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Exhibit
10.12
AMENDED AND RESTATED
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
among
LCE Holdings, Inc.
LCE Intermediate Holdings,
Inc.
LCE Holdco LLC
Loews Cineplex Entertainment
Corporation
and
Certain Stockholders of LCE
Holdings, Inc. and LCE Intermediate Holdings, Inc.
Dated as of January 12,
2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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EFFECTIVENESS; DEFINITIONS
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1.1.
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Effectiveness
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1.2.
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Definitions
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REGISTRATION RIGHTS
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2.1.
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Demand Registration Rights for Investor
Registrable Securities
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2.1.1.
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General
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2.1.2.
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Form
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2.1.3.
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Payment of Expenses
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Additional Procedures
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2.1.5.
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Suspension of Registration
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2.2.
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Piggyback Registration Rights
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2.2.1.
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Piggyback Registration
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2.2.2.
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Payment of Expenses
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2.2.3.
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Additional Procedures
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2.2.4.
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Registration Statement Form
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2.3.
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Certain Other Provisions
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2.3.1.
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Underwriter’s Cutback
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2.3.2.
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Registration Procedures
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2.3.3.
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Selection of Underwriters and
Counsel
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2.3.4.
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Company Lock-Up
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2.3.5.
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Holders Lock-Up
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2.3.6.
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Other Agreements
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2.3.7.
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Initial Public Offering and Subsequent
Public Offering
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2.4.
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Indemnification and
Contribution
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2.4.1.
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Indemnities of the Company
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2.4.2.
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Indemnities to the Company
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2.4.3.
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Contribution
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2.4.4.
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Limitation on Liability of Holders of
Registrable Securities
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2.4.5.
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Indemnification Procedures
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REMEDIES
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3.1.
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Generally
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PERMITTED TRANSFERS
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4.1.
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Transfers by Investors
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4.2.
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Transfers by Managers
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4.3.
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Permitted Registration Rights
Assignees
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AMENDMENT, TERMINATION, ETC.
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5.1.
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Oral Modifications
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5.2.
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Written Modifications
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5.3.
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Withdrawal from Agreement
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5.4.
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Effect of Termination
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DEFINITIONS
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6.1.
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Certain Matters of
Construction
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6.2.
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Definitions
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7.
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MISCELLANEOUS
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7.1.
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Authority: Effect
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7.2.
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Notices
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7.3.
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Binding Effect, Etc.
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7.4.
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Descriptive Heading
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7.5.
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Counterparts
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7.6.
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Severability
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7.7.
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No Recourse
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7.8.
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Aggregation of Shares
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7.9.
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Obligations of Company, Midco, Holdco
and AcquisitionCo.
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GOVERNING LAW
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8.1.
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Governing Law
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8.2.
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Consent to Jurisdiction
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8.3.
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WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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8.4.
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Exercise of Rights and
Remedies
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REGISTRATION RIGHTS
AGREEMENT
This Amended and Restated
Registration Rights Agreement (the “ Agreement
”) is made as of January , 2005 by
and among:
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(i) |
LCE Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (together with its
successors and permitted assigns, the “ Company
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LCE Intermediate Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(together with its successors and permitted assigns, “
Midco ”); |
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LCE Holdco LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (together
with its successors and permitted assigns, “ Holdco
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Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (together with its successors and permitted assigns,
“ Loews ”); |
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each Person executing this Agreement and listed as an Investor
on the signature pages hereto (collectively with their Permitted
Transferees, the “ Investors ”); |
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each Person executing this Agreement and listed as a Manager on
the signature pages hereto and such other persons, if any, that
from time to time become party hereto as managers (collectively,
with their Permitted Transferees, the “ Managers
” and, together with the Investors, the “
Stockholders ”); and |
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such other Persons, if any, that from time to time become party
hereto as holders of Other Holder Shares (as defined below)
pursuant to Section 4.3 solely in the capacity of permitted
assignees with respect to certain registration rights hereunder
(collectively, the “ Other Holders
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RECITALS
1. The Company has been
formed for the purpose of acquiring (the “ Acquisition
”), indirectly through one or more subsidiaries, pursuant to
a Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 18, 2004 (the “
Acquisition Agreement ”), among the Company, Loews and
the other persons identified therein, all outstanding shares of
Loews. Immediately after the Closing (as defined below), LCE
Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“
AcquisitionCo ”), merged with and into
Loews.
2. As of the date hereof, the
Common Stock (as defined below) of the Company and the common stock
and the Preferred Stock (as defined below) of Midco will be held as
set forth on Schedule I hereto.
3. In connection with the
purchase of such securities, the Company, Midco, Holdco,
AcquisitionCo and the Investors have entered into a stockholders
agreement dated July 30, 2004 (the “ Stockholders
Agreement ”). In connection with the issuance and sale of
shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock to the Managers, the
Company, Midco, Holdco, AcquisitionCo and
the Stockholders entered into a
management stockholders agreement, dated as of the date hereof (the
“ Management Stockholders Agreement
”).
4. In connection with the
purchase of such securities by the Investors, the Company, Midco,
Holdco, AcquisitionCo and the Investors have entered into a
registration rights agreement (the “ Original Registration
Rights Agreement ”), dated as of July 30,
2004.
5. The Company, Midco,
Holdco, AcquisitionCo and the Stockholders desire to amend and
restate the Original Registration Rights Agreement in its
entirety.
AGREEMENT
Therefore, the parties hereto
hereby agree to amend and restate the Original Registration Rights
Agreement in its entirety and agree as follows:
1. EFFECTIVENESS;
DEFINITIONS.
1.1. Effectiveness .
This Agreement shall be effective as of the date hereof.
1.2. Definitions .
Certain terms are used in this Agreement as specifically defined
herein. These definitions are set forth or referred to in Section 6
hereof.
2. REGISTRATION RIGHTS. The
Company will perform and comply, and cause each of its subsidiaries
to perform and comply, with such of the following provisions as are
applicable to it. Each Holder will perform and comply with such of
the following provisions as are applicable to such
Holder.
2.1. Demand Registration
Rights for Investor Registrable Securities .
2.1.1. General .
Subject to Section 2.3.7, one or more members of an Investor Group
or direct or indirect Permitted Registration Rights Assignees of
Investors (the “ Initiating Investors ”), by
notice to the Company specifying the intended method or methods of
disposition, may request that the Company effect the registration
under the Securities Act for a Public Offering of all or a
specified part of the Registrable Securities held by such
Initiating Investors; provided , however , that the
value of Registrable Securities that the Initiating Investors
propose to sell in such Public Offering is at least fifty million
dollars ($50,000,000) or such lower amount as agreed by a majority
of Investor Groups. The Company will then use its best efforts to
(i) effect the registration under the Securities Act (including by
means of a shelf registration pursuant to Rule 415 under the
Securities Act if so requested by a majority of the Investor Groups
and if the Company is then eligible to use such registration) of
the Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to
register by such Initiating Investors together with all other
Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to
register pursuant to Section 2.2 by other Holders, all to the
extent requisite to permit the disposition (in accordance with the
intended methods thereof as aforesaid and as otherwise specified by
the Principal Participating Holders) of the Registrable Securities
which the Company has been so requested to register, and (ii)
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requested by the Principal
Participating Holders, obtain acceleration of the effective date of
the registration statement relating to such registration;
provided , however , that the Company shall not be
obligated to take any action to effect any such registration
pursuant to this Section 2.1.1:
(a) during the effectiveness
of any Principal Lock-Up Agreement entered into in connection with
any registration statement pertaining to an underwritten public
offering of securities of the Company for its own account (other
than a Rule 145 Transaction, or a registration relating solely to
employee benefit plans);
(b) upon the request of
Initiating Investors that are or were members of an Investor Group
on any form other than Form S-3 (or any successor form) if the
Company has previously effected a number of registrations of
Registrable Securities under this Section 2.1.1 upon the request of
Initiating Investors that are or were members of such Investor
Group on any form other than Form S-3 (or any successor form)
equaling or exceeding three (3) with respect to such Investor
Group; provided , however , that any registration of
Registrable Securities (i) which does not become and remain
effective for at least 270 days in accordance with the provisions
of this Section 2 or (ii) pursuant to which the Initiating
Investors and all other holders of Registrable Securities joining
therein are not able to include at least 90% of the Registrable
Securities which they desired to include shall not be included in
the calculation of the numbers of registrations contemplated by
this clause (b); or
(c) if a registration
statement requested under this Section 2.1.1 became effective
within the preceding 90 days.
2.1.2. Form . Except
as otherwise provided above or required by law, each registration
requested pursuant to Section 2.1.1 shall be effected by the filing
of a registration statement on Form S-3 (or any other form which
includes substantially the same information as would be required to
be included in a registration statement on such form as currently
constituted); provided that if any registration requested
pursuant to this Section 2.1 is proposed to be effected on Form S-3
(or any successor or similar short form registration statement) and
is in connection with an underwritten offering, and if the managing
underwriter shall advise the Company in writing that, in its
opinion, it is of material importance to the success of such
proposed offering to file a registration statement on Form S-1 (or
any successor or similar registration statement) or to include in
such registration statement information not required to be included
pursuant to Form S-3 (or any successor or similar short form
registration statement), then the Company will file a registration
statement on Form S-1 or supplement Form S-3 (or any successor or
similar short form registration statement) as reasonably requested
by such managing underwriter.
2.1.3. Payment of
Expenses . The Company shall pay all Registration Expenses in
connection with registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to
this Section 2.1, including all reasonable expenses (other than
fees and disbursements of counsel that do
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not constitute Registration
Expenses) that any Holder incurs in connection with each
registration of Registrable Securities requested pursuant to this
Section 2.1.
2.1.4. Additional
Procedures . In the case of a registration pursuant to Section
2.1 hereof, whenever the Principal Participating Holders shall
request that such registration shall be effected pursuant to an
underwritten offering, the Company shall include such information
in the written notices to Holders referred to in Section 2.2. In
such event, the right of any Holder to have securities owned by
such Holder included in such registration pursuant to Section 2.1
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
upon by the Principal Participating Holders and such Holder). If
requested by the Principal Participating Holders, the Company
together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities
through the underwriting will enter into an underwriting agreement
with the underwriters for such offering containing such
representations and warranties by the Company and such Holders and
such other terms and provisions as are customarily contained in
underwriting agreements with respect to secondary distributions,
including customary indemnity and contribution provisions (subject,
in each case, to the limitations on such liabilities set forth in
this Agreement).
2.1.5. Suspension of
Registration . If the filing, initial effectiveness or
continued use of a registration statement, including a shelf
registration statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities
Act, in respect of a registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 at
any time would require the Company to make a public disclosure of
material non-public information, which disclosure in the good faith
judgment of the Board (including the consent of the directors
elected by a majority of the Principal Investor Classes, if any)
(after consultation with external legal counsel) (i) would be
required to be made in any registration statement so that such
registration statement would not be materially misleading, (ii)
would not be required to be made at such time but for the filing,
effectiveness or continued use of such registration statement and
(iii) would have a material adverse effect on the Company or its
business or on the Company’s ability to effect a material
proposed acquisition, disposition, financing, reorganization,
recapitalization or similar transaction, then the Company may, upon
giving prompt written notice of such action to the Holders
participating in such registration, delay the filing or initial
effectiveness of, or suspend use of, such registration statement;
provided , that the Company shall not be permitted to do so
(i) more than two times during any 12 month period, (ii) for a
period exceeding 30 days on any one occasion or (iii) for a period
exceeding 60 days in any 12 month period. In the event the Company
exercises its rights under the preceding sentence, such Holders
agree to suspend, promptly upon their receipt of the notice
referred to above, their use of any prospectus relating to such
registration in connection with any sale or offer to sell
Registrable Securities. The Company shall promptly notify such
Holders of the expiration of any period during which it exercised
its rights under this Section 2.1.5. The Company agrees that, in
the event it exercises its rights under this Section 2.1.5, it
shall, within 30 days following such Holders’ receipt of the
notice of suspension, update the suspended registration statement
as may be necessary to permit the Holders to resume use
thereof
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in connection with the offer
and sale of their Registrable Securities in accordance with
applicable law.
2.2. Piggyback
Registration Rights .
2.2.1. Piggyback
Registration .
(a) General . Each
time the Company proposes to register any shares of Common Stock
under the Securities Act on a form which would permit registration
of Registrable Securities for sale to the public, for its own
account and/or for the account of any other Person (pursuant to
Section 2.1 or otherwise) for sale in a Public Offering, the
Company will give notice to all Holders of its intention to do so.
Any Holder may, by written response delivered to the Company within
20 days after the date of delivery of such notice, request that all
or a specified part of such Holder’s Registrable Securities
be included in such registration. The Company thereupon will use
its best efforts to cause to be included in such registration under
the Securities Act all Registrable Securities which the Company has
been so requested to register by such Holders, to the extent
required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the methods
to be used by the Company or, pursuant to Section 2.1, other
Holders in such Public Offering) of the Registrable Securities to
be so registered; provided that (i) if, at any time after
giving written notice of its intention to register any securities,
the Company shall determine for any reason not to proceed with the
proposed registration of the securities to be sold by it, the
Company may, at its election, give written notice of such
determination to each Holder and, thereupon, shall be relieved of
its obligation to register any Registrable Securities in connection
with such registration (but not from its obligation to pay the
Registration Expenses in connection therewith), and (ii) if such
registration involves an underwritten offering, all Holders
requesting to be included in the Company’s registration must
sell their Registrable Securities to the underwriters selected by
the Company on the same terms and conditions as apply to the
Company (with such differences as may be customary or appropriate
in combined primary and secondary offerings) or, in the case of a
registration initiated pursuant to Section 2.1.1, the Principal
Participating Holders. No registration of Registrable Securities
effected under this Section 2.2 shall relieve the Company of any of
its obligations to effect registrations of Registrable Securities
pursuant to Section 2.1 hereof.
(b) Excluded
Transactions . The Company shall not be obligated to effect any
registration of Registrable Securities under this Section 2.2
incidental to the registration of any of its securities in
connection with:
(i) Any Public Offering
relating to employee benefit plans or dividend reinvestment
plans;
(ii) Any Public Offering
relating to the acquisition or merger after the date hereof by the
Company or any of its subsidiaries of or with
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any other businesses except
to the extent such Public Offering is for the sale of securities
for cash; or
(iii) The Initial Public
Offering if all Registrable Securities included in such Initial
Public Offering are securities of the Company for its own
account.
2.2.2. Payment of
Expenses . The Company will pay all Registration Expenses in
connection with registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to
this Section 2.2.
2.2.3. Additional
Procedures . Holders participating in any Public Offering
pursuant to this Section 2.2 shall take all such actions and
execute all such documents and instruments that are reasonably
requested by the Company to effect the sale of their Registrable
Securities in such Public Offering, including being parties to the
underwriting agreement entered into by the Company and any other
selling shareholders in connection therewith and being liable in
respect of the representations and warranties and the other
agreements (including customary selling stockholder
representations, warranties, indemnifications and
“lock-up” agreements) for the benefit of the
underwriters contained therein; provided , however ,
that (a) with respect to individual representations, warranties,
indemnities and agreements of sellers of Registrable Securities in
such Public Offering, the aggregate amount of such liability shall
not exceed such holder’s net proceeds from such offering and
(b) to the extent selling stockholders give further
representations, warranties and indemnities, then with respect to
all other representations, warranties and indemnities of sellers of
shares in such Public Offering, the aggregate amount of such
liability shall not exceed the lesser of (i) such holder’s
pro rata portion of any such liability, in accordance with such
holder’s portion of the total number of Registrable
Securities included in the offering, and (ii) such holder’s
net proceeds from such offering.
2.2.4. Registration
Statement Form . The Company shall select the registration
statement form for any registration pursuant to this Section 2.2
(other than a registration that is also pursuant to Section 2.1);
provided that if any registration requested pursuant to this
Section 2.2 is proposed to be effected on Form S-3 (or any
successor form) and is in connection with an underwritten offering,
and if the managing underwriter shall advise the Company in writing
that, in its opinion, it is of material importance to the success
of such proposed offering to include in such registration statement
information not required to be included pursuant to such form, then
the Company will supplement such registration statement as
reasonably requested by such managing underwriter.
2.3. Certain Other
Provisions .
2.3.1. Underwriter’s
Cutback . In connection with any registration of shares, the
underwriter may determine that marketing factors (including an
adverse effect on the per share offering price) require a
limitation of the number of shares to be underwritten.
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Section 2 and
subject to the terms of this Section 2.3.1, the underwriter may
limit the number of shares which would otherwise be included in
such registration by excluding any or all Registrable Securities
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such registration, it being
understood that, if the registration in question involves a
registration for sale of securities for the Company’s own
account, then the number of shares which the Company seeks to have
registered in such registration shall not be subject to exclusion,
in whole or in part, under this Section 2.3.1. Upon receipt of
notice from the underwriter of the need to reduce the number of
shares to be included in the registration, the Company shall advise
all holders of the Company’s securities that would otherwise
be registered and underwritten pursuant hereto, and the number of
shares of such securities, including Registrable Securities, that
may be included in the registration shall be allocated in the
following manner, unless the underwriter shall determine that
marketing factors require a different allocation: shares, other
than Registrable Securities, requested to be included in such
registration by other shareholders shall be excluded unless the
Company, with the consent of the parties required to approve any
amendment or waiver of this Agreement pursuant to Section 5.2, has
granted registration rights which are to be treated on an equal
basis with Registrable Securities for the purpose of the exercise
of the underwriter cutback (such shares afforded such equal
treatment being “ Parity Shares ”); and, if a
limitation on the number of shares is still required, the number of
Registrable Securities, Parity Shares and other shares of Common
Stock that may be included in such registration shall be allocated
among the holders thereof in proportion, as nearly as practicable,
as follows (determined in accordance with Section 7.8):
(a) there shall be first
allocated to each such holder requesting that its Registrable
Securities or Parity Shares be registered in such registration a
number of such shares to be included in such registration equal to
the lesser of (i) the number of such shares requested to be
registered by such holder, and (ii) a number of such shares equal
to such holder’s Pro Rata Portion;
(b) the balance, if any, not
allocated pursuant to clause (a) above shall be allocated to those
holders requesting that their Registrable Securities or Parity
Shares be registered in such registration which requested to
register a number of such shares in excess of such holder’s
Pro Rata Portion pro rata to each such holder based upon the number
of Registrable Securities and Parity Shares held by such holder, or
in such other manner as the holders requesting that their
Registrable Securities or Parity Shares be registered in such
registration may otherwise agree; and
(c) the balance, if any, not
allocated pursuant to clause (b) above shall be allocated to
shares, other than Registrable Securities and Parity Shares,
requested to be included in such registration by other
stockholders.
For purposes of any underwriter cutback,
all Registrable Securities held by any Holder shall also include
any Registrable Securities held by the partners, retired partners,
shareholders or Affiliates of such Holder, or the estates and
family members of any such Holder or such partners and retired
partners, any trusts for the benefit of any of the foregoing
Persons and, at the election of such Holder or such partners,
retired partners, trusts or Affiliates, any Charitable Organization
to which any of the foregoing shall have contributed Common Stock
prior to the execution of the underwriting agreement in connection
with such underwritten offering, and such Holder and
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other 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 amount of
Common Stock owned by all entities and individuals included in such
selling Holder, as defined in this sentence. No securities excluded
from the underwriting by reason of the underwriter’s
marketing limitation shall be included in such registration. Upon
delivery of a written request that Registrable Securities be
included in the underwriting pursuant to Section 2.1.1 or 2.2.1(a),
the Holder thereof may not thereafter elect to withdraw therefrom
without the written consent of the Principal Participating Holders;
provided that, if the managing underwriter of any
underwritten offering shall advise the Holders participating in a
registration pursuant to Section 2.1 that the Registrable
Securities covered by the registration statement cannot be sold in
such offering within a price range acceptable to the Principal
Participating Investors, then the Principal Participating Investors
shall have the right to notify the Company that they have
determined that the registration statement be abandoned or
withdrawn, in which event the Company shall abandon or withdraw
such registration statement; provided , further ,
that if the price to the public at which the Registrable Securities
are proposed to be sold will be less than 90% of the average
closing price of the Class A-4 Common Stock during the 10 trading
days preceding the date on which notice of such offering was given
pursuant to Section 2.2.1(a), then the Stockholders participating
in such registration pursuant to Section 2.1 or 2.2 may elect to
withdraw from such registration by written notice to the Company.
The Company may, but shall not be required to, extend a similar
withdrawal right to other Holders of Registrable Securities or
Parity Shares.
2.3.2. Registration
Procedures . If and in each case when the Company is required
to effect a registration of any Registrable Securities as provided
in this Section 2, the Company shall promptly:
(a) prepare and, in any event
within forty-five days (thirty days in the case of a Form S-3
registration) after the end of the period under Section 2.2.1(a)
within which a piggyback request for registration may be given to
the Company, file with the Commission a registration statement with
respect to such Registrable Securities and use its best efforts to
cause such registration statement to become effective within ninety
days of the initial filing;
(b) prepare and file with the
Commission 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 not in excess of 270 days (or such shorter period which will
terminate when all Registrable Securities covered by such
registration statement have been sold) and to comply with the
provisions of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act with respect
to the disposition of all securities covered by such registration
statement during such period in accordance with the intended
methods of disposition by the seller or sellers thereof set forth
in such registration statement; provided that before filing
a registration statement or prospectus, or any amendments or
supplements thereto in accordance with Sections 2.1 or 2.2, the
Company will furnish to each counsel selected pursuant to Section
2.3.3 hereof copies of all documents proposed to be filed, which
documents will be subject to the review of such counsel;
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(c) furnish to each seller of
such Registrable Securities such number of copies of such
registration statement and of each amendment and supplement thereto
(in each case including all exhibits filed therewith), such number
of copies of the prospectus included in such registration statement
(including each preliminary prospectus and summary prospectus), in
conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, and such
other documents as such seller may reasonably request in order to
facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities by such
seller;
(d) use its best efforts to
register or qualify such Registrable Securities covered by such
registration in such jurisdictions as each seller 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, except that the Company shall not
for any such purpose be required to qualify generally to do
business as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction where, but
for the requirements of this clause (d), it would not be obligated
to be so qualified or to consent to general service of process in
any such jurisdiction;
(e) notify each seller of any
such 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 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 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, and at the request of any
such seller, prepare and furnish to such seller 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 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;
(f) otherwise use its best
efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the
Commission, and make available to its security holders, as soon as
reasonably practicable (but not more than 18 months) after the
effective date of the registration statement, an earnings statement
which shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the
Securities Act;
(g) (i) if such Registrable
Securities are Common Stock (including Common Stock issuable upon
conversion, exchange or exercise of another security), use its best
efforts to list such Registrable Securities on any securities
exchange or authorize for quotation on each other market
(including, if applicable, the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. (the “ NASD ”) Automated Quotation
System) on which the Common Stock is then listed or authorized for
quotation if such Registrable Securities are not already so listed
or authorized for quotation; and (ii) use its best efforts to
provide a transfer agent
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and registrar for such
Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement not
later than the effective date of such registration
statement;
(h) enter into such customary
agreements (including an underwriting agreement in customary form),
which may include indemnification provisions in favor of
underwriters and other Persons in addition to the provisions of
Section 2.4 hereof, and take such other actions as the Principal
Participating Holders or the underwriters, if any, reasonably
requested in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of
such Registrable Securities;
(i) obtain a “cold
comfort” letter or letters from the Company’s
independent public accountants in customary form and covering
matters of the type customarily covered by “cold
comfort” letters as the Principal Participating Holders shall
reasonably request;
(j) make available for
inspection by any seller of such Registrable Securities covered by
such registration statement, by any managing underwriter or
underwriters participating in any disposition to be effected
pursuant to such registration statement and by any attorney,
accountant or other agent retained by any such seller or any such
managing underwriter(s), all pertinent financial and other records,
pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Company, and
cause all of the Company’s officers, directors and employees
to supply all information reasonably requested by any such seller,
underwriter, attorney, accountant or agent in connection with such
registration statement (subject to each party referred to in this
clause (j) entering into customary confidentiality agreements in a
form reasonably acceptable to the Company);
(k) notify each counsel
selected pursuant to Section 2.3.3 hereof for the Holders of
Registrable Securities included in such registration statement and
the managing underwriter or agent, immediately, and confirm the
notice in writing (i) when the registration statement, or any
post-effective amendment to the registration statement, shall have
become effective, or any supplement to the prospectus or any
amendment to the prospectus shall have been filed, (ii) of the
receipt of any comments from the Commission, (iii) of any request
of the Commission to amend the registration statement or amend or
supplement the prospectus or for additional information, and (iv)
of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the registration statement or of any order
preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus, or
of the suspension of the qualification of the registration
statement for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of the
institution or threatening of any proceedings for any of such
purposes;
(l) make every commercially
reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the registration statement or of
any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary
prospectus and, if any such order is issued, to obtain the
withdrawal of any such order as soon as practicable;
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(m) if requested by the
managing underwriter or agent or any Holder of Registrable
Securities covered by the registration statement, incorporate in a
prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment such information
as the managing underwriter or agent or such Holder reasonably
requests to be included therein, including, with respect to the
number of Registrable Securities being sold by such Holder to such
underwriter or agent, the purchase price being paid therefor by
such underwriter or agent and with respect to any other terms of
the underwritten offering of the Registrable Securities to be sold
in such offering; and make all required filings of such prospectus
supplement or post-effective amendment as soon as practicable after
being notified of the matters incorporated in such prospectus
supplement or post-effective amendment;
(n) cooperate with the
Holders of Registrable Securities covered by the registration
statement and the managing underwriter or agent, if any, to
facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates (not
bearing any restrictive legends) representing securities to be sold
under the registration statement, and enable such securities to be
in such denominations and registered in such names as the managing
underwriter or agent, if any, or such Holders may
request;
(o) obtain for delivery to
the Holders of Registrable Securities being registered and to the
underwriter or agent an opinion or opinions from counsel for the
Company in customary form and in form, substance and scope
reasonably satisfactory to such Holders, underwriters or agents and
their counsel;
(p) cooperate with each
seller of Registrable Securities and each underwriter or agent
participating in the disposition of such Registrable Securities and
their respective counsel in connection with any filings required to
be made with the NASD; and
(q) use its commercially
reasonable best efforts to make available the executive officers of
the Company to participate with the Holders of Registrable
Securities and any underwriters in any “road shows”
that may be reasonably requested by the Holders in connection with
distribution of the Registrable Securities.
2.3.3. Selection of
Underwriters and Counsel . The underwriters to be retained by
the Company (a) in connection with the Initial Public Offering
shall be selected by the Board, (b) in connection with the first
Public Offering following the Initial Public Offering, if initiated
pursuant to Section 2.1, shall be selected by the Investors holding
a majority of Registrable Securities covered by such registration,
and (c) otherwise, shall be selected by the Holders of a majority
of Registrable Securities covered by such registration. In
connection with any registration of Registrable Securities pursuant
to Section 2.1 or 2.2 hereof, the Holders of a majority of
Registrable Securities covered by such registration may select one
counsel to represent all Holders of Registrable Securities covered
by such registration; provided , that the cost of such
counsel shall be borne by the Company; provided ,
however , that in the event that the counsel selected as
provided above is also acting as counsel to the Company in
connection with such
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registration, the remaining
Holders shall be entitled to select one additional counsel to
represent, at the Company’s expense, all such remaining
Holders.
2.3.4. Company Lock-Up
. If any registration pursuant to Section 2.1 of this Agreement
shall be in connection with an underwritten public offering, the
Company agrees not to effect any public sale or distribution of any
Common Stock of the Company (or securities convertible into or
exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock) (in each case, other
than as part of such underwritten public offering and other than
pursuant to a registration on Form S-4 or S-8) for its own account,
within 90 days (or such shorter period as the managing underwriters
may require) after, the effective date of such registration (except
as part of such registration).
2.3.5. Holders Lock-Up
. In connection with each underwritten Public Offering each Holder
hereby agrees to be bound by and, if requested, to execute and
deliver such lock-up agreement with the underwriter(s) of such
Public Offering restricting such Holder’s right to (a)
Transfer, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock or any
securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for such
Common Stock or (b) enter into any swap or other arrangement that
transfers to another any of the economic consequences of ownership
of Common Stock, in each case to the extent that such
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