
parties; provided, however, that an indemnified party (together with all other
indemnified parties that may be represented without conflict by one counsel)
shall have the right to retain one separate counsel, with the fees and expenses
to be paid by the indemnifying party, if representation of such indemnified
party by the counsel retained by the indemnifying party would be inappropriate
due to actual or potential differing interests between such indemnified party
and any other party represented by such counsel in such proceeding. The failure
to deliver written notice to the indemnifying party within a reasonable time of
the commencement of any such action, if prejudicial to its ability to defend
such action, shall relieve such indemnifying party of liability to the
indemnified party under this Section 1.9 to the extent of such prejudice,
but the omission to so deliver written notice to the indemnifying party will
not relieve it of any liability that it may have to any indemnified party
otherwise than under this Section 1.9.
(d)
If the indemnification provided for in this Section 1:9 is held by a court
of competent jurisdiction to be unavailable to an indemnified party with
respect to any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense referred to herein,
then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party
hereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified
party as a result of such loss, liability, claim, damage or expense in such proportion’
as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party on
the one hand and the indemnified party on the other hand in connection with the
statements or omissions that resulted in such loss, liability, claim, damage or
expense, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations; provided,
however, that no contribution by any Holder, when combined with any amounts
paid by such Holder pursuant to Section 1.9(b), shall exceed the net proceeds
from the offering received by such Holder. The relative fault of the
indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall be determined by reference
to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a
material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact
relates to information supplied by the indemnifying party or by the indemnified
party and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information
and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.
(e)
Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that the provisions on
indemnification and contribution contained in the underwriting agreement
entered into in connection with the underwritten public offering are in
conflict with the foregoing provisions, the provisions in the underwriting
agreement shall control.
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(f)
The obligations of the Company and Holders under this Section 1.9 shall
survive the completion of any offering of Registrable Securities in a
registration statement under this Section 1 and otherwise.
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Reports Under the 1934 Act. With a view to making available to the
Holders the benefits of Rule 144 and any other rule or regulation of the
SEC that may at any time permit a Holder to sell securities of the Company to
the public without registration or pursuant to a registration on Form S-3, the
Company agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to:
(a)
make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and
defined in Rule 144, at all times after the effective date of the Initial
Offering;
(b)
file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents required
of the Company under the Act and the 1934 Act; and
(c) furnish to any Holder, so long as the Holder owns any Registrable Secur






